Is It Worth the Aggravation?

Oasis’s reunification this week is the latest development in Britpop’s long afterlife, its leading lights continuing to carve out careers in the music industry well after the 1990s ended.

Liam (left) and Noel Gallagher on stage at the V Festival in 2009, in what was Oasis’s last show before their fallout led to the band’s split (Mark Prosch/Getty).

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