Listen To A Rare Demo Of Oasis' 'Some Might Say'

This demo version Some Might Say is available exclusively as part of the What's The Story Morning Glory Deluxe Boxset.

It was recorded by the band's sound engineer Mark Coyle at a soundcheck at Club Quattro in Tokyo almost exactly 20 years ago on 14 September 1994. It's thought this was the first time Noel Gallagher played this future Number 1 single to anyone.




The track is one of the rarities to be included on the deluxe edition of (What's The Story) Morning Glory to be released on 29 September.

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New Items Added To Liam Gallagher's 'Pretty Green' Collection

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Official Top 20 Biggest Selling Oasis Songs

As we celebrate 20 years since their debut album Definitely Maybe charted at Number 1, we count down Oasis’ top selling songs.

As introductions to rock bands go, Definitely Maybe is certainly a strong one. 20 years ago, all the way back in 1994, Oasis’ bolshy debut album went straight in at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart. The band are known for their mega-selling albums, with five of them selling over a million, Their second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory is one of the biggest selling albums of all time, shifting over four million copies.

But what about the songs? Oasis weren’t exactly shy of a smash hit single either, with eight Official Singles Chart Number 1s to their name. So, we look back at that massive debut album, we count down the songs that made it happen. You can’t have an album without the tunes, after all…

1: Wonderwall (1995)

An unsurprising-yet-a-little-bit-surprising song leads the way when it comes to Oasis singles. Wonderwall, Noel Gallagher’s love letter to his then girlfriend, is the band’s top seller despite never reaching Number 1. According to legend, despite the song’s subject, Liam insisted on singing it – he obviously knew an anthem when he heard one. Trouble was, it was such an anthem that the band eventually got sick of having it sang back to them at concerts. If it’s any comfort to Oasis, it is one of the biggest selling songs of all time. Altogether now: “And all the roads we have to walk are wiiiiinding…”

PEAK POSITION: 2

SALES: 1.2 million copies

CHART FACT: Wonderwall sold over 140,000 copies in its first week on sale. It finally passed the million mark in 2009. It was stopped from getting to Number 1 by another million-seller, Robson & Jerome’s I Believe/Up On The Roof.

2: Don’t Look Back In Anger (1996)

The band’s second Number 1 was their first chart-topper to feature Noel on lead vocals. The chorus’s “So Sally can waaaaait” actually came about by accident. Noel was strumming away singing nothing in particular, when Liam asked him who Sally was, thinking he was singing “So Sally can wait”. Noel liked it so much it became the actual lyrics. And it was a good shout, Don’t Look Back In Anger was the fourth bestselling single of 1996.

PEAK POSITION: 1

SALES: 900,000 copies

CHART FACT: Don’t Look Back In Anger was the second chart-topper from Oasis’s second album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory. It replaced Babylon Zoo’s Spaceman, from the Levi commercial, at Number 1. Take That knocked it off a week later with their farewell single How Deep Is Your Love?

3: D’You Know What I Mean (1997)

Few albums have been more highly anticipated than Oasis’s third album Be Here Now. Its lead single D’You Know What I Mean was an eight-minute epic, with a blockbuster-type video and the band turned up to full-on swagger.

PEAK POSITION: 1

SALES: 730,000 copies

CHART FACT: Selling over 370,000 copies in its first week on sale, D’You Know What I Mean gave Oasis its first pair of consecutive Number 1s – they’d go on to score two more. D’You Know What I Mean was the fifth bestselling single of 1997.

4: Whatever (1994)

Another anthemic song, Whatever was something of an oddity among Oasis singles, as it didn’t feature on any studio album. Intended to bridge the gap between debut album Definitely Maybe and follow-up (What’s The Story) Morning Glory, Whatever saw the band go Top 3 for the very first time. It wasn’t until a greatest hits collection in 2009 that Whatever was finally included on an album and available digitally for the very first time – it even broke back into the Top 75 that very week.

PEAK POSITION: 3

SALES: 540,000 copies

CHART FACT: The first Oasis single to go Top 3 – every single they released after would chart no lower until Who Feels Love broke the run in April 2000.

