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[electronic music]

- ♪ MTV ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

[helicopter whirring]

- As far as I'm concerned, rock and roll has been done.

It's been completed.

You fuck with it at your own peril.

I don't want to be a dunce. I don't want to make a fusion

of fucking jazz with this or that.

Fuck that. I'll leave that to the bellends.

I just want to get on that fucking stage

like a caged animal.

I just want to fucking save all the energy

and get on there and just fucking let rip,

you know what I mean?

I mean, I can be an arrogant cunt when I want to be,

but I ain't stupid.

I might look it some days, but I ain't.

No, I didn't think that I would ever get back

to doing that. I didn't think we'd ever get

back to doing fucking arenas.

So I try and just steer clear of every cunt.

"Oh, you look nice." Fuck off.

"Oh, you wearing that--" Get out.

Even me kids are like, "How's it going?"

You know how it's fucking going.

Are you having a laugh?

I don't think a boxer wants a massage,

you know what I mean, before he goes in.

He just wants to go in there

and rip his fucking opponent's head off.

And people might think that's rude,

but I'm not one of them that's gonna start rubbin' it

for about an hour before we go on

because the voice is precious.

So yeah, it's just full of comedians, basically.

Try a dose of the comedians before you go on.

[cheering]

And then when you come off stage for the second night,

it's like, all right, you smart ass cunts,

you want to know what's going on?

Check this shit out.

[Liam Gallagher's "Diamond in the Dark"]

♪ ♪

- Bonjour.

- Bonjour, mate.

So dude, listen, here's why I'm ringing, right?

There's a massive rumor... - Oh, yeah.

- That there's going to be an announcement this morning.

- All right. - I thought I'd just go

straight to the lege himself and just go,

"What's--" - Yeah.

- What's the crack with it? - Well, the crack is

next year I'm gonna be playing Knebworth.

This is history part two, mate.

So yeah, it's gonna be mega.

- As a music fan, you know

that you still have Knebworth--

E Street, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Oasis.

- Mick Jagger wouldn't be able to do this on his own.

Bono wouldn't be able to do this on his own.

Fuckin' Robert Plant wouldn't be able to do this on his own.

I don't think-- maybe Freddie Mercury might be,

but he's not here, is he?

- Liam Gallagher, Knebworth, don't understand it, mate,

because his voice,

it ain't gonna carry at Knebworth.

- Yeah, I was a bit skeptical at first

when I heard he was doing it.

Because it's a ballsy move. He could have nosedived.

- I think about that midnight, as it was pinnacle.

And this has come off the back

of what the fuck is it all about?

- It was shit when I didn't have money.

And even though I've got a few quid now,

I look around and it's still fucking shit.

- I guess a show like Knebworth has

got all sorts of functions.

- Although we've had a shit, weird time,

we bring people together.

And that's the important thing.

- I think it's gonna be 80,000 people

in a field at Knebworth absolutely going for it,

you know, going mental.

- I don't know, I'm obviously lucky, you know what I mean.

But I fucking mean it, man,

I've been a good servant to rock and roll.

You know, the people obviously want it, you know what I mean?

So they're gonna get it. Simple as that, man.

[Liam Gallagher's "Be Still"]

♪ ♪

- I'm a rock and roll star from Japan.

- Our whole lives consist around Liam and Oasis.

- It's like a vibration what resonates

and I can compute it inside my soul.

- And that's why I love them because

they give me that hope.

- Really, it makes me feel like nothing

else does in this life.

- Improved state of mind just like that.

- Liam and his music has gotten

me through really bad times.

It probably saved my life when I been at my lowest.

- As a young gay boy, Oasis gave me

the opportunity to have that common ground

with my male pals at school.

- He's always just staying true to his sound.

And he's like, "Jog on, mate,

you're not gonna affect my life."

- I would give Liam credit for one year of sobriety.

- We share the same birthday.

Virgos are misunderstood.

- I've seen Liam eight times.

One of those times I did get bottled.

- And then church-- I'm a minister in York.

I've got the poster on me wall

next to me Bibles and everything.

- And I've got even, like, a "Live Forever" tattoo

on my shoulder.

- Oasis tattoo there.

- I've actually got him tattooed on my leg.

- Knebworth '96. The ticket just to prove it.

