In September 1996, early in a misbegotten youth — though not nearly as misbegotten, I should say for the record, as Liam Gallagher ‘s — my friend Gary and I attended an Oasis concert at Jones Beach, on Long Island.

We didn’t know it at the time, but the now-iconic “What’s The Story (Morning Glory)?” tour, which had just arrived in the U.S. after record-breaking crowds in the U.K., was about to come to a crashing halt when Liam would leave the band a few days later in a(nother) fit of petulance. That night we just blissfully rocked out to live renditions of the record that had been playing everywhere the previous year — everywhere we went, anyway. Years before Google — and decades before TikTok — we basked in the discovery of this strange, snarling British rock that wasn’t much on t

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