"I've waited 20 years for this," the stranger said to me, post hug, about halfway through Oasis's classic Don't Look Back in Anger.

In front of us, another duo — strangers or not — were having the exact same moment, together, arm in arm.

Over to the left, grown men in their 50s, adorned in Oasis Live 25 bucket hats openly wept. For this, after so long and so much disappointment, this was their therapy.

This pure outpouring of emotion was no doubt replicated thousands of times during Oasis's five Australian concerts, in Sydney and Melbourne, over the past week and a half.

Playing to a combined audience of about 320,000 people, Liam and Noel Gallagher's return to Australia for this much-hyped tour has been nothing short of a triumph.

It has taken over social media.

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