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MUSIC: "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy

# Guess who just got back today?

# Them wild-eyed boys that had been away

# Haven't changed hadn't much to say

# But man, I still think them cats are crazy

# They were asking if you were around

# How you was where you could be found

# Told them you were living down town

# Driving all the old men crazy

# The boys are back in town The boys are back in town

# The boys are back in town Boys are back in town... #

We've had time off and other bands have been hogging the limelight.

It's like us coming back and saying, "Right, move over now.

"The big boys are back."

We were tired, yeah. We were knackered.

We needed to sit down and think about what was going on.

Check out what they think of us. And what I really think of myself.

It was nice to have that time off. It was good.

It was like a little bit of a prison sentence.

And now we're all fit and mad for it.

Now everyone's gonna get it. Again.

# Wash your face in the morning sun

# Flash your pan at the song that I'm singing

# Touch down bass living on the run

# Make no sweat

of the song that you're digging

# So wrap up cold when it's warm outside

# Your shit jokes remind me of Digsy's

# Be my magic carpet ride

# Fly me down to capital city in the sun

# Been kickin' up a storm

# From the day that I was born

# Sing a song to me

# One from Let It Be

# Open up your eyes Get a grip on yourself inside

# So wash your face in the morning sun

# Flash your pan at the song that I'm singing

# Touch down base living on the run

# I'll make no sweat of the hole that you're digging

# Been kicking up a storm

# From the day that I was born

# Sing a song to me one from Let It Be

# Open up your eyes get a grip on yourself inside

# Inside

# Get a grip inside

# Inside

# Come on, come on

# Come on, come on

# Come on, come on, come on

# Yeah, yeah, yeah... #

< It's all right, innit?

Eh? You've not been here before?

But you've never been here for other than professional purposes!

MUSIC: Live introduction to "Some Might Say"

I don't think we'll ever better them gigs. It's the atmosphere.

# Some might say

# That sunshine follows thunder

# Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine... #

When we played the gig, the dressing rooms were up there.

Mine was number 25, there.

Alan's was 26, Guigsy's was 27. And our Liam had the rest of them.

He had five, for all his different personalities he went through on that particular day!

# ..Brighter day

# Some might say

# We will find a brighter day

# Yeah... #

Our families sat in boxes. They didn't have to sit in the crowd.

And it was at Maine Road. That is actually...

When you sit down and think about things like that, it's like...

REPORTER: After playing to thousands of British fans,

mega-band Oasis were off to delight the Americans,

until lead singer and heart-throb Liam Gallagher

got off the plane to move house.

I never let the band down.

I didn't have an 'ouse to live in for a start.

I was living in hotels in America. I was going to live in another one.

You need a home.

Is Mr Gallagher there, please?

Who is it? Is that Liam? Yes. It's Jeremy Vine from Newsnight.

How are you? I'm ****ing sound. Are you coming out?

Am I **ck. It's raining. What about Chicago?

Hello, Liam?

CLICK

REPORTER: What about the rumours of a break-up?

Breaking down's better.

Breaking down, then. >

Break down.

# ..We will find a brighter day...

There is speculation that abandoning Oasis' US tour

was a prelude to break-up.

He wouldn't answer questions.

It was a never-ending circle of work.

Everyone wanted the maximum out of Morning Glory before we imploded.

Yeah, I think...

three years, without a break of more than a week, ten days...

That was constantly touring or recording.

I said, "If this is what it is,

"I'm not gonna be in a band."

And everybody said let's do one record and then see what happens.

So I agreed to do the record.

So we rented a big farmhouse out in Surrey and all went there.

It was just all the lads together. Just got pissed for two days.

And we'd just sit up all night and record and play music.

We decided to carry on, get back into it.

Every time we were coming in to record, I was followed by four cars,

outside my house, waiting for me.

If they choose to follow me, that's fine.

But as soon as I get in here, I'm back with the boys.

They can't come in.

They just fizzle away.

Something that came out of going away is that we know we're doing this

for the right reasons - we want to. We don't need to be in a band.

We don't need to go on world tours and all that hassle.

We're doing it now because we want to.

# Coming in out of nowhere

# Singing rhapsody

# You gotta be bad enough to wanna be

# Sitting outside a high chair

# The devil's refugee

# Gonna be blinded by the light. #

BONEHEAD: Personally, I think it's the best thing we've done.

