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Unseen Oasis images to go on display to mark the 25th anniversary of Definitely Maybe

A collection of unseen pictures of Oasis are set to go on display to mark the 25th anniversary of Definitely Maybe.

The band's debut album was released on August 29 1994, earning critical and commercial success.

An exhibition will feature the work of British photographer Michael Spencer Jones, who shadowed the Manchester band from their pre-fame days.

Oasis backstage in Southend (Michael Spencer Jones/PA Wire)

Spencer Jones shot the cover for their debut album and was allowed full access to the Gallagher brothers in their more intimate moments as well as on their world tour in 1997 and 1998.

The exhibition at the h Club Gallery in London will include images taken during recording sessions at Rockfield Recording Studios in Monmouthshire and guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs's front room, as well as various letters, scraps of paper and props from Spencer Jones's myriad shoots with the band.

Oasis recording Definitely Maybe (PA)

Also featured will be to-scale immersive mock-ups of the cover art of Definitely Maybe, (What's The Story) Morning Glory? and Be Here Now - including the famous submerged Rolls-Royce featured on the front of the latter.

Spencer Jones said he is "delighted" to be exhibiting his work, "especially" the shots and artefacts fans have never seen before.

One of the images included in the new exhibition (Michael Spencer Jones/PA Wire)

He added: "Seen from the digital matrix in which we now live, Oasis were the last gasp of air in the analogue age; the last great rock'n'roll band before Zuckerberg, before iPhones and before the internet began to shape and control our lives.

"I hope this exhibition gives fans a chance to pause and reflect and look back upon a time when the face and image of Britain was being revolutionised from below."

The gallery's chief marketing officer Michael Berg said: "We are absolutely thrilled to be exhibiting Michael Spencer Jones's brilliant work, which shaped Oasis's image.

"It's difficult to imagine Definitely Maybe without seeing a spinning globe in a living room, Be Here Now without a Rolls-Royce in a swimming pool, or Wonderwall without a girl in a picture frame - without Michael, Oasis may have been an entirely different band."

Liam and Noel Gallagher have feuded publicly since the band split in 2009, prompted by a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.

Masterplan 25: The Oasis Photographs runs from November 22 2019 until January 12 2020.

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