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Aloha!
I can do that all night. Hello!
Hello!
Oasis! Oasis!
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And finally, it's been called the rock concert of the decade.
Quarter of a million rock fans at Knebworth in Hertfordshire
for one of the biggest ever open air concerts in Britain.
'96 was just the best year.
We had just the most amazing summer.
It was cool Britannia.
Had films like Trainspotting.
Some fantastic music out there.
Britpop and the Blur vs. Oasis Battle.
With all that garbage going on...
Euro '96.
New Labour was just about to come in.
It was a good feeling throughout the whole country.
And Oasis were there in the middle of it.
♪ Tonight I'm a rock 'n' roll star ♪
Power to the people!
I remember Noel being on theBreakfast show in May,
and he announced this massive gig.
"One night at Knebworth,
"tickets go on sale this Saturday."
It was a pre Twitter, pre Facebook age
and pre mobile phone age.
I think I saw it maybe in the newspaper
or music magazine.
I saw it on Ceefax.
Instead of having the Internet, you have this crappy teletext.
Getting the tickets was quite a strange one
because it was back in the days
when you're in a queue in a venue
or calling in.
Everybody knew there was this one moment to get these tickets.
We arranged to get up at 3:00.
We all coordinated,
how we're going to do it,
different houses, different phone lines.
We get to Way Ahead Records in Nottingham.
Saturday morning... Up crack of dawn.
Secretly went to my Gran's house.
I remember the queue going up the side of the street.
Tickets went on sale 9:00 a.m. You're there ready.
I used my old man's credit card.
It was a landline phone attached to the wall.
Sat on the bottom stair. On the side of the arm chair.
With an old beige BT phone on my lap.
Dialing up the same number. The ticket hotline.
Eep, eep, eep. Engaged constantly.
Calling and calling.
I made the mistake of going out the night before.
It was painful. Redial, redial.
Constantly hitting the orange redial button.
Eep, eep, eep, eep.
Must've pressed it a thousand times.
It was so frustrating.
Would've been so easy just to give up.
One of my friends had this genius idea
of calling the operator
and saying he was struggling
to get through to a certain number,
gave him the ticket line. Hold the line.
Amazingly, they put him straight through.
I think by half past 10:00, it was pretty clear
that we're having a landsliding result.
It was just blowing every box office record out of the water.
Two million people tried to get the tickets
to see the band of the moment, Oasis,
at Knebworth in Hertfordshire.
You pay the guy 22.50, probably 50 pence booking fee.
Every single ticket we sold over that weekend
was either sold in person or sold over the phones.
I think we bought a couple of tickets each
and that was it. Job done. Mission accomplished.
Five hours later... I hear the ring.
Oasis hotline.
I was shaking.
I remember the moment so clearly.
Got through, asked for two tickets.
But they were like, "No, there's none left."
But she says, "We do have tickets to Knebworth."
And I just automatically said,
"Yeah, that's fine. I'll take them."
I run downstairs to my dad, "Where's Knebworth."
I was running up and down the hallway going,
"Yes, I've got tickets. I've got tickets."
I was only 14.
Then my parents, they were like, "You're not going to Knebworth.
"Absolutely not." Um, and I think
my brother realized this as well
and he phoned to say, "I'll take you."
Like, sure, he wasn't even an Oasis fan.
Finally got through.
The guy on the other end of the phone was kind enough
to then give me tickets for both nights.
The first show that I booked for Oasis
was a room above a pub,
holds 120 people or something.
That was between March and May 1994.
By August '96, they were playing
to a quarter of a million people.
Nobody thought that one day
we'd have sold ten million albums
and we would be playing
to 250,000 people over two days.
Anyone that said that they did believe that is a liar.
I had a reasonable degree of confidence
that we'd get to two nights, but I don't think
anybody thought we'd sell both of them out on the day.
Oasis could have sold six nights, eight nights.
Who knows?
The best thing that they did is they only did two nights,
which makes those shows even more magical.
We did go and look at various places
with the band and their people,
but we went to Knebworth last.
I remember Noel bubbling up
in his vintage chocolate brown roller.
You could tell from the moment he arrived,
he just went, "Yep." He liked the whole vibe of it,
just the sense of scale, it dripped with history.
And, you know, he was hanging out with the Aristos.
Are you an Oasis fan?
I... I think I might be by the end of the weekend,
but I don't know their music very well at the moment.
- So you've not got an... - I...
I understand that they are extremely...
What I've heard of them is it sounds just right
for this sort of big event.
They are very good on stage.
So I'm sure it will be a terrific success.
And when you hear the stats afterwards,
it's about 2.7% of the population
that applied for tickets and didn't get them.
Then you realize how lucky you actually were.
They had a brilliant photo on them.
They were part of the gig,
they were part of that experience.
It's literally Willy Wonka and the Golden Ticket.
Hertfordshire police have orchestrated
a massive operation codenamed Operation Gold,
to deal with a massive influx of fans.
They were showing that you didn't have to be
this kind of big, bloated,
enormodome stadium bands.
You could be an exciting rock and roll band
and still play at Knebworth,
where Zeppelin had played, where the Stones had played.
The people who played Knebworth,
when you look at them,
they tend to fall into the legends category.
Just take pictures, don't ask questions,
cheeky bastard.
And for a band like Oasis to,
at that stage of their career, have the confidence
and the swagger to put themselves in the same bracket
as the Pink Floyds' and Led Zeppelins' of this world,
history will remember it fondly.
It was like a calling to those Oasis fans.
This kind of special moment where these working class lads
were gonna go and do the biggest gig
that's ever been seen in the UK.
It was that moment in history
where you had to be there, you could taste it.
My whole thing with that group was rehearsing,
rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing.
I want it to be second nature.
I want to do it without thinking about it.
So I could fucking do it standing on my head.
And then we could all enjoy the gig.
I could be... I could be like a fan.
Yeah, we were tight as fuck.
We were a really, really fucking tight band.
We never did shit gigs.
It's Getting Better, Man!
♪ Say something
♪ Shout it from the rooftops Of your head
♪ Even if you Mean something
♪ Make me understand Or I'll forget
♪ The people here On life's beaches
♪ They wish upon the waves That hide the sand
♪ Let them know that Life teaches
♪ You to build a castle In your hand
♪ Maybe the songs That we sing are wrong
♪ Maybe the dreams That we dream are gone
♪ Bring it on home And it won't be long
♪ It's gettin' better man!
♪ Hey! What was that You said to me?
♪ Just say the word And I'd be free?
♪ And when the stars Are shining bright
♪ We're getting better man!
♪ And crashing in upon a wave
♪ It's calling out Beyond the grave
♪ And we're the fire in the sky
♪ It's gettin' better man!
Let's stick it up your arse.
♪ It's gettin' better man!
From the start up to Knebworth
the speed it happened and the scale it got to,
it probably took me five years
before it actually sunk in, you know?
And I knew Zeppelin had played it, you know,
and I knew it was a massive thing to be doing.
But my initial thoughts on it when I saw it
as an empty field is like, "Yeah, it's just a field."
you know, "It's not that big."
Quarter of a million rock fans
are counting the hours to Gallagher brothers
take the stage.
Yes, Oasis are playing Knebworth tomorrow
in what's being called "the gig of the decade."
I come from Carmathen, a small town in South Wales.
So it was four of us
in this small little white Mini Metro.
It was on its last legs.
Probably about 20 miles in,
I think, the engine started steaming.
I was like, "Oh, fuckin' hell."
I think the four-hour journey
took us about seven or eight hours.
♪ I'm free to be whatever I
♪ Whatever I choose
♪ And I'll sing the blues If I want ♪
Yeah, take a look.
That is my birthday present.
It's my birthday today.
So what day is it now?