We're not fazed by a great big place like Air Studios and all the equipment and whatever.

We just walk in and do it. But Noel's songwriting,

it's just improved, like, 110% to me,

from what he was writing in the past.

And we're playing better. More confident, whatever.

We wanted to make an out-and-out rock'n'roll record.

There's a few ballads on there.

But it's all guitar-based.

There's about 50 separate guitar parts on every track.

INAUDIBLE

It was like a new band. We were doing a new album.

There was no pressure about when to start or finish.

It was just going in there and going, "Right." You know?

We felt a bit like everyone had written us off,

with the drugs and everything.

This is probably the most important album of our career.

This is the one that's either going to send us up

to U2, um, sort of levels,

or it's going to, you know, see us back on the dole!

Are you going to do this fucking thing?!

We'll try and do the, um...

You're putting us under bad pressure, here! Heroes. Heroes.

Cloudburst! I bet you can't play that! Go on, then.

20 quid says you can't play it!

Nothing better than the best album of 1997 is good enough for us.

We want to blow every other band into oblivion. Simple as that.

We still do, you know? Still want to eclipse every single musician in this country.

Because we want to. Because we can. Because we're the best.

Come up... Shut up!

Get a lager in!

# Step off the train all alone at dawn

# Back into the hole where I was born

# Sun in the sky never raised an eye to me

# Blood on the tracks must be mine

# Fool on the hill and I feel fine

# Don't look back cos you know what you might see... #

Coming overhead.

Quite low...

< Everybody make sure

everything's tied down.

< Otherwise it will blow away.

# I met my maker I made him cry

# And on my shoulder he asked me why

# His people won't fly through the storm

# I said, listen up, man They don't even know you're born

# All my people right here, right now

# D'you know what I mean?

# All my people right here right now

# D'you know what I mean..? #

NOISE OF HELICOPTERS DROWNS SPEECH

Tell him, Jan. ..right off.

Just making sure everything's all right. Don't want to be in the way...

# ..mean? Yeah, yeah... #

ROARING OF GUITARS AND HELICOPTERS

GENERAL CHATTER

The reason the majority of people like my band

is because we are like the majority.

We still go to football matches and the pub.

We do get nicked and busted and stuff, like everybody else.

We're still outspoken and we still don't give a shit.

I won't say we're the voice of a generation, but we're definitely...

We'd be leading the march. If there was anywhere to march to, we'd be at the front.

Singing.

I think rock'n'roll's about a lifestyle.

It's gotta be, hasn't it? Nobody wants a goody-goody boy.

It wouldn't work. The songs wouldn't work. You wouldn't get that anger out in a song.

You gotta live it, haven't you?

Gotta have a good time. Even the guy in the butcher - he could be rock'n'roll.

Guy in a butcher's. Know what I mean?

HUM OF CONVERSATION

Not really. Not unless you fancy The Boardwalk tonight...

for a venue, or something.

I just live my life the way I want to live it.

I have fun. Everyone has their fair share of fun.

I'm sure you have your fair share of fun. You look as if you do.

Gotta have fun, haven't you?

How the fuck could I not have fun -

24 years old, in the biggest

rock'n'roll band in the world?

Not the biggest. The most important rock'n'roll band.

How could I not have fun? I'm 24, got a load of money.

Sit at home and clip me pissing toe nails? Got to go out and have it.

You'd have it, wouldn't you? Come on!

He's beyond protection, that lad.

If you tell Liam not to put his head in a fire, he will.

If you advise him not to do summat he's gonna go and do it.

You've gotta let him get on with it.

They pick on him because he punches photographers in the face.

I look at this logically.

I don't like having my photo taken when I'm out, but if you smack a News of the World photographer

his editor will say, "Right, we'll have that bastard."

But he can handle it - he says he can, anyway.

But he courts it more than anyone.

# You'll never forget my name

# You'll never forget my name. #

It's strange. I don't get it. I'm fortunate.

Guigs and Alan don't get it, not on the scale Liam and Noel get it.

But it's weird when you read the paper and they tell you what Liam had last night for dinner -

he had a Chinese takeaway but Patsy had an Indian.

# Gonna miss you... #

LAUGHTER

Liam has pressure from what he does - people camping on his door.

