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Speaker 1: hit pause and go back to Disgraceland Episode seventy three,

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Speaker 1: or part one of the Oasis Story, where we discuss

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Speaker 1: Their set was so dismal. The band were the type

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Speaker 1: Not only was Oasis wasted, their crew was wasted, just

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Speaker 1: Following the success of their debut, Definitely maybe Oasis had

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Speaker 1: two parts of the same britpop movement. They are vastly

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Speaker 1: Noel got into whatever Hool gets antics would help them

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Speaker 1: incredibly drinking and smoking and heckling his brother and the

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Speaker 1: rest of the band from his seat. Fucking brilliant indeed,

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Speaker 1: and a sign of much worse to come by the

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Speaker 1: time Noel rapped don't look back in anger. At the

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Speaker 1: MTVM plug show, with the crowd firmly in his grasp,

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Speaker 1: he looked up to Liam clowning drunk in the balcony,

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Speaker 1: and with a smirk, Noel asked Liam on the mic

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Speaker 1: in front of everyone, you all right, total big brother move,

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Speaker 1: as if to say, I care, but Fox's sake, I

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Speaker 1: really don't need to now do I Look how well

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Speaker 1: I'm pulling this shit off without you. The MTVM plug show,

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Speaker 1: between the drama and the performance went down as an

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Speaker 1: instant classic, but there was no looking back. It was

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Speaker 1: time for Oasis to hit the road to America, do

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Speaker 1: some shows and then double back to England to begin

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Speaker 1: recording their next album. When it came time for their

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Speaker 1: flight to depart Heathrow, Liam suddenly and without warning me

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Speaker 1: a quick exit, explaining that he'd forgotten that he needed

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Speaker 1: to go house shopping with his new wife, Patsy and

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Speaker 1: thus would not be able to make the tour, so

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Speaker 1: the tour went on without him. Live commitments were honored,

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Speaker 1: with Noel on lead vocals for the first few shows.

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Speaker 1: Liam then caught up with the Band of Man for

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Speaker 1: a disastrous run of shows where the front man was

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Speaker 1: either disinterested or to waste it on stage and quickly

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Speaker 1: becoming a mockery of himself. In Buffalo, Noel had had

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Speaker 1: enough and the two came to blows, hailing fist to

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Speaker 1: the others faces before being torn apart and the gig

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Speaker 1: was canceled that night, and so was the rest of

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Speaker 1: the tour. The band returned to London, the tour cancelation

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Speaker 1: and the violent drama surrounding it was front page news.

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Speaker 1: Back home, Oasis decided the only cure was to head

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Speaker 1: straight into the studio to get their new record done

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Speaker 1: and to work out their problems through song. They booked

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Speaker 1: time at Abbey Roads Studios, fully aware that the last

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Speaker 1: song the Beatles recorded in that space before breaking up

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Speaker 1: was I Me Mine. The album, the band's third, was

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Speaker 1: completed by spring of nineteen ninety seven in Surrey at

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Speaker 1: Ridge Farm Studios. Noel was calling it be here now.

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Speaker 1: But before it could be released, there is the matter

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Speaker 1: of an album covered to shoot in typical Oasis fashion.

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Speaker 1: The plan was to take their rifle seat at the

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Speaker 1: table of rocks giants. Their host for the afternoon was

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Speaker 1: the Spirit of the Who's Keith Moon, who had long

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Speaker 1: ago fulfilled as band's hope I die before I get

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Speaker 1: old prophecy, and in doing so had secured his own

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Speaker 1: destructive legend. Moon had a knack for destroying well most anything,

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Speaker 1: but most notably very expensive luxury automobiles by sinking them

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Speaker 1: in the swimming pool for the fuck of it, and

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Speaker 1: that was the inspiration for the album's cover. Noel had

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Speaker 1: the old Mansion rented some swinging seventies londoner with ties

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Speaker 1: to the Playboy Empire owned it. It was perfect. It

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Speaker 1: screamed hedonism and was an ideal rock and roll backdrop.

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Speaker 1: Photographer Michael Spencer Jones went to town on props and

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Speaker 1: laid them out around the backyard swimming pool. A clock

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Speaker 1: with no arms, Dali esque beatlesque either or didn't matter,

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Speaker 1: look cool? A scooter, quadrophenia check more random objects. A

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Speaker 1: massive globe with nol on the other end of an

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Speaker 1: antique telescope staring at it for inches away, a shaggaedelic televisions,

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Speaker 1: some well placed disinterested band members Liam at the forefront,

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Speaker 1: and then the money shot. The crane was steady, a

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Speaker 1: beast of a machine, totally out of place in the

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Speaker 1: backyard of the mansion. It distributed its power judiciously as

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Speaker 1: it lowered one hundred thousand dollars Rolls Royce Ghost into

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Speaker 1: the swimming pool, an homage to Keith Moon, for sure,

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Speaker 1: But Noel took it a step further and had the

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Speaker 1: license plate switch to match the numbers of the license

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Speaker 1: plate on the police wagon on the cover of the

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Speaker 1: Beatles Abbey Road. The massive car was placed just so

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Speaker 1: by the crane into the pool, submerged in water suck.

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Speaker 1: Do I even need to complete the metaphor? You get

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Speaker 1: it right? Alwaysis's third album, be Here Now, was by

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Speaker 1: any measure of success, but it still failed to sell

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Speaker 1: as much as What's the Story Morning Glory. Noel claimed

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Speaker 1: the album to be his party record, much as its

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Speaker 1: cover suggests. It was written while he's vacationing on a

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Speaker 1: private island with Kate Moss, Johnny Depp, Mick Jagger and

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Speaker 1: Jerry Hall, and has explained that the album can only

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Speaker 1: be fully enjoyed with quote a creative beer in a

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Speaker 1: bag of fucking Charlie. To this day, fans love it,

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Speaker 1: but Noel claims that it doesn't stand up, and that

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Speaker 1: he should know because he quote wrote the fucking thing

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Speaker 1: and knows how much effort he put into it. He was,

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Speaker 1: for the most part high when he wrote it and

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Speaker 1: avoiding the shit show reality that his band had become

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Speaker 1: and the fraid relationship with his brother and Noel, just

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Speaker 1: as his brother had led his commitment to the music slip.

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Speaker 1: That's the reason the album doesn't stack up, and it's

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Speaker 1: also the reason no Oasis album since has come close

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Speaker 1: to the glory of those first two records. Noel Gallagher

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Speaker 1: credits Oasis fans by saying that it wasn't him that

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Speaker 1: made his songs great, and it wasn't the band that

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Speaker 1: made their performances great. It was the commitment of the fans,

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Speaker 1: the fans who bought those records, who wore those songs out,

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Speaker 1: who committed them to memory and sang them back in Noel,

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Speaker 1: his brother Liam and their bandmates on stage after they

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Speaker 1: forked over their hard earned cash to see Oasis fill

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Speaker 1: out their local football club stadiums. Nol didn't make the

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Speaker 1: songs great, Nold didn't make Oasis great, and Liam, for

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Speaker 1: shit sure didn't neither. No, As Noel Gallagher has said,

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Speaker 1: it was the fans' commitment to Oasis that made them great.

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Speaker 1: And once the band let go of their famous commitment

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Speaker 1: to the music, their boastful commitment to themselves, their commitment

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Speaker 1: to being the greatest fucking rock and roll band ever,

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Speaker 1: they dried up and.

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Speaker 2: They faded away, which is of course a disgrace. I'm

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Speaker 2: Jake Brennan in this this Disgraceland.

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