More than 30 years ago, Oasis<\/a> made their very first trek to Los Angeles, hitting the Sunset Strip to play the 500-capacity Whisky A Go Go. While a tiny show like that is typically the stuff of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll legend, we don\u2019t need to rely on word of mouth to know what a disaster the night turned out to be.<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s video<\/a> of the full September 1994 set \u2013 which found the band having to restart several songs and even playing different tracks at the same time \u2013 and as the Gallagher brothers relayed<\/a> in a 2016 documentary, they were high on what they thought was coke but turned out to be crystal meth. It all led to Noel Gallagher briefly exiting the band (for the first time, but not the last time).<\/p>\n It was a bleak beginning for the British band\u2019s relationship with the second biggest city in the U.S., but there were clearly no hard feelings on Saturday and Sunday night in the adjacent Pasadena, California, as Oasis\u2019 massive Live \u201925 tour drew around 180,000 fans out to the Rose Bowl for the reunion trek\u2019s final weekend in the U.S.<\/p>\n \u201cSo America, it\u2019s official: Are we dating?\u201d Liam Gallagher asked the crowd Sunday night before launching into \u201cWonderwall\u201d \u2013 appropriately the group\u2019s only top 10 hit on the U.S.-only Billboard Hot 100<\/a>. Liam took the crowd\u2019s booming cheers as a yes: \u201cAmerica and Oasis, the new hot couple, yeah?\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s an on-again, off-again romance that just needed a 17-year cooling-off period to really reach its full, two-sold-out-stadium-nights potential. Below, find our favorite moments from Oasis\u2019 final weekend in the U.S.<\/p>\n Comparisons to The Beatles have trailed Oasis since the start, from their floppy haircuts, to their origins in Manchester (under an hour train ride from Liverpool), to their on-the-nose lyrical and musical references to the rock legends. Even at that ill-fated Whisky A Go Go show, Oasis covered \u201cI Am the Walrus,\u201d a staple in their live sets over the years. And while things have sometimes leaned rocky between the two groups \u2013 with Noel infamously saying his band was \u201cbigger\u201d than The Beatles and Paul McCartney griping in a Howard Stern interview<\/a> that reporters wouldn\u2019t stop asking him about Oasis \u2013 they\u2019ve since reconciled, with Noel even playing at the 50th birthday party of Paul\u2019s fashion-designer daughter Stella.<\/p>\n Further proof of their mended relationship: Paul McCartney was spotted <\/a>at Saturday\u2019s Rose Bowl show, the only one standing in his suite, filming Noel singing the 2002 single \u201cLittle by Little.\u201d McCartney was also stopped by a paparazzo on the way out of the show and asked how it was, to which he simply responded: \u201cFabulous.\u201d With the obvious influence The Beatles have had on the group, the brothers must have been thrilled that Paul was one of the 90,000 fans in the house.<\/p>\n Aside from the fireworks finale, the real champagne supernova in the sky was the full moon that was perfectly positioned to the right of Oasis\u2019 big screen on Saturday night and to the left on Sunday night, adding a gorgeous glow to every special song fans had waited a decade-plus (or longer) to hear live. It added some extra moonlit magic to an already off-the-charts magical night.<\/p>\n The Crying Girl<\/p>\n After performing \u201cThe Masterplan,\u201d the first song of the encore, Noel Gallagher took a moment to call out one particular fan on Saturday night. After asking her name and not making it out, he said, \u201cI can\u2019t really hear you, but this next song is for you. She\u2019s been in tears all night, this girl.\u201d The Rose Bowl big screen then cut to the fan, uncontrollably sobbing. \u201cI hope that hasn\u2019t been a review of the f\u2013king gig,\u201d Noel quipped, as she shook her head no and mouthed, \u201cOh my God!\u201d If she hadn\u2019t already been wailing, we\u2019re guessing that getting \u201cDon\u2019t Look Back in Anger\u201d dedicated to her by the band would have set off the waterworks.<\/p>\n https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n Ahead of 1995\u2019s \u201cLive Forever\u201d \u2013 Oasis\u2019 first Alternative Airplay top 10 hit here in the U.S. \u2013 Liam Gallagher has been sending a special dedication to \u201cthe people who couldn\u2019t be here \u2013 you know who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n When the Oasis reunion tour was first announced in August 2024, I know the first person I wanted to message was Russell: As a rabid middle school Oasis fan, I was on a bit of an island in my Michigan farm town, but I found a lifeline years later when somehow an honest-to-God British person started attending my high school. Hailing from the epicenter of Oasis Mania, he was the only one who understood my outsized passion for this band and my need to track down every Q magazine cover story about them, overseas shipping prices be damned. He was also the one always down to road-trip to Detroit to see them in a series of unbelievably intimate venues, like the then-named State Theater (under 3,000 capacity) in April 2000.<\/p>\n But I couldn\u2019t message Russell with the reunion tour news because he sadly passed in 2017 \u2013 and I know I\u2019m not the only one with a Russell. There are surely countless fans who went to these shows without their Oasis ride-or-dies, which made getting to be there feel all the more important.<\/p>\n So on Saturday night, hearing the lyrics of \u201cHalf the World Away\u201d \u2013 which I was under the impression was my own personal little gem of a song \u2013 screamed by tens of thousands of people around me made me realize I was in a room full of Russells. I found a kindred spirit in my small town decades ago, and I found hordes of kindred spirits in one of the biggest stadiums in America over the weekend.<\/p>\n After the rabid response to their U.S. shows \u2013 one stop at Chicago\u2019s Soldier Field, two nights at New Jersey\u2019s MetLife Stadium and now back-to-back at the Rose Bowl \u2013 you have to wonder whether Live \u201925 will truly be the end of this Oasis reunion here. The band has dates scheduled through Nov. 23, wrapping up the North American leg with Sept. 12-13 shows in Mexico City, returning to London for two more dates this month, and then hitting Asia, Australia and South America.<\/p>\n Will a return to the U.S. (and more cities beyond the lucky three) be in the cards next year or beyond? Well, if America and Oasis are the \u201cnew hot couple,\u201d they\u2019re going to need to get back for a visit to their long-distance love.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than 30 years ago, Oasis made their very first trek to Los Angeles, hitting the Sunset Strip to play the 500-capacity Whisky A Go Go. 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The Full Moon<\/h2>\n
The Crying Girl<\/h2>\n
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\u2018For All the People Who Couldn\u2019t Be Here\u2019<\/h2>\n
The U.S. Finale<\/h2>\n