Uh, today... Well, it's still Friday, isn't it?
And you're queuing up till Sunday?
Yeah.
♪ It always seems to me ♪
Been working in Pontin's, Blackpool.
Got the train tickets, travelled down to Knebworth.
Never booked a hotel. Never got a tent.
We just had a bitsy rucksack,
some class A's and a few beers.
If you're gonna go all in,
you're gonna go all in, aren't ya?
♪ Get a grip on yourself It don't cost much
♪ Free to be whatever you
We wanted to go early, early as possible.
So round about four o'clock in the morning
we wanted to get to the front pit.
♪ You're free to be Wherever you
We brought a big batch of bin bags and took it with us.
It was a brilliant idea. We managed to stay dry
and people were coming up,
"I'll give you £5 for a bin bag."
We're like, "No, it's okay. You can have it."
Or, "here's a beer instead."
Yeah, it was a great atmosphere.
♪ You only see what people Want you to see ♪
Radio 1.
Hi, this is Jo Whiley welcoming you
to a rather special event on Radio 1,
the live gig of the year, if not the decade.
Between now and 10:30, we'll bring you Oasis
in all their evening glory from Knebworth Park,
live and exclusive on Radio One.
♪ Here in my mind... ♪
We had to be up at stupid o'clock in the morning
to get on the bus to come in to Birmingham
and get on the train to Knebworth.
We're on this old rust bucket of a coach
that must have only had three gears...
No toilet, no telly. We're all drinking, we're singing away.
It was just a party atmosphere,
the whole way down. All singing Oasis songs,
all wearing the bucket hats,
and these were the days where you can really smoke in buses.
We decided that we'd drive as close as we could,
parked in a little lay-by,
and then, basically, walked across the fields.
On the morning of the gig, I found out my girlfriend
of only eight months at the time was pregnant.
A bit of a shock,
but yes, spent that full day coming to terms
with the fact I was going to be a dad, quickly realized as well
it wasn't going to be as lively as I thought it was going to be
'cause I had a pregnant girlfriend to look after.
♪ Whatever I choose
♪ And I'll sing the blues If I want ♪
- Where have you travelled from? - Buckingham.
Northamptonshire. Chesterfield.
Has anybody told you you look like Liam?
A few times, yeah.
Where are you from?
Manchester.
We're fucking cockneys, we are.
We're cockneys, we are.
Soft cockneys.
Where are you from?
Birmingham.
Doncaster.
Where are you from, Jim?
Well, Africa originally, but now North Yorkshire.
Manchester. Manchester!
Where's the toilets?
We need a toilet.
♪ Everybody knows
♪ But now I say nothing...
We've doing two concerts, two nights running.
And we've never done 125,000 in, 125,000 out, in, out...
So, a quarter of a million people over the weekend.
Knebworth itself is not the easiest of venues to operate.
It's served by a relatively small small station
and the roads are tiny.
40,000 people had to come by coach.
So all the coaches, when they came off the main road,
had to go down these tiny, little winding back roads
that were only enough width to get one coach through.
Then you go closer,
and you see that sign to Radio Supernova,
they had there own radio channel, and you're like...
This is something different from going to normal gigs.
It was a mass coming together.
And of course, when you arrived,
being blown away by the size and scale of it.
It's like, wow, this is massive.
I think I was just happy to be there.
I've got a ticket, I'm here. Brilliant.
You could feel a vibe about the place.
Getting closer and closer,
and the buzz was getting bigger and bigger.
It was a lovely, sunny day. People singing Oasis songs...
Everyone was on such a high,
and not from the drugs we were on at the time...
...but just a natural high and the excitement!
I want to get backstage.
The gates opened,
everyone's putting their tickets through,
they're just ripping them and giving you the ticket back.
You almost didn't want to hand it over
when you got to Knebworth,
because they were gonna tear a bit off it.
Like, don't tear that off. That's my ticket.
Everyone just started running.
And of course, you just join in, hundreds of us.
The gates open, and it's like running down
as fast as you can to the front pen.
That was your mission.
That's the main reason for queueing up for hours and hours.
One of my mates went flying on the way.
Excuse me, out the way, coming through. Mind your backs.
Like a pair of paramedics.
We just grabbed each other's hands
and we just legged it so fast
down to that stage.
There's all these security guards in their high-vis
everywhere going, "Stop running!"
We were just going for it. And we just got down to pit one.
We got our wristbands and we ended up in the barrier.
You know when you've got that band on,
that's like the Holy Grail.
We were just ambling, like, mouths gaping.
And then all of a sudden, the security guard came up to us.
She had blonde hair. She went, "You two, come with me now."
And she guided us around the crowd,
put wristbands on us
and took us right into the mosh pit.
And we were on the front ofThe Independent newspaper.
So we were there on the barrier, we're at the front.
We can't leave our spot
to go and get food or go to the toilet.
So we just had to hold on to our bladders the whole day.
The amount of people just walking around
looking like Liam was amazing.
It was the greatest gathering of Liam haircuts in the world.
Did you go to bed early in preparation for this weekend?
Yeah, well... So what we done was,
I've got my mates staying with us from Manchester.
On Thursday night, we stayed up all night
and had a bit of a pint because it was the last one
we were gonna have for the weekend.
But if we hadn't stayed up all night till about 7:00 a.m.
we wouldn't have been able to sleep Friday night,
'cause we'd be like, too nervous.
♪ Round are way The birds are singing
♪ Round are way The sun shines bright
♪ Round are way The birds are minging
♪ Round are way It's all right
♪ Round are way The birds sing for you
♪ 'Cause they Already know you
♪ Yeah, they already know you
♪ Hey you! Up in the sky
♪ Learning to fly Tell me how high...♪
I knew the minute Noel stepped in
with this list of songs
that he'd already written, once we'd got together,
as a band and sort of,
figured out these songs and rehearsed them,
there was no doubt, I don't think, in any of our minds
that it was going to go somewhere.
If somebody would have said,
in a couple of years' time,
you're going to be playing to a quarter of a million people
over two nights,
at Knebworth where Led Zeppelin and Queen had played,
you were going to fly in by helicopter,
and all these bands are gonna be supporting you,
I'd have been, like, come on, really?
There's seven of us on that flight.
And the reason there's seven of us
is Mark Coyle is on it, and Phil Smith.
Outside of the band, they were the two people who were there
at the very, very, very, very beginning.
Mark Coyle was our soundman in the boardwalk
and Phil was one of our roadies.
Who's your favorite member of the band?
Liam!
Bedroom eyes.
Noel. Liam I suppose.
Liam. Why?
Don't know. Just his attitude.
Liam.
Noel. It's gotta be Noel. Noel.
Liam. Shit, he's so horny. Liam is the best.
Liam.
Liam's an utter bastard.
Got to be Guigsy, playing top string on the bass.
Well, I suppose Noel. Noel Gallagher.
It's got to be Noel. Liam.
Liam! He's lovely! He's gorgeous.
The biggest blue eyes you've ever seen.
I love him. I love him!
Noel. 'Cause he's sexy. Why?
And he's talented and he's gorgeous
and I want to marry him.
Loads!
Oasis! Oasis! Oasis!
The Bootleg Beatles came on.
Ocean Color Scene.
Cast, Manic Street Preachers.
The Chemical Brothers were on pretty early.
And the Charlatans.
Their keyboardist Rob Collins had died
two or three weeks beforehand.
Obviously, an immortal performance.
But you could feel it, like it was pretty, pretty raw.
They were big groups in themselves.
They might not sell out Knebworth,
but they were huge in their own right.
It was pretty special, actually.
These tickets for £22.50, you know,
to see Oasis for £22.50 is a bargain.
To get another five or six bands every day,
I think it was pretty phenomenal.
