{"id":494696,"date":"2025-10-12T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494696\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T23:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:13:22","slug":"the-verve-icon-reveals-surprise-connection-with-rangers-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494696\/","title":{"rendered":"The Verve icon reveals surprise connection with Rangers legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The frontman shared that the legendary former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/rangers?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rangers<\/a> manager attended many of his concerts before his passing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ashcroft told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@talksport\/video\/7560304429040192790?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-90UWH0tjpjS?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">talkSport<\/a>: &#8220;Walter Smith came to a number of my gigs in the last few years of his life, and he really enjoyed it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;When I was being a bit crazy on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/bbc\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> Breakfast one morning, Walter had just had an operation and he was coming out of anaesthetic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He looked up at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/tv\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TV<\/a> and I was jumping over the couch on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/tv\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TV<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He rang my manager and went, &#8216;Tell Richard he&#8217;s Gazza [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/paul-gascoigne\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Gascoigne<\/a>], he&#8217;s got the genius of Gazza in him type thing&#8217;.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Walter was a surprising one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;You wouldn&#8217;t think Walter at that age would be that into it but he was, he was bang into it.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Smith sadly passed away aged 73 in 2021.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The frontman shared that the legendary former Rangers manager attended many of his concerts before his passing. Ashcroft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-494696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115363735304058908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}