- I cancelled my honeymoon to Jamaica

just to go see him in Knebworth.

- I'm selling my body on the street

just to get a fucking ticket to Knebworth.

- I spent all my savings to attend.

- My boss might get mad at me, like,

"He had the time of his life instead of working."

But fuck him.

- I'm bursting with spiritual enthusiasm.

- This is a dream, to be on something so big, so huge.

- I'm proud to be a super fan.

- Rock and roll. - Rock and roll.

- [indistinct] you know.

- This is history!

- This is history! - History!

[both laugh]

[triangle clinking]

- Beautiful.

I don't remember that actually at all.

Oh, Knebworth Lane, nice.

Well, can you walk around that or what?

Is it open in public or is it-- - Yes.

- That's actually his house.

Does someone live in it?

Do you know?

- You don't remember that from last time?

- I don't, unfortunately, no.

I've never seen it in my fucking life.

- It's a shame you're not staying

in there for the night. - Oh, I know, yeah.

We're staying at [indistinct]. It's bigger.

I would have never have thought of doing it,

you know what I mean,

because it's fucking huge and all that.

But the fans wanted it.

They wanted it with Oasis.

He obviously doesn't want to do it.

So they're gonna have to just, you know,

do with me, you know what I mean?

And we'll--and I'll fucking bring it.

It's gonna be amazing.

I hope the weather stays nice.

Not too hot and that.

Because everyone starts fucking having crispies and that.

But as long as the sun is shining, it'll be great.

- Knebworth has this reputation

as the home of rock, I suppose.

- It's one of those venues that has been around

since the '60s. You know, huge iconic status,

you know, huge history.

- It's one of those that you want

to reserve it for either the greatest act

or the greatest artist.

It's a big deal, playing that gig.

You know, it's once in every generation.

- The Rolling Stones stayed the weekend

when they were here in '76.

And the Beach Boys were all here in 1980

eating my brother's birthday cake.

To me, it brings Knebworth alive.

It's what we're all about.

It's now just as much a part of Knebworth's heritage

as the fact that Charles Dickens

used to come and have dinner, you know, 150 years ago.

It's sort of part of what we do.

- And it has this sort of aspect

of having a type of bowl to it.

And the audience is just enormous.

But they have enough space.

They've all got an incredibly good view of the stage.

And you know, the backdrop of the trees

and the overall surrounding,

coming with that sort of iconic status of Knebworth,

it's sort of a perfect location.

- So is that where it actually was, then, the last one?

Probably, innit?

- I believe the stage is in the same place,

but they've changed the guest area.

- I mean, look at that, all the tents over there.

It's fucking massive, innit?

Yeah, it's fucking top, man. Look at that.

Come on.

I've not been in this field since--

since whenever it was.

And even then, I can't remember much about it,

you know what I mean?

I remember coming in on the helicopter thinking,

"There's loads of fields here empty.

"Surely we could have fucking slung

"a few more people in there, made it bigger,

you know what I mean?

So 125,000, I think it was that time, but I was thinking,

being greedy, you know what I mean, like going,

"Come on, surely, we should have put a few more

people in that field over there and that field over there."

But I was happy with it.

It was mega.

[dramatic music]

- From hit-and-run gigs to big sellout stadium shows

all across Europe, Oasis have become

the success story of the '90s.

- You know, I don't think anyone can overestimate

how much Oasis and Liam means to anyone

in their late 30s, early 40s.

They defined an era.

And Knebworth in '96 was the moment of that era.

- A quarter of a million rock fans

are counting the hours

till the Gallagher brothers take the stage.

- Two million people tried to get tickets

for one of the biggest ever open-air concerts in Britain.

- Of course, the one thing that no amount of hype

can guarantee is the weather.

But then for those who truly adore these masters of music,

that presumably won't be a problem.

- You all right, mum?

- In terms of the '90s, we were in a period of optimism.

You know, Thatcher had gone. Blair was in.

- There was just a bit of promise in the air

that anything could happen.

Let's spend some money on solving some of the problems

in the country.

They thought it was the end of history,

didn't they, the '90s.

And there's been so much more of it. [chuckles]

- The music was good.

Loads of bands in the '90s that were great.

And obviously, there was loads of shit ones as well.

