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‘Liam had been drinking all night. Noel was not in a great mood’: photographers pick their best Oasis shot

Lairy, drunk, fighting, laughing … five photographers who shot Oasis recall what it was like capturing them in depressing pre-fame hotels – and at their Champagne Supernova heights

Photograph: Chris FloydBack at the very start of my career, when I was 25, I knew an art director who was working on a new magazine called Loaded. In May 1994, he rang and said: “I’ve got a job for you.” He gave me the address of a hotel somewhere in Manchester and told me to meet a guy called Noel Gallagher. Early on, I was asked by their label, Creation, to get Oasis used to being photographed and work out what kind of image suited them – whether we wanted a modern look or a 1960s vibe.

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