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A quarter of a million rock fans are

counting the hours till the
Gallagher brothers take the stage.

Did you ever think it's
going to get this big?

Two million people
tried to get tickets, many

to see the band of the moment, Oasis.

In what's been called
the gig of the decade.

Liam would probably say, I thought
it was going to be bigger than that.

Oh, I want to be a big pop star.

I want to do loads of people's heads,

because you're going,
look at him, look at him.

They were one of the
biggest bands of the 1990s.

They deserve all the praise that we get

at the moment, because
they write the best songs.

Because we mean it.

We mean it, you know what I mean?

The most defining band
of the Britpop revolution.

You can take the Britpop,
stick it, just file it back into it.

It's fucking out, you can take it.

But as they became
legends, the two brothers'

rivalry threatened to stop the music.

So I was like, you know what?

I'm fucking out of here, you know?

And at that point, the tour manager
came in and just went, five minutes?

No, but if I wanted to be eight,
I'd be a priest or something.

Ambition, chaos, and a band
that has refused to fade away.

Sometimes things ain't going right.

A lot of things are going wrong.

Then you go for a pose where everything's
going right and nothing's going wrong.

So you've got to set
the roof with this move.

Or you've got to roll with it.

Some idiot want to say.

This is the story of Oasis.

Manchester, England.

It was here in the council estates of

Burnage that two brothers were
raised, Liam and his older brother Noel.

The family were working
class and their parents,

Peggy and Thomas, were Irish immigrants.

Their childhood was
turbulent and Noel would face

beatings from their
violent alcoholic father.

In 1982, when Noel was 15 and Liam
was 10, Peggy left Thomas to raise her

children as a single mother.

The boys' teenage years
were equally chaotic, with

both often getting in trouble
at school and with the police.

Noel would receive six
months probation at the

age of 14 for robbing a corner shop.

It would be during this
probation period that

he first began to play the guitar.

Liam, on the other hand, would not get

into music until he was 18, preferring
to spend his time playing football.

What do you remember of them as young men?

Well, they were just ordinary lads, really.

And people always said,
did they fight in your shop?

And the answer, of course, is no, because,

I mean, there's six years between them, so

they didn't play together, did they?

You know, so they came in separately and

they were just decent
lads, just decent lads.

Although life in their
hometown could be tough,

it was also the backdrop
of an electric music scene.

The Smiths,

the Stone Roses

and others used the grit of the
city to create music with impact.

In 1988, Liam and Noel
attended a Stone Roses gig.

Both brothers claimed that
the experience spurred them

towards the path of forming a band.

Noel would meet guitarist
Graham Lambert of Inspiral

Carpets during a Stone Roses show
and would become a roadie for the band.

Liam was invited by
school friend Paul Gwigsy

McGuigan to join his band The Rain as

a vocalist alongside guitarist
Paul Bonehead-Arthurs.

Noel returned from an
American tour with Inspiral

Carpets and attended
one of his brother's gigs.

Unimpressed, Noel joined the band.

He would take creative control of the
group and become its sole songwriter.

I joined Bonehead, Gwigs,
bass player, and Tony.

And like, we were really snide, we weren't

going nowhere, it was really crap.

And then we needed songs, our kid had

songs, but he was working all the time.

And when he come back and he found

out his younger brother had joined a band

doing a bit of singing, I weren't no good.

And like, he just thought, yeah, I can

make him a bit better
because I've got proper songs.

We wrote a few songs in the first
couple of weeks with, I think Liam was

writing the words, and
it just wasn't happening.

So I said, well, I'm going
to write all the songs.

We knew that given a bit of
time, we're getting the proper kind.

The songs will take it to where
we are, and it took it within a year.

Got together with these songs
and started getting our own sound.

And then you start thinking, it was like,

yeah, I can do something out of this

because it was sound that was
rocking, you know what I mean?

The band would tour as Oasis with a

sound that was straightforward and bold.

Their early career would
be inspired by legendary

bands like the Sex Pistols
and the Stone Roses.

Most of them were about escaping
and just having a good time.

Some of them were about being on
your own and not having a good time.

This is coming from wherever
they're coming from, I don't know.

Sort of, it's not, it's about, it's just

about, I mean, I don't know,
I don't really understand it.

I mean, I wrote them,
I don't understand it.