With every band that came on,
you could feel the energy building.
And then, The Prodigy came on.
I wasn't sure what to expect going in.
The Prodigy, it's drum and bass, whatever.
You know, boom, boom, boom.
And then it's like, fucking hell.
It was like nothing you've ever seen.
They nearly stole the show from Oasis.
They came on and they absolutely owned it.
You could feel the bass pumping through you.
They were full force, it was like volume 11.
I was scared. You know what I mean?
It was like who the fuck are these people?
They jumped in the crowd and everything.
It's like, don't come near me, like.
You're going to fucking eat me.
The crowd went absolutely wild for them.
We were right at the front,
and Keith jumped into the crowd
and literally landed on me and I was like, who's this man?
Max has got this massive glove on, it's all steel.
He's got these crazy contact lenses in.
I'd never seen anything like it.
The stage was like 20 feet away from my Winnebago.
I tried... I tried to sleep through The Prodigy.
Can you believe that?
I just remember it going into a bit of a lull,
and then you sort of became aware
that people were starting to slowly edge forward.
The energy pulsating through the crowd
was unbelievable.
Everyone was so excited.
You see the Marshall speakers come onto the stage.
You see the drum kit come onto the stage and you're
screaming with excitement. Just because you've seen that.
The darkness was coming in.
And just the anticipation you felt it
building, and building, and building.
It was just electric.
I don't remember
being in the fucking slightest bit nervous.
It was just kind of... go on stage, and you know,
each step of the band,
each six months, got bigger and bigger.
We'd already done arenas.
We'd already done a couple of stadiums,
like Maine Road, and that was just the next step.
The build up to it was just immense.
I still hear that ringing "Oasis, Oasis!"
Oasis! Oasis! Oasis!
But everyone's getting really pumped up, ready for Oasis,
ready for Noel, ready for Liam,
Bonehead, Guigs, Whitey.
I thought I was going to explode with excitement.
The crowd just surged forward,
and we were crushed into the barrier.
You could hardly breathe. And you didn't really care.
We were at the front of Oasis playing at Knebworth.
And then this countdown starts happening. Ten,
nine.
Eight, seven,
six, five, four, three, two...
Tom-tom kicks in.
That sound just kind of hit you.
As soon as you heard that,
then you felt a wave of anything just come
from the crowd.
The crowd would just go nuts.
Your heart's beating. Any minute now.
This is what it was for.
That's what you've made the effort for.
It's this build up. And you kind of love it,
but you also want it to finish because you want them
to come on stage as soon as possible.
Oasis! Come on!
All right! All right!
Then Liam walks out, and he's got his white jacket on,
and you're like, "Fucking hell. Let's rock and roll, eh?"
I was in awe. I was absolute awestruck by it.
I couldn't believe my luck.
He just kind of raised his arms.
It felt like God's calling out to his disciples.
Here's our rock god.
"Yeah, I'm here.
"I'm gonna entertain you.
"I'm gonna kick the fuck out of Knebworth
for the next two hours."
Columbia comes on, which is my favorite song, anyway.
It's like, now we're having it.
Hair starts coming up on the back of my neck.
I can smell the hot dogs, taste the beer... Shivers.
Oh, just... man!
Knebworth, mad for it, yeah!
♪ There we were Now here we are
♪ All this confusion Nothing's the same to me
♪ There we were Now here we are
♪ All this confusion Nothing's the same to me
♪ I can't tell you The way I feel
♪ Because the way I feel is Oh, so new to me
♪ I can't tell you The way I feel
♪ Because the way I feel is Oh, so new to me
♪ What I heard is not What I hear
♪ I can see the signs But they're not very clear
♪ What I heard is not What I hear
♪ I can see the signs But they're not very clear
♪ So I can't tell you The way I feel
♪ Because the way I feel is Oh, so new to me
♪ I can't tell you The way I feel
♪ Because the way I feel is Oh, so new to me
♪ This is confusion Am I confusing you?
♪ Oh, I slept with you
♪ This is confusion Am I confusing you?
♪ This is peculiar We don't want to fool ya'... ♪
They went from nothing to...
massive in, like a couple of years.
It was nuts how quick it went. Nuts.
To be able to go from playing
as a snarly, rock and roll band indoors,
to be able now to do it outdoors to 150,000 people...
Y'all havin' a good day?
You know, it was quite incredible in that timeframe.
My favorite song ever Acquiesce was Number two.
When it came on, I just remember thinking, "Oh!"
Life couldn't have got any better.
My eyes are shut, yeah.
Arms are waving, I've got my boyfriend to my left,
got a lukewarm, semi-flat plastic beaker
full of lager, and I'm singing my heart out.
♪ I don't know what it is That makes me feel alive
♪ I don't know how to wake The things that sleep inside
♪ I only want to see the light That shines behind your eyes
♪ There are many things That I would like to know
♪ And there are many places That I wish to go
♪ But everything's depending On the way the wind may blow
♪ Because we need each other
♪ We believe in one another
♪ I know we're going to uncover
♪ What's sleeping in our soul
♪ Because we need each other
♪ We believe in one another
♪ I know we're going to uncover
♪ What's sleeping in our soul
Supersonic!
Everybody in the back, off your ass.
It was banger after banger after banger.
Hundred and twenty-five thousand people
singing, knowing every word of every song.
It's euphoric.
Everybody knows the words to their songs.
So if you're gonna go to the gig and you're gonna be part of it,
you best sing along.
♪ I need to be myself
♪ I can't be no-one else
♪ I'm feeling supersonic Give me gin and tonic
♪ You can have it all But how much do you want it?
♪ You make me laugh
♪ Give me your autograph
♪ Can I ride with you In your BMW?
♪ You can sail with me In my yellow submarine
♪ You need to find out
♪ 'Cause no-one's gonna Tell you what I'm on about
♪ You need to find a way For what you want to say
♪ But before tomorrow
♪ 'Cause my friend said He'd take you home
♪ He sits in a corner All alone
♪ He lives under a waterfall
♪ Nobody can see him
♪ Nobody can ever Hear him call
♪ Nobody can ever Hear him call... ♪
I idolize Noel Gallagher.
I have since I was 16 years old.
Noel is the man. I just love him. Yes!
Oasis were us.
They were literally us. We were them.
The only difference is that they were on the stage
making music. We were the guys listening to it.
You could think they were into the same things I'm into.
I'm into the same things that they're into.
They're guys from a council estate.
That's how they make their money.
That's their job.
They don't think they're lucky.
They just know that they're good at their job.
We're in a privileged position where the crowd
get to see five fellas at work.
We get to see 100,000 people a night out.
When the crowd is bouncing like that,
they don't see that, they feel it, of course.
Bonehead used to be moved to tears sometimes.
He gets a bit emotional.
Thank you very much.
Cigarettes & Alcohol for every motherfucking one of you.
It was the '90s, you know.
It was a lively time, wasn't it?
I see you all, let's have it, man. Come on!
The most hedonistic band, the most hedonistic audience.
It's a good combination
♪ Is it my imagination
♪ Or have I finally found Something worth living for?
♪ I was looking for some action
♪ But all I found was Cigarettes and alcohol
♪ You could wait for a lifetime
♪ To spend your days In the sunshine
♪ You might as well Do the white line
♪ 'Cause when it comes on top
♪ You gotta make it happen
♪ Is it worth The aggravation
♪ To find yourself a job
♪ When there's nothing worth Working for? ♪
Cigarettes & Alcohol.
Saying so what's the point getting a job
when there's nothing worth working for?
And that's the way me and my friends felt.
We'd all been on the dole for a few years,
and Cigarettes & Alcohol captured what we were living,
and what it was to be young and be in that situation.
Oasis sort of said,
be confident about it,
and go and enjoy yourself.
