Slide Away (The Verve song)

"Slide Away"
Single by Verve
from the album A Storm in Heaven
Released	20 September 1993
Studio	Sawmills
Length	4:03
Label	Hut
Songwriter(s)	Nick McCabe, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones, Peter Salisbury
Producer(s)	John Leckie
Verve singles chronology
"Blue" (1993) "Slide Away" (1993) "This Is Music" (1995)

"Slide Away" is a song by the English rock band the Verve. It scraped the top 100 in the UK singles chart, peaking at #98. The song was taken from the band's first album A Storm in Heaven. Although the single was not a success on the conventional charts, the song shot straight to the top of US Indie Rock charts throughout 1993, and due to the popularity of the song The Verve were invited onto the successful 1990s alternative rock festival, Lollapalooza, in the following year, 1994.

In March 2005, Q magazine placed "Slide Away" at number 82 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.

"Slide Away" was used in the 1994 film The New Age.^[1] It was also used in the episode "Ugly" of the American television series House M.D.^[2]