But people, I mean, they mean whatever they

mean to whoever's listening to them.

The combination of Liam's
voice and stage presence

with Noel's songwriting
earned them the attention of

Alan Magee of Creation Records.

They would be signed for a six-album

contract as Magee took
the tape to Sony America.

Oasis would then set off on a UK
tour to promote the release of their first

single, Supersonic.

♪ I need to be myself ♪

♪ I can’t be no one else ♪

♪ I’m feeling supersonic,
give me gin and tonic ♪

♪ You can have it all ♪

♪ But how much do you want it ♪

Supersonic was followed
by the release of singles

Shaker Maker and Live
Forever, with Live Forever

marking Oasis's first entry into the top 10

of the UK singles chart.

♪ I don’t really wanna know ♪

♪ How your garden grows ♪

♪ ‘Cause I just wanna fly ♪

♪ Lately, did you ever feel the pain ♪

♪ In the morning rain ♪

♪ As it soaks you to the bone? ♪

All three singles would
appear on their debut

album, Definitely Maybe, which
was released in August 1994.

The album was an immediate
commercial success, going

to number one in the UK albums
chart within a week of its release.

It became the
fastest-selling debut album in

British music history at the time.

We've been in this band for three
and a half years now, so I think, you

know, we've had three and a half years

of scumming it around,
doing whatever we've been

doing and being on the dole and
trying to keep the band together.

We deserve all the praise that we get

at the moment because we write
the best songs, because we mean it.

We mean it, you know what I mean?

The first year was hedonistic and messy.

You know, I mean, as soon as people

realise that the majority of people in this

country take drugs, then, I
mean, the better off we'll all be.

Oh, I want to be a big pop star.

I want to do loads of people's heads

because they're going, look at him, look at

him, how long, you know what I mean?

But I want it and I don't, I'm not
embarrassed about it, you know what I mean?

A lot of people get embarrassed about all

this success that they get, they go, oh,

I didn't really want it,
you know what I mean?

Of course you wanted
it, you know what I mean?

Because that's what
you go out for, you do it.

It doesn't matter whether you're in
a band or you're anything, whatever.

I want to be in space, man.

See, the rock and roll
lifestyle was invented

in the 70s by groups like
Led Zeppelin and stuff like that.

Probably come off that
stage and have a good time.

Keep busy, do whatever you do.

Liam especially became a
tabloid interest for his drug use.

And his supposed
loutish behaviour in public.

He was cocky and self-assured.

With their relentless tour
schedule, cracks had started to show.

Things got to a breaking point
at a show in West Hollywood.

A crystal meth fuelled Liam
insulted audience members

and threw his tambourine in
an incoherent mess of a show.

The incident caused Noel
to temporarily quit the band.

And although he would
eventually rejoin, the tone

had been set for the
tempestuous relationship that

would be a defining feature of Oasis.

The episode would
later inspire the track Talk

Tonight, which reflected a more
vulnerable side to Noel's songwriting.

The song's stripped-back,
acoustic-led sound would

be built upon for their next album and

become a feature of some of
the band's most enduring music.

As they began recording
for their second studio

album, the British
press started to report on

a rivalry between Oasis
and another band, Blur.

It would become known
as the Battle of Britpop.

Britpop was a cultural
and musical revolution.

A name given to the new wave of
British bands emerging in the early to mid

1990s.

The phenomena blended music,
fashion, music, and national pride.

Britpop-associated acts included
Pulp, Suede, Blur, and of course, Oasis.

However, Oasis would
ultimately reject the label.

What do you think about all
the talk about the Britpop thing?

It's flame of the year.

Britpop.

We're not Britpop.

The Universal lot, that's what
they are, we're not Britpop.

Because of their distinct
backgrounds and styles, Blur

and Oasis had started to
be pitted against each other.

It's a battle of the press,
yeah, it's all a press thing again.

We didn't start this band to get into
competition with some other band.

We started this band to be
Oasis, to be what we wanted to be.

The press are going to
paint a picture, aren’t they?

You know what I mean? You're
going to be either that or that.

And we're that, we're like
the bad boys, aren’t we?

You know what I mean?

It went beyond their
music and instead became

a clash of class, regional
identity, and artistic vision.

