Curse of Oasis
From the Telegraph..... and I thought the curse of oasis is what was said after listening to their latest album. Are there any other groups suitably cursed that we need to be wary of ??
Curse of Oasis: Pier is latest victim
The curse of Oasis has claimed its latest victim: Weston-super-Mare's Grand Pier.
By Chris Irvine
Last Updated: 8:12AM BST 07 Aug 2008
Fire destroyed a large section of the Grand Pier at Weston-Super-Mare Photo: GETTY
The fire-ravaged structure can be added to a list of places and people featured in the band's album artwork that have experienced misfortune.
The 104-year-old Grand Pier was featured on the 1995 record sleeve of hit single Roll With It.
Days later infamous record shop Sister Ray went into administration, citing competition from music downloads and a "dearth of good releases".
The shop featured on the front of album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 13 years ago.
But the curse does not end there, as the cover of the band's smash 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe features football legend George Best.
The former Manchester United ace later died of liver failure - although former Manchester City star Rodney Marsh and singer Burt Bacharach, who also appear seem to have escape unscathed so far.
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants featured an iconic image of New York's skyline when it was released in 2000. Only 18 months later, the iconic Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre were destroyed by terrorists.
A source close to Oasis described the chain of events as "a bit of a coincidence."
Fortunately, the curse seems unlikely to be able to find a victim from their new album Dig Out Your Soul, which dispays a psychedelic collage as its cover art.
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what a load
of old cobblers.
And this in the Telegraph??? Sort of fluff piece I'd expect to see in one of the red tops. Oh hang about it's the "silly season" innit?
I've heard that if you play Oasis records...
whilst savouring a delicious pâté de foie gras, it miraculously turns into a potato.
Hmmm. Pish and Tosh.
Also conveniently ignores the fact that Sister Ray only took over the site a few years back. At the time the album cover was shot, it was Selectadisc.
If we're talking curses as terrible as the Oasis curse, how about the Beatles curse? Many of the people featured on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band are no longer with us. Someone call the Telegraph!
Whoah!
The curse has taken care of both Sister Ray and Selectadisc?
Selectadisc...
...is alive and well in it's hometown of Nottingham (well, it was last time I looked).
Yep, still alive in Nottingham
and selling records online
http://www.selectadisc.co.uk/about_selectadisc.asp
just, sadly, not in London anymore. They were my preferred music emporium.
You wanna
check some of the jazz albums from the 30s. Every one of the buggers has carked it.
Has anyone told Fox Mulder?
I was once eating a potato
and it was the spitting image of Noel Gallagher. Without the hair and eyebrow, of course.
I would have thought
the hair and eyebrows made it look more like Mr G... or have I missed the point?
Has Esther
been informed?
Are you sure?
It could have been Wayne Rooney.
Potato? Hair? Eyebrow?
But you know that...... that would be silly. and, in all certainty, inedible. I would, upon eating, (wait for it)
"Roll with it"!
Arf arf.
But...
Bonehead, Guigsy and Tony the drummer were all on the cover of Definitely Maybe...and look what happened to them.
Sorry, did I say Noel?
The potato was clearly Bonehead, now I recall......
did someone already mention
that the truly terrifying curse of an oasis sleeve is the very real danger that somewhere nearby there's a dreadfully dreary album waiting to be played?
album one - glorious.. album two - less so but with some great moments.. album three onwards - please please please make it stop
where are we up to now anyway? - 6 or 7 - enough already
I was about to add, too
that the curse of Oasis demonstrates that whenever one happens upon an Oasis cover, one can be sure that a turd being vigorously polished cannot be far away
Sean Rowley - owner of Guilty Pleasures franchise
Isn't he the bloke on the Morning Glory cover? He's not done so bad since.
The first drummer seems to have come out smelling of roses. He played on all their best songs (ie the first album + Some Might Say), presumably trousered a tidy pay-off and earns a steady stream of royalties for the rest of his and his children's life.