Music Goes On - Reviews - Oasis - Familiar To Millions

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Girish Gupta

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Oasis - Familiar To Millions
28 October 2000 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

The two Oasis concerts at Wembley Stadium were the most anticipated shows of Summer 2000. 70,000 people turned up each night.

Their set began with (a pre-recorded version of) Fuckin' In The Bushes before they came out. The first live track was Go Let It Out followed by Noel telling a member of the audience to "Take that silly thing down, he's not worthy of it" - Robbie Williams related I believe?

Also on the album are all of the classics, mostly on the second CD: Wonderwall, Cigarettes & Alcohol, Don't Look Back In Anger, Live Forever etc.

This album captures the live sound of Oasis really well, if you were at either of the concerts this will remind you of it and if you weren't you'll wish you had been.

In my opinion the second CD is a lot better than the first but the whole album still deserves top marks. Brilliant.