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editors. This friction did not affect the music, with (What’s The Story) Morning Glory ? (1995) going on to become the second biggest-selling UK album of all time. Although Oasis never cracked America, stadium tours of the UK became obligatory and Be Here Now (1997) kept the hits coming. Despite personnel changes Liam and Noel buried their differences until ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

hugely influential Jimi Hendrix playing a Fender Stratocaster. The popularity of electric guitars was renewed in the 1990s and into the 2000s with the success of groups like Nirvana, Oasis and Radiohead. Electric Organ The electric organ emerged in the early twentieth century, originally designed as an economical and compact substitute for the larger pipe organ. During its history ...

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no Beatles or Jimi Hendrix, no Led Zeppelin or Nirvana, Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, James Brown or Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd or Frank Zappa, Oasis or Blur … the list is endless. The blues emerged out of the hardships endured by generations of African American slaves during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By ...

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And Girls’ and the cockney swagger of ‘Parklife’ Blur found themselves the leaders of the Britpop movement. Albums Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995) cemented their reputation. Rivalry with Oasis was ill timed, although taking a more loud and experimental approach on Blur (1997) and 13 (1999) displayed greater musical maturity without losing sales or fans. Coxon departed to ...

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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1997–present) Embrace – Danny McNamara (vocals), Richard McNamara (guitar), Steven Firth (bass), Mike Heaton (drums) and Mickey Dale (keyboards) – have had numerous career resuscitations in their decade-long existence. But the band started life as press-darlings after a number of singles on the fiercely independent Fierce Panda label. It was these early, near-demo quality recordings that caught ...

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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1997–present) Sometimes likened to proletariat rockers Oasis, Kasabian – Tom Meighan (vocals), Serge Pizzorno (guitar), Chris Karloff (guitar) and Christopher Edwards (bass) – hail from Leicester. There is more to the four-piece than a simple rock template, however, with much of the band’s sound augmented by multiple vocal sections and a chatter of electronica in ...

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‘Midnight At The Oasis’, 1974 Muldaur began her career as a folk singer, performing in New York’s early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene, famed by the likes of Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk. ‘Midnight At The Oasis’ was a seductive Top 10 pop hit, however, which sticks out in her wildly varying oeuvre. Never achieving such ...

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with Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs (guitar), Paul McGuigan (bass) and Tony McCarroll (drums). Noel allowed himself to be persuaded to join, on the condition that he take creative control. Renamed Oasis, their rise was swift, as the band graduated to stadium gigs within two years of the release of their debut single ‘Supersonic’ in 1994. Oasis’s first album, ...

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banner in collaboration with Steve Osbourne with great success. Oakenfold remains one of the most visibly successful DJs in the world. Styles & Forms | Nineties | Rock Personalities | Oasis | Nineties | Rock ...

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tender ‘You Do Something To Me’ and the rocky ‘The Changingman’ confirmed his appeal. Although prickly with an adoring media, a strong relationship with adoring younger Britpop musicians from Oasis to Ocean Colour Scene confirmed his influential ‘Modfather’ status. Always a well-dressed style icon, albums like Stanley Road (1995), Heavy Soul (1997) and Studio 150 (2004), on which he ...

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The enduring and iconic guitarist and songwriter Paul Weller (b. 1958) was born John William Weller in Woking, Surrey. He was a boyhood Beatles fanatic before discovering The Who and, through them, the mod movement. His father, who managed him for the majority of his career, bought his 12-year-old son an electric guitar for Christmas; at ...

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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1988–96) Formed in Oxford in 1988 by Mark Gardner (vocals, guitar), Andy Bell (guitar) and Stephen Overalt (bass), Ride revelled in a loud guitar sound that won favour with critics and fans alike. With more than a nod in the direction of The Who’s ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’, ‘Leave Them All Behind’ was their biggest hit single ...

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(with Bryan Adams and Sting, 1994). Whenever he deviated from the formula – as on When We Were The New Boys (1998) featuring covers of Britpop stars Blur and Oasis – the results were disappointing. In 2002, after a successful operation for thyroid cancer, Stewart embarked on a series of albums called The Great American Songbook featuring guest ...

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(bass) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (drums) – were formed from a variety of wanted adverts after Flowers was thrown out of his first band. Influenced by the mass singalongs of Oasis, the technological edge of New Order (their name even came from a fictional band in one of their videos) and the introspection of The Smiths and The Cure, ...

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One of the more popular bands of the ‘British Invasion’ and a considerable influence on both 1970s heavy metal outfits and 1990s groups such as Blur and Oasis, The Kinks went through numerous line-up changes but were always led by singer-songwriter Ray Davies (born 21 June 1944), while his brother Dave (born 3 February 1947) supplied the band’s signature rock ...

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