This has been a week of the Beatles and Oasis, two bands linked across the decades. They were the most popular British bands of their respective eras and generations, the Swinging Sixties and Britpop Nineties, putting Britain at the centre of the global airwaves. But while the music business gears up for the last hurrah of the Beatles, with the release of their entire re-mastered back catalogue and a computer game (The Beatles: Rock Band), which aims to extend their appeal to another generation, Oasis came to a bitter end, bowing out not with a bang, but a wearyingly familiar apology. While tens of thousands of fans waited for their heroes to appear on stage as headliners at the Rock En Seine festival in Paris, a message flashed up on the screens: “As a result of an altercation within the band, the Oasis gig has been cancelled.” Link...
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