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“It has a reputation for being a big, dumb, four-chord song, but there’s more going on than I expected”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Oasis’s Wonderwall

As the Gallaghers reunite for the Oasis Live '25 tour, we put Wonderwall under the musical microscope and explore how the song became a standard for beginner guitarists

“No album in history has experienced such a swift and dramatic reversal of fortune": The great Oasis Be Here Now debate

“No album in history has experienced such a swift and dramatic reversal of fortune": The great Oasis Be Here Now debate

"Be Here Now was reframed first as a disappointment and then as a disaster” – but is it really that straightforward?

Who is original Oasis drummer? Pre-sale ballot sparks frenzy of interest around bandmate

Who is original Oasis drummer? Pre-sale ballot sparks frenzy of interest around bandmate

Drummer did not get along with Noel Gallagher and was finally dismissed from the band in 1995

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Oasis reunion: five things that made Definitely Maybe a modern classic

Liam and Noel Gallagher have finally announced an Oasis reunion tour, 15 years after they disbanded due to their constant feuds. Definitely Maybe, the album that launched the band, celebrates its 30th birthday on August 29. Branded one of the greatest debut albums of all time by many music critics,…

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“It suddenly escalated when a Mercedes in the car park got trashed… it belonged to the hotel manager”: the night Oasis wrecked London’s most rock’n’roll hotel and got a lifetime ban for their efforts

The demolition job was spearheaded by guitarist Bonehead, who said the hotel was like somewhere “your Granny would stay”

“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

"It was essentially the same solo that’s on the finished version Noel always plays live, but when it went high on the second half all I could think of was Slash in leather kecks with a wind machine on the Grand Canyon"

The Oasis classic that Liam hated because it was "reggae": "I remember Our Kid saying 'Why are you writing reggae songs?' And I was like, there speaks a man that has never heard reggae"

A songwriter in peak form, a singer and band who hated it, and the song that became bigger than anyone could have imagined

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“He’s like a poster from my bedroom wall that’s come to life. He’s got this black Strat with nine pickups and he’s saying, ‘Do you think it’s a bit mad?’”: Noel Gallagher on guitar shopping with Johnny Marr

“He’s like a poster from my bedroom wall that’s come to life. He’s got this black Strat with nine pickups and he’s saying, ‘Do you think it’s a bit mad?’”: Noel Gallagher on guitar shopping with Johnny Marr

How a few days before Oasis's fateful gig at King Tut's, a then-unknown Gallagher received a phone call from a hero and found himself in an “Aladdin's cave” of vintage gear

"I remember Our Kid saying, 'Why are you writing reggae songs?'" – The story of Wonderwall, Noel Gallagher's song that Liam hated

"I remember Our Kid saying, 'Why are you writing reggae songs?'" – The story of Wonderwall, Noel Gallagher's song that Liam hated

A songwriter in peak form, a singer and band who hated it, and the song that became bigger than anyone could have imagined

'She's absolutely lovely' - Ella Henderson enjoys Colmans chippy tea in South Shields after massive Bents Park gig

'She's absolutely lovely' - Ella Henderson enjoys Colmans chippy tea in South Shields after massive Bents Park gig

Ella Henderson impressed Colmans staff with her down-to-earth attitude

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