“DC, Fairfax, wherever the f**k we are,” Liam Gallagher bellowed in a mid-sized college basketball arena five days before Christmas, as Oasis’ cover of The Beatles’ “I Am The Walrus” wound towards a swirling crescendo. “You were good, but not as good as us.”

That 2008 show – in Fairfax, Virginia, for the record – wasn’t meant to be the last time Oasis played America, but it was.

The legendary antagonism between Liam Gallagher and his older brother Noel had already put the band on the cusp of rupture by the time they took the stage in Virginia, and the pair had become increasingly distant.

“I never really saw them together, except on stage,” Matt Costa, a musician who opened for the band on the tour, told CNN. To superfan Kyle Bogucki, who was in attendance that night, “there was somethi

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