There was nothing quiet about the release of Oasis’ album ‘Definitely Maybe’. Released on 29 August 1994, it skyrocketed to the top of the charts and was the UK’s fastest-selling debut album.
Full of swagger and conviction it made people sit up and listen - it embodied an entirely new mood for rock and roll and ignited the Britpop movement. Filled with anthems, more than 30 years on it still holds its place as the soundtrack to many people’s lives.
Like all great pieces of work though, it took a couple of drafts to get it quite right.
Following signing a worldwide record deal, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll decamped to Monnow Valley Studios, a remote riverside studio on the Welsh borders of Monmouthshire, to capture the energy o