![]() ![]() ![]() Since Noel quit Oasis in 2009, he and his brother have developed dueling solo careers. There was something poignant about it, listening to Noel brush up against his limitations as a vocalist but also connecting with these great songs in the manner he must have wrote them, sitting there unassumingly with his acoustic guitar. Noel’s voice doesn’t quite have the range of his younger brother’s - it’s more plaintive, sincere and occasionally wobbly - but he was more than up to the task of fronting Oasis for the night. Still, the show went on: “Liam ain’t going to be with us tonight,” Noel told the crowd, “so you’re stuck with the ugly four.” On the night of the taping, about an hour before the band took the stage, Liam officially backed out, citing laryngitis. Rehearsals were rocky, with the lead singer Liam showing up only sporadically - unshaven, wearing the same clothes for several days, and pointing at his throat before walking off the set and leaving his songwriting brother Noel to finish singing his songs. (A record-breaking 2.5 million people requested tickets.) A few weeks later, the band was booked to play a considerably more intimate gig: the 2,700-seat Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank, for an episode of MTV’s stripped-down performance series. Until very recently, to the average Oasis fan, the words “Liam Gallagher” and “MTV Unplugged” brought to mind one of the more infamous - and bleakly hilarious - episodes in the band’s storied existence.įor most of 1996, the reigning kings of Britpop were taking a long, debauched victory lap after the release of their mega-catchy 1995 blockbuster “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” Oasis’s endless summer culminated in August at Knebworth House, an enormous open-air venue where it played two back-to-back shows for 125,000 people a night. ![]()
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