5: Roll With It (1995)

t was the centrepiece of the infamous Blur vs Oasis chart battle and, even more infamously, it lost. Roll With It had to settle for second place behind their rivals’ Country House. The tension went beyond this race to be Number 1, with the bands generally being antagonistic with each other for years to come. The truce that nobody thought would ever happen did come along eventually, and Noel is now pals with Blur frontman Damon Albarn, who he’d previously called “condescending”. The squabbling pair bumped into each other in a nightclub in 2011 and put their troubles behind them – Noel even joined Damon and Blur guitarist Graham Coxon on stage in 2013 for a special performance of Blur’s hit Tender at a Teenage Cancer Trust benefit. In a total turn up for the books, Damon has now said he’d quite like to make music with Noel.

PEAK POSITION: 2

SALES: 520,000 copies

CHART FACT: The battle for Number 1 wasn’t as close as you might think – Blur romped to victory with Country House finishing almost 50,000 copies ahead.

What’s happening in the rest of the Top 20?

Just outside the Top 5, Some Might Say was the lead single from that eagerly awaited second album and gave Oasis their very first chart-topper, ending Take That’s month-long tenure at the top of the Official Singles Chart with Back For Good. Over 450,000 copies were sold, and Oasis’s stint at Number 1 was ended after just one week by a dance classic – Livin Joy’s Dreamer went straight in at the top.

Live Forever was Oasis’s first ever Top 10 single, beginning a run of 22 consecutive Top 10 singles that lasted until 2008, and it makes the Top 10 for them again on their top sellers countdown – it’s at Number 9.

The Top 10 is rounded off by classic singalong and the highest chart peak from Definitely Maybe: Cigarettes & Alcohol. No, it’s not your imaginayeeshaaaaaaaun.

Despite reaching only Number 31 on the Official Singles Chart, the band’s debut single Supersonic makes it into the Official Oasis Top 20 – coming in at Number 14 with over 240,000 copies sold.

Such is the power of Oasis that even a non-single makes an appearance. The classic album track that should’ve been a single, Champagne Supernova is Oasis’s 18th bestselling song, earning its place on downloads alone – over 200,000 of them, in fact. Bonus fact: Modfather Paul Weller provides some backing vocal and guitar assistance on Champagne Supernova.

Just outside the Top 20, a couple of other album tracks rank pretty high. Half The World Away, used as the theme tune to BBC sitcom The Royle Family, is Oasis’s 24th top seller and She’s Electric, from (What's the Story) Morning Glory is right behind it at Number 25.

The Official Top 20 Biggest Selling Oasis songs:


01 WONDERWALL
02 DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER
03 D'YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
04 WHATEVER
05 ROLL WITH IT
06 SOME MIGHT SAY
07 STAND BY ME
08 STOP CRYING YOUR HEART OUT
09 LIVE FOREVER
10 CIGARETTES & ALCOHOL
11 GO LET IT OUT
12 LITTLE BY LITTLE
13 ALL AROUND THE WORLD
14 SUPERSONIC
15 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IDLE
16 THE HINDU TIMES
17 SHAKERMAKER
18 CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA
19 LYLA
20 SONGBIRD

Source: www.officialcharts.com

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On This Day In Oasis History...

Definitely Maybe was released on DVD on the 6th of September 2004 to mark the tenth anniversary of its original release. It went triple platinum in the UK.

The DVD featured an hour-long documentary about the recording of the album featuring rare and contemporary interviews with the band and its associates.

Also included was the album in its entirety, which included "Sad Song", which was originally only released on the UK vinyl version of the album and also on the Japanese CD edition. Other content included live and TV performances of the albums twelve tracks, and the promo videos to "Supersonic" (UK & US versions), "Shakermaker", "Live Forever" (UK & US versions), "Cigarettes & Alcohol" and "Rock 'n' Roll Star".

A limited-edition release in the UK and Ireland included a bonus DVD containing more live footage and anecdotes.

























There was also an accompanying made-for-TV documentary, entitled There We Were, Now Here We Are...: The Making Of Oasis. This was broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK at 11:30pm on Friday, 3 September , three days before the release of the Definitely Maybe DVD. The programme combined existing and unused interview footage from the DVD documentary and focused on the origins of the band, and the four singles from Definitely Maybe.

It also included a very rare clip of "All Around the World" performed live at a rehearsal session in the Boardwalk in 1992, five years before it was eventually recorded and released on Be Here Now. The DVD received the NME award for Best Music DVD.

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New Noel Gallagher Playlist On Spotify

Noel Gallagher has added some of his current listening favourites for you to enjoy on Spotify.

Click here to check out the tracks (Sign-up required).

