Nick McCabe (born Nicholas Jonathon McCabe, 14 July 1971, St Helens, Lancashire) is a musician best known as the lead guitarist of The Verve.
Nick McCabe was the son of a bus driver and has two older brothers, Alan and Paul. When asked about how he became a guitarist, he responded: "I just got a guitar, and I could play a few things on it, and I liked messing with it, and I liked making my own things up." He attended Haydock High School, and late...
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Nick McCabe (born Nicholas Jonathon McCabe, 14 July 1971, St Helens, Lancashire) is a musician best known as the lead guitarist of The Verve.
Nick McCabe was the son of a bus driver and has two older brothers, Alan and Paul. When asked about how he became a guitarist, he responded: "I just got a guitar, and I could play a few things on it, and I liked messing with it, and I liked making my own things up." He attended Haydock High School, and later met Richard Ashcroft at Winstanley College. Ashcroft described McCabe's guitar playing as sounding like "a whole other universe"; the two briefly played in a band whilst at college. After leaving college, McCabe trained to be a quantity surveyor until giving it up to form The Verve along with Ashcroft, Simon Jones and Peter Salisbury.
McCabe was generally an aloof member, being involved in relatively few interviews. Tensions and power struggles between McCabe and Ashcroft would later cause the band's dissolution, twice. The first breakup...
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