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Oasis - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants

Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants

[a]Oasis[/a] should have realised it wasn't going to get any better than Knebworth, but the brutal truth is that too many people were making too much money for it to be allowed to stop.

At least they are still standing. But it's been a close call. If 'Be Here Now' was the sound of Oasis staggering through the blizzard of superstardom, barely conscious of where they were going nor particularly caring one way or another, then its successor is a twitchy, tentative attempt at dealing with life as it really is (albeit as it really is with shedloads of wedge). And as...

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  • Feb 24, 2000

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