Oasis is closer to Ziggy Stardust era Bowie and T-Rex than the Beatles.

[speak easy]

Having said that they completely own their sound.

[highplainsdem]

1. Definitely influenced by them. A lot of glam rock was basic straight-ahead rock, despite the silly costumes

and theatrics.

Bowie could have rocked much harder from the start of his career. And I wish he had. But maybe he needed to play an alien rock star to feel that free.

Liam Gallagher had no trouble imagining himself as a rock star. Even when he was singing about it in a club with only a couple of people in.the audience:

And while Oasis borrowed from T.Rex, they also outrocked them. As on the second night at Knebworth in 1996, after Liam reportedly had been so drunk and high he'd forgotten before the concert that they had to play a second night at Knebworth. And with the sibling rivalry on full display, Noel taunting him, "Can you play that?" This is archetypal guitar rock, and Noel rules here. LOOK at that audience...