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Title: Oasis - England's Dreaming: Glastonbury Festival 1995
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1995, Rock, Britpop Alternative Rock, Manchester, England 8/26
Condition: New (BC) | Members: Liam G (72' - ), Noel G (67' - ), Paul A (65' - ), Paul M (71' - ), Alan W (72' - )
Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle: Noel Gallagher has described growing up with a violent father who physically abused him and his older brother Paul. Noel developed a stammer as a child and has connected that difficult home life to his habit of retreating into music and teaching himself guitar.

2. Live Lore: Oasis had played a much smaller Glastonbury stage only a year earlier, but returned in 1995 as Pyramid Stage headliners. The leap captures how unbelievably fast their lives had changed, from a rising Manchester club band to one of Britain's biggest acts in roughly twelve months.

3. Band Drama: Drummer Tony McCarroll had been fired only weeks before this performance after years of tension with Noel. Alan White replaced him just as Oasis were entering the Morning Glory era, meaning one of the band's biggest early shows also captured a brand-new lineup learning to function under enormous attention.