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Oasis, ABBA And Guns N' Roses Are Bands Fans Most Want To Reunite

ABBA is the group we’d most like to make a comeback.

The Swedish icons of 70s and 80s pop took 28% of a poll, with second place going to Guns N’ Roses. Oasis were third. A survey of 1,000 people was carried out by Samsung after Kate Bush’s long- awaited return to the stage.

When it came to previous comeback artists that people most regretted not going to see during their return performances, one in 10 people wished they had not missed the Rolling Stones followed by Kate Bush and Take That.

Whilst the nation had to wait 35 years to see the talents of Kate Bush back on stage , the singer’s comeback this week has also resulted in an increase in music streams on Deezer.

The Samsung partner recorded an increase of 120% in the number of streams of her biggest hits the day after Kate Bush’s comeback was first announced in March, whilst there was a 701% increase the Saturday prior to her first comeback gig last Tuesday when compared with her stream count from the same time last month.

Of the performers no longer with us, the flamboyant front man of Queen, Freddy Mercury (22%) was the act people most wished they had been able to see perform live in concert beating the hip swinging, Elvis Presley (14%) and ‘Smooth Criminal,’ Michael Jackson (12%).

Samsung’s Robert King said: “It’s great to see that music from previous decades still remains popular across all generations today.”

Source: www.irishmirror.ie

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Baker's Tribute To Oasis Album Definitely Maybe

Adam Cox, from Stockport, has created an edible replica of the iconic cover to celebrate the record's 20th anniversary.

Forget Shakermaker, Oasis-mad Adam Cox has proved he’s a top caker-baker

His creations could easily rival any of the showstoppers we’ll see on the Great British Bake Off tonight.

The Stockport-born baker, 29, has proved he’s a rock’n’rolling pin star by recreating the iconic cover of Oasis’ debut album Definitely Maybe in sponge and icing to celebrate the record’s 20th anniversary.

The cake, which took two days to carve and decorate, is a replica of Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs’ living room in Didsbury, and features all five Britpop bandmates, including Noel and Liam Gallagher.

Adam, who grew up in High Lane, near Hazel Grove, said: “Creating a cake to mark the anniversary of this album was a must. It remains one of my favourite albums and I wanted to celebrate it in the only way I know how.”

It is the latest in a batch of edible Greater Manchester icons he has baked, including fellow music legends Morrissey and Frank Sidebottom.

Click here to see a number of pictures of the cake.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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On This Day In Oasis History...

The video below is from September 4th 1996, when Oasis played at the MTV Video Music Awards held at New York’s Radio City Music Hall in the US.

Medicine Men Release Debut Single On 'This Feeling' Records And More

Glasgow's Medicine Men are already causing quite a stir having played only a handle of shows in their native Scotland, including a much talked about slot at this year's 'T in the Park' which saw the band pull a huge crowd for only their 5th ever gig.

Drawing excited comparisons with bands such as LCD Soundsystem, Tame Impala, The Chemical Brothers and Death In Vegas, the band mix soaring synths with kinetic breakbeats and bruising basslines, creating a glorious fusion of styles from sublime psychedelic rock to pumping dance music and everything in between.

Soulful, funky and oozing talent the band are set to cause a stir with this, their debut release, and their first show south of the border.



Tour Dates

September 6th - Glasgow Record Factory (This Feeling club night)

September 13th - London Queen of Hoxton (This Feeling club night)

October 3rd - Fife Greenside Hotel

October 18th - Dunfermline Live (Embrace headline)

Visit www.thisfeeling.co.uk for tickets and information on club nights all over the UK.

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Pretty Green's SS14 Black Label Sale Ends Midnight

Pretty Green's SS14 Black Label Season sale ends at midnight tonight, click here to get up to 40% off selected items.

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Oasis' 20 Most Rock 'N' Roll B-Sides

Last weekend, Definitely Maybe celebrated its 20th anniversary. It's exactly two decades ago that the record was unleashed on the world by the Gallagher brothers.

We could have spent a couple of days writing about how important the album was for British music, how it changed lives, how it made an entire generation of youngsters pick up guitars and believe that they could be rock 'n' roll stars. But we're guessing everybody will be doing that and you already know it all.

Instead, we've compiled a definitive Top 20 ranking of Oasis's greatest ever B-sides. The B-side is pretty much dead these days, but they were an important part of what made Oasis special in 1994. They cared about giving value for money every time a fan forked out £3.99 at Our Price and they never dished out duff spare tracks.

