Oasis music group biography

English rock band

For other bands with the same name, see Oasis (disambiguation) § Music.

Oasis are an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.

The group initially consisted of Liam Gallagher (lead vocals), Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs (guitar), Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan (bass guitar) and Tony McCarroll (drums), with Liam asking his older brother Noel Gallagher (lead guitar, vocals) to join as a fifth member a few months later to finalise their formation.

Noel became the de facto leader of the group and took over the songwriting duties for the band's first four albums. They are regarded as one of the defining and most globally successful groups of the Britpop genre.^[1]

Oasis signed to independent record label Creation Records in 1993 and released their record-setting debut album Definitely Maybe (1994), which topped the UK Albums Chart and quickly became the fastest-selling debut album in British history at the time.

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