Be Here Now is the third studio album by the English rock band Oasis. Released in August 1997, the album was highly anticipated by both music critics and fans as a result of the band's previous worldwide successes with their 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe, and its 1995 follow up (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. The album's pre-release build up led to considerable hype within both the music and mainstream press. At that point, Oasis were at the height of their fame, and Be Here Now became the UK's fastest selling album to date, selling over 420,000 units on the first day of release alone, and over one million within two weeks. As of 2007, the album has sold eight million copies worldwide. Be Here Now may refer to: Be Here Now, a 1997 album by Oasis Be Here Now, a 1971 book on spirituality by Ram Dass (formerly known as Dr. Richard Alpert) Be Here Now, a song by George Harrison from his 1973 album Living in the Material World Category: ... Oasis - Be Here Now album cover This work is copyrighted. ... A studio album is a collection of previously unreleased, studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... Oasis are an English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991. ... is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Not to be confused with Surry. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Britpop was a British alternative rock genre and movement that was at its most popular in Great Britain in the mid 1990s. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... At least two different record labels called Creation Records have existed. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Owen Morris is a music producer who has worked with rock bands such as Oasis and The Verve. ... Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born May 29, 1967 in Burnage, Manchester, England) is an English songwriter, guitarist and occasional vocalist with the Manchester rock band Oasis. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 3. ... Q is a music and entertainment magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Robert Christgau (2007) Robert Christgau (sometimes abbreviated in print to Xgau), born April 18, 1942, is an American essayist, music journalist, and the self-declared Dean of American Rock Critics[1] His first reviews were published by Esquire in 1967. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... Oasis are an English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991. ... (Whats the Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by the English rock band Oasis, released in October 1995. ... The Masterplan is a compilation album by English rock band Oasis, comprising B-sides which never made it onto an album. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... Oasis are an English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991. ... Definitely Maybe is the debut album by English band Oasis, released in 1994. ... (Whats the Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by the English rock band Oasis, released in October 1995. ...

Oasis' management company Ignition were aware of the danger of overexposure, and before its release they sought to control the media's access to the album. Ignition's campaign included limiting pre-release radio airplay, and requesting that journalists sign gag agreements. These tactics resulted in the alienation of members of both the music and mainstream media, as well as many industry members connected with the band. Ignition's attempts to limit pre-release access to the album only served to fuel large scale speculation and publicity within the British music scene.

Artistically Be Here Now failed to live up to the expectations that preceded its release.^[1] Although initial reviews were positive, retrospectively the album is viewed by much of the music press and by most members of the band as over-indulgent and bloated.^[2] In 2007, Q magazine described Be Here Now as "a disastrous, overblown folly—the moment when Oasis, their judgement clouded by drugs and blanket adulation, ran aground on their own sky-high self-belief."^[3] The album's producer Owen Morris said of the recording sessions: "The only reason anyone was there was the money. Noel had decided Liam was a shit singer. Liam had decided he hated Noel's songs [...] Massive amounts of drugs. Big fights. Bad vibes. Shit recordings."^[3] None of its songs were included on the band's 2006 "best of" compilation album Stop the Clocks. Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ... Owen Morris is a music producer who has worked with rock bands such as Oasis and The Verve. ... Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born May 29, 1967 in Burnage, Manchester, England) is an English songwriter, guitarist and occasional vocalist with the Manchester rock band Oasis. ... Liam Gallagher (born William John Paul Gallagher on September 21, 1972, Burnage, Manchester, England) is an English singer and tambourine player of the band Oasis. ... Stop the Clocks is a best-of album by British rock band Oasis, released in November 2006. ...

