Very few albums from the last three decades have had such a gargantuan weight of expectation placed upon them as Be Here Now, the third album from Oasis and the follow-up to the band’s first two era-defining long-players, Definitely Maybe and What’s The Story Morning Glory?.
Be Here Now became Britain’s fastest-selling album of 1997. It would also become unique as an album that was critically lauded on release and then rapidly derided soon after. As Dorian Lynsky put it in a piece in The Guardian in October 2016, “No album in history has experienced such a swift and dramatic reversal of fortune. Be Here Now was reframed first as a disappointment and then as a disaster.”
