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Matt Frost

“It was the tune that changed everything” for Noel Gallagher and Oasis, with his greatest guitar solo – but it turns out that Live Forever got a serious guitar edit in the control room

Noel Gallagher of British rock group Oasis live at the Astoria in London, 19th August 1994.

Wind the clock back to the beginning of 1993, and Oasis were just a skint gang of loud-mouthed retro rock ’n’ rollers attracting crowds of between five and 10 people at various Northern dives. By the end of the following year, those loud-mouthed retro rock ’n’ rollers had unleashed the (then) fastest-selling British debut album of all time and were leading a musical revolution. And that was just the start. 

It was one of the greatest moments I’ve ever had as a songwriter

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