Oasis and Wembley Stadium go way back. The iconic football stadium in northwest London is, for many, the pinnacle of an artist's career. Everyone from Taylor Swift to Michael Jackson have dominated the 90,000-capacity ground. Come late August, Coldplay will hold the record with 16 sold-out shows.

I was slightly hoping, from a purely critical point of view, that the eighth concert of Oasis’s much-hyped reunion tour – and their first of seven shows at London’s Wembley Stadium – might somehow deviate from the raucous joy-filled carnival of the first seven.

Oasis dedicated one of their songs to the late Ozzy Osbourne during their Wembley Stadium gig on Friday night. It was the band’s first of seven dates in London as part of their world tour, with five shows over the next week and two more scheduled in September. Towards the end of the gig, they paid tribute to Osbourne.