T he 2020s have seen many individual pop artists make it big: Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Sabrina Carpenter, Harry Styles. But the charts are not full of bands the way they used to be. Is the era of the all-conquering group that puts its stamp on popular culture (Abba, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles) over, never to return? Dominique Perrault, Cannes

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Oasis. Thirdhandluke

Maybe not, but Oasis fandom is giving it a damn good try. dfic1999

I’m not sure how best to measure the “cultural significance” of bands. If you go on pure sales then you’d have to include bands like the Eagles, and I doubt many in the UK would call them culturally significant – just as we might not consider the cultural significance of country music. Maybe the amount of breakthrough into everyday news? I think we know as much about the relationship between the Gallaghers as we did about Lennon and McCartney. Famous marriages help – Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow?…