When, last year, Oasis announced a reunion tour after 15 years apart, the internet promptly combusted. But it wasn’t just Gen Xers and millennials—those who actually lived through the Mancunian rock mania of the ’90s—who lost their minds. Zillennials and Gen Z, many of whom were either still in diapers or not yet born when the band’s 1994 debut album, Definitely, Maybe , came out, was also elated at the prospect of finally seeing the world’s greatest rock band live.

This occurred to me while listening to the band’s legendary Live at Knebworth album from 1996, recorded just 10 days before I was born: Somehow, even more than a decade after their infamous (and thankfully, temporary) breakup, the band’s lore and allure have remained firmly intact—and proven irresistible to 20-somethings

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