♪ You could wait for a lifetime
To spend your days In the sunshine
♪ You might as well Do the white line
♪ 'Cause when it Comes on top
♪ You gotta make it happen!
♪ You gotta make it...♪
It wasn't really that testosterone charged environment
that it became later on in the later gigs,
it was a really good mixture of boys and girls.
People were just chatting and chilling out.
It was a proper nice summer's day,
just relaxing and having fun.
Whoever you spoke to, wherever they came from
they would have similar stories about trying to get tickets,
similar stories about how they got there.
It was just more of a happy experience.
Everyone was just pleased to be there, I think.
The whole atmosphere was amazing.
♪ You gotta, you gotta You gotta make it
♪ You gotta, you gotta You gotta make it♪
The police were gobsmacked
how few people were arrested over the weekend,
like ten people or something.
It was extraordinary.
Northey brought some of his special
brownie cakes which were very well received.
A bit of a Woodstock vibe.
It really was sort of peace and love.
It was absolutely a coming together
of Oasis fans at the biggest concert in the world.
125,000 people were there that day.
It was a collection of people that
were there with a shared love of this great northern band.
What is it like riding away,
out there about 50 miles away?
Is it any good?
You with that snidey fucking hotdog, man!
Freak off!
Right about there, man,
you run around like me in a bit
with your fuckin' kecks around your ears.
Just walking around the site, it was incredible
that people were enjoying the show
quarter of a mile from the stage.
It goes on forever and ever out there, man.
And to an extent part of that was the knowledge that
a lot of thinking had gone in to try and make sure
that people in the back got a show.
You want them to be going home
thinking you had the best time ever
and I think the vast majority of people did.
The screens were at the time absolute cutting edge and huge.
There are challenges of having a field that big,
you know, time delay being one of them.
They had a screen on stage
and they dubbed it theWonderwall.
And looking back now it's rubbish,
but at the time, it was amazing.
♪ You only see what People want you to see ♪
If you could give something to the band,
what would it be?
Make them invisible for a day,
so they can walk around something like this.
And see themselves.
Yeah, and see how today is really good.
It's brought everybody together, so.
Yeah, I'd make them invisible.
This next one's for Richard Ashcroft.
Get your shit together.
Fuckin' Wigan, man!
♪ Here's a thought For every man
♪ Who tries to understand What is in his hands
♪ What's in his hands
♪ He walks along the open road Of love and life
♪ Surviving if he can
♪ Bound with all the weight of All the words he tried to say
♪ Chained to all the places That he never wished to stay
♪ Bound with all the weight of All the words he tried to say
♪ As he faced the sun He cast no shadow
♪ You can take my soul Don't take my pride
♪ Pride
♪ You can take my soul Don't take my pride
♪ Pride
♪ When you take my soul Don't take my pride
♪ Pride
♪ As he faced the sun He cast no shadow
Oasis don't do anything.
They just stand there and play guitars and sing
rather than putting on a show.
They would have A big light show
and video and whatever else,
but you're still watching a static show.
They were just playing rock and roll music
and the music did the talking for them.
♪ Here's a thought For every man
♪ Who tries to understand What is in his hands
♪ What's in his hands
♪ He walks along the open road Of love and life
♪ Surviving if he can
♪ But only if he can
♪ Bound with all the weight of All the words he tried to say
♪ Chained to all the places That he never wished to stay
♪ Bound with all the weight of All the words he tried to say
♪ As he faced the sun He cast no shadow
♪ You can take my soul Don't take my pride
♪ Pride
♪ When you take my soul Don't take my pride
♪ Pride
♪ When you take my soul Don't take my pride
♪ Pride
If you were to sit down and write a song
knowing what it will become 25 years from now,
you will never finish that song
because it will never be good enough.
♪ As he faced the sun He cast no shadow♪
If this is going to be one of the great songs of the '90s,
then these words don't make any sense.
What's a Wonderwall? Who gives a fuck?
♪ Today is gonna be the day
♪ That they're gonna Throw it back to you
♪ By now you should've Found out
♪ Realized what you gotta do
♪ I don't believe That anybody
♪ Feels the way I do
♪ About you now ♪
It was just such a buzz to be there, you know,
it was such an atmosphere.
And everything went really quiet.
I tell you what, this is the quietest
125,000 people I've ever fuckin' heard.
It's silent out there.
And then they started to play Masterplan.
This one's called The Masterplan.
It's about being young.
And you're all young, you're all making history today.
Never forget that.
The lights just dimmed,
and everything was coming to
you know, almost like a calm.
It was like in the still of the night
and that song playing,
just this lovely feeling in the air.
Noel sitting down there with the acoustic guitar,
guy on the harmonica and the strings,
in front of 125,000 people,
just having everybody captivated
with such A slow beautiful song.
Everybody just came down to that level.
♪ Take the time To make some sense
♪ Of what you want to say
♪ And cast your words away Upon the waves
I remembered looking at my brother
and just thinking I'm never going to forget this moment.
♪ On a ship of hope today
♪ And as they land Upon the shore ♪
You're young and carefree
and you have no idea in the world at that age.
♪ Say it loud And sing it proud today
♪ Dance if you wanna dance
♪ Please brother take a chance
♪ You know they're gonna go
♪ Which way they wanna go
♪ All we know is that We don't know
♪ How it's gonna be
You hear the words to Masterplan and you know what they're about
and you don't know what's gonna happen in life,
you know, take your chances.
♪ We're all part Of a masterplan ♪
Life's short, enjoy it. That's exactly what we were doing.
We had no idea at the time that my brother
was going to be diagnosed with cancer within six months,
and his life was going to change so dramatically.
He was so young. He was just 26,
and he did go on to live for another few years.
But, you know, things were never the same.
♪ ...sing it proud today
♪ I'm not saying Right is wrong
♪ It's up to us to make
♪ The best of all the things That come our way
♪ Everything that's been Has passed ♪
It's such a special memory
it's such a precious, precious memory
because it really was the last time
we really spent with Eddie,
just enjoying life and
it was amazing that I got to spend it with him.
♪ Will dance If they wanna dance
♪ Please brother Take a chance
♪ You know they're gonna go
♪ Which way they wanna go
♪ All we know is that We don't know
♪ How it's gonna be
♪ Please brother let it be
♪ Life on the other hand
♪ Won't make you understand
♪ We're all part of A masterplan
♪ We're all part of A masterplan ♪
Thank you very much.
It beggars belief, that song was a good song.
It's insane.
Is anyone coming tomorrow?
Yes!
Probably a few of you, I know.
If you could give something to the band, what would it be?
Go on, Jane. - It's far too X-rated.
The pleasure that they give to us.
Yeah, they give us so much pleasure for being here.
It's...
At least it's just on the spot. It's not funny.
You're a few pints too late, I'm afraid.
If you could give something to the band, what would it be?
A night out with us.
I'd like to shag Patsy.
I'm sorry, what was that?
What would you like to give back to the band?
A lot of love.
It is about time something good came out of Britain.
I mean, it's been going downhill
for the last 20 years or so.
Oasis came out, and they bring out proper music again.
What would you give them?
I'd give them me, you know, then I could just
be with them all the time.
I don't have huge rock star ambitions
that would come after writingLive Forever.
Then a fuckin' bomb went off, and that was it.
♪ Maybe...
We were a pretty decent band
the night before I wroteLive Forever,
but it was Indie music.
The day after I wrote Live Forever,
we were going to be the biggest band in the world.
I knew it. I knew enough about music
and enough about songs
to know that that wasn't Indie music.
It was a fucking great song.
♪ Maybe I just wanna fly
♪ Wanna live, I don't wanna die
♪ Maybe I just wanna breathe
♪ Maybe I just don't believe
♪ Maybe you're the same as me
♪ We see things They'll never see
♪ I said maybe Don't really wanna know
♪ How your garden grows
For me, always is Live Forever.