- A lot of the bands were a lot more real,

especially with stuff like The Stone Roses

and things like Creation Records,

which obviously Oasis came through.

A real do-it-yourself sort of attitude,

rather than, um, being made by, like, an industry.

- The fashion was-- I don't think it was amazing.

But it was decent, you know what I mean,

I think it went with the music.

- It was light-hearted, having fun.

- Love ya.

- People together, parties in parks,

little mini festivals, concerts.

- We definitely did exactly what it said on the tin,

you know what I mean?

We fucking--we went for it. And we got high.

- Thinking about the price of beans in Yugoslavia

and all that stuff.

- And we had a good time, man.

- Ha, ha, ha, ha.

- I think it was the last kind of era

that you could sort of really get away with stuff.

- What do you think is the worst fashion mistake

someone's made? Have you seen someone

that's so like, ooh, like--

- You. - Oh, you bastard.

- Do anything these days and you're fucking

stoned to death, aren't you?

- I mean, it just so happens Liam was

big in the '90s and he's big now.

But I think that's where the parallel ends, really.

- We've been governed by a single party

for 12, 13, 14 years. They've run out of ideas.

They've run out of passion for the country, it feels.

And I think people are a little lost in terms

of the direction of the UK.

- We've opted to cut ourselves off from the world,

haven't we, and be an insular island and um, it's a shame.

- It really leaves people a bit disenfranchised

with the whole political system--

or at least I am anyway.

- People are searching for reassurance.

- People need a release.

They need to find that 50 pound in the pocket

to go to see a concert, you know, be it 1,000 people,

be it 80,000 people.

People need to get outside and just be with other people

and have fun.

- I mean, I talk about it all the time, you know.

And people are bored. "You went to Knebworth?"

"Yeah, I went to Knebworth." Yeah.

But now that's gonna change now.

Because people are like at least Knebworth.

"Oh, did you go to Knebworth?" "Yeah, I went to--"

"Which one? 2022 or '96?"

[electric guitar strumming]

- I done like two full gigs the other week.

And then I've done a bit of rehearsing in the studio.

But I try not to rehearse a lot.

I just want to be peaking on that stage.

- To adapt the show for a big stage,

that's what the whole kind of Redditch is for.

It's meant to look as close as you can,

dimension-wise, to the stage.

It's not really a rehearsal for the band.

At this point, it's for the million-pound lights

to get switched on and video stuff.

- See these big cinema?

How would you feel if they're like, to come down some.

[interposing voices]

- How's the no caffeine going?

- Very tough.

- No caffeine?

- She's given up the fucking caffeine.

- Oh, aye?

- I've enhanced the fucking hashish.

- Well, that's a great combination.

- So I'm always keen to not play second fiddle.

Every time put our foot down

and do what we need to do as a band as well.

- You know, we're not in Bruce Springsteen's band,

so, like, getting into that territory of, like,

over an hour and a half is long for us.

And so we were doing that basically every day

for about--

I don't know--maybe 20 days or something like that.

It was a long time.

- Keeping your-- your mental strength

for the big gig is essential.

I think it's maybe half the battle, really.

You know, there's

that elephant in the room at this point

that what your preproduction is for is for Knebworth.

You're trying to not be nervous.

You're trying to deal with everything in real time.

Because there are still issues to iron out.

But it's kind of-- it's an unbearable noise

at that point.

- You just--you know, you worry

about whether you're gonna just walk out

and your pants fall off or something.

But, like, generally, I think,

if I'm sat there playing, I'll be all right.

Yeah, I could get away with one trouser incident,

you know, per set.

- Your muscle memory will carry you through.

But if you suddenly have an argument with yourself...

[chuckles] Then you might lose it.

- So you got what you needed there?

[indistinct]

- [indistinct]

- Well, [indistinct].

So you got that now, yeah?

- [indistinct] - All right.

[drumsticks clacking]

- ♪ The cut, it never really heals ♪

♪ Just enough to stop the bleed ♪

♪ Mother, I'll admit that I was angry for too long ♪

♪ I wish I had more power ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, I wish I had more power ♪

[maracas shake]

- ♪ People talking like their gods ♪

♪ But that's just not the deal ♪

- ♪ Ooh ♪

- ♪ I can see so many things now that you're gone ♪

♪ How I wish I had more power ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

- I think what's exciting about this

is that it's the same bands,

the same crew all the way through.