Release

Context

By the summer of 1996, Oasis were widely considered to be, according to Noel Gallagher, "the biggest band in the world." According to Noel, Oasis were "bigger than, dare I say it, fucking God."^[2] The huge commercial success of the band's two previous albums had resulted in media frenzy and a ubiquity in the mainstream press that was in danger of leading to a backlash.^[4] Oasis members were by then being invited to functions at 10 Downing Street by the Prime Minister of Britain^[5] and holidaying with Johnny Depp and Kate Moss in Mick Jagger's villa in Mustique. During their last stay on the island, Noel wrote the majority of the songs that would make up Oasis's forthcoming third album.^[6] He had suffered from writer's block during the previous winter, and has since admitted he wrote only a single guitar riff in the six months following the release of "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?". After a few weeks "idling", he disciplined himself to a routine of songwriting where he would go "into this room in the morning, come out for lunch, go back in, come out for dinner, go back in, then go to bed."^[7] Backlash has meaning in both socio-political and engineering contexts. ... Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney stand in front of the famous main door to Number 10. ... Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994... Katherine Ann Moss (born January 16, 1974), known as Kate Moss, is an iconic English supermodel and fashion designer. ... Michael Phillip Mick Jagger CBE (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. ... Location of Mustique Mustique is a private island in the Caribbean Sea, one of the Grenadines in the country of St Vincent and the Grenadines. ... Writers block is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to continue writing, usually due to lack of inspiration or creativity. ...

In August 1996, the band performed two concerts before crowds of 250,000 at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, while more than 2,500,000 fans had applied for tickets.^[8] The dates were to be the zenith of Oasis's popularity, and both the music press and the band realised it would not be possible for the band to equal the event.^[2] By this time however, there was much instability and internal conflict emerging between the band members. On 23 August 1996, Liam refused to sing for a MTV Unplugged performance at London's Royal Festival Hall, pleading a sore throat.^[9] Though he did attend the concert, he spent the evening heckling Noel from the upper level balcony. Four days later, Liam declined to participate in the first leg of an American tour, complaining that he needed to buy a house with his girlfriend Patsy Kensit. He re-joined the band a few days after for a key concert at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York, but intentionally sang off-key and spat beer and saliva during the performance; outraging both fans and critics.^[10] The following day, The Sun led with the front page headline "America sickened by obscene Liam's spitting rampage."^[9] Amongst much internal bickering, the tour continued with Liam to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Noel finally lost his patience with his brother and announced he was leaving the band. He later admitted "If the truth be known, I didn't want to be there anyway. I wasn't prepared to be in the band if people were being like that to each other."^[2] Although Noel rejoined Oasis a few weeks later, the band's management and handlers were worried. With an album's worth of songs already demoed, the general feeling among the Gallaghers was that they should record as soon as possible. Their manager, Marcus Russell, admitted in 2007 that "in retrospect, we went in the studio too quickly. The smart move would have been to take the rest of the year off. But at the time it seemed like the right thing to do. If you're a band and you've got a dozen songs you think are great, why not go and do it."^[2] Such was Oasis' popularity in the mid-1990s, that when a nationwide "Any 3 Oasis singles for £10" offer became available in mid-November 1996, every single that the band released up until then re-entered the Top 55 in the charts in the same week, with four songs breaking back into the Top 40. ^[11] Knebworth House is a country house near Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England. ... For the similarly named county in the West Midlands region, see Herefordshire. ... is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... MTV Unplugged is a series showcasing popular musical artists playing acoustic instruments. ... The Royal Festival Hall reopening celebrations The Royal Festival Hall is a concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London, England. ... Patricia Jude Frances Kensit (born 4 March 1968 in Hounslow, Middlesex) is an English actress and singer, and is also well-known for her three celebrity marriages. ... The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. ... Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... “Charlotte” redirects here. ... A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. ...

Recording

The sessions for Be Here Now began on 7 October 1996 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London.^[12] The album's producer Owen Morris described the first week of recording as "fucking awful", and suggested to Noel that they abandon the session: "He just shrugged and said it would be all right. So on we went." Liam was under heavy tabloid focus at the time, and on 9 November 1996 was arrested and cautioned for cocaine possession following a bender at the Q Awards. A media frenzy ensued, and the band's management made the decision to move to a studio less readily accessible to paparazzi. The Sun's showbiz editor Dominic Mohan recalled of the period: "We had quite a few Oasis contacts on the payroll. I don't know whether any were drug dealers, but there was always a few dodgy characters about."^[2] Oasis's official photographer Jill Furmanovsky felt the media's focus, and was preyed upon by tabloid journalists living in the flat upstairs from her: "They thought I had the band hiding in my flat." In paranoia, the band cut themselves off from their wider circle. According to Creation publicist Johnny Hopkins: "People were being edged out of the circle around Oasis. People who knew them before they were famous rather than because they were famous." Hopkins likened the situation to a medieval court, complete with kings, courtiers and jesters. As he explained, "[o]nce you're in that situation you lose sight of reality."^[2] is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Dominic Mohan (b. ...

