Part theatre, part poetry and purely for the people. As Britpop’s self-declared kings will tell you themselves, they are really all that.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.The music world is a-chatter with news that Oasis could be getting back together for the first time since splitting acrimoniously in 2009. Not coincidentally, the rumours coincide with the imminent 30th anniversary of the band’s debut album,Heritage acts reunite all the time – usually, as the Sex Pistols put it with brutal honesty in 1996, for the filthy lucre . But to many, this comeback is a big deal indeed.
With their shaggy haircuts, baggy clothes and aggressive sibling rivalry, they gave Oasis its rock’n’roll energy, and their love-hate dynamic – at times milked for publicity, at others exploding into genuine enmity – gave the band presence well beyond the music, part pantomime, part family tragedy. Not since Cain slew Abel has brotherly love felt so dangerous.
The risk of an explosion is always present. No wonder they could pull crowds of 125,000 a night – as they did for two gigs at Knebworth in 1996 – at their prime.None of this would matter, of course, if the songs weren’t any good. But by crikey they are.
It was brilliant, and if it seemed instantly familiar, that’s because it was. Musical archaeologists will point to the traces of Sex Pistols, the Bee Gees, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, even The New Seekers, whose 1971 jingle for Coke.“It was a perfect combination of my influences, Liam’s attitude, the solidity of the band,” Noel has said of their sound. He aimed for commercial success, but on his terms, and if that meant pilfering from his favourite artists, so be it.
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