And everyone's just grown together during that time.

So I think it's the sort of culmination

of all the different things that we've been trying,

all the different set list combinations

that Liam's put together

coming together in this one moment.

- ♪ Is this what you, what you came for? ♪

- So I think it really feels like it's not just a big show,

but a real pinnacle of the last five years

of Liam's solo work.

- ♪ Is this what you, what you came for? ♪

♪ This is what you what you came for ♪

♪ ♪

[Liam Gallagher's "World in Need" ]

♪ ♪

- So I'm just gonna take you

to the Champagne Supernobar, which is in my garden.

A very special space that we've got a bit of a retreat.

It was built during lockdown for the kids, slash as a bar.

It was always gonna be a bar.

I won't say world famous, but we'll get there eventually.

Full of all sorts of different stuff.

And that's Liam in a bit of a military getup.

That's just a little pegman of Liam Gallagher

which my sister-in-law makes, sells them online.

Got a couple of Liam Gallagher shot glasses.

I think Henry VIII there because--

really because my wife is a bit of a Tudor fan.

But I think big Henry is a bit of a rock and roll star,

isn't he, you know?

And how many wives did he have?

Seven or eight, I can't remember.

Chopping their heads off and that.

It's attitude.

I lived in Halifax all my life.

I'm just known for being a mad Oasis fan.

I get comments all the time.

The postman sometimes writes Liam Gallagher,

crosses my name out on letters,

all sorts of stupid stuff like that.

I don't think there are any other rock stars.

I think Liam is the rock star.

The presence is God-like.

We look up to him like the messiah.

Being young at that time,

you're trying to find out who you are.

And there was just an icon there,

dressing like him, having the haircuts, you know,

walking like him, having a bit of a swagger.

Then the fighting every now and then.

But really, that's reality.

You know, that's reality of living up north.

I do find myself, you know, when the music is not on,

I can still hear it and I can still

find myself sort of almost talking along to the lyrics.

It's a way of life, really.

I think Oasis and Liam, it's an attitude.

It's who you are as a person, how we help people.

We are, like--almost, like, brand ambassadors

for what they do. We're spreading the message.

We're sharing the love.

The desire to be at a Liam Gallagher festival

with 80,000 fellow fans, I've wanted to be there for--

since I was back being 13, 14 years old.

It's like destiny.

It's like-- it's like traveling to Mecca.

It's a pilgrimage.

It's something that we've got to do.

We don't have a choice. We have to do it.

You know, we'll be there with the parkas on

and the stupid haircuts. We'll be going for it,

you know? We'll be ready.

There's my family, my wife, and my two children

and then father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Three generations all going for the same reason.

And it will be a proud moment to share it with them.

♪ ♪

[jackhammer rattling] - Fuck me, now it's big, Debs.

Fuck you trying to do to me?

[indistinct] - Yeah, [indistinct].

- It's fucking massive.

- If you were watching yourself,

where would you watch in the field?

- Oh, I'd be at the bar, me, getting fucking wankered,

just going, "Check him out there, the knob."

I've heard people go,

"Oh, you never go back to Knebworth.

Once it's done, it's done."

It's like, "Well, I do, you fucking shit bags."

You know what I mean?

And half of the people who are saying it,

"You shouldn't have fucking ever done it anyway."

And they know who they fucking are.

You know, obviously, it's amazing, you know what I mean?

I don't really think too much about it.

Because you just end up fucking--

you know, you end up twisting it all around.

But I had no problem going back there.

If the people wanted it, I'll be there, man.

Come on, you fucking know.

We should put a little "fucking" in there.

I'm positive, man. That'll work.

Before anyone asks me if I'm nervous,

not nervous one fucking bit.

I just--just want to get on.

And get stuck in at the tunes, man.

I ain't got a car

and I don't buy Rolexes and stuff like that.

And I ain't got private jets yet.

But some high kicks that I get from playing,

like, on stage and that, you know what I mean?

You want to do good gigs, you know?

And sometimes you do it and sometimes

it just doesn't happen and it's not your day and all that.

But obviously, this time around,

you're older and all that, it's like so yeah,

I'll just be keeping my head down,

man, and trying to get a lot of good stuff inside me and that.

