Tickets went on sale at 9am on Saturday 11 May 1996 - the same day Manchester United beat Liverpool 1-0 in the FA Cup Final. 2.6 million people applied for tickets - which is reportedly 5% of the British population at the time. The band could have sold out the venue for two weeks solid.
Meanwhile, the support acts on the Sunday were The Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers, Kula Shaker, Cast and Dreadzone. The Charlatans had lost their keyboard player Rob Collins in a car accident three weeks earlier - Martin Duffy from Primal Scream stood in.
John Squire of The Stone Roses came on for the encore and guested on Champagne Supernova
Tickets were priced at a hefty (for those days) £22.50, but were soon changing hands for "15 times" their face value on the day, according to reports.