While Noel and Liam probably regret giving away such stonking tunes on the back of singles rather than saving them for later albums, fans who bothered to head to the shops for every release were rewarded every time.

Click here to see the Definitive Top 20 Oasis B-sides of all time:

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

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Win A Pair Of Pretty Green Sunglasses And Liam Gallagher's Autograph

Click here for details on how to win a pair of Pretty Green Sunglasses and Liam Gallagher's autograph.

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Gallery: Oasis’ Glory Years 1993-1996

NME’s new Collector’s Edition looks at Oasis’ Glory Years of 1993-1996, check out a gallery here they have put together.

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Pretty Green Introduce It's Autumn Winter 2014 Campaign

Pretty Green have introduced it's Autumn Winter 2014 campaign 'Streets Of Manchester' in celebration of their 5 year anniversary they go back to the roots of Pretty Green.

The story was shot in various locations across Manchester which will be revealed throughout the season.

Start your journey here.

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Gallery: Liam Gallagher With Fans In Manchester

Former Oasis star Liam Gallagher was posed with a common dilemma today - a day with the family or a day at the football.

The rocker is back in town, 20 years to the day that the band released their debut album Definitely Maybe.

And the avid City fan was this afternoon spotted leaving the Radisson Edwardian Hotel in Manchester where he has been staying.

That’s also the hotel where Stoke City squad based themselves ahead of today’s clash at the Etihad, in which they secured a 1-0 victory over the Blues.

Liam, who hails from Burnage, was in good spirits as he headed out of the hotel and jumped into a taxi after signing autographs and posing for pictures with fans.

He was overheard saying he was off to watch his beloved Blues in action.

Though others claimed the Beady Eye singer said he was taking his mum out shopping while he was back in his hometown.

After today’s result, let’s hope he took the second option.

Click here to see a video and pictures of Liam.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Another On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from Live By The Sea, originally released on video on August 31st 1995.

It features Oasis' gig at the Southend Cliffs Pavilion on April 17th 1995, as well as the videos for Rock 'N' Roll Star and Cigarettes & Alcohol.











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Definitely Maybe: 10 Things You Never Knew About Oasis' Debut Album

It is exactly 20 years since Oasis released their debut album, Definitely Maybe, so here are some supersonic facts about the record.

1) Definitely Maybe became the UK's fastest-selling debut album of all time, with 86,000 units shifted in the first week alone – a record held until 2006, when Arctic Monkeys released their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. Leona Lewis (2007) and Susan Boyle (2009) have since broken the record again. Informed of this, Liam Gallagher would no doubt shrug dismissively and spit back that Definitely Maybe went on to sell 15 million records worldwide – and no one would dare to argue.

2) The artwork for Definitely Maybe warrants scrutiny.

Clockwise from bottom left.

– The large image of Burt Bacharach in the bottom left of the artwork is, first and foremost, a straightforward homage to one of Noel's musical heroes but the positioning of the picture is also significant. It is reminiscent of where Pink Floyd positioned the artwork for the soundtrack to the film, Gigi, on the cover of their 1969 album, Ummagumma. One presumes this was Noel's nod to the prog rockers, rather than the Vincente Minnelli musical film.

– There is a small photograph of Manchester United legend George Best in the window, which was guitarist Bonehead's defiant reminder that not every member of Oasis is a Manchester City fan.

– The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is playing on the television. Noel has since declared that this Clint Eastwood western is one of his favourite films.

– Inevitably, if Bonehead was having a picture of a Manchester United player, the Gallagher brothers were going to have a bigger picture of a Manchester City legend. And who else but Rodney Marsh, the club's record signing, who scored 35 league goals in 116 appearances.

– Nothing too cryptic here, just a nice reference to Definitely Maybe track, Cigarettes and Alcohol.

3) Noel wrote the lyrics to Live Forever (the third single from Definitely Maybe and the band's first top-10 hit) as a direct response to early-Nineties grunge music, which he thought unnecessarily depressing. Fixing his crosshairs on Kurt Cobain's band, Nirvana, Noel said: "It seems to me that here was a guy [Cobain] who had everything, and was miserable about it. And we had f--- all, and I still thought that getting up in the morning was the greatest f---ing thing ever." This cheeriness is certainly reflected in Noel's lyrics: "Maybe I just want to fly, I want to live I don't want to die."