These are two groups, Oasis and Blur, who

actually formed on the
indie circuit, who have

grown more and more
popular through just playing

lots and lots of gigs around the country,

and who have now crossed right over to

the public at large, and they're
duking it out to see who is the biggest.

Oasis represented the
working-class northern spirit, while

Blur was a product of the more middle

class art school culture of
London and the South-East.

The personalities of the
band's members also fuelled

the rivalry, as Liam and Noel
took aim at Blur in interviews.

He's said a lot of things about my
group behind our backs, you know what I

mean, that we've heard about.

And they were insulting things.

And that's fine, that's fair enough.

If he's not got the bottle to say it to
our faces, then, you know, see you

later.

The rivalry would really come to a head

in 1995, when they released
singles on the same day.

Blur's Country House
and Oasis's Roll With It.

♪ You gotta roll with it ♪

♪ You gotta take your time ♪

♪ You gotta say what you say ♪

♪ Don’t let anybody get in your way ♪

♪ ‘Cause it’s all too much for me to take ♪

The media coined it the Battle of Britpop,

a chance for the bands to
fight for supremacy in the genre.

The rivalry between
Oasis and Blur is bitter,

not just commercially, but also personally.

Both groups actively dislike each other.

I'm a little nervous about the whole thing,

obviously, because I
think both bands have really

upped the stakes, and
someone's going to come

out on top, and someone's going to come

out second, and, you know, by the very

nature of being in a band,
you're always quite competitive.

And you want to come on top, really.

I've got nothing to
say to them and all, but,

apart from get your head together.

Stop letting your ego
getting the better of you.

In spite of their success at this year's

Brit Awards, Blur have never had a number

one single, even though their
album Parklife hit the top slot.

Oasis have gone one better with a top

single, some might say, and a number
one album entitled Definitely Maybe.

At record stores today, the
Oasis-Blur battle gathered pace.

Fans saw the battle as a way to
show their loyalty to one of the bands

or regions of Manchester or London.

Coming from London, that's
why I support them, really.

But I'm going to buy
Oasis' new single as well.

I'm going to buy both the Blur singles.

Are you going to go for
Oasis at all next week?

Why is that?

Because I'm a big Blur fan, I
want them to get to number one.

I think Oasis, definitely.

I think Oasis, because
they're a Manchester band,

and they're the best.

Blur would ultimately win
the battle, outselling Oasis'

single by about 50,000 copies.

There's only five people
who don't really think

about it too much, and that's
the five people in the band.

We just record music and put it out.

If people can buy it, they buy it.

If they don't, that's their prerogative.

We're not bothered about selling
more records than anybody else.

We couldn't care less about that.

We know we're the best band in
the country, and it's as simple as that.

The rivalry is remembered as one of the

most memorable periods
of British music history, and

propelled both bands
to international stardom.

Even though the battle of Britpop was over

in the charts, the personal spats
between the bands continued.

The release of What's The Story,
Morning Glory was a huge success.

Songs like Wonderwall and Don't Look
Back In Anger became instant classics.

♪ Like to say to you ♪

♪ But I don’t know how ♪

♪ Because maybe ♪

♪ You’re gonna be the one that saves me ♪

♪ And after all ♪

♪ You’re my wonderwall ♪

The album is often cited
as their magnum opus.

Is this album you've made
much better than your first album?

It's about five times as better as the

last one, but there's no point in asking

him here, I'm not going to say
it's shit, I'm not going to buy it.

It makes you think, makes you
happy, makes you cry, makes you...

it's just real, innit?

In the UK, the album spent 10 weeks

at number one and became the
second best-selling British album ever,

behind Sgt Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Critics praised its mix of
confidence and emotion.

It solidified Oasis as a symbol of working

class ambition, which
resonated with their army of fans.

Oasis played huge shows
back-to-back at Earls Court in London.

♪ So, Sally can wait ♪

♪ She knows it’s too
late as I’m walking on by ♪

Scene one, a band rehearses
in smoky rooms in King's Cross,

but this band has a string section, because

this band is Oasis, minus
singer Liam Gallagher.

Oasis albums have gone
double platinum, but they're

a band that have appeared out of nowhere.

Years ago, we were playing at a pub
called The Water Rats in King's Cross.

And just over a year ago, we
were playing in the Undra Club.

Scene two, Earls Court, empty of seats, is

filled with the sound of
preparations for a huge pop concert.

