Culture shockers

THE INFLUENCE OASIS HAVE HAD ON BRITISH POP CULTURE

- MEG JORSH

IT'S 1991 and John Major's in Downing Street, The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air is on the box and the charts are dominated by dance and US R&B.

But in the rainy streets of south Manchester, something is happening that could change all that.

Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher have stopped fighting for long enough to form a band.

Continuing Oasis Week at the Daily Star, here, MEG JORSH reveals how they would turn British culture upside down...

POLL WITH IT

BACK in the early 90s, rock 'n' roll was an American thing. You'd have Nirvana or Pearl Jam on the tape deck while you raged over the "poll tax" and the economic recession.

But just under the surface, Britpop was already simmering.

British musicians had something to say, from Blur's cheery cockneys to Pulp's cynics and Suede's council-estate dandies.

And when Definitely Maybe came out in 1994, Oasis became the voices of British rebellion. Having grown up working class in the Thatcherite 80s, the Gallaghers had plenty to be angry about. Noel once said his strongest memory of the time was of going to the dole office with his dad and seeing everyone he knew.