Originally Posted by
lardy
That was the thrust of the conclusion - should they have stopped? But at the time, this wasn't mentioned as an option by anyone. It wasn't even a thought.
Be Here Now was awful, and D'Ya Know What I Mean? had two mammoth guitar solos because Noel said they could get away with it. To an extent he was right, in some ways terribly wrong, but that was the mindset at the time. People asked if they could be bigger than the Beatles, or if they already were, not should they quit at the top.
That was the only bit of the documentary that I really questioned. I was amazed they had so much video footage from the pre-DM days.