It has been 20 years since the colossal global success of The Verve's era-defining Urban Hymns, and it remains one of the biggest-selling British albums of all

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In 1993 Richard Ashcroft, the lead singer of a Wigan-based four-piece call The Verve, declared that "History has a place for us. It may take us three albums, bu