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Neil Crossley

"Even before we got to the day of the show, there was a ‘concern’… a concern with Liam" – the story behind the farce and the glory of Oasis’s infamous 1996 MTV Unplugged performance

Noel Gallagher performing with Oasis for MTV Unplugged in 1996 .

It was a concept that appealed to artists and fans in equal measure: a set of songs delivered in a stripped-back format with little or no amplification and in a setting so intimate that each could see the whites of the other’s eyes. 

For the artist, it offered the chance to demonstrate that even with back-to-basics instrumentation, their songs had just as much power and emotion. For the fans, it offered an invaluable glimpse of seeing and hearing material reimagined in a far more intimate setting.

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