Oasis

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 Gallaghers memories of his first Glastonbury Festival appearance in 1994 are episodic and intimate, like outtakes from a movie hed wandered into. Theyre of things like taking possession of a backstage caravan from the band hed once worked for as a roadie, and coming offstage to be told that Oasiss 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...

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