When Noel Gallagher quit as a guitar tech for local psychedelic scenesters
Inspiral Carpets and joined brother Liam Gallagher's band the Rain, a new
British force was born. Borrowing heavily from the Beatles, punk and the baggy
Madchester scene, a swaggering, working-class retort to grunge soon blared out
of Manchester. Debut album Definitely Maybe (1994) positioned them at the helm
of Britpop, before a snarling spat with Blur turned them into bad-boy tabloid
darlings. As "Wonderwall," "Don't Look Back In Anger" and "Some Might Say"
became terrace anthems, second album (What's Th...