If Oasis were my band, that was my song.
It's just everything, the words, the melody and then,
the small, sharp guitar solo.
♪ Maybe I will never be
♪ All the things that I like to be
You buy a guitar
and then you find out what chordLive Forever was.
♪ Now's the time To find out why
♪ I think you're the same as me
♪ We see things They'll never see
♪ You and I are gonna Live forever
♪ Maybe I don't really Wanna know
♪ How your garden grows
♪ 'Cause I just wanna fly
♪ Lately, did you ever feel The pain
♪ In the morning rain As it soaks you to the bone?
♪ Maybe I just wanna fly Wanna live, I don't wanna die
♪ Maybe I just wanna breathe Maybe I just don't believe
♪ Maybe you're the same as me We see things they'll never see
♪ You and I are gonna Live forever
♪ Gonna live forever
♪ We're gonna live forever
We're gonna live forever
♪ We're gonna live forever
We were not grateful to anybody for anything.
Oasis was us, you know.
In a sense, it belonged to the people.
In a bigger sense, in a more important sense,
it belongs to us, and...
they were there to see us.
We weren't there to look at them
and that's what separated us from most bands.
We flip that, "we are not worthy" on its head,
but we are worthy.
Enjoy it.
Good night, thank you very much.
They were at the height of their powers.
There'd been this journey
that you felt you'd been on with them.
You know, they've gone from being a relatively small band,
and then this meteoric rise over the space of two years.
They always made you feel like you're part of it.
And it's a bit us and them.
You're with us. You're with the band
and don't worry about the rest of the people out there.
So you really did feel,
you know, you're on that journey with them.
I remember, taking stock of that moment
and turning back and going, "Yes, this was awesome!"
For us, we got the two tickets,
so we're going, "I'm fucking seeing that again tomorrow."
That's what we were thinking.
As we were all going over the empty pint glasses
and the crackling of plastic,
there's this guy, sat in a tree and he'd obviously been perched
in his own VIP spot to watch the gig
and we all started chanting, "Hey, you, up in a tree,
you wanna be me?"
Manchester!
Yay!
Fuck, you're brilliant!
If you'd been at gig all day and you know,
essentially it's in a field with a fence around it,
and so you've gotta find your way back to the station
or your coach,
that's a mile away and obviously it was dark.
It's not the easiest way to find your way home, is it,
especially after a few drinks?
On the first night, the police showed me
the surveillance picture of all of these Oasis fans
decided to walk back to Stevenage station,
which wasn't a long walk,
but it's a much shorter walk when you
cut across the high speed mainline out of King's Cross.
There were a lots of stories of people
peeing in people's gardens
and falling in ditches and wherever else.
Uh, we had very few casualties,
considering the levels of inebriation.
At that point, I could not wait to get on the coach,
I was exhausted.
I got on the coach, I fell asleep.
I was asleep, for about two hours,
and we were still In the car park.
When I woke up, I thought, we'd be half way home.
I couldn't believe it.
I was one of the last people to leave the site
and, and this limo pulled up
and the guy wound the window down and he said, "Hey, mate!
Do you know how we get out? Been driving around for hours.
"I can't leave the site."
I said, "Well, I'm going the way you need to go.
"Can I have a lift? You know, I'll show you."
And he sort of looked over his shoulder
and he was clearly asking someone in the back
and he says, "Yeah, just hop in the back."
And I jumped in the back and it was
Kate Moss and Anna Friel.
So, uh, that was a nice way to a round off my evening.
I went to the Sunday gig.
I'm thinking, right, I'm gonna go in a day before,
you know, thinking, who's gonna queue longer than that.
All I had was what I was wearing and my ticket,
my wallet and a packet of Shiraz.
It rained and it was cold
and I didn't take no drink or food or anything with me.
I think it got to about 6:30 in the morning when the,
you know, the lesser bands started turning up.
It was daylight the next day when we got home, like
sort of, half past six in the morning
and every else had gone.
So it was just me in this deserted town center
with the Sunday morning sunshine
and yeah, you sort of reflect on what you've just done.
I had attended the gig of my lifetime, probably.
And you sort of sat there, thinking,
"Where do you go from here? How do you top that?
"How am I ever gonna recapture that feeling?"
I remember going home, but feeling very smug.
Sort of flicking my hair, nonchalantly, behind me,
as I went into sixth form, going,
"Yeah, yeah, I went to Knebworth this weekend, yeah.
"What did you do?"
It's Radio 1 live from Knebworth
and with one of the stars of the show...
What do you mean "one of the stars"?
The star of the show joins me now.
Just 'cause Liam's not here, you're allowed to say that,
Noel Gallagher. Uh, hello!
How are you?
Uh uh, a bit hung over after last night, but...
What was it like last night for you?
Yeah, it was, it was, uh it's hard,
it's hard to put into words, really.
'Cause, I mean, it's the biggest gig we've...
It's the biggest gig anyone's ever played at, anywhere,
in England.
This gig that you're doing tonight,
is gonna be going out to, was it 40 countries around the world
and 500 radio stations?
Will that be going through your head when you're playing?
Well, it will now you've just mentioned it, yeah.
It is mind boggling.
And it's all about us.
We arrived in London, early afternoon.
It was meant to be like a day trip.
And there was this little shop, that had a sign on the window.
They had one ticket left.
And the guy in this shop, told us,
"Okay, there's a friend of mine that might have another ticket,
not far from here, so go there.
So, we ran to the other shop
and we went there and we took the second ticket.
The guy there was, "Okay,
now you have to go to Knebworth."
Of course, we didn't have any mobile.
He told us, "Okay, you have to go to King's Cross,
then take the train to Stevenage.
You can do it, you can do it, but, run, run."
In ten minutes,
we found two tickets. I mean, it was impossible.
And at the gig tonight, are there any surprises,
anything for people to look forward to,
that they're gonna hear?
We had a mate of ours, playing with us last night,
during Champagne Supernova.
Um...
Any chance that might happen again?
Oh, yes, he's playing tonight.
I can't, I can't... Oh? Say no more!
Look, I can't tell you who it is though, because...
I'll give you a clue though, he's on the dole at the moment.
So he's there, but he's gotta go and sign on tomorrow,
so he might have to scarper quick after the gig.
Me and my brother, we had Radio 1 on,
listening to the buildup, and Jo Whiley was on, waiting.
Aerial sellotaped to the wall
for best possible reception.
Blank tapes, brand new, out of the cellophane.
Brother snuck me a couple of cans of Stones Bitter.
I was only 15,
my Mom and Dad knew not to bother me,
when that concert would come on.
And how are the rest of the band at the moment?
Uh, Liam's still in bed.
Is he? Well,
he was last seen, well, the last I...
I hope he gets up soon.
He was driving around the site
at about nine o'clock this morning
off his head with his, with his, uh, with his fiance.
Oh, yeah?
In a golf buggy, champing, uh champing some, I don't know...
It was several people's jobs just to run the VIP Village,
which was a series of huge, sort of marquee tents.
Well, it was 7,000 on the guest list, Jesus Christ!
That's bigger than a lot of venues,
bigger than Brixton Academy.
Ginormous! I think you could safely say.
Well, I don't think he went backstage.
Being so close to London, it was like the scene on tour.
You know, just decamped from central London for a day
and into a park in Hertfordshire.
This was a lively time in British society, you know.
A lot of, there's a lot of drug taking.
There's a lot of heavy drinking.
But it was the biggest gig that ever happened in the UK.
There was a lot of stars there,
but I didn't experience any undue diva attitude.
There was so much energy in that field,
all of a sudden, it was just like, boom!
