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00:04The guns have fallen silent, the stars have aligned, the great wait is over.
00:11Genuinely felt like a fever dream. I was kind of saying it out loud, Oasis are back, they have returned.
00:16Oasis, one of Britain's most successful bands, are back, announcing their return on social media.
00:23This will be, I think, the hottest rock and roll ticket so far in pop music history.
00:33The band are reuniting for a string of shows in 2025, 15 years after their split.
00:40This is going to be without doubt, probably close to, if not the highest grossing tour the UK has ever
00:47seen.
00:47But how different is the country from when the band were at their peak in the 90s?
00:53It sounds daft. You love each other emotionally from the heart. You love each other.
00:58You can love somebody and you can hate the guts as well.
01:01And will this inspire a new generation of music fans, as well as the committed stalwarts, who have loved the
01:08Gallagher brothers for decades?
01:19Now, let's bring you some breaking news, because Oasis have announced a long-awaited reunion.
01:25Yesterday, it was maybe. Today, it's definitely.
01:29Summer 2024, and music fans wake up to news which had been rumoured for days.
01:35One of the most successful bands in British music, Oasis, announced on X that they're getting back together.
01:42I know my brother better than anybody else. When both come together, we love greatness.
01:49I had an inkling months ago. I interviewed Noel, and I said, how are you and your kid getting on
01:54musically?
01:55What do you think's going to happen?
01:57So it started by saying, I'll never say never.
02:01And he ended by saying it would take an unusual set of circumstances for this to happen, but I wouldn't
02:07rule it out.
02:08It wasn't something that was a gripe, and it wasn't a dig. It was this ambivalent, neutral answer.
02:15So I heard something after Glastonbury. It's quite the rumour mill.
02:20And then a couple of weeks ago, that felt like the fire was being stoked a little bit, and there
02:25was a bit more confidence in it.
02:26And then obviously over Reading and Leeds 2024, that just, that caught absolute wildfire, didn't it?
02:33And ended up being right.
02:36I think it's brilliant. I think they really should, because it represents Manchester and that time in Manchester.
02:42It's going to be brilliant, yeah?
02:43You're going to go?
02:44I'm going to try.
02:45I thought, surely not. I mean, I've heard Noel's getting a divorce, so he needs a bit money, doesn't he?
02:50I definitely wouldn't say no, to be fair. It would be amazing. It'd be iconic.
02:54I mean, it depends what price they are.
02:59The music that you associate with Oasis and the time that we're talking about, you can't replicate that.
03:06I think Oasis defined that decade in a way, particularly at the start.
03:12That's why you said to me, oh, give me some examples of things from the 90s, I would say Oasis.
03:18In 1994, John Major was UK Prime Minister, and Nelson Mandela had become South Africa's first black president.
03:27The National Lottery had just launched in the UK, and a loaf of bread cost around 50 pence.
03:33Midnight is Britain. We still had the Tory government.
03:36It was quite a rancid government, I'd say, you know, kind of on the edge of falling out, really.
03:45In terms of culture, we'd had a lot of quite important pop culture moments, I would say.
03:50Acid House was very important. We'd had Manchester. We'd had quite big youth movements.
03:56Barbara, you were complaining, that's not loud enough.
03:59I would like to hear it as the actual sound, because it's horrific.
04:03I think there was a difference about the kind of indie bands of the 90s.
04:07I would say that they had at least one person within that band that wanted to be a star.
04:12Liam, I'm not quite sure, but I would say both.
04:14And then the other factor was, these bands that really, indie bands, that should have been almost on the outskirts,
04:20that should have just had an NME-type fan base, became mainstream.
04:25Oasis are being hyped as the best band around at the moment,
04:28but they do have a reputation for trashing hotel rooms.
04:31I like what this one's going to be like.
04:33We just want to be the biggest band in the world.
04:35As big as we can be.
04:35Today, for today, and that is it, end story.
