British rock group Oasis were the most adept exponents of Britpop, which energised the British music scene in the mid-1990s. Like Nirvana in the U.S., Oasis brought a fresh, vigorous approach to guitar rock, pushing it back into the mainstream after a decade when it had seemed increasingly irrelevant.
Oasis were originally a four-piece band consisting of
Liam Gallagher
(b. ), lead vocals; Paul Bonehead
Arthurs (b. ), guitar;
Paul McGuigan
(b. ), bass;...