You see a shoe go up in the air
and you think, fucking hell, whose shoe is that?
Somebody started a food, rubbish fight.
It just erupted.
Everybody's six, seven hours of food, cans
just got catapulted in the air.
Shoes, bags, sandwiches,
Black bags. Plastic cups.
Trousers. Bottles.
Toilet paper rolling in the air.
If it could be picked up, it was thrown.
A tsunami of litter flying through the air.
A hundred thousand people throwing shit around.
And it mustn't have been fun
for the people that went underneath it.
A guy next to us got smashed in the face by an orange.
I thought was beautiful. It was amazing.
Whoever started that, please, be very proud of yourself.
The clouds went grey, got like a moody feeling in the air,
once you hear The Swamp Song tape in the deck
ready to record and play.
What's the last thing you do before you go on stage?
Do you have any kind of weird ritual, Noel?
Usually get, well...
I usually drink a cup of black coffee,
'cause it opens up the muscles in the throat, allegedly,
and just pace up and down a lot
and just shout at people to hurry up.
Liam could be quite entertaining tonight.
You think so? I think, yeah, I think...
He was quite low key last night.
Yeah, he was sober last night.
so he could actually surpass himself on the,
on the nob-ometer tonight.
The noise was incredible,
they'd not even picked up a guitar yet.
And then Noel walks out and he says,
this is history, right here right now.
This is history. This is history,
right here right now. This is history.
I thought it was Knebworth, what are you on about?
Are we all going for history for the weekend, to watch Oasis?
This is history, we are part of his huge, huge thing.
I think that's the first time I knew
this was something different.
It wasn't just a normal gig.
That's what it's all about, innit?
That's why you follow a band, for them moments.
Good evening, planet Earth.
It was like a dream.
♪ I don't feel as if I know you
♪ You take up all my time
♪ The days are long and The nights will throw you away
♪ 'Cause the sun don't shine
♪ Nobody ever Mentions the weather
♪ Can make or break your day
♪ Nobody ever seems to remember
♪ Life is a game so play
♪ We live in the shadows
♪ And we had the chance And threw it away
♪ And it's never gonna Be the same
♪ 'Cause the years Are falling by like the rain
♪ It's never gonna be the same
♪ 'Til the life I knew comes To my house and says
♪ Hello
♪ There ain't no sense In feeling lonely
♪ You got no faith in you
♪ But I've got a feeling You still owe me
♪ So wipe the shit From your shoes
♪ Nobody ever mentions The weather
♪ Can make or break your day
♪ Nobody ever seems to remember
♪ Life is a game so play
♪ We live in the shadows
♪ And we had the chance And threw it away
♪ And it's never gonna Be the same
♪ 'Cause the years Are falling by like the rain
♪ It's never gonna be the same
♪ 'Til the life I knew comes To my house and says ♪
Prince Charles is lying out in the front
next to the guitar.
I won't do, but I've got no underpants on.
To all the people listening on the radio,
bet you wish you were here right now.
That recording I made in Knebworth, I carried everywhere.
I used to know the inter song, banter that Liam used to do,
off by heart.
Plant pots, coffee table, sofas, tea pot, get it.
I wasn't there.
But it was definitely the most fun I'd had
in my bedroom at 15 years of age.
What?
Some might say...
I was there with my best friend,
and we were living our dream.
We were living the best day of our life together.
We were so... so happy.
Come on!
♪ Some might say That sunshine follows thunder
♪ Go and tell it to the man Who cannot shine
♪ Some might say That we should never ponder
♪ On our thoughts today 'Cause they hold sway over time
♪ Some might say We will find a brighter day
♪ Yeah, yeah
♪ 'Cause I've been standing At the station
♪ In need of education In the rain
♪ You made no preparation
♪ For my reputation once again
♪ The sink is full of fishes
♪ She's got dirty dishes On the brain
♪ It was overflowing gently
♪ But it's all elementary, My friends
♪ Some might say They don't believe in heaven
♪ Go and tell it to The man who lives in hell
♪ Some might say you get What you've been given
♪ If you don't get yours I won't get mine as well
♪ Some might say We will find a brighter day
♪ Yeah
♪ 'Cause I've been standing At the station
♪ In need of education In the rain
♪ You made no preparation
♪ For my reputation once again
♪ The sink is full of fishes
♪ She's got dirty dishes On the brain
♪ And my dog's been itching
♪ Itching in the kitchen Once again
This one's for his mom.
♪ Some might say
♪ You know what some might say
♪ Might say, might say
♪ You know what some might say
♪ Might say, might say
♪ You know what Some might say ♪
We were on the left hand side
where we see Bonehead was stood.
We started shouting, "Bonehead! Bonehead! Bonehead!"
Who shouted "Bonehead"?
And then people around us started shouting,
"Bonehead! Bonehead!" Bonehead! Bonehead!
And then, Liam jumps down,
and he walks directly in front of us.
So close.
And we just started shouting, "Liam, you wanker!"
I don't know why we did that.
Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!
Crowd reaction was always that and just that.
It was just everybody singing every word.
Every gig was like that.
That was the typical Oasis gig, times ten.
♪ You gotta roll with it
♪ You gotta take your time
♪ You gotta say what you say
♪ Don't let anybody Get in your way
♪ 'Cause it's all too much For me to take
♪ Don't ever stand aside Don't ever be denied
♪ You wanna be who you'd be If you're coming with me
♪ I think I've got a feeling I've lost inside
♪ I think I'm gonna take me Away and hide
♪ I'm thinking of things That I just can't abide
♪ I know the roads down Which your life will drive
♪ Will drive
♪ I'll find the key That lets you slip inside
♪ Slip inside
♪ Kiss the girl, She's not behind the door
♪ Behind the door
♪ But you know I think I recognize your face
♪ But I've never Seen you before
♪ You've gotta roll with it
♪ You've gotta take your time
♪ You gotta say what you say
♪ Don't let anybody Get in your way
♪ 'Cause it's all too much For me to take ♪
You know it's all peace.
You never knew what he was gonna do,
but anything could happen and it did,
nine times out of ten.
I used to love that, and I think the crowd used to love it,
you know, what's Liam gonna do tonight?
You just didn't know.
Just totally Liam being Liam, innit?
This is my mam's shades.
Seeing Noel and Liam on stage.
And they're giving it all the really big bollocks
and you see this stuff in the newspapers
and everything else.
But at the end of the day, they're just two brothers,
mucking about,
and I stood there in the crowd, with my brother,
mucking about. It just makes you feel like,
"That's me and my brother up on that stage."
This is going out live throughout the country.
I just have to say fuck, shit, cunt, tit, bum, arsehole.
Sorry, Mum.
Cheeky little devil.
♪ Slide away And give it all you've got
♪ My today fell in from the top
♪ I dream of you...
They were so tight as a band right then,
at the absolute height of their powers.
I think, Liam's voice was probably the best it'd been.
♪ Slide in baby, Together we'll fly
♪ I've tried praying...
There's a point in "Slide Away" where
he almost shouts "Now that you're mine."
♪ Now that you're mine
♪ We'll find a way
He sings it with such passion.
It was incredible.
♪ Let me be the one That shines with you
♪ And in the morning We don't know what to do
♪ We're two of a kind
♪ We'll find a way
♪ To do what we've done
♪ So let me be the one Who shines with you
♪ And we can slide away
♪ Slide away
I guess it's no coincidence
that that is the band at its peak,
because the singer's at his peak,
you know, you're only as good as your frontman.
Any band,
you know, and is that is Oasis at its peak, which it is,
it's because Liam's at his peak, Liam is at his zenith,
with his voice, and the way that he looks.