04:38And we want all the things that go with it.
04:40Oh, I want to be a big pop star, I want to do loads of people's editing,
04:43because they're going, look at him, look at him, how long, yeah.
04:47But I want it, and I'm not embarrassed about it.
04:51In pop culture, bands like Oasis, Blur, Fulk and Elastica
04:56were at the forefront of a wave of new music that became known as Britpop.
05:01Are we connected, yeah? Are we connected?
05:03You will be after this. It's Elastica!
05:08At that time, you saw a lot of bands come up,
05:10because you were in London and there were lots of places where they would play,
05:12so you'd just turn up and you'd see them play.
05:14And you'd see bands that were not very good progress,
05:18and then suddenly they were good.
05:20And that happened with bands like Suede, Blur, Manic Street Preachers,
05:24all those bands, you'd have seen them before and they weren't that good.
05:27Pulp, they all grew into themselves, but with Oasis they were ready.
05:37As of Talking Tube, there hasn't been a band at number one for a very, very long time.
05:44Two of Britain's most popular pop groups have begun the biggest chart war in 30 years.
05:50The Manchester band Oasis and their arch rivals Blur released new singles today.
05:55You definitely don't see the chart battles of Oasis and Blur like you used to,
06:00which is a shame because I really think it just adds that spark and energy to the chart,
06:05which is still so relevant.
06:06In one corner, four young middle-class men from the south of England,
06:10collectively known as Blur,
06:11and in the other corner, five young working-class men from Manchester called Oasis.
06:16We have some exciting battles, of course,
06:18but it's not quite that kind of almost personal vicious level that that was.
06:23The 90s was the last pre-internet decade when chart success meant
06:27it was guaranteed that pretty much everyone in the country,
06:31whether they liked you or not, would know about you.
06:34All right, I'll care.
06:39I've got a couple of shoplifting in that co-op band there, man.
06:41The Gallagher brothers dominated the tabloid media,
06:44whether it was alleged stories about sex, drugs and rock and roll,
06:49or bust-ups with journalists.
06:50Noel Gallagher was absolutely great with journalists.
06:54He would have drinks with journalists.
06:55He called journalists up because he was bored on tour.
06:58He just liked chatting, and he was very, very, very funny.
07:02Liam was also honest and funny,
07:06but, I mean, less at ease with journalists, I would say.
07:09Yeah, that's why I hate you, you fucker.
07:11Saying you've got an arrogant attitude.
07:12Oh, yeah, that's what makes Oasis, innit?
07:15Is it?
07:15Yeah.
07:16Bollocks, how about that?
07:17Is that good of a feel?
07:18You've got two kids from Manchester, from Burnage.
07:22You come from our background.
07:25You've got to fight to get anywhere.
07:27You know, mummy's not going to get your opponent for your 15th birthday.
07:32It's not like that.
07:33You've got to fight for stuff.
07:34Nobody gives you anything.
07:36And, again, you're often told by the powers that be,
07:39you're never going to amount to anything.
07:41So you become very confrontational.
07:44It's often the only way to succeed.
07:46In August 1996, the band played to 250,000 people at Nebworth.
07:52That's more than 2% of the UK population that applied for tickets.
07:57Noel, will you say hello to the Ozone?
08:00How's it been going?
08:01It's been going all right.
08:03It's starting to rain.
08:03All right.
08:04All right, you're right.
08:05It's starting to rain now, though.
08:06But, yeah, it's been brilliant.
08:07It's been brilliant.
08:08Our gig's brilliant.
08:09In Nebworth, brilliant.
08:10But as the 90s rumbled on,
08:12cracks in the band started to show.
08:14The rock band Oasis have cancelled the remainder of their American tour,
08:18blaming what they call internal differences.
08:21Noel Gallagher arrived at Heathrow tonight amid speculation
08:23that abruptly abandoning Oasis American tour two-thirds through
08:27was a prelude to break up.
