Gallagher Brothers' Childhood Home — Burnage, Manchester

Burnage is a quiet south Manchester suburb where Liam and Noel Gallagher grew up in a council house with their mother Peggy and their often-absent Irish father Tommy. The Gallaghers' childhood in Burnage — working-class, Irish-Catholic in background, Manchester City supporters in a city divided between blue and red — was the formative experience that gave Oasis both its chip-on-the-shoulder ambition and its fierce sense of local identity. Noel Gallagher, the primary songwriter, has spoken repeatedly about the experience of growing up in Burnage, listening to the Beatles and the Stone Roses on cheap hi-fi equipment, and wanting more than the suburb seemed to offer.

Oasis formed in Manchester in 1991 and within four years had become the biggest band in Britain — headlining Knebworth in August 1996 for 250,000 people across two nights, the largest ticketed concerts in UK history. Their sound drew explicitly on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Sex Pistols, filtered through the confidence of working-class Manchester and the chemical enthusiasm of the Madchester era. Their relationship to Manchester — and to the specific suburban texture of Burnage, Didsbury, and the surrounding south Manchester communities — was central to their identity and their mythology.

The Burnage house where the Gallaghers grew up is a private residence. The surrounding area of south Manchester is not a formally developed heritage zone, though fans occasionally seek out the relevant addresses. The Boardwalk venue in Sheffield (where Oasis reportedly played their first concert outside Manchester), the Mancunian pubs where they drank, and the neighbourhoods of their childhoods are documented in numerous books and documentaries. Manchester's Britpop-era music scene is well served by heritage walking tours.