The Drugs Don't Work The Verve

The Drugs Don't Work is not about illegal Drugs!

'The Drugs Don't Work' by British The Verve has had massive reach around the globe.

Ben Harper played it as a cover live, which ended up on his 'Live From Mars' album enabling the song to effectively break America for the Verve.

As the title indicate most people would have thought that this is an "anti drug song", which it is, but not as we may first believe.

Originally having the meaning of that drugs didn't work for Richard Ashcroft's father who was dying of cancer, the song had it's meaning slightly tweaked in order to give off a more ambiguous statement.

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Being one of three massive hits (including Bitter Sweet Symphony and Lucky Man) off the album 'Urban Hymns' (1997), The Verve managed to cross over from indie to mass market during 1998.

Interestingly enough, the band had actually split up prior to the making of 'Urban Hymns' which was their third record.

Luckily, Richard Ashcroft managed to quickly gathered two new members and got 'Urban Hymns' done.

As Ashcroft pursued a solo career a few years later he didn't reach the same heights as the band and in 2007 when they reunited all seemed to fall into place again.