As the sun set over Heaton Park last night, the darkness enveloping the stage, and the final chords of Champagne Supernova rang out across the Papal Field, the night sky suddenly became alive as a stunning firework display closed out night one of Oasis in Manchester.

Jeff Lynne’s boundless appetite for creating music was born when he was out with his dad in their home town of Birmingham in the 1950s. Walking its streets, the pair happened upon not a guitar or a piano, but a piece of industrial hardware.