On 11 November 1996, Oasis relocated the sessions to the rural Ridge Farm Studios in Surrey. Though the band reconvened with more energy, the early recordings were compromised by the drug intake of all involved. In 2007, Morris remembered that "in the first week, someone tried to score an ounce of weed, but instead got an ounce of cocaine. Which kind of summed it up."^[2] Noel was not present during any of Liam's vocal track recordings, typifying the high drama surrounding the sessions. Morris was aware that the new material was weak, but when he voiced his opinion to Noel he was cut down: "[So] I just carried on shovelling drugs up my nose." Noel was also conscious of the relative shortcomings of his new songs and attempted to cover them up by layering multiple guitar tracks. In many instances he dubbed ten channels with identical guitar parts, in an effort to create a sonic volume.^[2] Creation Records owner Alan McGee visited the studio during the mixing stage; he said, "I used to go down to the studio, and there was so much cocaine getting done at that point . . . Owen was out of control, and he was the one in charge of it. The music was just fucking loud."^[6] November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Not to be confused with Surry. ... Alan McGee is a British music industry mogul and musician famed for founding the independent Creation Records label which ran from 1983 to 2000. ...

Marketing and promotion

When Alan McGee, Creation's publicist Johnny Hopkins, and marketing executive Emma Greengrass first heard Be Here Now at Noel Gallagher's house, each had their doubts about its artistic value, but kept their doubts to themselves. One Creation employee recalled "a lot of nodding of heads, a lot of slapping of backs."^[13] McGee later admitted to having strong misgivings at first: "I heard it in the studio and I remember saying 'We'll only sell seven million copies'...I thought it was too confrontational."^[13] However, in an interview with the music press a few days later he predicted the album would sell twenty million copies. McGee’s hyperbole alarmed both Oasis and their management company Ignition, and both immediately excluded him from involvement in the release campaign. Ignition's strategy from that point on centered around an effort to suppress all publicity, and withheld access to both music and information from anybody not directly involved with the album's release. Fearful of the dangers of over-hype and bootlegging, their aim was to present the record as a "regular, everyday collection of tunes." To this end they planned a modest marketing budget, to be spent on subdued promotional activities such as street posters and music press adverts, while avoiding mainstream instruments such as billboard and TV advertising. According to Greengrass "We want to keep it low key. We want to keep control of the whole mad thing."^[14]

However, the extent that Ignition were willing to go to control access to the album generated more hype than could normally have been expected, and served to alienate members of both the print and broadcast media, as well as most Creation staff members. When "D'You Know What I Mean?" was planned as the first single, Ignition decided on a late release to radio so as to avoid too much advance exposure. However, three stations broke the embargo, and Ignition panicked. According to Greengrass: "we’d been in these bloody bunker meetings for six months or something, and our plot was blown. 'Shit, it's a nightmare'."^[15] BBC Radio 1 received a CD containing three songs ten days before the album's release, on condition that disc jockey Steve Lamacq talked over the tracks to prevent illegal copies being made by listeners. The day after Lamacq previewed the album on his show, he received a phone call from Ignition informing him that he would not be able to preview further tracks because he didn't speak enough over the songs. Lamacq said, "I had to go on the air the next night and say, 'Sorry, but we're not getting any more tracks.' It was just absurd."^[16] According to Creation's head of marketing John Andrews, "[The campaign] made people despise Oasis within Creation. You had this Oasis camp that was like 'I'm sorry, you're not allowed come into the office between the following hours. You're not allowed mention the word Oasis.' It was like a fascist state."^[15] One employee recalled an incident "when somebody came round to check our phones because they thought The Sun had tapped them."^[15] DYou Know What I Mean? is a song by British rock band Oasis. ... This page redirects from Radio 1. See Radio 1 (disambiguation). ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... Steve Lamacq (born 16 October 1965), sometimes known by his nicknames Lammo (given to him by John Peel) or The Cat (Due to his high goalkeeping ability), is a British disc jockey who has been broadcasting for several years on the popular BBC radio station Radio 1. ... Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

