How Oasis won the United States with a meeting tour

How Oasis won the United States with a meeting tour

The Tour of Five Oasis shows by the US has had more cultural impact than many tours of other bands – see how we have gotten here

In 1994, the first tour of the Oasis In the United States it was not well. After a legendary – and disastrous – presentation – moved methamphetamine in the WHISKY A GO GOin Los Angeles, the band canceled nine shows. Thirty -one years later, the scenario is quite different: the gathered group has just played five exhausted shows at American stadiums, with greater cultural impact than a lot of all year -round tours, leading tears, strangers to hug each other and UK flags to shake on New Jersey’s marshes.

In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Andy Greene joins the presenter Brian Hiatt to discuss the triumphant passage of Oasis through the US – and everything that preceded it. The conversation also addresses the band’s possible future, including inevitable speculation about a new album and more show dates.

They try to understand how Oasis It was so great during the years away, reflecting on the fact that the group’s songs somehow gained relevance in the last two decades. They also talk about the collective hunger for live rock, the scarcity of new stadium level bands, and the fact that rock legends from the 1960s and 1970s are beginning to disappear. Another obvious point: many legendary generation X bands have lost essential members, but the Oasis managed to stay.

Throughout the episode, excerpts from previous participation of Noel and Liam Gallagher node Rolling Stone Music Nowin 2023 and 2017, respectively. To listen to the full episode, go to the podcast provider of your choice, listen to Apple podcasts or Spotifyor simply press the play above. Some highlights:

Noel explains why he wanted to sing the main vocals of “Wonderwall” or “Don’t Look Back In Anger.” “At that time, Liam had taken the habit of leaving the stage,” says Noel. “I always had to finish the crap of the show, because there would be a riot if it didn’t end. So I thought, ‘I better start writing some songs to sing if it continues to happen.’ I had the feeling that both songs would be big and I remember singing one or the other. ‘ Recorder appeared and said, ‘This is the song that will make us rich and famous.’ There he changed his mind and said, ‘Well, so I sing this one.’

Liam explains why he ignores memes and jokes about “Wonderwall.” “It’s not a joke to me, man,” he says. “But if the crowd wants to make fun of, at ease. The world is free, man. But when I sing, there’s no joke, it’s serious. This song has been good for me and I have been good for her.”

Noel says people should not expect him to write the same kind of music he did in the 1990s. “I am not 27 anymore,” he says. “I had 27 once and I changed people’s lives. You can’t keep doing it. I did one, two, up to three times… Bob Dylan is the same. The guy changed the course of history with those first three records. He no longer does that.

Liam defends the band’s third album, Be here nowoften criticized. “I like this record,” he says. “I think it’s a great album. Maybe, looking now, it could be better, but what does ‘look now’ when you’re living the dream? You’re doing that at the moment. We knew we took the eye a little, but we were grating since Defately Maybe. The money started to come in. Buying homes, cars, cool clothes… You’ve probably been drinking too much and, you know, other things. We were working hard, it was time to enjoy. We thought, ‘The rock and roll will take care of yourself.


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