"After a crowd of nearly 90,000 finished singing Don't Look Back in Anger, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher had a question. Are we dating? he asked fans at the Rose Bowl, a stadium just outside Los Angeles, last Sunday night. America, Oasis, the new hot couple, yeah? If the Gallagher brothers and the United States are going steady, it comes after three decades of a turbulent, on-again, off-again relationship."
"In the days leading up to the two sold-out shows, it felt like the entire city was obsessed. Coffee shops and bars were full of people in Oasis T-shirts, bucket hats and little round sunglasses. On social media feeds, there was an abundance of memes about newly minted Anglophiles and joke T-shirts saying I made it home from Oasis at the Rose Bowl. A headline in Variety read: How Oasis turned LA into glorious Britannia for a weekend."
"That all might come as a surprise to those who were in the US in the 1990s. Yes, everyone knows Wonderwall, and the band has sold 7 million albums here. But by comparison, Nirvana has sold more than 27 million in the US; even Gin Blossoms have sold 10 million, and you probably need a second to remember who they are. I had a feeling they'd never take to us, Liam later said of the US."
A crowd of nearly 90,000 sang 'Don't Look Back in Anger' as Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher asked 'Are we dating?' at the Rose Bowl outside Los Angeles. The reunion tour's US leg featured sold-out stadium dates in Chicago, New York and LA and tickets sold out in an hour. The city adopted Oasis fashion and humor, with T-shirts, bucket hats, memes and pop-up exhibitions. Large billboards displayed the Gallagher brothers' faces, and Variety called it 'glorious Britannia.' Historically the band sold 7 million US albums, less than contemporaries, but the 2025 shows reflected a new surge of American popularity.
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