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Oasis: The Studio Albums

Say what you like. Call Be Here Now a coke-fuelled car crash. Call Standing on the Shoulder of Giants a cry for help. Call Liam a gobshite and Noel a control freak. But don’t say they didn’t matter. They mattered like broken glass matters to bare feet. They mattered like shouting matters to grief. They mattered because we needed something that sounded like a fight.

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Who The Fuck Are Oasis?

Oasis weren’t subtle. Not then. Not before the coked-up cameras or the press tours licking shots across saloon bars. And certainly not now, when the band’s myth, their fuck-you football-anthem tragedy, keeps rewriting itself in tabloid shreds.

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Oasis: The Singles

Between 1994 and 2009, Oasis put out 27 singles. They started in Burnage, ended up everywhere. The sound changed. The faces changed. But every single marked where they were. Here's the lot.

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01/05/89: Noel Gallagher Hits The Road

No one wrote it down. No one thought it fucking mattered. May 1989. Manchester. Noel Gallagher, 21, took a job as a roadie for the Inspiral Carpets. Not a headline. Not a moment anyone would call history. But it was.

It wasn’t a stage. It wasn’t a spotlight. It was a van. A bag of crisps. A chance to learn.

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21/12/88: The Noel Gallagher Audition

A cold, wet Wednesday night in Oldham. December 21, 1988. The kind of night that makes you question your choices. Noel Gallagher, 21, stood at a bus stop in Manchester, clutching a scrap of paper with directions. Three buses. Rain pissing down. No mobile phones. No backup plan. Just a pub, a rehearsal room called The Mill, and a shot at becoming the new singer for Inspiral Carpets.

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30/05/88: The Spark Of Oasis

There was a charge in the air that Monday night, one you didn’t need a weather report to measure. May 30, 1988. Manchester. International Two. A benefit concert against Clause 28, a piece of government legislation designed to shroud LGBTQ+ lives in silence. The city already knew how to scream back at injustice, but that night, the scream had a rhythm you could dance to. Oh and Noel net Graham

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