When Hopkins began to circulate cassette copies of the album to the music press a few weeks later, he required that each journalist sign a contract containing a clause requiring that the cassette recipient, according to Select journalist Mark Perry "not discuss the album with anyone—including your partner at home. It basically said don't talk to your girlfriend about it when you're at home in bed."^[17] The Mail on Sunday wrote of Russell "[He] has a mind like a steel trap and the organisational skills of Winston Churchill." Reflecting in 1999, Greengrass admitted: "In retrospect a lot of the things we did were ridiculous. We sit in [Oasis] meetings today and we're like 'It's on the Internet. It's in Camden Market. Whatever'. I think we've learned our lesson."^[18] According to Perry: "It seemed, particularly once you heard the album, that this was cocaine grandeur of just the most ludicrous degree. I remember listening to "All Around the World" and laughing—actually quite pleasurably—because it seemed so ridiculous. You just thought: Christ, there is so much coke being done here."^[17] The Daily Mail and its Sunday edition the Mail on Sunday are British newspapers, first published in 1896. ... Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. ... Camden Lock market Camden Market is a major youth focused market or shopping district in Camden Town, and the largest shopping area of its type in London, England. ... All Around the World is a song by British rock band Oasis. ...

Reception

Be Here Now was released in the UK on 21 August 1997. The release date had been brought forward out of Ignition's fear that import copies of the album from the United States would arrive in Britain before that country's designated street date.^[19] Worrying that TV news cameras would interview queuing fans at a traditional midnight opening session, Ignition forced retailers to sign contracts pledging not to sell the record earlier than eight a.m.^[15] However, when the album did go on sale, the cameras showed up regardless, just in time to record the initially slow trade. It was not until lunch time that sales picked up. By the end of the first day of release, Be Here Now sold over 350,000 units and by the end of business on Saturday of that week sales had reached 696,000, making it the fastest-selling album in British history.^[20] The album debuted at number two on the Billboard charts in the United States, but its first week sales of 152,000–below expected sales of 400,000 copies–were considered a disappointment.^[21] is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ...

It's the sound of . . . a bunch of guys, on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck. There's no bass to it at all; I don't know what happened to that . . . And all the songs are really long and all the lyrics are shit and for every millisecond Liam is not saying a word, there's a guitar riff in there in a Wayne's World style. Waynes World was one of the most popular recurring sketches to come from the NBC television series Saturday Night Live. ...

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Contemporaneous reviews of Be Here Now were, in John Harris's words, unanimous with "truly amazing praise." According to Harris, "To find an album that had attracted gushing notices in such profusion, one had to go back thirty years, to the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."^[23] While Q magazine described the album as "cocaine set to music", most early reviews praised the record's length, volume and ambition. Reviews in the British music press for Oasis' previous album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? had been generally negative. When it went on to become, in the words of Select editor Alexis Petridis, "this huge kind of Zeigeist defining record" the music press was "baffled".^[24] Realising they had gotten it wrong the last time, Petridis believes the initial glowing reviews were a concession to public opinion.^[24] For other persons named John Harris, see John Harris (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Select was a UK music magazine of the 90s, particularly famous for its involvement in Britpop. ...

By the end of 1997, Be Here Now had sold eight million units worldwide. However, the sales volume was largely gained in the first two weeks of release, and once the album was released to UK radio stations the turnover tapered off. Buyers realised that the album was not another (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, and by 1999, Melody Maker reported that it was the album most sold to second-hand record stores.^[18] In the 2003 John Dower-directed documentary Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop, music critic Jon Savage pinpointed Be Here Now as the moment where the Britpop movement ended. Savage said that while the album "isn't the great disaster that everybody says," he noted that "[i]t was supposed to be the big, big triumphal record" of the period.^[22] Q expressed similar sentiements, writing, "So colossally did Be Here Now fall short of expectations that it killed Britpop and ushered in an era of more ambitious, less overblown music".^[2] Irish Times journalist Brian Boyd wrote: "Bloated and over-heated (much like the band themselves at the time), the album has all that dreadful braggadocio that is so characteristic of a cocaine user."^[25] Reflecting in 2007, Garry Mulholland admitted, "the fact that nothing could have lived up to the fevered expectations that surrounded its release doesn't change the facts. The third Oasis album is a loud, lumbering noise signifying nothing."^[2] Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was (until its closure) the worlds oldest weekly music newspaper. ... Jon Savage real name Jonathan Sage (born 1953) is a writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his award winning history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, Englands Dreaming (1991). ... Britpop was a British alternative rock genre and movement that was at its most popular in Great Britain in the mid 1990s. ... The Irish Times is Irelands newspaper of record, launched in the late 1850s. ...

