7 STORIES
1994 · 90S
"Live Forever" is not a feel-good singalong about friendship — it is Noel Gallagher's deliberate counter-attack on grunge's self-loathing, w…
1995 · 90S
Closing out (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, "Champagne Supernova" is the seven-and-a-half-minute hangover at the end of Britpop's most fa…
1995 · 90S
A song Noel Gallagher admits was half nonsense, built around a name he couldn't think of a rhyme for, somehow became Britain's go-to hymn fo…
1995 · 90S
MANCHESTER, UK
A piano figure borrowed from Lennon, a chorus built for a stadium, and a sentiment lifted from a half-remembered Kerouac line: this is the s…
1995 · 90S
Released in April 1995, "Some Might Say" was the first Oasis single to top the UK charts, arriving like a battered chariot at the gates of w…
1995 · 90S
: "Wonderwall" is the song that turned Oasis from a Manchester guitar band into a generational shorthand, a four-chord acoustic anthem that …
2002 · 00S
A weary, almost hymnal ballad released into a world still dazed by the events of the previous September, "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" found …