Ever since Oasis announced their 2025 reunion tour, fans of the Britpop band have been over the moon about the same. Ending their 15-year-long beef, brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher are set to perform together again and given their massive musical influence in Europe, Oasis is likely to make music history with ticket sales. However, when it comes to dramatic comebacks, they are not the first band to do so. With their recent announcement, Oasis joins the elite company of musical groups like The Police and Led Zeppelin, who previously pulled off similar feats. Ahead of Oasis’s historic return, let’s look at the bands who have had some of the biggest reunion tours in the history of music.
Social media has been abuzz with news of Oasis’ reunion. While many are concerned about scoring tickets for the gigs, ardent fans of the group are also interestingly reviving the 90s ‘mod cut’ — an Oasis-inspired hairstyle to celebrate the news.
Oasis is all set to embark on their Reunion Tour next summer. They are scheduled to play 17 gigs spread across Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, starting at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on July 4. The Wonderwall hitmakers recently added three more shows to their original schedule as fans clamoured to get their hands on tickets. The mere news of the band’s reunion has also given a push to their streaming stats, which according to Billboard have quadrupled following the announcement.
Before Oasis returns to the stage, here’s a look at the other biggest band reunion tours that have achieved great success.
Creative differences and high-flying egos have led several bands to part ways, but in the case of The Eagles, it was a particularly ugly spat that transpired on stage which led to their breakup. The beloved band of the 70s broke up in 1980, after two of the band members threatened physical violence onstage in the presence of their concert audience.
In the race to recreate the success of their career-defining 1976 album Hotel California, tensions arose between singer-guitarist Glenn Frey and guitarist Don Felder. It all came to a head on July 31 1980, when the group was performing at Long Beach, California.
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