And just get on there and get your voice in shape

and just fucking let 'em have it, man.

[echoing drumbeat]

The last time we played here, we were on tour with Oasis.

And we played a load of gigs the week before.

And I think we played better at them gigs

than we did on this gig, you know what I mean,

which is a shame.

I think we peaked, like, in Yugoslavia

with 2,000 people, which is fine.

And then we got here and it was all right.

It was great and all that.

But I think we played miles better the week before.

I don't think we got better.

I think we sort of coasted it for a bit.

But we wrote some good albums.

But I think we'd sort of peaked.

But that's life, innit?

You're always gonna have bits of shit that goes on

in your life, whether it's personal or career wise

and all that stuff.

Well, that's just the way it fucking is.

We're not robots yet, you know what I mean,

where everything's perfect.

That's why people love music because it's real,

you know what I mean?

No, I didn't think that we'd ever

get back to doing Knebworth.

Didn't think we'd ever get back to doing fucking arenas.

Now you have, you know, skirted about theaters

and all that tackle.

So at some point, where I just going,

"You know what? This isn't fucking good enough."

And I don't know what I'd have done.

I'd probably knocked it on the head and vanished off.

I don't know, man.

When you've been big, you want to kind of stay big-ish,

don't you?

- The split up of Oasis was massive for people

like myself who followed them all that time.

- He's doing his thing.

We're doing our thing.

I wish him all the best.

Don't release it the same day as ours

'cause we'll have you.

- We thought it was the end.

You know, was it going to work for Liam

going back as a solo artist?

- That guy that you see on stage at Knebworth originally,

I think that had all been forgotten.

And I think Liam had been sidelined

and the world had moved on.

- You didn't hear from Liam for a few years.

And you just wondered what was gonna happen.

You'd think he'd even said himself

it wasn't a critically great period for him.

[cheering]

- Like a great striker,

they're confidence players.

And if you don't create great environments

for those players, then they don't thrive.

I'd seen Liam play at a Who Teenage Cancer Trust show.

- ♪ People try to put us down ♪

- ♪ Talking 'bout my generation ♪

- ♪ Just because we get around ♪

- ♪ Talkin' 'bout my generation ♪

♪ Things they do-- ♪

- And just thought, "Oh, my God,

this guy is incredible."

Like, the energy, everything about it

just felt special and dangerous and exciting.

- ♪ This is my generation, baby ♪

- Liam had something to prove.

And in the right environment, this guy is untouchable.

- ♪ Don't try and dig what we all-- ♪

- Put him in a rubbish studio. Probably the kind of studio

he never would have been in for 15, 20 years.

And he was fighting for something.

- Yeah, if any of them--

any of my guitars, like, sound shit.

- I had just started with an intense

six weeks of rehearsing,

which was more than I'd ever done for anything before.

- Even though Liam was sort of holding it down,

I think he was nervous.

And it was very similar to the build up

to Knebworth, in a way.

He's excited and he's raring to go,

but he doesn't know how it's gonna go.

And if your benchmark for all of this

is one of the biggest bands of all time...

[chuckles]

then you've got to cut yourself

some slack, I suppose.

And I don't know how much slack he cut himself really.

- Let's do a few more, man.

- When we done the first album of the solo stuff,

it went well.

We started off doing like the Ritz.

- Saturday night in Manchester,

center of the fucking universe.

[cheers and applause]

And especially when the mighty Blues win 8-0.

[Liam Gallagher's "Wall of Glass]

♪ ♪

- It was a very humbling thing

to go back to doing small things for Liam.

But the gig was unbelievable.

- And it kind of got bigger and bigger.

And then we ended up in Brixton, I think.

And then all of a sudden, it was kind of getting big.

Well, well, well, what do we have here,

brothers and sisters?

Another number one record.

- And every time we went up a level,

things just sold out instantly again.

And it never seemed to be a problem stepping up.

- I think for Liam,

that little time in the wilderness,

he was just getting his act together

and running all the time, writing songs.

And then to get sort of validation, I think,

must have been amazing for him.

It certainly was for us.

Because it was like, "Yes!"

- It was Liam's idea to attend Knebworth, 1,000%.

