Happy Birthday Zak Starkey

Zak Starkey, (born 13 September 1965) 49 today is an English drummer, well-known as the first child of The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) and his first wife Maureen Cox. Starkey is mostly noted for his unofficial membership in The Who, since 1994.

Starkey is the fourth drummer for the rock band The Who, playing with them live and occasionally in the studio. He is also known as being the third drummer for the English rock band Oasis. Starkey has also worked on session and touring basis with artists including: Johnny Marr, Paul Weller, The Icicle Works, the Waterboys, ASAP and the Lightning Seeds.

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Win A Limited Edition Oasis (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? Box Set

Click here for details to win a limited edition Oasis (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? super deluxe box set.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from September 12th 2006, when Noel Gallagher joined Kasabian on stage at NME.COM's tenth birthday celebrations in London.






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

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Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

RIP Robert Young AKA 'Throb'. Live Forever LG x

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Noel Gallagher On Oasis' Legendary Fights And More

Watch a recently unearthed 1996 Australian TV clip below that features Noel Gallagher explaining Oasis' unusual dynamic.

"The one thing about this band is, we do have have arguments and fights, but its not behind each other's backs," he says. "It's not like, waiting until the singer goes out of the room and then slagging him off. We're all up front with each other."

He also talks about the band's early days and more. "People have said sometimes, 'Oh, you've sort of like, disrespected so many people on the way up, what if you meet them on the way down?'" he says. "And it's like, one, we ain't ever gonna come down anyway, and if we do, we'll disrespect them on the way down as well."
 

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Win A Signed Oasis Poster! When You Pre-Order '(What's The Story) Morning Glory'

The new edition has been remastered from the original tapes by Ian Cooper at London's Metropolis Studios, supervised by the album's producer Owen Morris. A small army of contributors including original members of the inner circle who were involved in studio and live recordings came together to hunt down unheard demos and live material. The team also unearthed a wealth of never-seen-before photos and vintage memorabilia which will be included in the new artwork.

Alongside the original album remastered, the Special Edition CD includes two CDs of all the B-sides plus rare and unreleased Oasis tracks from the Morning Glory era.

The limited edition box set comes packaged in a deluxe box with magnetic closure lid, and includes both the three CD set and vinyl edition of the album as well as a stunning 56 page hard backed coffee table book which includes extensive sleeve notes from respected music critic Neil McCormick. Additional content includes replica 12" promo (Cum On Feel The Noise/Lynch Mob Beats Remix), Exclusive 7" vinyl of Hello (demo) - She's Electric (demo), replica promo cassette plus exclusive merch.

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Audio: Oasis 'Acquiesce' Live At Earls Court 1995

This live version of Acquiesce at Earls Court is available as part of the Deluxe Boxset, out 29th September.

 

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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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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.

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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

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