{"product_id":"oasis-definitely-maybe","title":"Oasis Definitely Maybe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant study of Oasis'' debut album, highlighting the band''s massive cultural impact and the raw, positive power of those early songs.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOasis’s incendiary 1994 debut album \u003ci\u003eDefinitely Maybe\u003c\/i\u003e managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes and dreams of a people than any other record of the last quarter century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  In a Britain that had just undergone the most damaging period of social upheaval in a century under the Thatcher government, Noel Gallagher ventriloquized slogans of burning communitarian optimism through the mouth of his brother Liam and the playing of the other Oasis ‘everymen’: Paul McGuigan, Paul Arthurs and Tony McCarroll. On \u003ci\u003eDefinitely Maybe\u003c\/i\u003e, Oasis communicated a timeworn message of idealism and hope against the odds, but one that had special resonance in a society where the widening gap between high and low demanded a newly superhuman kind of leaping.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as “Live Forever,” “Supersonic,” and “Cigarettes \u0026amp; Alcohol.” In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312088129918,"sku":"NW9781623564230","price":10.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781623564230.jpg?v=1778508846","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/oasis-definitely-maybe","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}