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Photographer: Chris Floyd · 1994
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Richard Ashcroft, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, July 1994
t was July 1994 and I had flown into Las Vegas with a journalist to trail
the Verve
for a week while they played the Lollapalooza festival. I was naive and gung-ho, excited to be in America and going on a road trip.
We checked in to our hotel, met up with the band and went for dinner. I was in my mid-20s and starting to just about earn a living from photography, but none of the cheques had come through yet. So I barely had enough money for food. We walked around the Strip and ended up in the casino of the MGM Grand hotel, a tacky, gilded palace with a massive reproduction of the Land of Oz in the foyer.
Richard Ashcroft , the Verve frontman, is looking quite camp in this image. The thing about him, I realised later, is that he has two sides: the public Richard is serious, intense, extremely self-confident; and the private Richard is very funny and a brilliant mimic. When he tells a story, he’ll do all the voices. I always thought he’d make a good actor. He’s not afraid to ham things up.
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