>>127176103Noel learned from t rex, the Jam, sex pistols and the stones. Write some catchy riffs, pentatonic solos, big sound, and throw in a bit of classic Irish working man's pub balladeering underpinning the psychedelica. Then add some uplifting Beatles-esque nonsense lyrics, plus some banter and a pretty bad boy up front.
Until 1994/5 oasis were a girl band, their following was majority women (Noel talks about this in a documentary with his best friend and Oasis' photographer Jill Furmanovsky). Women supported them until after Def Maybe dropped and slowly, men started crowding in at gigs and women felt too intimidated to go.
So, between Def Maybe and Morning Glory, they upgraded their image to cash in on the rise of working class/rule britannia/lad rhetoric.
Liam started the whole manc man act and Noel and the music media started manipulating the wider press with over exaggerated stories of sibling rivalry, wild excess and rock n roll revelry. (Did they have fun? Yeah. Were they mad for it 24/7? Nah. Noel spent most of his time sunbathing on the beach)
To be successful in the UK you've got to have an image and Oasis' genius was in having an 'anti image' that wasn't as pretentious as Nirvana's. They were 5 lads in baggy addias sweats (A la Stone Roses). A rock band for the Northern English.
Without that media machine they would've probably sold 10-20 million albums and be at the same level of global popularity as their other contemporaries like Pulp, Blur etc.
Nobody was expecting them to become as big as they did, but they basically were a classic case of right place right time. Right at the end of grunge and house music and a huge financial recession, people were looking for escapism. Noel gave them that.