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Jill Furmanovsky recalls 'Early in October 1996 fans found out that Oasis were recording in Abbey Road and the graffiti outside started showing Oasis content among the Beatles scribbles. I was photographing it when Liam arrived. He agreed to pose briefly outside the famous front door. It was as exciting for me as it was for them. I had been a huge Beatles fan as a teenager.'

Candid image of Roger Waters at Abbey Road Studios in June 1967 whilst Pink Floyd finished off recording their debut album 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'. The band started recording the album at Abbey Road in February 1967 and it was released in August by EMI Records. It was produced by Beatles engineer Norman Smith. Norman Smith recalled in a 2007 interview "My first job, obviously, was to form a friendship with them and, above all, to form a trust, being their producer,” Smith says. “So we’re sitting there chatting in the control room, getting to know one another. The control room door opens and in walks Paul McCartney. He wanted to meet the boys. He’d heard of them. And after a little chat with them, he comes across to me, puts his hand on my shoulder and he says to the Pink Floyd boys, ‘You won’t go wrong with this bloke as your producer.’ ”

Even though you can’t see Noel’s face everything about this picture says ‘Oasis’ to fans who had seen him playing the iconic guitar at Maine Road a few months earlier. Most of my best-known work is in black and white but this is a happy exception: Noel’s tartan shirt echoing the red, white and blue of the Union Jack and his arm making a satisfying ‘X’ shape with the guitar neck."

Jill Furmanovsky recalls "I was asked to shoot a band session at Abbey Road, about a month after the media furore that was going on at the time. The band had cancelled their American tour due to a major Noel/Liam row and the papers were saying that they’d split up. But they hadn’t, so we needed some shots to show that they were still a working unit. We were going to do the shoot outside the studios by the wall of graffiti but Noel said “We’re not going to be Japanese tourists.” So we used the interior where they were about to record anyway."

Noel Gallagher setting up before his Oasis gig at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in December 1994.

This image is available as a 20x16" silver gelatin print in an edition of 30. It is also available as a giclee print at sizes A1 or A0 from an edition of just 10. All prints are numbered, signed by Jill Furmanovsky and come with a certificate of authenticity.

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