In little more than 24 hours, this vast,

echoing, cavernous
space at Earls Court will be

filled with 13,500 Oasis fans, 6,500

more will be up on the balconies for

the biggest ever indoor
concert in this country.

40,000 tickets for the weekend
gigs were sold out in two days.

The atmosphere will
definitely sort of soak up

through the building and everybody
should have a splendid concert.

And everyone's coming
to the splendid concert.

Who isn't coming, basically?

Tony Blair.

Tony Blair's coming, Madonna,
Alec Siggins, Georgie Best,

Oliver Reed.

Yeah, us two, even.

Famed for the Mancunian
design of soft southerners,

they actually have one, working with
drummer Alan White from Blackheath.

And they're training him.

You're bad. - Yeah.

Yeah. - I'm getting there.

We're trying to get him off the whelks

and the Jelly Deals or
onto some bloody fire mash.

And when you're as big as Oasis,
pre-gig nerves just don't figure, do they?

I'm more worried about this spot
that's developing on my chin here, man.

I'm more worried about that.

You wouldn't be human
if you weren't nervous.

I mean, of course I'd be nervous.

We'll be sort of sat on the side of
the stage about two minutes before we

go on and we'll be going...

Songs like Champagne
Supernova were well-received by

fans and critics alike.

♪ Where were you while
we were gettin’ high? ♪

♪ Someday you will find me
caught beneath the landslide ♪

♪ In a champagne supernova in the sky ♪

♪ Someday you will find me caught beneath ♪

They were playing bigger and bigger
crowds and toured across the US.

♪ Each other ♪

♪ We believe in one another ♪

♪ And I know we’re going to uncover ♪

♪ What’s sleepin’ in our soul ♪

♪ Because we need each other ♪

♪ We believe in one another ♪

♪ And I know we’re going to uncover ♪

♪ What’s sleepin’ in our soul ♪

♪ What’s sleepin’ in our soul ♪

I didn't know where I
was today when I got up.

No, I didn't have a clue where
I was or where I was yesterday.

I was doing an interview this morning with

someone and he said, where are you?

And I said, I haven't got
the faintest idea, mate.

I mean, you just look out
the window and it's like...

I mean, they all just look the same to me.

Michigan, Detroit, innit?

But, yeah, I know it's
bloody cold, I'll tell you that.

Well, it is.

♪ What’s sleepin’ in our soul ♪

♪ What’s sleepin’ in our soul ♪

♪ I don’t know what it is
that makes me feel alive ♪

♪ I don’t know how to wake
the things that sleep inside ♪

An Oasis live show was a loud
and raw, no-nonsense affair.

Their live performance
style, paired with the rowdy

crowd they attracted, made for a
series of unforgettable concerts.

♪ Go and tell it to the
man who cannot shine ♪

♪ Some might say that
we should never ponder ♪

In the summer of 1996, their rapid
rise to fame culminated in two iconic

shows at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire.

They performed to a record-breaking 125,000

people.

With nearly 5% of the UK population

applying for tickets to the sold-out gigs.

Final preparations are
being made for the arrival

of a quarter of a million rock fans

at Knebworth in
Hertfordshire for one of the

biggest ever open-air concerts in Britain.

Two million people
tried to get tickets, many

to see the band of the moment, Oasis.

And John Draper is there.

Oasis star Noel Gallagher,
here inspecting the stage,

says he can barely take in the
idea of playing in front of a quarter of

a million people.

But such is the scale of the success

of the Manchester band that
two million applied for tickets.

Gallagher and his brother Liam have
become the rock phenomenon of the 90s.

♪ Slip inside the eye of your mind ♪

♪ Don’t you know you might find ♪

♪ A better place to play? ♪

♪ You said that you’d never been ♪

♪ But all the things that you’ve seen ♪

♪ Gonna fade away ♪

We just stood on the stage, so we

don't have to comprehend what that
amount of people is going to look like.

As has been spoken about, I mean, it's

like after this gig, what
are we going to do next?

We can't do anything but do the biggest

gigs, so we can't play
anywhere bigger than this.

I mean, the only other thing would
be to come back in like, do a residency

at Elbeth or something, play every night of

the week from 8 till 11 or something
like that, but we're not going to do

that.

Did you ever think it
was going to get this big?

I'd be a liar if I said, yeah.

