"On the way home Noel said he was going to join Liam's band and give him the songs he'd written," recalls music PR Alison Bell, who was there with Noel and his girlfriend of the time, Louise.
For him the ownership of the performing body by corporations and the choreographed flights of the ubiquitous pitchman Michael Jordan ("his reach defines the meaning of community in the television age," Mr. Pfeiffer has written) recalls the sterility of "Brave New World".
Hoping to convince her, Congreve wrote, "Recall to mind what happened last night.
"Words strung together without punctuation," she writes, "recall those murky murals Rolf Harris used to paint, where you kept tilting your head and wondering what it was.
"What she had was mine," he wrote, recalling her generosity.
"Lady Michelle has set the tone," she wrote, "recalling a jazzy version of Jackie O's wardrobe".
"It was a recipe for hyperaggression," Mr. Shrum writes, recalling one reason things went badly for Mr. Gore that day.
("My mom loved him right away," he wrote, recalling their first, chaperoned meeting when he was just 15).
Millions of people watching C-Span "fell out of seats laughing," Ms. Smith wrote, recalling the reaction to her anecdote.
("Around our house, marijuana was as common as pasta," Ms. Knox wrote, recalling that one of her roommates taught her how to roll a joint properly).
