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===''Be Here Now'': 1996–98===
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| quote ="What Oasis has done in Britain, unifying an entire country under the banner of a single pop act, a band could no longer achieve in a country like the US. In Britain the band reigns unchallenged as the most popular act since the Beatles, there is an Oasis CD in roughly one of every three homes there. Last month, the band drew 250,000 people to Knebworth for the biggest outdoor concerts in the country's history; The group's battling brothers, Liam and Noel Gallagher, appear as regularly as royalty on tabloid covers."
| source = — Neil Strauss writing in ''[[The New York Times]]'' on the group's escalating popularity (September 1996)<ref>{{cite web|last=Strauss|first=Neil|title=Sounding Like the Beatles, And Acting More Popular|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/10/arts/sounding-like-the-beatles-and-acting-more-popular.html|work=The New York Times|accessdate=28 March 2015}}</ref>
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The group played their first headline outdoor concerts at [[Maine Road]] football stadium, home of [[Manchester City F.C.]] whom the Gallagher brothers have been fans of since childhood, on 27 and 28 April 1996.<ref>Alan McGee (2013). "Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label". p. 31. Pan Macmillan,</ref> Highlights from the second night featured on the video ''[[...There and Then]]'', released later the same year. As their career reached its zenith, Oasis performed back-to-back concerts at Knebworth on 10 and 11 August. The band sold out both shows within minutes. The audience of 125,000 people each night for two nights (2.5&nbsp;million people applied for tickets, and 250,000 were actually sold, meaning the possibility of 20 sold out nights),<ref>Harris, pg.&nbsp;298–99</ref> was at the time a record-breaking number for an outdoor concert held in the UK, and to this day the largest demand for a show in British history.<ref name=liveforever>{{cite video | people = | title = Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop| medium = DVD| publisher=[[Passion Pictures]] | location = London|year=2004}}</ref>