Liam would probably say, I thought
it was going to get bigger than that.

But I didn't think it was
going to get this big.

I didn't even, I didn't,
nobody thought that

one day we'd, you know, we'd have sold

10 million albums and we'd be
playing to 250,000 people over two days.

Anyone that said that,
they did believe that

to lie, because we didn't, we thought we'd

be, we thought we might play to like,

you know, I mean, we thought, you know,

when we done Earl's Court, which is 20

,000, it was like, you know, and they

were the biggest indoor
gigs ever in Europe,

so it was like, you know, we thought,

well, it's probably as
big as it's going to get.

And we did Main Road, which is 40

,000.

It was like, well, you know, and
then we'd, you know, it's 125,000.

It's just, I don't know where
it's going to go from here.

I'd probably play iPart next to something.

It seemed like nothing could stop Oasis.

They had never been
bigger or more successful.

But within the band, rivalries,
arguments and controversies

threatened to stop the party.

The relationship between
Noel and Liam was becoming

more rocky, with creative
disagreements and arguments about

personal issues.

These arguments played
out in the British media

and often during Oasis live shows.

There were rumours of an Oasis split when

Liam dropped out of their
1996 US tour last minute.

You know the story, it's in the papers.

That's what's going on.

You've got to move on, all right?

Nothing to say, that's what's going on.

Have you spoken to your brother, Liam?

How do you feel about not
being able to go to America?

Did you hear it?

No stories.

Oasis fans besiege the
North London home where

Liam Gallagher's hiding
out for a second day.

They got his autograph, but only a glimpse

of the reclusive star who bought in
the heavies to stop unwanted callers.

When he broke cover with an unusual wave

to the crowd, it was a fleeting
moment that left a small army of fans and

photographers even more puzzled
about laryngitis, house hunting,

psychotherapy, theories all
advanced in today's press.

Liam would end up joining
the band three days later.

Hey Liam, what do you want
to say to your fans in America?

Love ya.

But the tour was cancelled after two weeks.

People close to the
brothers would admit there

was a rift between them, but denied
any chance of the band breaking up.

They always have arguments,
you know what I mean?

So I wouldn't like, I mean, I
wouldn't look into it too much.

They had an argument in Los Angeles about

two years ago where Noel
went on a bit of a bender.

I think it split up then.

Their behaviour at the
moment is no different

to that which it was a year
ago when I was with them.

The difference is that the media are now

looking and are therefore
in a position to see.

By all accounts, they had a pretty violent

disagreement to cause this latest rift.

Are these based on jealousy or what?

I mean, is it a sort of a creative
tension or do they genuinely loathe each

other?

It's a standard sibling
relationship and as Liam

has said in the past, if they were

greengrocers, then they'd be
arguing about where the pears go.

The problem is that they are now in
a bubble, a goldfish bowl, and also the

boredom of touring for a rock and roll

band is what exacerbates the problem.

If you live in a bus with your brother
for 24 hours or a thousand mile

journey, you know,
something's going to go wrong.

Is there also a sense in which they're

conscious of being very
dependent on each other?

One of them's got the
creativity, the other's

got the sex appeal, if you like.

I should think that Noel
probably dislikes the

fact that he is tied to Liam
in any way whatsoever.

I think Liam is probably
less concerned about that.

After the stratospheric
success of their second album,

the pressure to surpass it also
added to tensions within the band.

Their third album, Be Here
Now, was released in 1997.

Preceded by the UK number one single, Do

You Know What I Mean?, the album was

their most anticipated
to date and became the

subject of considerable media attention.

♪ All my people right here, right now ♪

♪ D’You Know What I Mean? ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ All my people right here, right now ♪

♪ D’You Know What I Mean? ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ All my people right here ♪

Many critics labelled the
project as overindulgent, mirroring

the excess of the band's rock
and roll lifestyle at the time.

Despite the mixed reviews, Be Here Now was

the biggest selling album in the UK in

1997 and debuted at number
two on the Billboard 200 in the US.

Following the tour of the album, the group

kept a low profile as they were
subjected to much media criticism.

The release of Be Here Now is often
seen as the beginning of the end for

Oasis.

Noel has since spoken
in interviews about his

dislike of the album,
blaming their heavy drug

use at the time alongside
the immense pressure

following their previous successes.

