Books
-
£ 11.99
- Ex Tax: £ 11.99
Oasis' Definitely Maybe
Oasis - Book - by Alex Niven
(2014)
Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes and dreams of a people than any other record of the last quarter century. In a Britain that had just undergone the most damaging period of social upheaval in a century under the Thatcher government, Noel Gallagher ventriloquized slogans of burning communitarian optimism through the mouth of his brother Liam and the playing of the other Oasis 'everymen': Paul McGuigan, Paul Arthurs and Tony McCarroll.
On Definitely Maybe, Oasis communicated a timeworn message of idealism and hope against the odds, but one that had special resonance in a society where the widening gap between high and low demanded a newly superhuman kind of leaping. Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as "Live Forever," "Supersonic," and "Cigarettes & Alcohol." In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.
You May Also Like
When Rock Met Disco ...
When Rock Met Disco - Book - by Steven Blush
£ 19.99 Ex Tax: £ 19.99
Class of '88 : Find ...
Rave Scene UK 1988 - Book - by Wayne Anthony
£ 12.49 Ex Tax: £ 12.49
Sinatra and Me : The...
Frank Sinatra / Tony Consiglio - Book - by F.Douskey
£ 13.49 Ex Tax: £ 13.49
A Time and a Place :...
Emerson,Lake and Palmer - Book - by Laura Shenton
£ 16.99 Ex Tax: £ 16.99
Ian Mcculloch : King...
Echo and the Bunnymen - Book - by Mick Middles
£ 49.99 Ex Tax: £ 49.99
Snap Music Photograp...
1980/90s Photographer - Book - by Neil MacKenzie Matthews
£ 10.99 £ 35.00 Ex Tax: £ 10.99