I’m looking at the Oasis 2025/6 starting this week in Cardiff as social history, so above is the NME review of Definitely Maybe published 31 years ago this summer. It gives a clue of the impact of the record, 30 years ago.
For the record I liked that record, later ones not so much.
30 years on its not just about the music for many but remembering their earlier selves. Some might prefer Dylan’s ‘I was so much older then I’m younger than that now’.
The music aside it was very much part of the New Labour Cool Britannia 1997 moment. Noel Gallagher met Tony Blair at a Downing St reception and his politics appear to remain frozen at that moment. Enough said perhaps, he’s far from the only one. Liam Gallagher was not invited on that occasion on the advice of Oasis management, so enough said there as well..
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