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Bitter Sweet Symphony

The Verve

Posted Dec 09, 2004 12:00 AM

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Written by: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Richard Ashcroft
Produced by: The Verve, Christopher Marc Potter, Youth
Released: Sept. '97 on Virgin
Charts: 20 weeks
Top spot: No. 12

Bittersweet, indeed. Since it used a sample from an orchestral version of a Rolling Stones song, the Verve hit was credited to Jagger-Richards. Ashcroft claimed it was the best song the Stones had written in twenty years.

Appears on: Urban Hymns (Virgin)

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