As the new millennium
neared, Oasis returned to

the studio to record their
fourth album, Standing

on the Shoulders of Giants.

While the album included
moderately successful singles like

Go Let It Out and Who Feels Love,

this was not the same Oasis that had

packed out Knebworth
just a few years earlier.

During production, founding
members Bonehead and Gwigsy left

the group, which led to a significant shift

in the band's sound and dynamics.

Jem Arch had joined to take over Bonehead's

role and Andy Bell from the
band Ride stepped in for Gwigsy.

Despite these new additions,
Standing on the Shoulders

of Giants struggled to capture the
essence that fans had come to love.

However, the album
still managed to reach the

top of the UK album charts and the
band pressed on, determined to continue.

In the 2000s, the
Gallagher brothers were still

known for their wild
lifestyle, which included heavy

drinking, drug use and
headline-grabbing antics.

Their heavy drug use had started to put

more and more strain on the band's dynamic

and created a reputation
for unpredictability.

Throughout the 2000s,
despite the turbulent inter-band

relations, Oasis continued to release
music to varying levels of success.

2002 saw them release Heathen
Chemistry, which produced

hits like Stop Crying Your Heart Out.

Stop Crying Your Heart
Out received mostly positive

reviews, with some critics
comparing it favourably to

Don't Look Back in Anger.

Notably, the album also
included Songbird, penned by

Liam, marking the first
single not written by Noel.

It put them on steadier ground than their

previous album, but internal
tensions continued to simmer.

Noel, 120,000 tickets sold in four hours.

Even you must have been surprised by that.

Yeah, I was surprised, not shocked.

I think, you know, I didn't think it
would go that quick, but I knew we'd

sell them, but I didn't think we'd
do it in under four and a half hours.

Why do you think there is
still that interest in Oasis?

The best thing to do is to ask the fans,
because we really don't know, you know.

We're too busy wrapping
up the music, really.

I can answer the guess and say
that, you know, I see people at the gigs

who are 16, 17, 18, and we've been

going ten years, so we must soundtrack
their lives, you know what I mean?

So, I don't know what it is.

I suppose it's because
we're honest and because

we always try, we always try to be
true to ourselves and we don't fake it,

you know what I mean?

You also seem to be going through a

fairly creative phase
at the minute, and the

band seems to be very cohesive.

We don't read the stories in the
press any more than we used to.

Is that helping you creatively?

The reason why I don't read the stories

in the press is because, for want of

a better word, the entourage that we used

to be involved with are now no more,
and people used to pass on stories to

the press about us for their own
games, but all that's gone now and we run

a very little tight ship.

And you were saying
earlier that Liam's firing

on all cylinders, he's on four.

Yeah.

If anybody's coming here
who's seen him before,

I'll tell you right now, you're going to

see the best you've ever seen him ever.

He's just, his singing is just
amazing, it's blowing people away.

I mean, we're twice the band when
he's on the case anyway, you know.

Hello?

Don't Believe The Truth came next in 2005,

emerging as one of the band's
most successful albums of the decade.

Critics praised Don't
Believe The Truth as Oasis's

best album since What's
The Story Morning Glory.

The supporting tour covered
26 countries, 113 shows,

and drew over 3.2 million fans.

It was the band's smoothest and
most successful tour in a decade.

After the success of
Don't Believe The Truth

and its record-breaking
tour, the Gallagher brothers'

past relationships continued
to shape their public personas.

Liam's turbulent marriage
to Patsy Kensett had ended

years earlier, followed by a rocky
relationship with Nicole Appleton.

Meanwhile, Noel's first
marriage to Meg Matthews had

also dissolved in 2001,
though he later found

stability with Sarah MacDonald.

Their romantic relationships
were often just as chaotic

as their sibling rivalry and remain
a key part of the Oasis story.

Their final studio album
was released in 2008.

Dig Out Your Soul saw
backstage tensions between

Liam and Noel at an all-time high.

Our old relationship was never as
bad as people made out, you know.

But it wasn't like, you know, we weren't

like Milli Vanilli, do
you know what I mean?

Whatever that means, I don't know, but...

I assume they got on.

It kind of all started to unravel, if

I'm being honest, when
he started his clothing label.

And...

He...

demanded that in the
Oasis tour programme that

he be allowed to advertise it, which I

was against because I didn't think that it

was right for him to be
flogging his gear to our fans.

