The Verve News: The Verve Reportedly Break Up For the Third Time

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The Verve have once again decided to call it quits, breaking up for the third time in the band’s 19 year tenure after reuniting for last year’s comeback album Forth. According to the U.K.’s Mirror, Verve guitarist Nick McCabe and bassist Simon Jones haven’t spoken to frontman Richard Ashcroft since August 2008, and that the band’s indefinite holiday from each other has become a full-blown split.

“As far as Nick and Simon are concerned the Verve no longer exists,” a source close to McCabe and Jones said. “They think Richard [Ashcroft] was just using the reunion as a...