{"product_id":"9781623566760","title":"Oasis' Definitely Maybe","description":"Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album \u003ci\u003eDefinitely Maybe\u003c\/i\u003e managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes and dreams of a people than any other record of the last quarter century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  In a Britain that had just undergone the most damaging period of social upheaval in a century under the Thatcher government, Noel Gallagher ventriloquized slogans of burning communitarian optimism through the mouth of his brother Liam and the playing of the other Oasis 'everymen': Paul McGuigan, Paul Arthurs and Tony McCarroll. On \u003ci\u003eDefinitely Maybe\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eOasis communicated a timeworn message of idealism and hope against the odds, but one that had special resonance in a society where the widening gap between high and low demanded a newly superhuman kind of leaping.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as \"Live Forever,” \"Supersonic,” and \"Cigarettes \u0026amp; Alcohol.” In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139345531120,"sku":"9781623566760","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781623566760_p0.jpg?v=1763863160","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781623566760","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}