Oasis: Supersonic Page #13

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every couple of f***ing months.

"Poor old f***ing Dad's trying

to get in touch with his famous sons,

"but they don't want anything

to do with him," and all that bollocks.

He had no intentions of making up with them.

That was his last thought,

but of course he got paid

from the News Of The World.

And then, of course,

it was all over the papers the next day.

He's always said it was me

and the three kids that ruined his life.

But I would just like him to know

that it wasn't us that ruined his life.

He ruined his own life.

You know, it was kind of long since over,

whatever was going on with my old fella.

All I care about is the music, you know.

In the end, none of this will matter.

When it's all said and done,

what will remain is the songs.

I remember Marcus Russell saying to me,

"Do we book these big gigs

just while we can?"

F***ing Knebworth, bigger, bigger.

I imagine a f***ing load of money involved.

"See Owen, it's like a f***ing truck

going down a hill.

"It's burning and the wheels

are f***ing falling off.

"But everyone's going,

'It's f***ing brilliant. '

"So I don't know

when it's going to end, Owen."

Somebody suggested

that the next thing we should do

should be these things at Knebworth.

They didn't really have

much significance to me.

But, you know,

somebody's only got to whisper in my ear,

"Oh, these are the biggest gigs of all time,"

and I guess, well, that's me, yeah.

"You've just sold it to me,

thank you very much."

The giant stage lies dark and silent.

Tomorrow, that'll be the focus

for 250,000 people.

Do you know, over 4% of the population

applied for tickets for Oasis?

4% of the population!

In just over three years,

Oasis will have gone from being a new

signing to one of rock's true giants.

You know, everyone was taking

a big leap of faith,

that we were going to sell these shows out.

And the first one went on sale

and it sold out in, like, minutes.

As if by magic, the sun's got his hat on.

Ha, hey, hey.

The idea was put to us, we should put

another two nights on sale immediately,

and I think, for the first time ever,

we kind of backed away.

I don't know, maybe we got the sense

that it had become too big.

Then you find out afterwards

that we could have done seven nights.

Can't believe that we only done two nights.

Whose f***ing great idea was that?

We should still be there playing right now.

And finally, it's been called

the rock concert of the decade.

A quarter of a million rock fans

at Knebworth in Hertfordshire.

In a few hours, the hype becomes reality

when Oasis take to the stage...

John, describe the scene for us.

I do often think, "What was it all about?"

When we got to Knebworth,

we'd only just become rock stars.

And I said to Coyle and Phil,

"You're getting on that helicopter,"

because they were our two oldest mates.

"Really, you should be there

to see it with us.

"This thing that we're all part of."

It did feel like the end of something

as opposed to the beginning of something.

I had a sense of that, even at Knebworth,

do you know what I mean?

That it was never going to happen again.

That it happened

in such a short space of time.

Two-and-a-half years from signing off

to walking out on that stage.

It's just magic.

We were a band who had the tunes,

who were grafters,

who came from nothing and wanted it all.

We were the last. We were the greatest.

Nothing anybody does

could be as big as Oasis.

Never. It would never get repeated.

Not because we were greater

or better than anyone else,

but just because we didn't

actually give a flying f***.

We've definitely got a table upstairs with

the big boys, whether they like it or not.

It was the pre-digital age.

It was the pre-talent show, reality TV age.

Things meant more.

It was just a great time to be alive,

never mind a great time to be in Oasis.

We were about to enter

into a celebrity-driven culture

and I've always thought

that it was the last, great gathering

of the people before the birth

of the Internet.

It's no coincidence that things like that

don't happen any more.

Twenty years ago,

the biggest musical phenomenon

was a band that came from a council estate.

I just think in the times in which we live,

it would be unrepeatable.

We should be worried about that

because where's it going to be

20 years from now?

I just wanted it all, f***ing there and then,

you know what I mean?

I just wanted it all to happen in one big

"f***-off" explosion of madness.

I loved every minute of it.

It meant the be-all and end-all, man.

Life or death.

And I wouldn't change anything.

I'd do it all again in a f***ing heartbeat.

This is history!

Right here, right now, this is history!

I thought this was Knebworth,

what are you on about?

That was my life. That band was my life.

So it went above and beyond

anything I ever imagined.

That was the pinnacle for me.

It was like,

"What the f*** do you do from there?"

Champagne Supernova.

# How many special people change?

# How many lives are living strange?

# Where were you while we were getting high?

# Slowly walking down the hall

# Faster than a cannonball

# Where were you while we were getting high?

# Someday you will find me

# Caught beneath the landslide

# In a champagne supernova in the sky

# Someday you will find me

# Caught beneath the landslide

# In a champagne supernova

# A champagne supernova in the sky

# Wake up the dawn and ask her why

# A dreamer dreams she never dies

# Wipe that tear away now from your eye

# Slowly walking down the hall

# Faster than a cannonball

# Where were you while we were getting high?

# Someday you will find me

caught beneath the landslide

# In a champagne supernova in the sky

# Someday you will find me

caught beneath the landslide

# In a champagne supernova

# A champagne supernova

# 'Cause people believe that they're

going to get away for the summer

# But you and I, we live and die

# The world's still spinning round

# We don't know why

# Why, why, why, why...

It felt f***ing Biblical, man.

It was a miracle that we even got there.

It was everything and more than I asked for.

Yeah, we felt untouchable, man.

Supersonic even.

People make the mistake of thinking

that the people on the stage here

are defining something.

What if no one turns up?

We can all sit here

and suck each other's ball bags

about 2. 6 million people

applying for tickets,

but you know what's great about that...

Is the 2. 6 million people

not anything that we did.

And the people were with us.

# How many special people change?

# How many lives are living strange?

# Where were you while we were getting high?

# We were getting high #

My attitude then was,

"More, give me more, give me more."

Now, looking back,

I honestly think we should have just went,

"Thank you, every one of youse,

for getting us here.

"We were Oasis, and good night,"

and walked off.

We should have...

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