Be Here Now is the third studio album by English rock band Oasis (vocalist Liam Gallagher pictured), released in August 1997. The album was highly anticipated by music critics and fans after the band's worldwide success with Definitely Maybe (1994) and (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995). Be Here Now became the United Kingdom's fastest selling album to date, selling over 350,000 units on the first day of release. Oasis' management company Ignition sought to control access to the album before its release to prevent overexposure, but its tactics resulted in the alienation of members of the media. Although initial reviews were positive, retrospectively the album is viewed by much of the music press and by most members of the band as over-indulgent and bloated. In 2007, Q magazine, having given it five stars on its release, said that it is often thought of as "a disastrous, overblown folly—the moment when Oasis, their judgement clouded by drugs and blanket adulation, ran aground on their own sky-high self-belief." The album's producer Owen Morris said of the recording sessions: "The only reason anyone was there was the money." (Full article...).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1520:

Citizens of Toledo, Castile, who were opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles V, rose up in revolt when the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros

1853:

The first passenger line of what would become Indian Railways, the state-owned railway company of India, opened between Bombay (now Mumbai) and Thane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Railways

1881:

Famed lawman Bat Masterson of the American Old West engaged in his last gun battle before later becoming a journalist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Masterson

1917:

Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin

1947:

American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War

2001:

India and Bangladesh began a five-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Indian%E2%80%93Bangladeshi_border_conflict

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heir apparent: (usually monarchy) Someone who will definitely inherit, assuming he survives the one from whom he is inheriting. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heir_apparent

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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.   --Anatole France https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France