08:29The 1997 Labour landslide victory in the UK general election
08:34heralded the coming of Cool Britannia,
08:37a buzzword coined by the media
08:39to describe the UK's renaissance in art, fashion, design and music.
08:45Noel Gallagher went to No. 10 Downey Street.
08:49Obviously, it's his choice.
08:50That's fine.
08:51But, I mean, who does it benefit?
08:52It benefits Tony Blair.
08:54I don't think it benefits Noel Gallagher particularly.
08:57But when new Labour got in in 1997, it was huge.
09:01I understand why he'd go.
09:02I mean, as a journalist, if I'd been invited,
09:03of course I'd have gone.
09:05You know, you go, don't you?
09:06You try and nick something from the bathroom.
09:08You see who's there.
09:09I get it.
09:09But there's a lot of people
09:12who think that pop stars shouldn't mix with politicians
09:16and I get that.
09:17You know, it makes them seem, I suppose, less rebellious.
09:21The band's reunion follows a 15-year hiatus.
09:25Noel Gallagher has announced he's quitting the band Oasis.
09:28He says he can no longer work with his brother Liam
09:30after a series of rows.
09:32I just said, fuck it, I can't do it anymore.
09:36My theory is that the best bands
09:38are an argument stroke love affair
09:41between two people in the middle of the band, right?
09:44And Oasis absolutely epitomise that.
09:46They're brothers.
09:47They can't, you know, obviously they love each other.
09:48But equally, obviously, they really irritate each other.
09:51So they're like the epitome of that.
09:53In an interview with a music magazine,
09:55Noel spoke about his brother Liam.
09:57He said, he's the angriest man you'll ever meet.
09:59He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup.
10:02The tit-for-tat, often public, arguments
10:05have endured ever since.
10:07Oh, I reckon he's in one of his really, really, really,
10:10really, really, really big houses
10:12eating tofu while having a face peel.
10:15And I like Mr Potato, man of the people.
10:17This is really unexpected and
10:20I guess I really should thank our kid
10:22for singing all those great songs
10:23but as he's not here, fuck him.
10:27All my own work.
10:28What would have to change
10:30to get Oasis back together?
10:32God, I ain't fucking changing,
10:34so that's that.
10:37I reckon I could have had to change, wouldn't I?
10:38That starts in, like, sting.
10:40I've always thought it's quite hard
10:42to cancel Oasis because
10:43Liam just says whatever he thinks,
10:46which could be anything.
10:47He could be calling you a potato.
10:49He could be calling you a pot plant.
10:51You know, he just says
10:53whatever nonsense is in his head, really.
10:56Is that like a game
10:57and then you, like,
10:58you slap each other on Twitter
10:59and then you phone each other up afterwards
11:01and have a laugh?
11:01Oh, no. Oh, God, no.
11:02That's well for real, man.
11:03Is it really?
11:04Yeah.
11:05We don't like each other, man.
11:07What do you miss about him?
11:09Just being in a band, man,
11:11having a crack with him.
11:11What about him?
11:12Oh, having a banter
11:13and just having a laugh
11:14and just all that stuff,
11:16you know what I mean?
11:17So they split in 2009
11:20and that happened
11:21when, supposedly,
11:24Liam threw first a plum
11:25and then a guitar
11:28at Noel.
11:29It's a real, unnecessary,
11:31violent act
11:32and he's swinging this guitar around
11:34and he kind of,
11:36you know,
11:37he nearly took my face off with it,
11:38you know.
11:39In the 15 years
11:40when they were not together,
11:42he got out on the road
11:42and he became publicly
11:44Liam Gallagher again.
11:46Highly loved,
11:47playing to a lot of people,
11:49voice is still good,
11:50looks amazing,
11:51there you go, right?
11:52Noel kind of got on
11:53with being Noel.
