Be Here Now is the third studio album by English rock band Oasis. It was released on 21 August 1997 by Creation Records. The songs on Be Here Now are anthemic, longer and contain many guitar overdubs. It became the fastest-selling album in British chart history, and topping the albums chart in 15 countries.
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Be Here Now is the third studio album by English rock band Oasis. It was released on 21 August 1997 by Creation Records. The songs on Be Here Now are anthemic, longer and contain many guitar overdubs. It became the fastest-selling album in British chart history, and topping the albums chart in 15 countries. As of 2008, the album had sold eight million copies worldwide. The band members have had differing views of the album, with Noel severely criticising it and Liam Gallagher defending it. The album topped the UK Vinyl Albums Chart in 2016, 19 years after its original release. The same year, it was reissued with bonus tracks, including a new remix of \”D’You Know What I Mean?\”. It was the biggest selling album of 1997 in the UK, with 1. 47 million units sold that year. The lead single, ‘D’ you know what I mean?’, was the first Oasis single to reach No. 1 in the U.S. and No. 2 in the Australian charts. It is the only Oasis song to feature on the Billboard Hot 100 top 100 chart, which has since been topped by ‘I Can’t Go for That’ in the top 100. The song was written by Noel Gallagher, who had suffered from writer’s block during the previous winter, and said he wrote only a single guitar riff in the six months following the release of Morning Glory? Earlier that year, Oasis members holidayed with Johnny Depp and Kate Moss in Mick Jagger’s villa in Mustique.
By this time, infighting had broken out in the band. On 23 August 1996, vocalist Liam Gallagher refused to sing for an MTV Unplugged performance at London’s Royal Festival. He attended the concert and heckled Noel from the upper balcony. A few days later, Liam declined to participate in the first leg of an American tour complaining that he needed to buy a house with his then-girlfriend Patsy Kensit. He rejoined the band a few days after a key-key concert at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York, but sang off-key and spat beer and saliva during the performance. He said later: ‘If the truth be known, I didn’t want to be there anyway, I wasn’t prepared to be in the group’ He later announced he was leaving the band and announced he would be leaving the next year. In April 1997, the band announced they would be going on tour in North Carolina, where Noel finally lost his patience with the bickering and spat at each other. The tour ended in Charlotte, North Carolina where Noel continued to bickered with Liam, and the band continued to tour. In May 1997, Liam and Noel announced they were going on the next leg of the tour in Charlotte. In July 1997, Noel said he would leave the band if the people were being like each other to each other, and that he wasn’t ready to be a part of the band anymore.
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