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The masterplan: Alexis Petridis on his dream Oasis tour setlist
As the Gallagher brothers prepare for the decade’s most anticipated tour, our critic offers 20 useful tips for what to play – including the deep cuts they really should pick
Photograph: Simon Emmet/Fear PR The sound of a band who arrived more or less fully formed (so much so that a demo ended up as their debut single); nonsensical lyrics you could – if you so desired – interpret as a rallying call, delivered in a come-and-have-a-go sneer; a wall of noisy guitars. How it looked 30 years ago …Another example of how fantastic purple-period Oasis’s B-sides were, The Masterplan is an epic, its surge from melancholy acoustic intro to air-punching chorus an instant hit of euphoria. More than any other Oasis track, Don’t Look Back in Anger seems to have embedded itself in the fabric of British life: see the famous, spontaneous outbreak of it in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing.
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