And there was a massive row about that.

And it kind of went back and
forward for a bit, as I remember it, and

in the end I said, all right, well,

if you want to advertise in
the programme, how much?

And he couldn't get his head around that.

It slowly went downhill from there.

However, the band would assure
fans that Oasis were going nowhere.

So, there's been a lot of rumours.

Bookie's saying that this
might be the last Oasis.

It's not.

Where does that come from?

I don't know.

People make comments all the
time about any stock in any of it.

So you can nail that
rumour on London tonight?

Yeah, we're never going to spoil.

You're going to end up
like the Rolling Stones?

Hopefully, yeah.

What's it like, Neil Young on the
stage, pushing 70 at Glastonbury?

You know, as long as people
want to see it, we'll do it.

Do you know what I mean?

And I think I speak
for the rest of the band.

We all really enjoy being in
the studio and making music.

In 2009, Oasis were due to appear at

V Festival in Chelmsford,
but dropped out last

minute due to Liam contracting laryngitis.

You know, he didn't turn up for the

V Festival gig because he had an hangover.

You know, he claimed he had
laryngitis, but whatever, you know.

And there was a lot of
bad press around that.

I think that was the problem.

All of a sudden, Noel sort of just

went, Whoa, whoa,
what's going on here, man?

You mean he's still drinking
and smoking and staying up?

He pulled out this billbook of like,
No, no, we've got to behave now.

Nah, that doesn't work.

Behaving and being in Oasis
is, you know, doesn't work.

I would not behave.

I'd get the gigs done, but I'd
certainly be having a crack.

That's what rock and
roll is about, isn't it?

Having a laugh.

Who wants to see people
walk on stage and behave?

That's not what it's about.

If I wanted to behave, I'd
be a priest or something.

Their tour had many more scheduled
dates, but Oasis wouldn't appear again.

They were due to play a show in

Paris a week after, but a backstage
altercation spelt the end for the band.

And it was quite violent.

At that point, there
hadn't been any physical

violence, but it was kind of, you know,

it's a bit like WWE wrestling, and he

was like the macho man Randy
Savage, do you know what I mean?

There was a lot of, ooh, yeah, and
all that gear going on, and it's like,

fucking hell, you know?

And he kind of storms out of the
dressing room, but on the way out, and

I'm glad it never ended like this,
but on the way out, he picked up a

plum, and he threw it across the dressing

room, and it smashed against the wall.

Now, part of me wishes it kind of

did end like that, because that would have

been a fucking great headline, you know?

Plum throws plum and finishes
fucking Oasis, do you know what I mean?

And so then he kind of leaves.

He goes out the dressing room, and for

whatever reason, he
went to his own dressing

room, and he came back wielding it like

an axe, and I'm not fucking kidding.

And I make light of it, because it's
kind of, you know, it's kind of what

I do, but it was just a real

unnecessary violent act,
and he's swinging this guitar

around, and he kind of...

You know, he nearly took
my face off with it, you know?

It sounds by all accounts like maybe it

wasn't as explosive an event back there in

that dressing room as the reality.

No, no.

It wasn't.

Not in my books it wasn't.

It wasn't.

But it obviously wasn't.

I just think he wanted out,
man, you know what I mean?

To be quite honest, I think he's probably

got a batch of songs that he doesn't

want his brother singing
or whatever, and he

wants to go down another road, but
that's cool, you know what I mean?

It was Noel who finally
decided to end the group.

I mean, there was people in the band

not saying anything, kind
of looking the other way.

It wasn't even a big dressing
room, do you know what I mean?

We were all involved in it, and
nobody was saying anything.

So I was like, you know what?

I'm fucking out of here, you know?

And at that point, the tour manager
came in and just went, five minutes.

I kind of got in the car, and I
sat there for five minutes, and I

just said, fuck it, that's it.

I can't do it anymore, you know?

And there you go.

And it's a shame because I
was comfortable in that band.

I'd perfected that role of that guy who

just stood on the right and played the

lead guitar and done backing
vocals and sang the acoustic.

I fucking mastered that.

It took me 18 years.

It took me to fucking get that
right, and I was brilliant at it.

And if anybody came to the last tour,

you'll know, I mean, I was fucking great.

But at the end of the day, he's
obviously not, he doesn't like me, but he

doesn't like me in a violent way.

