Ted Kessler was on the staff at NME between 1993 and 2003 before joining Q magazine's staff, working there for sixteen years, four of those as editor. He is the author of the memoir Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misdemeanours and To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized Biography of Billy Childish. He also devised and edited My Old Man: Tales of Our Fathers. Hamish MacBain worked at NME from 2004 to 2010, where he had a front-row seat to the break-up of Oasis. With Noel Gallagher, he co-authored the 2018 book Any Road Will Get Us There (If We Don't Know Where We're Going). His sleevenotes for the reissue of Be Here Now were blown up to 8x8-inch size to form part of the Chasing the Sun: 1993-1997 Oasis exhibition.
Whether you’re a super fan or Oasis novice, this book is essential reading. Hamish and Ted have had front row tickets to the Oasis story from the very beginning. There’s no one who knows more about the band, the music and its impact than these two. -- <b>Mat Whitecross, director of <i>Oasis: Supersonic</i></b> Whatever Hamish and Ted know about the songs that have played a key part in my life I want to know. We all do. I can't wait to get stuck in. -- <b>Emma Barnett</b>