11:54He was bringing a family up
11:56and then he hit a point
11:58where he split up
11:59with his wife
12:00and once she was kind of
12:02out of the picture,
12:02maybe, maybe,
12:04this is the myth,
12:05I don't know if it's true,
12:06he felt more able
12:08to talk to Liam.
12:11However,
12:12I don't imagine
12:13that he picked the phone up
12:14or that Liam picked the phone up.
12:16I think there were people in between
12:17and they just realised
12:18that everybody still
12:19really loves Oasis.
12:21I suspect
12:22there's love
12:23at the back of this.
12:25With those two siblings
12:26are starting to get on well
12:28and we hear stories
12:29in the media
12:30that their kids get on
12:32and maybe their mam
12:33had part of the equation.
12:36Then maybe love's
12:37at the back of it
12:38and you know,
12:39Summer,
12:39if you write
12:40great music,
12:42surely you would want
12:43to perform
12:44that music again.
12:46Why would you
12:46never want to sing
12:48Don't Look Back in Anger
12:50ever again?
12:54In Camden,
12:55in North London,
12:56fans are...
12:57Absolutely buzzing
12:58that Oasis
12:58about together.
12:59Can't wait.
13:00Want to get a ticket.
13:01Badly.
13:03I think
13:05the
13:05hardcore fans
13:07have been waiting
13:08for this moment
13:08for a very long time
13:10and of course
13:11deserve to have
13:12their moment
13:13with their favourite band.
13:14But what they've got
13:15to understand
13:15is that
13:16a lot of younger people
13:18also love Oasis.
13:21It's the best news
13:22in the world
13:23that Oasis
13:23are coming back together.
13:24It's what we need.
13:26Oasis is ingrained
13:27in Camden
13:28as well as
13:29many other bands are.
13:30It's just
13:31the music hub.
13:32You know,
13:33we have so many
13:34Oasis fans
13:35into the shop,
13:36into the market.
13:37I think everyone
13:38feels the same,
13:40just elated
13:41that Oasis
13:41are going to be
13:42back together.
13:43I imagine
13:43if they're going
13:44on a tour
13:46for that long
13:47they will be.
13:49there will probably
13:50be a punch up
13:51or two.
13:51People are like
13:52oh the rift
13:53is over
13:53and obviously
13:54to a certain extent
13:55it must be
13:56because they must
13:57be talking
13:57in order to
13:59organise the gigs
14:01but I don't think
14:02they have to be
14:02talking that much
14:04to be honest.
14:05You know,
14:05you can do
14:06big gigs
14:08and be quite separate
14:09from one another.
14:11Do you know what I mean?
14:11You can arrive
14:12in different vans,
14:14you can not really
14:16talk to each other
14:16until you're on stage.
14:17All of those things
14:18have been done
14:18in bands before.
14:21And in Manchester
14:22fans both young
14:23and old
14:24are ecstatic.
14:26I just like the music.
14:27I like any music
14:28but their music
14:29because it's local
14:30it means more.
14:33Manchester
14:33is an incredible
14:35rock and roll city
14:36with all due respect
14:37to London
14:38and wherever.
14:39Starting with the Hollies
14:40in 1963
14:41right through
14:42to now
14:44we've had a constant
14:45conveyor belt
14:46of rock and roll bands.
14:48Where Noel and Liam
14:49are from
14:49is basically
14:50kind of Burnitch
14:51it's near
14:52the Old Man City
14:53ground
14:53and they would also
14:54I mean everybody
14:54just went into town
14:55to go out
14:56you'd go to
14:57the Hacienda
14:57you'd go to the Ritz.
14:59I mean I think
14:59to me it was great
15:01but I think now
15:02it would be considered
15:02quite grubby
15:04nobody really lived in town
15:05it was all quite
15:08it was a bit of a mess
15:10and in terms of
15:11economic prospects
15:12there weren't
15:14that many
15:14you know
15:15I mean
15:15what you could do
15:16if you grew up
15:17where the Gallaghers
15:18grew up
15:19is work in the
15:20biscuit factory.
