A Sound So Very Loud

The Inside Story of Every Song Oasis Recorded

Ted Kessler

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781639369546
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Biographies

The first definitive history of the iconic band Oasis, as told through their music and using their songs as the starting point.

A Sound So Very Loud is the first book to offer a definitive history of Oasis as narrated through their music, using their songs as the foundation, but breaking out more widely to include sections of background and cultural context. It's written by leading music journalists Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain, who have very close ties to the band and their management, and have interviewed the Gallaghers dozens of times.

There has never been a definitive, forensically detailed history of Oasis and their music; a book that takes readers to the heart of the band’s work and what lay behind it in the kind of deeply researched, knowledgeable detail that has been afforded The Beatles, perhaps most notably with Ian MacDonald’s Revolution In the Head, which examined every Beatles song in chronological detail. MacBain and Kessler’s intention is to write the book that satisfies the many millions of fans globally similarly obsessed with Oasis’s music, but who currently only have scattered social media pages to turn to add depth to the story. These authors deliver the definitive, chronological history of the songs of Oasis that will appeal to fans old and new, in doing so, bringing the wider Oasis story into play in glorious color.

The pair have interviewed both Gallaghers dozens of times between 1994 and 2024, and no other journalists can claim more—or more lively—encounters with Liam and Noel. The book will also revisit each interview in the first-person, chronologically throughout, to add unique perspective and texture to the wider story. MacBain and Kessle will also dissect sleeve-art with the designers and photographers, delving into each detail surrounding the band. This is a veritable Oasis treasure trove!

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• A WhatsApp Conversation Between the Authors, Summer 2024
• Introduction: The Glorious Noise of Oasis
• 1993
• 1994
• On the Frontline with Oasis #1: Meet the Gallaghers, May 1994
• On the Frontline with Oasis #2: The Paris Match, November 1994
• 1995
• 1996
• On the Frontline with Oasis #3: Be There Then, June 1997
• 1997
• 1998
• On the Frontline with Oasis #4: An Evening at the Aquarium, October 1998
• 2000
• 2002
• 2003
• 2005
• On the Frontline with Oasis #5: Looking Back in Time with Noel Gallagher, November 2006
• 2007
• On the Frontline with Oasis #6: Glastonbury and the (Attempted) Cancellation of Noel Gallagher, August 2008
• 2008
• 2009
• On the Frontline with Oasis #7: Forty-Eight Hours in Amsterdam, January 2009
• On the Frontline with Oasis #8: Liam Unleashes Beady Eye and Noel Goes It Alone, July 2011
• On the Frontline with Oasis #9: To the Pub and Pictures with Liam, August 2016
• 2020
• Acknowledgements
• About the Authors
• Index
• Picture Credits
• Copyright