Oasis: Put It Next To The Other Three
Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1998
What a shoddy old year it's been for Oasis. Only six million copies of Be Here Now shifted. Only voted The Best Act In The World Today by Q readers for the second year running. Woe and shame. Adran Deevoy interrogates the most successful failures of 1997.
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