15:21I think when
15:21Led Zepp got back together
15:23albeit without
15:24one of their members
15:25there were two million
15:27applications
15:28for tickets
15:29but for Oasis
15:30to get together
15:32after
15:33really
15:34the world assumed
15:35that would never happen
15:36if you notice
15:37that the interest
15:38is intergenerational
15:39where you would see
15:41grandparents
15:41parents and kids watching
15:45In Burnage
15:46where the Gallagher brothers
15:47grew up
15:47local people
15:48are thrilled
15:50I'm not going to sleep tonight
15:51I am so excited
15:52but yet there's still
15:53that element of doubt
15:54that I'm like
15:54please don't be
15:55just another record
15:56relaunch or something
15:57I've seen them both separately
15:58this year as well
16:00incredible
16:01incredible
16:01both different
16:02different concerts
16:03completely
16:04but together
16:04you know
16:05best believe I'll be there
16:06and it's
16:07almost a chance
16:08to sort of
16:09relive your childhood
16:10a little bit
16:10and sort of
16:11live those memories
16:12you know
16:13even though it's
16:14you know
16:14I'm like 49 now
16:15got to do it before
16:16those old guys are 60
16:17and we can actually
16:19still stand up
16:20in a field
16:20so Burnage
16:22you've still got
16:22terraced houses
16:23you've got
16:24working class communities
16:26who'd been
16:27poor white working class
16:28communities
16:29for a long time
16:30when Oasis
16:31were last in the charts
16:32people were buying
16:34CDs
16:34and cassettes
16:36to put them
16:37in the charts
16:38music is now
16:39streamed
16:40and listened to
16:42whenever you want
16:43wherever you want
16:44as long as you have
16:44an internet connection
16:45does the kind of
16:46traditional Oasis
16:48landscape
16:48sort of fit
16:49into that modern model
16:51well Liam Gallagher's
16:52pretty funny on
16:53X
16:53he's kind of got a reputation
16:55hasn't he
16:56over there
16:57Noel's got some
16:58pretty good soundbites
16:59himself as well
17:00so I think they
17:01I think they understand
17:02the digital landscape
17:03and the power of it
17:05record shop owner
17:07Pete from Burnage
17:08has a special connection
17:09yeah I was included
17:11in the lyrics of
17:12one of the songs
17:13off the first album
17:13definitely maybe
17:16Mr Sifter
17:17being in
17:19never loved bag really
17:20we've been
17:21you know
17:21signing autographs
17:22and doing selfies
17:23ever since
17:24you know
17:24so
17:25it injected
17:26new life
17:27into the shop
17:28you know
17:29I'm extremely grateful
17:30for the evening
17:30the rumours started
17:32there was just a few
17:33little things that came out
17:35one of them was an interview
17:36that Noel did
17:37with John Robb
17:38who's a journalist
17:39in Manchester
17:39and he was just really
17:41kind of
17:41more conciliatory
17:43about Liam
17:44the night we did
17:44supersonic
17:46I sing supersonic
17:47with the same melody
17:48the same words
17:49the same inflections
17:51but when he sings it
17:53it's a bit more menacing
17:59it was an interesting thing
18:01when I did an interview
18:01with Noel
18:02I don't want to do
18:02yet another interview
18:03where he'd be saying
18:05you know
18:05stuff about Liam
18:06and Liam were replying that
18:07and he seemed not
18:08interested in actually
18:10doing that thing
18:11slagging off Liam
18:11and he was very
18:12complimentary about Liam
18:13and actually truthful
18:14about Liam
18:15that Liam is a great singer
18:16and a great front man
18:18and it's great to see
18:18in the interview as well
18:20do you think your voice
18:21brings a sensitivity
18:22to the songs
18:22or a different kind
18:24of sensitivity
18:24well it's got something else
18:25I think it's a bit more
18:27if songs were drinks
18:30right Liam's is a shot
18:31of tequila
18:32right
