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What I do expect of my rock stars is that they say (and occasionally wear) things so controversial they will probably end up assassinated.Ģ. People like Boner and Sting are simply arrogant and ignorant if they believe their efforts will end in anything besides misappropriation of funds and a general loss of interest, while the Biafra/Fugazi contingent remains almost as odious?not for their activism precisely, but because the activism is just a rickety platform for their self-righteous rants. Now I personally don't want my rock stars trying to save the world. What was she supposed to do? Sit around all day and eat cream cakes? We're paying for her kids to go to school. Half the people there probably wouldn't visit their grandmothers' graves, and they go throwing flowers at the coffin of a bird they'd never met because she'd done some work for charity. "I really couldn't give a shit at the end of the day," he told the crowd before a gig. Noel Gallagher had a different take on the situation. "Tense" doesn't begin to describe the scene in London then, as the entire population collectively decided to unleash every emotion they'd ever not experienced and project them onto this woman's untimely and admittedly sad passing. When I was living in the repression/ embarrassment/tacit homosexuality/keep-your-voice-down-for-God's-sake-or-someone-might-hear-you capital of the universe, I started listening to Oasis right after the death of "princess" Diana.
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The size of the place plus the fact that the English, no matter what class or occupation, love to read newspapers, means that Oasis make the press more often than Keith Richards gets his blood changed. Fortunately for musicians, in England Marc Almond and Boy George are still gossip columnist staples, and a George Michael party is considered the social event of the season (The Sun's headline the day after Michael was caught in the park was "Zip Me Up Before You Go Go"). magazines in the mid-90s, but I'm talking about the more day-to-day, "" variety of press, the kind that lets you really get to know someone. I've often wondered if Oasis would be more popular, or rather would have retained some of the fame they won in the States with What's the Story Morning Glory, if they got more coverage here. I've always been strangely attracted to that band, but I never had anyone to talk about it with."Īllow me to offer four damn near indisputable reasons why you should like Oasis:ġ. "Actually, I'm glad you brought up the subject. "That they've got a new CD out, and it's pretty good."
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This was followed by a full 10-second pause. "Really!" he exclaimed in his best Charles Nelson Reilly. "So I think I wanna write something about Oasis."