Be Here Now 25th Anniversary

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This is the 25th Anniversary edition of the third album by Oasis, which was released to huge anticipation in August 1997. In the late Nineties, the music world was consumed with debates over whether rock bands should rock or not.

It’s a statement that could only have been made in this time and place, by this band, with this quantity of toxic chemicals. These boyos approached guitar rock in a totally pop way, making it nonstop fun to be a fan—what a concept. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Released at midnight on Thursday 21 st August 1997, at a time when most albums were released on Monday, ‘Be Here Now’ sold a staggering 400,000 copies on the first day in the UK, with 663,400 sales in just 3 days. Be Here Now stands as a unique album in the Oasis catalogue with its unrepentant excess and supersize swagger.

By 1997, Oasis were at the pinnacle of their success and had become omnipresent in British youth culture. Originally mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange; the album was then remastered in 2016 by Ian Cooper at Metropolis Studios. They’ll play all three guitar solos, ‘course they will, because it’s got my name on it and I rule the fucking world! When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.

The appetite for ‘Be Here Now’ was immense and it was amid this overheated anticipation that they made arguably the most eagerly awaited record since the heyday of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. This limited edit ion album format celebrates the silver anniversary of Oasis’ historic third album Be Here Now, originally released on 21st August 1997. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. Be Here Now (which got reissued for the 25th anniversary) stands as a monument to the days when rock stars could release an old-school mess like this in the purest confidence that people would stampede over each other for the chance to scoop it up at full retail.They loved their mum, hated the Tories, couldn’t even spell “irony,” wanted to live forever and to beat each other’s faces in. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. It sold 700,000 copies in its first three days, and has gone on to sell over 8 million copies worldwide.

Originally released at midnight on Thursday August 21st 1997, Be Here Now sold 700,000 copies in just 3 days and remains, to this day, the fastest selling UK album on release. Due to inventory and accounting purposes, we do not exchange items received for different items than originally purchased.

years on, it enjoys legendary status as the sound of a generation-defining band at their absolute peak. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. But the next single, “Go Let It Out,” proved that Noel and Abstract Fucking Shit were madly in love again. To date, it has the most album sales in the first seven days of release in UK Official Chart history and has sold over 8 million copies globally. Be Here Now” is another stroke, with some of Liam’s best “come on”’s, plus the catchiest “you betcha” since Def Leppard’s “Rock of Ages.

We’ll never get another rock flop like this one, for the same reason we’ll never get another Hindenberg. Noel told Q, “I was sitting there, out of it, fucking strung out, going, ‘They’ll play all eight minutes of it.If there is a certificate we’ve missed out on then it’s probably for a 50 metre swim badge at the local swimming baths. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Arguably the most anticipated British album release of all time, Be Here Now sold 700,000 copies in just 3 days and remains, to this day, the fastest selling UK album on release. This limited edition album format celebrates the silver anniversary of Oasis’ historic third album Be Here Now, originally released on 21st August 1997. Even Noel’s Beatles worship went off the rails, to the point where he boasted that Oasis were bigger than Jesus.