Was There Then

"'I was caught up in the excitement of it all,' Lester says. 'I'm so sorry to everybody for that review, but the enormity of it was captivating. We were reviewing a moment in history and staking our part in it. It was like seeing the great behemoth of a spaceship in Close Encounters. You felt awed into submission.'
"'You want the record to be good because you're into the band,' says Hopkins. 'And you want it to be good because that means it's going to sell well and that's going to help the magazines sell well. But I was surprised that there wasn't a dissenting voice. When a band gets to that level, there's always someone who says, 'Hold on a minute,' but there wasn't [for Oasis].'"

In a 2016 Guardian article, Dorian Lynskey revisits 1997's Be Here Now.