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I sobbed along to Oasis. Why? It's complicated...

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July 20, 2025

Xavier Greenwood

I sobbed along to Oasis. Why? It's complicated...

A new world record was set at Heaton Park last week.

Against an impossibly blue sky, 80,000 people were participants in a mass therapy session with the unlikeliest of shrinks.

Oasis were back home, in a week-long Manchester stint that ends tonight. Their strange enduring power continues to be dissected in British media, often with the detachment of an anthropologist peering into a foreign land.

So let me explain what Oasis means, as a fan who sobbed in that park during the final throes of Champagne Supernova, a song that Noel Gallagher suggests means nothing at all.

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