Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 16, 2013

Be Here Now is the third studio album by English rock band Oasis (vocalist Liam Gallagher pictured), released in August 1997. The album was highly anticipated by music critics and fans after the band's worldwide success with Definitely Maybe (1994) and (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995). Be Here Now became the United Kingdom's fastest selling album to date, selling over 350,000 units on the first day of release. Oasis' management company Ignition sought to control access to the album before its release to prevent overexposure, but its tactics resulted in the alienation of members of the media. Although initial reviews were positive, retrospectively the album is viewed by much of the music press and by most members of the band as over-indulgent and bloated. In 2007, Q magazine, having given it five stars on its release, said that it 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." The album's producer Owen Morris said of the recording sessions: "The only reason anyone was there was the money." (Full article...)

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