I don't get on with him,
you know what I mean?

But he kind of takes it to a level
that's, for me, there's no point in

being in a band with people you fight with.

What's the point?

Just go on and do bigger tours and

make more fucking money and
just always be arguing about shit.

It's just nonsense.

So I kind of did everybody a favour.

See him at the football
every now and again.

And that's it. Don't see him on
the streets, you know what I mean?

I don't really got... He doesn't
move in the circles that I move in.

I see my mum when I
see her, regardless of him.

If he's there, he's there, but he's
not there when I see her or when she

comes down to me.

I don't want the band to get back together.

We shouldn't have split
up, you know what I mean?

There was no big deal,
you know what I mean?

He's making out as if I've stabbed
one of his cats or slapped one of his

kids or, dare I say it, tried it on with
his missus, you know what I mean?

It's like, leave it out, mate.

It's like we had a little argument, you

know what I mean, about
things, you know what I mean?

It wasn't just... We've always
argued, you know what I mean?

So I just think he wanted
out, you know what I mean?

And he wanted to make me the
scapegoat, you know what I mean?

He obviously wasn't
getting enough attention.

He just wanted it all for
himself, you know what I mean?

Although it appeared Oasis
was finished, their musical

legacy continued to influence the scene.

Bands like The Killers
and Coldplay have often

cited Oasis as a key inspiration.

Following the dissolution of
Oasis, both brothers pursued

solo ventures, though neither
arguably reached the heights

of success achieved by the band.

Well, it's me and it's Gem and it's Andy.

We've got a new bass player who's mega.

We've got the old drummer, Chris Sharrock.

We've got the old keyboard player.

We're sort of going through
the mill about getting new names.

Nothing's sticking.

So we've sort of drawn the
line on the names at the moment.

Obviously, people are
always going to go, yeah,

we're still Oasis, but
it's not Oasis anymore.

Life's too short to be...

about with what people think.

We'll see what happens,
you know what I mean?

When the record's done, we're
concentrating on the music at the moment.

Liam continued with the other
band members in a group called BDI.

The group released two
albums before disbanding in 2014.

Liam would then launch a solo career.

People are asking me about what I'm doing.

I'm telling them how it is.

And I'm telling them, people are asking me

about, no, I'm not going to not shut up
and go, you can't speak about your brother.

He's my brother, you know what I mean?

And people forget that
he's been speaking about

me in recent things, and they just think

that I'm the one who's blabbing
it, you know what I mean?

But he's doing his thing.

We're doing our thing.

I wish them all the best.

Don't release it the same day
as us, because we'll have you.

And I'm feeling really confident
about that, you know what I mean?

But I don't wish it on him.

He's my brother, you know what I mean?

I love him to death.

Noel would form the
band Noel Gallagher's High

Flying Birds in 2010, which
would act as his solo project.

For the next 15 years, Liam and
Noel had virtually no relationship.

In January 2024, Liam
revealed he hadn't even

spoken to his brother
since the 2009 confrontation.

This revelation made what would
happen next even more surprising.

Me and him are like telepathic,
you know what I mean?

I know my brother better than anybody else.

When both come together, love, greatness.

Liam and Noel shocked fans in late August

of 2024 when they announced an Oasis 2025

stadium tour.

I kind of teach my kids, like, this

is a massive, massive thing, Oasis
getting back together after 15 years.

I think it's pretty overwhelming
for people, actually.

I think they're a bit shocked.

Oh, I'm buzzing.

Yeah, can't wait.

And suddenly, the Oasis cultural
phenomena last seen in the 90s was back.

Words can't explain how I'm feeling.

Feeling a feeling of dread that I won't

get a ticket, feeling of excitement if I

do get a ticket, a feeling of anticipation,

thinking, oh my goodness.

Demand for the tickets was astronomical.

Spent my whole life, like, listening to my

dad telling stories of Oasis and Oasis gigs

and thinking, oh my God, what I'd do

to live through that and this happening.

It's just, like, I found
out and I was in tears.

I've cried about five
times already about it.

The announcement of the
Oasis reunion has brought

together generations young
and old, proving that after

all the chaos, the music
was always worth the wait.

It's a great ongoing soap opera, isn't it?

It's a nice conclusion
to a great story, isn't it?

One of the great British
rock and roll stories.