THE END OF THE VERVE WAS LIKE CANCER

Not that he'd be tempted to get anything out of proportion or anything, but Richard Ashcroft has suggested the end of The Verve was akin to somebody dying of cancer. He was grumbling about fans who think he was better when he was in The Verve rather than indulging his increasingly overblown solo stuff ("fans who resent him breaking up the Verve"):

"I have no time for those kind of people. People die of cancer, shit happens, a band's a band. You feel stupid when people won't let go - it makes it Spinal Tap."

Obviously, Ashcroft was fumbling towards a "set against the scale of human suffering" comparison, but managed to have exactly the opposite effect.

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