♪ I don't know, I don't care
♪ All I know is you can Take me there
♪ I don't know, I don't care
♪ All I know is you can Take me there
♪ Take me there, take me there, Take me there
♪ All I know is just Take me there
♪ Take me there, take me there, Take me there
♪ What for?
Liam's probably the greatest frontman
of his generation.
Noel's probably the greatest songwriter of his generation.
They're brothers, kinda came together
almost as an accident, as a group.
They came at the North, and they had something to say.
♪ All your dreams are made
♪ When you're chained to The mirror like the razor blade
♪ Today's the day that All the world will see
♪ Another sunny afternoon
♪ Walking to the sound Of my favorite tune
♪ Tomorrow never knows what It doesn't know too soon
♪ Need a little time To wake up
♪ Need a little time To wake up, wake up
♪ Need a little time To wake up
♪ Need a little time To rest your mind
♪ You know you should So I guess you might as well
♪ What's the story Morning glory?
♪ Well
♪ Need a little time To wake up, wake up
♪ Well
♪ What's the story Morning glory?
♪ Well
♪ Need a little time To wake up... ♪
We were lucky enough to be in the front, both nights,
in the kinda front row.
A bit of banter back and forth between
the crowd and Liam. Liam!
Just like, "Liam, give us your tambourine."
What?
You could see he was looking and it's just like,
"Don't you worry, mate, I'll be down there later
and it's yours."
Listen, mate, I'll be down there in a bit.
Don't you worry about it...
And all your mates are like,
"it's not fucking happening."
You don't know. Just calm down on the lager.
What the fuck was all that all about?
And for the rest of the concert,
I just have to be transfixed on Liam.
If he caught me looking at Noel,
he's not gonna give me the tambourine, is he?
'Cause he's all, "Why the fuck you looking at him?
I'm the rock n' roll star here."
Kids will never know the pressure you're under
to stop that tape, eject it,
turn it over and press play and record
all within three seconds.
And I was quite good at that, honestly.
Oh, you twats in the front, chill out.
I'll be down there in a bit.
I will come and say hello.
Just cool down, man.
Take it fucking easy.
♪ How many special People change?
♪ How many lives Are living strange?
♪ Where were you while We were getting high?
♪ Someday you will find me
♪ Caught beneath The landslide
♪ In a champagne supernova In the sky
♪ Slip inside the eye Of your mind
♪ Don't you know You might find
♪ A better place to stay
Again, come on. Carry on.
♪ You said the things That you've seen ♪
Oh, no, I've got it wrong.
My songs are inclusive. They're about us all.
And for that to become a reality
when you've got that amount of people
who believe that and singing those songs and those songs
from their perspective are about them in their lives.
That's... You couldn't even dream of that
at the start of your songwriting journey.
It was my time, you know? And I was so into it.
I was so driven with the songwriting.
Imagine writing Wonderwall.
And Don't Look Back In Anger in the same week.
Mad.
♪ Slip inside the eye Of your mind
♪ Don't you know You might find
♪ A better place to play
♪ You said that You'd never been
♪ But all the things That you've seen
♪ Slowly fade away
♪ I'm gonna start a revolution From my bed
♪ 'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head
♪ Step outside Summertime's in bloom
♪ Stand up beside The fireplace
♪ Take that look From off your face
♪ 'Cause you ain't ever Gonna burn my heart out
♪ So Sally can wait
♪ She knows it's too late As we're walking on by
♪ Her soul slides away
♪ But don't look Back in anger
♪ I heard you say
♪ Take me to the place Where you go
♪ Where nobody knows
♪ If it's night or day
♪ But you can put Your life in the hands
♪ Of this rock and roll band
♪ 'Cause we'll never Throw it all away
♪ I'm gonna start a revolution From your bed
♪ 'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head
♪ Step outside Summertime's in bloom
♪ Stand up beside The fireplace
♪ Take that look From off your face
♪ 'Cause you ain't ever Gonna burn my heart out
♪ So Sally can wait
♪ She knows it's too late As we're walking on by
♪ Her soul slides away
♪ But don't look Back in anger
♪ I heard you say
♪ So Sally can wait
♪ She knows it's too late
♪ As she's walking on by
It takes you back to a period where
you went to a festival or a gig
and you were absorbed in the music.
There was no one holding a phone or an iPad in front of me.
♪ I heard you say
I don't know, it just seemed easier to enjoy the gig,
to sort of just get lost in the moment
and not think about
proving to someone that you're at somewhere.
You were there because you wanted to sing those words,
not because you wanted to post it on Twitter.
♪ But don't look Back in anger
♪ Don't look back in anger
♪ I heard you say
♪ At least not today
See, that now would be all mobile phones.
And fucking people filming and texting some other cunt
who's watching it live on the internet.
Thanks very much.
From then onwards, the world changed slightly
and it just felt like a cutting point
between going to gigs pre-internet and post-internet.
♪ Who the fuck Are Man United?
♪ Who the fuck Are Man United? ♪
Oasis is a big City fan. I'm a United fan.
A big boo for Man United. A big boo for Man United.
A really fucking massive big fuck off boo for Man United.
Whole place was erupting with boos
for all those United fans.
You wouldn't think I'm a United fan with this accent, would you?
You're a fucking... A Scouser United fan,
as rare as a unicorn.
There were a few rumors that John Squire'd possibly been
playing the day before. But again, pre-mobile phones.
No one knew around us that that was about to happen.
This is John Squire.
He's gonna play us a couple tunes.
And here's Johnny!
I was just like "What?"
Is this real? John Squire's on stage with Oasis.
It wasn't long after he just split from The Stone Roses.
Nobody could quite believe it was happening.
John's a United fan.
Give him a big boo while he's on here.
Big boo. Big boo for the United fan.
Champagne Supernova.
Champagne Supernova comes on. Everyone loves that song.
And we've got this legend of The Stone Roses playing as well.
The fact that John Squire was on stage with Oasis was just...
Phew...mind blowing.
♪ How many Special people change?
♪ How many lives Are living strange
♪ Where were you While we were getting high?
♪ Slowly walking Down the hall
Having John Squire walk on stage,
being on my left hand side and playing one of our songs
was a bit of a moment for me, you know...
Probably was my Knebworth moment, you know.
Had to... Had to play it cool.
You know, "All right, John, how was it? Yeah, it was good."
But deep down I was just like, "Aah, fucking yes."
♪ Someday you will find me
♪ Caught beneath The landslide
♪ In a Champagne Supernova
♪ A Champagne Supernova In the sky
♪ Wake up the dawn And ask her why
♪ A dreamer dreams She never dies?
♪ Wipe that tear away Now from your eye
♪ Slowly walking Down the hall
♪ Faster than a cannonball
♪ Where were you while We were getting high?
♪ Someday you will find me
♪ Caught beneath The landslide
♪ In a Champagne Supernova In the sky
♪ Someday you will find me
♪ Caught beneath The landslide
♪ In a Champagne Supernova
♪ A Champagne Supernova
♪ 'Cause people believe
♪ That they're gonna get away For the summer
♪ But you and I We live and die
♪ The world's still spinning 'Round we don't know why
♪ Why? Why? Why? Why?
You couldn't have asked for a more perfect moment.
Kind of almost like,
the Stone Roses passing the baton to Oasis.
Uh, no, we... The baton was not passed.
We took that... We took that in '94.
♪ How many special People change?
♪ How many lives Are living strange?
♪ Where were you while We were getting high?
♪ Slowly walking Down the hall
♪ Faster than a cannonball
♪ Where were you while We were getting for fuck sakes!
♪ Someday you will find me
♪ Caught beneath The landslide
♪ In a Champagne Supernova In the sky
♪ Someday you will find me Caught beneath the landslide
♪ In a Champagne Supernova A Champagne Supernova
♪ 'Cause people believe
♪ That they're gonna get away For the summer
♪ But you and I, We live and die
♪ The world's still Spinning 'round
♪ We don't know why
♪ Why? Why? Why? Why?