The Gallagher brothers hold differing opinions about the album. As early as July 1997, Noel was "talking down" Be Here Now in the music press, describing the production as "bland", and remarking that some of the tracks were "fucking shit".^[2] In Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop, he dismissed the album, and blamed its faults on drugs and the band's indifference during recording. He suggested that the people unsatisfied with the record simply sell it. In contrast, Noel noted that his brother "thinks it fucking rocks." In the same documentary, Liam defended the record, and said that "at that time we thought it was fucking great, and I still think it's great. It just wasn't Morning Glory."^[22] In 2006, Liam Gallagher added, "If he [Noel] didn't like the record that much, he shouldn't have put the fucking record out in the first place…I don't know what's up with him, but it's a top record, man, and I'm proud of it — it's just a little bit long."^[26]

Music and lyrics

As with Oasis' previous two albums, the songs on Be Here Now are generally anthemic. The structures are traditional,^[27] and largely follow the typical verse—chorus—verse—chorus— middle eight—chorus format of guitar based rock and roll. Reviewing for Nude As The News, Jonathan Cohen noted that the album is "virtually interchangeable with 1994's Definitely Maybe or its blockbuster sequel, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?",^[28] while Noel had previously remarked that he would make three albums in this generic style.^[27] Yet the songs on Be Here Now differ in that they are longer than previous releases; an extended coda brings "D'You Know What I Mean?" to almost eight minutes, while "All Around The World" contains three key changes^[28] and lasts for a full nine minutes.^[27] The tracks are more layered and intricate than before, and each contains multiple guitar overdubs.^[29] While Morris had previously stripped away layers of overdubs on the band's debut Definitely Maybe, during the production of Be Here Now he "seemed to gleefully encourage" such excess; "My Big Mouth" has an estimated thirty tracks of guitar overdubbed onto the song.^[30] A Rolling Stone review described the guitar lines as comprising of "elementary riffs."^[31] There was some experimentation: "D'You Know What I Mean?" contains a loop from N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton",^[32] while "Magic Pie" features psychedelically arranged vocal harmonies and a mellotron. According to Noel, "All I did was run my elbows across the keys and this mad jazz came out and everyone laughed."^[33] The album's production is dominated by top-end high frequency tones, and according to Uncut's Paul Lester, its use of treble is reminiscent of both late 1980s Creation Records bands such as My Bloody Valentine, and The Stooges' famously under-produced Raw Power.^[32] DYou Know What I Mean? is a song by British rock band Oasis. ... All Around the World is a song by British rock band Oasis. ... This article is about the magazine. ... This article is about the hip-hop group. ... This article is about the album. ... The Mellotron is an electromechanical polyphonic keyboard musical instrument originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. ... Uncut special issue on Queen. ... My Bloody Valentine were an Irish-British shoegazing band best known for their creative use of guitar distortion, tremolo, and digital reverb. ... The Stooges are an American rock band that was first active from around 1967 to 1974, and then reformed in 2003. ... Raw Power is a 1973 album by American rock music group The Stooges. ...