4) Slide Away was due to be released as a fifth single from Definitely Maybe but Noel vetoed the idea, explaining that "You can't have five [singles] off a debut album".

5) Speaking of Slide Away, the song was first written using a guitar which Johnny Marr from The Smiths had given Noel. And it wasn't just any old thing either – Marr gave Noel a 1960 Gibson Les Paul that he himself had bought from The Who's Pete Townshend. "I couldn't give him something dodgy or cheap,” Marr explained. Rumours that the guitar has special powers are, of course, unproven but consider this: a) Marr had used the same guitar to record a number of The Smiths finest records and b) Noel later said: "When I got that guitar, I swear Slide Away seemed to write itself." It should also be said that the guitar was broken during a stage invasion at a 1994 gig in Newcastle. Not so many special powers after all, then.

6) Bassist Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan didn't actually play bass on a single track of Definitely Maybe. As the sessions at both Monnow Valley Studios, near Monmouth, and Sawmills Studios, Cornwall, became increasingly frantic and the results continued to disappoint, Noel re-recorded large sections of the record himself, including all of McGuigan's bass parts. Tony McCarroll, the band's drummer at the time, explained how he found this out to NME: "I never found out about that [McGuigan not featuring on Definitely Maybe] until way down the line. There had been an argument on tour about my drumming and Guigsy told me that he wasn't on there [Definitely Maybe]. I admired him for that."

7) Coca-Cola successfully sued Oasis for $500,000, claiming that Shakermaker, the second single from Definitely Maybe, sounded too similar to the New Seekers's I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony), which they used in their 1971 advertisement.

8) Noel quit the band while touring Definitely Maybe, citing an incident in which Liam struck him with a tambourine on stage. It was to be the first of many bust-ups and walk-outs in the band.

9) The lyrics to the song Married with Children were inspired by Noel's girlfriend at the time, Louise Jones. Fed up of hearing her boyfriend playing the guitar day after day, Jones reportedly told Noel that "your music's shite, it keeps me up all night". The line is quoted verbatim in the song. Noel also confessed to taking inspiration from the American sitcom, Married... with Children. "I looked at them two in the show, and looked at us two, and I thought, that's us, that is!

"It's another song that anybody could relate to, because if you live with a girlfriend or just a flatmate, there are always petty things that you hate about them, and this song's just about pettiness."

10) Liam can't understand why anyone has bothered to release a re-mastered edition of Definitely Maybe to celebrate its 20th anniversary. When the news was announced in February, Liam took to Twitter to say: "HOW CAN YOU REMASTER SOMETHING THATS ALREADY BEING MASTERED. DONT BUY INTO IT. LET IT BE LG X"

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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Another On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from August 30th 1994, when Oasis played an accousic set at Virgin Megastore in London to celebrate the release of Definitely Maybe.










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On This Day In Oasis History...

Definitely Maybe is the debut album by English band Oasis, released on August 30th 1994. It was an immediate commercial and critical success in the UK, having followed on the heels of singles "Supersonic", "Shakermaker" and particularly the popular "Live Forever".

Definitely Maybe went straight to number one and 7x platinum in the UK Album charts on initial release. It was the fastest selling debut album of all time in the UK when released. Definitely Maybe marked the beginning of Oasis' success in America, selling over 1 million copies there, although only reaching #58 on the Billboard 200. The album went on to sell over 7.5 million copies worldwide.

In 1997 Definitely Maybe was named the 14th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 2005 Channel 4's '100 Greatest Albums' countdown placed the album at number 6. In 2006 NME placed the album third in a list of the greatest British albums ever, behind The Stone Roses and The Queen Is Dead. In a recent British poll, run by NME and the book of British Hit Singles and Albums, Definitely Maybe was voted the best album of all time with The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band finishing second and Revolver third. Q magazine readers placed it at five on their greatest albums of all time list in 2006 and in that same year NME hailed it as the greatest album of all time. It is frequently referred to as the greatest debut album of all time.

Album History
In 1994, Oasis were seen as a distant echo of the moribund 'Madchester' scene which had exploded in the early 1990s. Unlike other Madchester bands who indulged in experiments with funk, dance or hip-hop, Oasis presented themselves as a relatively straightforward rock and roll band. Along with bands like Blur and The Verve they seemed to encapsulate a new wave, one which did not yet have a name. By the end of the year the media coined the term Britpop, of which Definitely Maybe retrospectively became one of the pivotal albums.





















