Richard Ashcroft psychedelic music and drugs. They also became a part of the Britpop movement. The band split in 1995, and around this time Ashcroft wrote a collection of songs he intended to release as his first solo album. However, by 1997 he had changed his mind and asked McCabe to return (alongside new member Tong), reforming The Verve and releasing the very successful album "Urban Hymns". Ashcroft was at the forefront of the band's popularity, receiving an Ivor Novello Award for his songwriting and being referred to by the press as "the unmistakable face of the Number One rock band in
Johnny Ashcroft Steven was lost) to Monday, 8 February (when he was found alive and well). During the fourth "Australian Variety Artists MO Awards" in 1979 1979 Mo winners Ashcroft received the "first Male Country Entertainer Mo award"–a performance award voted for by his peers. This was followed by a "National Award For Service To Australian country music". He is to be found in Tamworth's "Australasian Country Music Hands of Fame" and Australian Roll of Renown. Johnny Ashcroft was awarded the "Medal of the Order Of Australia (OAM)" in 1990 and is a "Fellow of the Australian Institute of History and Arts