Why the Oasis documentary will make you cry (in a good way)
Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud

Why the Oasis documentary will make you cry (in a good way)

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 17, 202619 min

Music journalist Maura Johnston and Oasis super-fan Alex Spears talk about Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, the new documentary chronicling the Britpop legends’ 2025 world tour, and why it strikes a deeper emotional chord than most rock and roll documentaries.

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Look, if you've never been to an Oasis concert before,

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In theory, that's Oasis performing Don't Look Back in Anger at the Toronto Stop of

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This is a CBC Podcast. I'm Alameen Abdul-Mahmoud and this is Commotion. Look, if you've never been to an Oasis concert before, this right here might kind of crystallize exactly the thing that makes it so special.

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In theory, that's Oasis performing Don't Look Back in Anger at the Toronto Stop of last year's tour. Or I should say that's what you're hearing is maybe 50,000 Torontonians being like, we got this.

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We got, we'll pick it up from here. Thanks. It's not so much the thing that's happening on the stage. It really is that magic of the crowd.

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