Richard Ashcroft a limited number of appearances in 2003, Ashcroft was absent from the music business for about two years. He later explained this in 2006, stating that "[e]veryone got it into their heads over the last few years that I was in my ivory tower like Lennon, baking bread all day. The fact of the matter was that I was bringing up kids". Ashcroft began playing gigs again in mid-2005, and, on 2 July at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, Coldplay invited him to perform with them during their set. They performed The Verve's hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony", after
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