18:33and mine's half a Guinness
18:34the interview's actually
18:35a really sweet interview
18:36and at the very end
18:38of the interview
18:38he said
18:39it's not what I want
18:41it's not what Liam wants
18:42it's not what creation wants
18:43it's what the people want
18:44the people want Oasis
18:46what kind of dosh
18:47could the Gallagher brothers
18:48stand to make
18:49touring is
18:50is probably your main
18:52funding for your
18:54for your band
18:55your artist career
18:56or whatever it might be
18:57money's got to be
18:58part of the equation
18:59if you go back
19:00decades
19:00you made your money
19:01from selling records
19:02and you toured
19:04to promote the record
19:05or to
19:07make a connection
19:08with your fan base
19:09now
19:09that's where you make
19:11the money
19:11he thinks that
19:12I'm sort of like
19:13desperate to get the band
19:14back together
19:15and for money
19:16and it's not
19:17I didn't join a band
19:18to make money
19:18I joined a band
19:19to have fun
19:19you know what I mean
19:20and get off me head
19:21and go and see the world
19:22you know what I mean
19:23if I'm on it
19:23I'd do it for nothing
19:24if everyone else
19:25is doing it for nothing
19:26but money's always nice
19:28right
19:28half a billion
19:29probably on paper
19:30if they took it
19:32worldwide
19:32and do the number
19:34of shows in the UK
19:35that they should
19:36really be playing
19:37and could sell out
19:37I mean it's just
19:40unbelievable numbers
19:41that are being laid out
19:42so obviously it costs
19:43to put them
19:44you know
19:45to put them on
19:46of course it does
19:46but obviously
19:48they're going to make money
19:48however I think
19:49it's quite funny
19:50the idea that
19:51they're just doing it
19:51for money
19:53because I really
19:54don't think they are
19:55because they've got money
19:56so I really
19:58really don't think
19:59they're doing it
19:59for the money
20:00I think they're doing it
20:01because people
20:03want them to do it
20:04I mean with 500 million
20:05on the table
20:06I could probably see them
20:07managing to work it out
20:08couldn't you
20:09following much speculation
20:11the Gallagher brothers
20:12have managed to build bridges
20:14and for fans old and new
20:15the reunion of Oasis
20:17is a major milestone
20:18in British music
20:20there's a lot of young people
20:21that feel very passionately
20:22about that band
20:23and okay
20:23they might not know
20:24every single lyric
20:25of every single song
20:26but we should see
20:27this as a real positive
20:28this is literally
20:29bringing generations
20:30together
20:31in one space
20:32under one roof
20:34what else do we have
20:35in the UK
20:35that does that
20:36when the gigs were announced
20:38everybody was feeling
20:39a bit glum
20:40you know it was like
20:40the end of the summer
20:42Keir Starmer
20:43just made a really
20:44glum speech
20:45about how
20:45god the budget's
20:46going to be terrible
20:47and everything's
20:48going to be awful
20:48and oh my god
20:49you spent a lot of time
20:50today looking back
20:51in anger
20:52but are you happy
20:52that Oasis
20:53has decided to
20:54reform on your watch
20:56and then like
20:57Oasis to reform
20:58everyone kind of perks up
20:59I just think it's
20:59quite cheering
21:00you know
21:02fans
21:03and
21:04pop culture figures
21:05should be argued about
21:07it's fine to argue
21:08about Taylor Swift
21:09it's fine to argue
21:10about Oasis
21:10that's good
21:11that's what they're there for
21:12great
21:13if you're into rock and roll
21:14it's massively significant
21:16it's probably
21:17one of the greatest
21:19if not
21:20the greatest
21:21reunion
21:22in rock and roll
21:23in the UK
21:36the greatest
21:37the greatest
21:38the most
21:39we need to be
21:41are
21:41and
21:41the greatest
21:41are
21:41and
21:41is the greatest