Richard Ashcroft Tickets Continued
Richard Ashcroft's third solo album, Keys to the World, was recorded with the
co-operation of the London Metropolitan Orchestra, and released in January 2006. The first single
from the album, "Break the Night with Colour", was released soon after and entered the UK
Singles Chart at #3. Around the time of the album's release, Richard Ashcroft announced
his largest UK tour for years for May 2006, culminating in three nights at London's Brixton
Academy. He opened for the second half of Coldplay's tour, starting March 14, 2006, in Ottawa.
The second single released from Keys To The World was "Music Is Power", which charted
at #20. The next single, "Words Just Get in the Way", charted even lower, barely making it into the
Top 40 at the number 40 position after receiving barely any promotion or airplay.
The Oasis track "Cast No Shadow" is dedicated to Richard Ashcroft, and it is
believed that The Verve's 1995 song "Northern Soul" is dedicated to Noel Gallagher. Chris Martin
introduced Richard Ashcroft as "the best singer in the world" when he performed "Bitter
Sweet Symphony" (which Martin called "the best song in the world") with Coldplay at the London
Live 8 concert in 2005. This was said by many of the people who attended that concert to have
been the best act they witnessed during that day. On his second album, Human Conditions,
Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson
performs on the song "Nature is the Law".