I was a complete Liam head.
It was all Liam for me.
And he was, like, angelic in that white jumper.
I remember him walking down off the stage,
and walking in front of the crowd,
and I grabbed his wrist...
And I'm like, "I'm not letting go for dear life."
I'm not-- I'm not doing it.
I thought I was in love with Liam Gallagher when I was 20.
And probably was, to be fair.
I had a life size cardboard cut out of Liam Gallagher
at the top of my stairs.
I loved it. I was proud of being a Liam head.
I've got the opening lyrics to Champagne Supernova
tattooed on my arms.
How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
It's like a religion to me.
Something about that band and that group of people.
Together on the stage, making that music
that Noel had written, that was untouchable.
Nice one, nice one. Come in, take easy. Have a good night.
Fucking live forever every bloody damn one of ya.
Nice one for the support bands and all that.
Rocky, John Squire, Oasis and yeah...
Also to the Charlatans,
the Cast and everyone else who's played with us.
You all know about that. Let's do it again sometime, yeah?
Yeah!
I am the Walrus.
♪ I am he as you are he
♪ As you are me And we are all together
♪ See how they run like pigs From a gun
♪ See how they fly I'm crying
♪ Sitting on a corn flake
♪ Waiting for the van to come
♪ Corporation T-shirt, Stupid bloody Tuesday
♪ Man you've been a naughty boy You let your face grow long
♪ I am the egg man They are the egg men
♪ I am the walrus Goo goo g'joob
♪ Mister City policeman sitting
♪ Pretty little policemen In a row
♪ See how they fly like
♪ Lucy in the sky See how they run
♪ I'm crying
♪ Yellow matter custard
♪ Dripping from A dead dog's eye
♪ Crabalocker fishwife, Pornographic priestess
♪ Boy, you've been A naughty girl
♪ You let your knickers down
♪ I am the egg man They are the egg men
♪ I am the walrus Goo goo g'joob
♪ Sitting in an English garden Waiting for the sun
♪ But the sun don't came, sir
♪ I am the egg man They are the egg men
♪ I am the walrus
♪ Goo goo g'joob, Goo goo goo g'joob
♪ Expert choking smokers
♪ Don't you think the joker Laughs at you
♪ See how they smile
♪ Like pigs in a sty, See how they snide
♪ I'm crying
♪ Semolina Pilchard Climbing up the Eiffel tower
♪ Elementary penguin Singing Hare Krishna
♪ Man, you should have seen Them kicking Edgar Allen Poe
♪ I am the egg man They are the egg men
♪ I am the walrus Goo goo g'joob
♪ Goo goo goo g'joob
Squire's been on, Champagne Supernova's happened.
Picks up the tambourine, walks the front of the stage.
It's like he's looking for me.
He's fucking looking for me. Points to me and it's like,
"This is definitely happening now."
I don't know how the fuck he remembered who I was.
And then, yeah, jumps down. Security everywhere.
It's like fucking Liam Gallagher is there.
This is actually happening now.
This is gonna happen.
Then he just walks up and hands me his tambourine.
I was like, "Fuck."
And, like, everyone behind was going, "Let me have it."
And I was like, "No one else is touching it."
During I am the Walrus, it was absolutely bottling down.
I didn't know it at the time,
but it felt sort of like the end of my youth.
The rain was coming to wash that away,
so it'd give me a clean start.
Four weeks later, after being on the dole for three years,
I had a job, a baby on the way.
So it really was a changing point in my life.
We really did it.
We had to see Oasis.
Everything was magic, and when fireworks started
with the rain over our face, I mean, it was like a movie.
It felt like a thank you to all the fans
for following them like a big family.
Everyone's just like hugging each other
and singing along,
like a big group like friends that you've never met.
I just felt so lucky to be there.
It felt like we're part of history. Making history.
See you later.
So long.
I still think that
Knebworth is one of the most important youth events ever.
This was people traveling to see one band,
not a whole festival.
No one else could pull that off.
250,000 people for two nights.
They couldn't do it.
They are rock and roll. That's what it is.
And as a live band, they set the standard.
It was that communal feeling of 250,000 people over two nights.
All there for...
To see Oasis.
Nothing since has even come close.
The whole day put together is probably
the best gig you ever gonna go to.
It transcends any other gig.
Five lads from Manchester.
The way that they just brought everybody together
and gave 'em the best night of their lives.
It's something I'm very proud to be a part of.
I have some great memories from the '90s.
But Knebworth was the '90s memory.
It was... A time you just felt...
anything was possible.
It was taking that whole era,
just putting it into just one great day, where...
it was perfect.
Now sing.
♪ Today is gonna be the day
♪ That they're gonna Throw it back to you
♪ By now you should've somehow Realized what you gotta do
♪ I don't believe that anybody
♪ Feels the way I do about you now
♪ Backbeat, The word is on the street
♪ That the fire in Your heart is out
♪ But I'm sure You've heard It all before
♪ But you never Really had a doubt
♪ I don't believe that anybody
♪ Feels the way I do about you now
♪ And all the roads We have to walk are winding
♪ And all the lights That light the way are blinding
♪ There are many things That I would like to say to you
♪ But I don't know how
♪ So maybe...
Oasis was the real deal.
There was nothing fake about or contrived about it.
It was five lads
from two different council estates in Manchester.
We weren't really great at anything.
We're more than the sum of our parts.
And we were honest.
♪ Today is gonna be the day...
You know, you can't bring that amount of people
in that field and have it still resonate
25 years later if you weren't the real deal.
People always ask me what Knebworth was like,
and I'm always saying that I can't remember much about it.
But watching this film brought it all back for me.
It was the Woodstock of the '90s, you know,
the music and the people coming together.
It was biblical.
I'll never forget it.
♪ There are many things that I Would like to say to you
♪ But I don't know how
♪ I said maybe
♪ You're gonna be the one That saves me
♪ And after all
♪ You're my wonderwall
♪ I said maybe I said maybe
♪ You're gonna be the one That saves me
♪ You're gonna be the one That saves me♪
Someone said to me we didn't doRock 'n' Roll Star,
which I find fucking astonishing, really astonishing.
The songs pick themselves, but not doingRock 'n' Roll Star
is pretty fuckin' radical, it's mad, mad.
We would usually start with it or finish with it.
Trying to be clever, maybe.
♪ I live my life in the city
♪ There's no easy way out
♪ The day's moving Just too fast for me
♪ I need some Time in the sunshine
♪ I gotta slow it right down
♪ The day's moving Just too fast for me
♪ I live my life For the stars that shine
♪ People say it's just A waste of time
♪ Then they say I should feed my head
♪ That to me Was just a day in bed
♪ I'll take my car And drive real far
♪ They're not concerned About the way we are
♪ In my mind my dreams are real
♪ Now we're concerned About the way I feel
♪ Tonight I'm a rock 'n' roll star
♪ Tonight I'm a rock 'n' roll star ♪
♪ I live my life in the city
♪ And there's no easy way out
♪ The day's moving Just too fast for me
♪ I need some time in the sunshine
♪ I've gotta slow it right down
♪ The day's moving Just too fast for me
♪ I live my life For the stars that shine
♪ People say it's just A waste of time
♪ Then they said I should feed my head
♪ Well that to me was Just a day in bed
♪ I'll take my car And drive real far
♪ You're not concerned About the way we are
♪ In my mind my dreams are real
♪ Now you concerned About the way I feel
♪ Tonight I'm a rock 'n' roll star
♪ You're not down with who I am
♪ Look at you now, you're all in my hands tonight
♪ Tonight I'm a rock 'n' roll star