When Oasis Broke the Record for Biggest Outdoor Concert in the UK

Oasis set a landmark U.K. outdoor-concert record with their two-night Knebworth Festival run on Aug. 10 and 11, 1996, drawing an estimated 250,000 people in total. The shows came after back-to-back chart-topping albums: 1994’s Definitely Maybe and 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, with hits such as “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger.” Tickets reportedly sold out within minutes after about 2.5 million applications. At the time, it was the biggest outdoor concert in U.K. history for a single act, later topped at the same site in 2003 by Robbie Williams’ roughly 375,000 attendance.