The vocal melodies continue Noel's preference for "massed-rank sing-alongs", although Du Noyer concedes that not all are of the "the pub-trashing idiot kind" of previous releases.^[27] At the time of release, Q's Phil Sutcliffe summarised the lyrics of Be Here Now as a mixture of "hookline optimism, a swarm of Beatles and other ’60s references, a gruff love song to Meg, and further tangled expressions of his inability/unwillingness to express profound emotions."^[7] The lyrics were elsewhere described as "[running] the gamut from insightful to insipid",^[28] although Du Noyer admitted that Noel is "[to go by his lyrics] something of a closet philosopher...and often romantic to the point of big girl's blousedom." While the tracks "Don't Go Away" and "The Girl In The Dirty Shirt" were described as unabashedly sentimental, Du Noyer went on to observe that "there is compassion and sensitivity in these tracks that is not the work of oafs." Du Noyer conceded that Noel often tied himself up "cosmic knots", but added that Gallagher had "written words that sound simple and true, and are therefore poetic without trying to be."^[27] Lester read song titles such as "Stand By Me" and "Don't Go Away" as a series of demands, both to members of his private life and his public audience.^[32] Image File history File links Oasis_D'You_Know_What_I_Mean. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ...

Du Noyer praised Liam's vocal contributions and described his "Northern punk whine" as "the most distinctive individual style of our time."^[27] Lester alluded to Liam as Noel's "mouthpiece", however he qualified that Liam is the "voice of every working-class boy with half a yen to break out and make it big."^[32]

Album cover

The cover image to Be Here Now was shot at the Stock Hotel in Hertfordshire in April 1997. It features the band standing outside the hotel surrounded by assorted props. At the centre of the image is a Rolls Royce floating in a swimming pool. The photographer Michael Spencer Johns said the original concept involved shooting each band member in various locations around the world, but when the cost proved prohibitive, the shoot was relocated to the Stock Hotel. Spencer remarked that the shoot "degenerated into chaos", adding that "by 8pm, everyone was in the bar, there were schoolkids all over the set, and the lighting crew couldn't start the generator. It was Alice in Wonderland meets Apocalypse Now." Despite various meanings people have tried to read into the selection of the cover props, Johns said Gallagher simply selected items from the BBC props store he thought would look good in the picture. Two of the props that had considered thought in their inclusion were the inflatable globe (intended as a homage to the sleeve of Definitely Maybe) and the Rolls Royce, which was suggested by Arthurs.^[35] The release date in each region was commemorated on the calendar pictured on the sleeve; Harris said the dating "[encouraged] fans to believe that to buy a copy on the day it appeared was to participate in some kind of historical event."^[19] Rolls-Royce car may refer to vehicles produced by: Rolls-Royce Limited (1906-1973) Rolls-Royce Motors (1973-2003), which was owned by Vickers between 1980 and 1998, and after that by Volkswagen. ... Alice in Wonderland is the widely known and used title for Alices Adventures in Wonderland, a book written by Lewis Carroll -- as well as several movie adaptations of the book -- and is also the setting for several short stories. ... Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American film set during the Vietnam War. ...

Track listing

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1. "D'You Know What I Mean?" – 7:42
2. "My Big Mouth" – 5:02
3. "Magic Pie" – 7:19
4. "Stand by Me" – 5:56
5. "I Hope, I Think, I Know" – 4:22
6. "The Girl in the Dirty Shirt" – 5:49
7. "Fade In-Out" – 6:52
8. "Don't Go Away" – 4:48
9. "Be Here Now" – 5:13
10. "All Around the World" – 9:20
11. "It's Gettin' Better (Man!!)" – 7:00
12. "All Around the World (Reprise)" – 2:08

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Singles

• "D'You Know What I Mean?"
  • Released: 7 July 1997
  • Writer: Noel Gallagher
  • Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
  • Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (FIN), #1 (IRE), #3 (CAN), #4 (US)
• "Stand by Me"
  • Released: 22 September 1997
  • Writer: Noel Gallagher
  • Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
  • Chart positions: #2 (UK), #5 (US), #2 (IRE)
• "All Around the World"
  • Released: 12 January 1998
  • Writer: Noel Gallagher
  • Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
  • Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (IRE)
• "Don't Go Away" (Japan only)
  • Released: 13 May 1998
  • Writer: Noel Gallagher
  • Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
  • Chart positions: —

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Charts

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Release

Be Here Now was released in various countries during August 1997.

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Sources

• Cavanagh, David (2000). My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize. (London) Virgin Books. ISBN 0-7535-0645-9.
• Harris, John (2004). Britpop!: Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock. (London) Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81367-X

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