You have to be strong to handle it.

Noel - way-hay!

I was there last night. It was good? Yeah.

I thought, "Where's it at anyway?"

Mansun were shite.

I'm not an 'ooligan. I don't go round picking fights with people.

I just like to get on with me own business.

But the way I'm portrayed it's like,

"He wants a fight 24 hours a day." And I don't.

I don't wanna fight.

Leave me alone.

# Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday

# I've got a lot of things to learn

# Said I would and I'll be leaving one day

# Before my heart starts to burn

# So what's the matter with you?

# Sing me something new

# Don't you know? The cold and wind and rain don't know

# They only seem to come and go away

# Stand by me

# And nobody kno-ows

# The way it's gonna be-e

# Stand by me

# And nobody kno-ows

# The way it's gonna be-e

# Stand by me

# And nobody kno-ows

# Nobody kno-ows

# Nobody kno-ows

# Yeah, nobody kno-ows

# The way it's gonna be

# If you're leaving will you take me with you?

# I'm tired of talking on my phone

# If there is one thing I can never give you

# My heart can never be your home

# So what's the matter with you?

# Sing me something new

# Don't you know? The cold and wind

and rain don't know

# They only seem to come and go away

# Stand by me

# Nobody kno-ows

# The way it's gonna be-e

# Stand by me

# Nobody kno-ows

# The way it's gonna be-e

# Stand by me

# Nobody kno-ows

# Nobody kno-ows

# Yeah, nobody kno-ows

Yeah, nobody knows

# The way it's gonna be-e

# The way it's gonna be-e, yeah

# Maybe I can see, yeah

# Don't you know? The cold and wind

and rain don't know

# They only seem to come and go awa-ay

# Ye-e-eah

# Stand by me

# Nobody kno-ows

# The way it's gonna be-e

# Stand by me

# Nobody kno-ows

Nobody kno-ows

# Yeah, nobody kno-ows

# Nobody kno-ows

# The way it's gonna be. #

COMMENTATOR: Summerbee clear.

Summerbee!

All the atmosphere's gone out of this ground. When I started coming, there was about 85,000 then.

This used to be the old Kippax stand, which was the largest stand in England.

It was the last one to be knocked down as well.

Right on this corner here was where, I do believe, I watched my first Man City game from.

About halfway up the top.

And it was 1971.

Those were the good old days.

Showing off now!

There was a ledge there where dads used to plonk their sons then go on the piss down the bar here.

Then just leave their sons there. THEY LAUGH

We went to away matches regularly, didn't we? Yeah. In the mid '80s.

I think there was one season when we went to every single game. I'm still proud of that.

About 50-odd games.

There was about 20 of us. They're probably watching this,

Tatey and them lot. How you doin'?

If I wasn't doing what I'm doing now I'd probably have hopes of being a footballer.

But that's all there is round these parts, really.

If you can't play guitar or football there's not a lot else to get into if you're not academically educated.

Everyone gets told they're worthless, don't they?

You've got to prove it, haven't ya?

No-one gives you a chance in this world. There's always some knob trying to put you down.

Until the day you fucking die, someone will think you're a dick.

You've gotta sort your own world out and maybe one day they'll sit up and listen.

Cos you've gotta go out and do it for yourself, haven't you?

You ain't got Daddy feeding your pockets all the time and Mummy...

You've gotta go out and do it yourself.

I think it's easier, well...

I won't say easier but, you know...

..it gives you a sense of um...

I'm not good with words, but it gives you that... Come on! I've gotta do something for meself.

Even when you see your careers officer, you know,

our Liam told him he wanted to be a pop star and he said, "No.

"Thou shalt work at Ford or McVitie's."

He said, "I said I want to be a pop star." And he kicked him out.

I said, "A rock 'n' roll star." He said, "You can't." I said, "Right, a lumberjack, then."

I went three months later and said, "Can I sign off?" "Why?"

"Cos I'm a rock 'n' roll star. I've got a six-album deal."

# Get on the rollercoaster

# Fair's in town today

# You gotta be bad enough to beat the brave

# So get on the helter-skelter

# Bone into the fray

# You gotta be bad enough to beat the brave

# If they'd been here... #

Hiya.

Ta-ta.

A drunk man.

Just do a right.