“(What’s the story) Morning Glory?” of Oasis, 30 years later

“We passed directly from the last evening of the” Defiately Maybe “tour to the recording of” What’s the story) Morning Glory? “, And then we spent the next 29 years, and the number continues to grow, trying to live up to both albums”. “We didn’t know what the Sarbebe album became or what would have meant today.” “Nothing was more the same. Hell has triggered and people went crazy». The statements are by Noel and Liam Gallagher and return the impact that “(What’s the story) Morning Glory?”, The second, iconic Oasis album, had not only in the history of the band symbol of Britpop, not only in the history of rock of the 90s, but in the pop culture more generally. It was the 2 October 1995 When Creation Records sent the second, highly anticipated work of the two brothers left by Manchester’s popular brothers to take the world and their bands. Arriving on the shelves of the record stores just over a year after the dazzling debut with “Defintely Maybe”, “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” he would have changed once for all the destinies of Noel and Liam Gallagher, making them enter the legend. The individual “Some Might Say”, “Roll With It” and “Morning Glory” anticipated the exit to anticipate its exit. But the strong pieces came only after: “Wonderwall”, “Don’t look back in Angers” and “Champagne Supernova” scanned the stages of that ‘Ascenda that would have led Oasis within twelve months to perform in front of 250 thousand overall spectators in Knebworth Park. Against the background of an England in slow recovery by the previous ten years of recession, the Oasis, who embodied and gave voice to the newfound optimism and swagger that will distinguish England during all the 90s, gave birth to A legendary show, testifying to the cultural and artistic rebirth that would have given rise to the “Cool Britannia” phenomenon.. It was the peak of their parable.

Album genesis:

In 1995 the Oasis, fresh from the success of the debut “Defintely Maybe”, found themselves in front of a huge challenge: confirm expectations and consolidate their role as a band symbol of the Britpop Revolutionin the head each with the blur of Damon Albarn who monopolizes the covers of magazines and tabloids (“The reunion of the Oasis? Two years ago I was prophetic when I said they would make it and that the road was flattened”, would have said the frontman of the rival group on the eve of the reunion of the Gallagher). The recordings of “(What’s the story) Morning Glory?” occurred to the Rockfield Studiosin Wales, with Noel Gallagher to creative driving and Alan McGee, founder of Creation Records, to act as a mentor. The climate in the studio was far from peaceful: tensions, quarrels and even temporary abandonments (Noel left the group for a few days after an altercation with Liam). Nevertheless From that chaos an album was born to mark the story, with songs that mixed pop melodies from stadium and melancholy veins.

Global success:

Released on October 2, 1995, “(What’s the story) Morning Glory?” There and then he was not unanimously welcomed by the criticismwho marked the band with judgments intended to mark the Oasis for a long time, starting from those relating to the alleged excessive harmonious simplicity of their songs. David Stubbs of Melody Maker called him as a “lazy” job and spoke of the Oasis as “a limited band”. The audience, who had already welcomed “Defintely Maybe” warm, thought differently: The second album of the Gallagher sold the record figure of 345 thousand copies in his first week in the United Kingdom – today a record in physical format does not sell them in a whole year … – and spent ten weeks at the top of the British ranking. “Some Might Say” and “Don’t Look Back in Angers“They reached the first place among the singles,” Roll with it “and”Wonderwall“They” stopped “at the silver medal. But” Wonderwall “charred as a diesel, becoming the best -selling success of the band in the United Kingdom with 30 consecutive weeks in the standings.

The rivalry with the Blur:

To keep the hype around “(What’s the story) Morning Glory alive?” the media coverage of the rivalry with the blur. The album came out in conjunction with the “The Great Escape” of the Blur, at the height of the so -called “Britpop war”: the two groups published individuals on the same day (“Roll with it” against “Country House”), transforming the rankings into a real national “derby” followed by tabloids and news as if it were a football match. It was a media contrast between a North worker band, more focused on classic rock (Oasis), and a bourgeois band considered musically more eclectic (Blur). If with their album the Oasis exceeded 300 thousand copies sold in the first week, the Blur with “The Great Escape”, released a month earlier, on 11 September, stopped at 188 thousand copies in seven days. «I think we can officially say that Oasis won the battle, the war, the campaign. All. They are the winners. They win the first place. Faced with such overwhelming tests, I am happy to accept the defeat and admit it », would have admitted, thirty years later, Damon Albarn. In just two months, then, “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” He sold over 4 million copies in the United Kingdom, establishing a speed record for a British album in reaching the multi-small. Singles such as “Wonderwall”, “Don’t look bacck in Angers”, “Some Might Say” and “Champagne Supernova”, among the most sung in the concerts of the Reunion tour (by the way: Liam on the occasion of the two shows at the Wembley Stadium in London last weekend has hinted that the band will return to the track in Europe also in 2026), they became anno. to fill stages and define the musical identity of the 90s. In the United States, where the Britpop struggled to impose themselves, the Oasis managed to break through, opening a breach in the scene dominated by the grunge.

The inheritance, 30 years later:

Three decades after its release, “(What’s the story) Morning Glory?” The symbol of the Oasis and one of the most influential records of the 90s remains. He has sold over 22 million copies worldwide and is regularly mentioned among the best British albums ever. On the occasion of the thirty years of Sony Music, he published a special limited edition reprint that includes 2 CDs and 3 LPs, with five new unplugged versions of some contained songs inside. In addition to the same “Morning Glory”, there are also those of “Cast No Shadow”, “Wonderwall”, “Champagne Supernova” and “Foiecesce”. The new Unplugged versions were produced and mixed by Noel Gallagher and Callum Marinho, starting from the original masters, in the Noel study, Lone Star Sound in London. To listen to it today, the album sounds like An indelible testimony of an era, the sound portrait of a generation that looked to the future with a mixture of arrogance, melancholy and euphoria.