Many of the songs had originally appeared on Oasis' "Live Demonstration" demo recorded in Liverpool the year before with Chris and Tony Griffiths of The Real People. The main recording sessions took longer than expected, with the bulk of the album having to be recorded three different times with Mark Coyle producing, before Owen Morris came up with a mix that everyone was satisfied with. The album cost nearly £85,000 to produce, a huge amount of money for a debut album at the time.

The album title, according to Noel Gallagher, comes from a poster he saw in a pub, although he cannot remember what the poster was advertising.

Track Listing

All tracks written by Noel Gallagher.

01: "Rock 'n' Roll Star" – 5:22
02: "Shakermaker" – 5:08
03: "Live Forever" – 4:36
04: "Up in the Sky" – 4:28
05: "Columbia" – 6:17
06: "Sad Song" (extra track on the UK LP version, and the original Japanese version of the album) – 4:27
07: "Supersonic" – 4:43
08: "Bring It on Down" – 4:17
09: "Cigarettes & Alcohol" – 4:49
"Digsy's Dinner" – 2:32
This was misspelt as "Digsy's Diner" upon its North American release.
10: "Slide Away" – 6:32
11: "Married with Children" – 3:11

Singles

"Supersonic"
Released: 11 April 1994
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Oasis & Mark Coyle
Video Director: Mark Szaszy (UK) / Nick Egan (US)
Chart positions: # 31 (UK)
Watch the music video here, or a live performance here.

"Shakermaker"
Released: 13 June 1994
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Oasis, Mark Coyle & Owen Morris
Video Director: Nick Egan
Chart positions: # 11 (UK)
Watch the music video here, or a live performance here.

"Live Forever"
Released: 8 August 1994
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Oasis, Mark Coyle & Owen Morris
Video Directors: Carlos Grasso (UK) / Nick Egan (US)
Chart positions: # 10 (UK) # 2 (US Modern Rock)
Watch the music video here, or a live performance here.

"Cigarettes & Alcohol"
Released: 10 October 1994
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Oasis, Mark Coyle & Owen Morris
Video Director: Mark Szaszy
Chart positions: # 7 (UK)
Watch the music video here, or a live performance here.

Personnel

Liam Gallagher – vocals
Noel Gallagher – lead guitar, vocals
Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs – rhythm guitar
Paul McGuigan – bass guitar
Tony McCarroll – drums

Additional Personnel
Anthony Griffiths – vocals
David Batchelor – producer
Mark Coyle – producer, engineer, mixing
Anjali Dutt – engineer
Owen Morris – producer, mastering, mixing, production concept
Roy Spong – engineer
Dave Scott – engineer
Brian Cannon – art direction, design, concept, cover design
Michael Spencer Jones – photography

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Gallery: Liam Gallagher In Manchester

It was exactly 20 years ago this week that Liam Gallagher and his Oasis bandmates burst on to the music scene with their iconic debut album, Definitely Maybe.

But Liam looked to have aged hardly a day when we spied him returning to home turf on Friday night.

Burnage-born Liam, 41, was certainly rocking a vintage Oasis look - wearing his signature parka jacket while his hair has returned to the fringed style that many will recall from his 90s heyday.

And the Live Forever star even gave our snapper a trademark Rock 'n' Roll star 'salute', shall we say, as he left the Radisson Edwardian Blu Hotel in the city centre.

Tomorrow marks the official 20th anniversary of the release of Definitely Maybe, Oasis' seminal work, which has prompted a 'remastered' reissue from the now defunct band's former record label.

Bonehead: Definitely Maybe is Oasis' finest hour as remastered version is released

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20 facts about Oasis' Supersonic 20 years after its first release

But Liam, now frontman of band Beady Eye, is unlikely to be getting too nostalgic about it.

For after the re-release was announced, he urged fans NOT to buy it.

He said on his Twitter account at the time: "How can you remaster something that's already mastered. Don't buy into it. Let it be."

Many fans had believed the 20th anniversary might prompt a reunion between warring Gallagher brothers Liam and Noel, but sadly that has yet to transpire.

Liam's return home to Manchester on the eve of the anniversary appears to be coincidental - as it is understood he's actually come home to watch his beloved Manchester City play at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday against Stoke City.

We'd love to be a fly on the wall at the Rad Ed over breakfast in the morning - as those Stoke players appear to have checked in to the same hotel as the Mad For It Blues fan.

Click here to see a number of pictures of Liam here.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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