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Be Here Now (album) : ウィキペディア英語版
Be Here Now (album)

''Be Here Now'' is the third studio album by the English rock band Oasis, released in August 1997 on Creation Records. Oasis had achieved worldwide success with their 1994 debut album ''Definitely Maybe'' and 1995 follow up ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?''. The third album was highly anticipated by both fans and music critics. Oasis' management company, Ignition, were aware of the dangers of overexposure; and before release sought to control the media's access to the album. The campaign included limiting pre-release radio airplay and forcing journalists to sign gag orders. The tactics resulted in alienating both the press and many industry personnel connected with the band, and fueled large-scale speculation and wide publicity within the British music scene.
On the first day of release, ''Be Here Now'' sold over 424,000 copies, becoming the fastest-selling album in British chart history until 2015, while initial reviews were overwhelmingly positive.〔http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/adeles-25-just-went-platinum-in-24-hours/〕 Retrospectively however, the album is viewed by much of the music press, fans, and by most members of the band as over-indulgent and bloated.〔Cameron, Keith. "Last Orders". ''Q'', June 2007.〕 ''Q'' magazine, which gave the album a five-star rave review on its release, admitted in 2007 that ''Be Here Now'' is often thought of 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."〔"(Be Here Now — was it really so bad? )". ''Q''. Retrieved on 23 June 2007.〕 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."〔 As of 2008, the album had sold eight million copies worldwide.
==Background==
By the summer of 1996, Oasis were widely considered, according to guitarist Noel Gallagher, "the biggest band in the world...bigger than, dare I say it, fucking God."〔 The commercial success of the band's two previous albums had resulted in media frenzy and an ubiquity in the mainstream press that was in danger of leading to a backlash.〔Thompson, Stephen. "(Oasis Be Here Now )". ''The Onion A.V. Club'', 29 March 2002. Retrieved on 3 July 2007.〕 Oasis members were by then being invited to functions at 10 Downing Street by Prime Minister Tony Blair〔"(Tony Blair's leadership years in pictures )". BBC News. Retrieved on 7 July 2007.〕 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 third album.〔Harris (2004), p. 333.〕 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."〔Sutcliffe, Phil. "'Piece of piss!': The Oasis Diaries". ''Q''. September 1997.〕 Noel has later said about the album "... most of the songs were written before I even got a record deal, I went away and wrote the lyrics in about two weeks."〔Oasis story – Mono – All Music TV (Italy) - broadcast 26 October 2008〕
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.〔"(The 90's Rock at Knebworth House )". Knebworth Estates, 2001. Retrieved on 23 June 2007.〕 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.〔 By this time however, there was much instability and internal conflict emerging between the band members. On 23 August 1996, vocalist Liam Gallagher refused to sing for an ''MTV Unplugged'' performance at London's Royal Festival Hall, pleading a sore throat. 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 then 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.〔Strauss, Neil. "(At the MTV Awards, All the World's a Stage )". New York Times, 6 September 1996. Retrieved on 23 June 2007.〕 The following day, ''The Sun'' led with the front page headline "America sickened by obscene Liam's spitting rampage."〔 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."〔 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, said 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."〔

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