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"THE rock annals are so full of myth and invention that every now and again when the real deal shows up, it takes a while..."
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About Me:
THE rock annals are so full of myth and invention that every now and again when the real deal shows up, it takes a while to recognise it for what it is.
Noel Gallagher’s memories of his first Glastonbury Festival appearance in 1994 are episodic and intimate, like outtakes from a movie he’d wandered into. They’re of things like taking possession of a backstage caravan from the band he’d once worked for as a roadie, and coming offstage to be told that Oasis’s second UK single, Shakermaker, had climbed to number eleven in the chart; of someone from Creation Records being disappointed to fall short of the top ten while the band, having just heard their music soaring towards a horizon for the first time, now knew there would be no space they couldn’t fill, were individually thrilled. Noel recalls having the astonishing intimation that the band’s dreams were about to become true. Oasis were at the forefront of a new generation of British guitar groups who stepped out of the shadow of native dance culture and American grunge, with eyes fixed on the mainstream in a way that would have been unthinkable a few years before. 60,000 people went away from that first Glastonbury performance and told a million others about the thrill of what they’d seen: about this band who were the absolute primal essence of rock and roll, refined and distilled to ragged perfection - the impact of whose music, then as now, was so bafflingly much greater than the sum of its parts. We all went away knowing we’d seen something great and that the acts who followed Oasis that afternoon might as well not have bothered.
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Band Members
Liam Gallagher - Vocals
Noel Gallagher - Guitar & Vocals
Andy Bell - Bass
Gem Archer - Guitar
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