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* McCarroll was kicked out and replaced by Alan White as drummer ([[Name's the Same|not]] ''that'' [[Yes|Alan White]]) in 1995.
* Bonehead and Guigsy left in 1999. After recording subsequent album ''Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants'' as a three-piece, guitarist Colin "Gem" Archer and bassist [[Ride|Andy Bell]] (no, [[Name's the Same|not]] ''that'' [[Erasure|Andy Bell]]) were brought in.
* White left the band in 2004. He was unofficially replaced by [[The Beatles (band)|Ringo Starr]]'s son Zak Starkey, who played in the studio and live with the band but was never an official member. Before the recording of ''Dig Out Your Soul'', Starkey was replaced by Chris Sharrock, former drummer for The Icicle Works.
The band were known for their over-the-top rock and roll attitude and perennial fixation on [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]], which many times eclipsed their musical aspects; Noel Gallagher was also known to "borrow" musical snippets and riffs from older songs, which didn't help the case. The Gallagher brothers were infamous for their fistfights, rude remarks, and most importantly, [[Cain and Abel|
Oasis's future would finally come into critical doubt, after the best part of 20 years marked by internal squabbling and irregular rifts of greater or lesser severity, in August 2009 when Noel – who wrote most of their singles and best known tracks, and decided their artistic directions – announced his departure. The rest of the band were ambiguous as to whether they would carry on, until Liam Gallagher announced a split in late 2009; he later announced that they would "continue the project" in 2010, albeit perhaps with a different name. This came to pass, as some time after the breakup Liam and the rest of the band reconvened under the name [[The Band Minus the Face|Beady Eye]], releasing their 'debut' album ''Different Gear, Still Speeding'' in February 2011. Noel came out of hiding more belatedly, confirming that he's going onto a solo career under the name [[I Am the Band|Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds]]; his debut album under this moniker was released in October 2011, and eclipsed his former bandmates' effort by flying straight to UK Number One.
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** Also, the track "To Be Where There's Life" goes "''Dig out your soul'', here we go".
* [[Aloof Big Brother]] - Noel is considered this to Liam Gallagher. Especially when the band split and the two released the debuts their own projects (High Flying Birds and Beady Eye), where many liked to invoke this trope.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]] - Of [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]. Liam even said he's Lennon reincarnated (
* [[Anime Theme Song]] - [[Eden of the East|"Falling Down"]].
* [[Attention Whore]] - The brothers, to some people. Or perhaps a lot.
* [[Audience Participation Song]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhcV85h5sqo "Don't Look Back in Anger",] "Half The World Away". "Wonderwall" could count, but the others are more effective in this.
* [[The Band Minus the Face]] - Beady Eye, after Noel's departure.
* [[Bigger Than Jesus]] - In [[The Nineties]], music periodical ''The New Music Express'' (''NME'') spoofed the band's thrall to [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] and their tendency to plagiarize with a fictitious interview in which Noel Gallagher claimed to be "bigger than God." Just one year later, in [[Real Life]], [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Noel Gallagher made exactly the same claim]], though the entire point to [[John Lennon]]'s original remarks in 1966 seemed [[Completely Missing the Point|completely lost on him]].
* [[Black Sheep Hit]] - "Wonderwall" is their best-known song.
* [[Canon Discontinuity]] - ''Be Here Now'', [[Creator Backlash|to Noel Gallagher]] and [[Broken Base|many fans]]. With the only exception being the ballad "Don't Go Away", which was one of the band's biggest hits in America.
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* [[Three Chords and the Truth]] - Not as stripped-down as some other examples, but they deliberately used simple musical formulas on ''Definitely Maybe'', though they eventually moved on to more complex compositions.
* [[The Something Song]] - "The Swamp Song"
* [[Truck Driver's Gear Change]]: "All Around the World" begins with several verses and choruses in B, hops up to C for a couple of choruses (but only one in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MywWolXGIx8 the music video]), and then concludes in D for the final twenty- or thirty-ish chorus repetitions. (Some sheet music transcriptions of the song also notate a few bars as being in A: the "It's gonna be OK" repeats between the C and D choruses.) Noel Gallagher [http://www.musicfanclubs.org/oasis/beherenow.html commented], possibly with tongue in cheek: "Imagine how much better '[[The Beatles (band)|Hey Jude]]' would have been with three key changes towards the end!"
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] - The Gallagher brothers--except the "best buds" bit is uncertain.
** Since they often can't be in the same room together (for fear of the inevitable fist fight), they do always say how much they love each other. They just don't like each other.
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