Aug. 27, 2024
Oasis - "Definitely Maybe"
With the announcement of a reunion tour, his thunderous episode celebrates the 30th anniversary of Oasis' earthshaking debut "Definitely Maybe" - the album that revitalized 90s rock with swaggering bravado and soul-shaking anthems. Tracing the Gallagher brothers' bond from Manchester's punk underground to Creation Records infamy, it explores how hits like "Live Forever" and "Cigarettes & Alcohol" transformed youthful emancipation fantasies into a new cosmic pop gospel.
Their supersonic rise, volatile relationship, and sustained impacts are explored, culminating in their bitter modern rift. Despite their estrangement, "Definitely Maybe" endures as a monumental generational statement - eternal inspiration to transform life's humblest ambitions into transcendent majesty.
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In the annals of rock and roll, certain debut albums
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carry such seismic impact that their very existence alters the
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course of music history. Oasis' nineteen ninety four Juggernaut Definitely
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Maybe is undoubtedly one of those epical artistic statements. As
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we celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of this generation defining release,
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The Hitmaker Chronicles dives headfirst into the raucous creation record scene,
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the simmering sibling rivalry between Liam and Noel Gallagher, and
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the kaleidoscopic alchemy of the songs themselves, a Molotov cocktail
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of swaggering Bravado transcendent melodies and the sheer, ecstatic liberation
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of achieving one's wildest dreams. The story of Oasis is
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inextricably linked to the unbreakable brotherly bond between Volcanic frontman
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Liam Gallagher and his older songwriting genius sibling Noel. From
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the very first notes of the epical opening riff to
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Rock and Roll Star, the shock waves of Oasis' arrival
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were cataclysmic and instantaneous. At its core, Definitely Maybe is
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the punk rock opera of a working class bucking against
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bernal surroundings by manifesting sheer, psychic force and swagger into
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a grandiose new reality. Upon its thunderclap arrival, Oasis instantly
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revitalized a British rock scene mired in Shoegaz's detachment and
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electronic aloofness. The sheer, ebulliant joy radiating from each turbocharree anthem,
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each laconic working class manifesto from the Gallagher brothers instantly
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galvanized fans worldwide into a de facto secular Oasis religion
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of deifying rock's classic iconography. But this was merely the
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start of Oasis' stratospheric rise and sustained world conquering in
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the wake of Definitely Maybe. Their meteoric momentum only accelerated
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with the record shattering success of their colossal nineteen ninety
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five follow up What's the Story Morning Glory, Driven by
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an unbroken string of era defining anthems like Wonderwall, Don't
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Look Back in Anger, and Champagne Supernova. The album sold
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a staggering twenty two million copies globally. Oasis's rapid ascent
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from audacious upstarts to the biggest band on the planet
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was both invigorating and dizzying. Their larger than life personas.
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Liam's bawdy lad confrontationalism combined with Noel's cynical songwriting savant
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mystique made them iconic press figures and pop culture juggernauts
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on both sides of the Atlantic. They main evented dual
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one hundred, twenty five thousand person shows at Nebworth in
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nineteen ninety six, before ultimately self destructing amid a swirling
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vortex of superstardom's excess and unchecked fraternal clashing. Despite their
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struggles with fame and each other, Oasis's decade plus run
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of bombastic, generation defining anthems and record smashing successes was
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simply unprecedented in modern rock. From the imperial swagger.
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Of do You Know What I Mean?
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And Go Let it out to their defiant final number
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one The Hindu Times. Their ability to channel era defining
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britpops swaggering and classic pop songwriting into transcendent communal ecstasy
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remained matchless in the grand lineage of rock's greatest galactic
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success stories. Oasis's achievement feels seismic and unique, an incandescent
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supernova of quintessential Mancunian working class mavericks manifesting their wildest
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dreams and elevating the euphoria of sing along songcraft into
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what amounted to a new cosmic religion for the disenchanted
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youth of the nineties and early two thousands. While their
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decade plus of subsequent success cemented Oasis as rock's last
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great arena shaking generational superstars, it's their arrival via Definitely
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Maybe that retains an undiminished monumental impact upon its Thunderclap
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nineteen ninety four release. Their debut instantly revitalized a British
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rock scene mired in shoegaze detachment and electronic aloofness. The sheer,
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ebulliant joy radiating from each turbocharged anthem, each laconic working
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class manifesto from the Gallagher Brothers instantly galvanized fans worldwide
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into a de facto secular religion of deifying rock's classic
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iconography and larger than life mythology. In many ways, the
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britpop revolution itself only reached its meteoric culture quaking zenith
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because Definitely Maybe first shattered and entire industries notions of
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how big and monumental rock music could be again. Oasis's
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shameless audacity to recapture rock's communal mass resonance and ball
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out showmanship defied all prevailing trends, birthing new aspirations for
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bands everywhere to regain that fabled Beetle level mystique. While
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the band's legacy remains a roller coaster of supersized highs
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and seismic lows, the eternal monument of Definitely Maybe only
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grows more profound and paradigm shifting with time. Few debuts
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have ever felt sototemic in both cementing an artistic arrival
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while simultaneously rebooting an entire genre's popular consciousness and aspirational
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firepower more in a moment, At the heart of oasis
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meteoric rise and fall was always the tempestuous relationship between
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Liam and Noel Gallagher. The sibling rivalry that sparked their
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incendiary creative brilliance ultimately proved to be their achilles heel,
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as egos, substance issues, and escalating physical confrontations led to
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their acrimonious split in two thousand and nine. In the
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decade plus since that explosive breakup, the Gallagher brothers have
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remained stubbornly estranged, carrying their feud across solo careers, endless
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insulting sound bites in the press, and even a failed
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attempt at a reunion tour for the twentieth anniversary of
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What's the Story Morning Glory. The animosity has grown so
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toxic that Liam openly wishes for a reunion solely for
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the purposes of dismantling Oasis properly, once and for all.
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And yet the lasting power of Oasis' music and the
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magic of their combustible collaborative genius endures despite the fractured relationship.
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At its core, Liam's arena packing solo tours see Masses
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still worship at the altar of the Gallagher's working class
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anthems for the disaffected everyman. Meanwhile, Noel's exalted status as
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Britain's greatest living songwriter, remains inextricable from classics like Don't
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Look Back in Anger and Champagne super and Nova. As
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they both enter their mid fifties, the hope persists among
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fans worldwide for the Gallagher brothers to finally reunite, if
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only for one last primal scream of poetic uplift from
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council estate obscurity to iconic rock and roll grandeur. Because
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at its essence, their partnership has always represented the eternal
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human dream of elevating life's humblest ambitions and melodies into
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timeless anthems of transcendence. Decades later, Liam and Nol's unique chemistry,
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the younger's blistering id channeling the elder's metaphysical songwriting brilliance
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into a Molotov cocktail of cathartic majesty, remains as intoxicating
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as the day definitely maybe was unleashed. While their personal
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rift may never heal, their body of work endures as
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eternal inspiration to manifest unflinching confidence and audacious poetry from
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life's most prosaic circumstances. For that is the immortal legacy
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of their Supernova debut a seismic cosmic reckoning, reminding us
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all that a working class dream, when elevated by sheer
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self belief and a thunderclap of riffs, can alter the
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entire fabric of reality itself. A reunion or not, that
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monumental statement echoes eternal, proving once and for all that
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Oasis were indeed definitely brilliants personified. I'm Andrew Irons and
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this has been another engaging episode of The hit Maker Chronicles.
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stories behind the songs and artists that have left an
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indelible mark on the world. The hit Maker Chronicles is
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a production of Calarogus Shark Media executive producers Mark Francis
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