Oasis waited longer than Blur to reform, but less than The Stooges or The Zombies

Fifteen years have passed between the break-up of the band Oasis, in the middle of the Rock en Seine festival in Paris in 2009, and the announcement of their reformation by Liam and Noel Gallagher, on August 27. The two brothers from Manchester, now aged 51 and 57, have planned to organize a series of concerts in the United Kingdom and Ireland during the summer of 2025, even considering a larger tour and “other continents”.

This is certainly not the first example of a legendary group reforming; nor is it the latest. For example, the members of the Stooges, Iggy Pop’s group, split up in 1974 and got back together in 2003, twenty-nine years later.

Among Anglo-Saxon music groups, many have waited more than fifteen years to reform: The Who, The Police, Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, for example.

In the Britpop universe, the Mancunian brothers of Oasis have waited longer than the Londoners of Blur (separated from 2003 to 2009 then from 2015 to 2023, fourteen years) or than Pulp, the group of Jarvis Cocker (originally from Sheffield), separated for nine years, from 2002 to 2011.