Be Here Now 25th Anniversary

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Released at midnight on Thursday 21 st August 1997, at a time when most albums were released on Monday, ‘Be Here Now’ sold a staggering 400,000 copies on the first day in the UK, with 663,400 sales in just 3 days.

Even Noel’s Beatles worship went off the rails, to the point where he boasted that Oasis were bigger than Jesus. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.Released on 21 August 1997, the famously overblown and rather bloated album reached number one in the UK album charts and spawned three British singles, ‘D’You Know What I Mean’, ‘Stand By Me’ and ‘All Around The World’. The 2LP coloured vinyl reissue of Be Here Now will be released on 19 August 2022 via Big Brother Recordings. This limited edit ion album format celebrates the silver anniversary of Oasis’ historic third album Be Here Now , originally released on 21st August 1997. The boozing, brawling Manchester lads were on top of the world in 1997, coming off two perfect albums, Definitely Maybe and ( What’s The Story) Morning Glory? Be Here Now (which got reissued for the 25th anniversary) stands as a monument to the days when rock stars could release an old-school mess like this in the purest confidence that people would stampede over each other for the chance to scoop it up at full retail.

Yet this was the single, because it was downright catchy compared to horrors like “Don’t Go Away,” “Fade In-Out,” or the nine-minute orchestral faux- Pepper “All Around The World.He’s not kidding— Be Here Now is the album you would play for a Martian who just landed in your yard and asked what cocaine is. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. While history hasn’t been kind to the album, from a critical point of view, Be Here Now was certainly a commercial Colossus. This limited edit ion album format celebrates the silver anniversary of Oasis’ historic third album Be Here Now, originally released on 21st August 1997.