- And actually on day one,

Debbie was explaining

everything we were going to be doing

over the summer and he said straight away,

"I think we're gonna do Knebworth."

And I thought, "Wow."

- For him to go toe-to-toe with his former band was--

you know, seemed ridiculous at the time.

- We put one night on sale.

We had one night scheduled.

- He's really in-touch with the fans.

So I think he knows that people wanted it

and the youth of today wanted it.

He knew we'd all be there, the older generation,

because like I said, we have to be there.

I think it probably took him by surprise

that he could sell two nights out.

- It's sort of like that point where, you know,

surfers hit a wave.

We just hit a moment.

And it was extraordinary, to be honest.

- Imagine shaking up a bottle of champagne

and the cork being popped.

And I think it's just been a pressurecooker,

a need for people to have that release.

- He's just the epitome of, like, rock and roll.

And rock and roll never dies.

The aura and the magic is still there.

He still walks into a room and time stands still.

The story's even better now.

I mean, it's the best story ever, innit?

It's mental.

- Thank you.

[cheering]

♪ ♪

- I have my own theory

on the hypothetical Planet X.

♪ ♪

Eris is a dwarf planet.

And Eris have an elongated orbit.

But there's something very suspicious here.

The hypothetical planet shouldn't have

an elongated orbit.

So there's a miniature black hole

pulling the hypothetical Planet X

towards it causing it to have an oval shaped orbit,

which it shouldn't have.

But the miniature black hole,

it isn't strong enough to pull it actually into it

and destroy it, but just to pull it close to it.

- [chuckles] - I think you're right.

- She asked me if this stuff's true, and I'm like,

"I don't know."

I don't have a clue.

Ready? - Yes.

- [laughs]

- I think pretty much from like, when she was a baby,

she always loved dancing and singing.

And she never stopped moving as a child.

- This is where I try to write songs with my dad.

Now, he made this CD cover.

But I told him what to do.

Like, he had no input on this.

I still like McFly now, but I used to like him even more.

And I heard that Danny Jones and then McFly loved Oasis.

So I thought, oh, I'll try out their music.

And I loved it.

And then I heard that Liam Gallagher

was doing a solo career.

[guitar strumming]

I don't know, I think he's-- I think he's cool.

I think he's cool because he's always stayed true to himself.

He's never really been, like, bothered

what the other people think about him.

- A lot of venues don't allow children her age and size

to go in the standing bit.

And Knebworth was one of the ones

where she can go in.

So I was like, "Right, that's the one we're going for."

- Yeah. - And you're really excited.

- Yeah.

- Well, Trina was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2018,

so almost four years ago now.

And she went through 18 months of treatment.

It was really intense and very grueling.

It took her a long time to recover.

Like, she had to go through physio to learn to walk again.

♪ ♪

So like, when you were in hospital--

- Yeah? - And you were fed up.

- Yeah. - And you was able

to play ukulele again... - Yeah. Yeah.

- Like, what did that do for you when you was in hospital?

- It made me feel happy.

- Helped you get through your time, didn't it?

- Yeah. - You played it everywhere.

- Yeah. - You did, like, a show

in the nurse's office.

- I played when I had a catheter in my hand.

So I just--I don't know what I'm playing,

I just like sort of go with the flow and stuff.

I just feel happy and musical.

- It can take you back to a place, as well.

Like sometimes, when you hear a sound or a song,

you immediately just remember like a moment from before.

And you can just see it so vividly in your head.

♪ ♪

And now you're in remission and you're doing really well.

- Yeah.

- And you're just kind of dealing with the side effects

more now from the treatment... - Yeah.

- Rather than the cancer itself.

But in between, you just try and live life to the full,

don't you? - Yeah.

Oh, I can't wait for Knebworth.

♪ ♪

[engine rumbling]

- How are you? - Good. Nice to see you.

- You too, man.

- To do them gigs and get 'em up and running

and all that tackle in these times,

for one, it costs you money to do these gigs.

Like, it's not a stadium that's already there.

- In terms of post-pandemic, post-COVID,

to be honest, it's just taken us all

by surprise, really.

- Usually in the music industry,

everybody's leapfrogging each other

and taking turns at going on tour.

Then you stop the clocks for two years,

and then everybody comes out together at once.

- And it is that thing of,

well, where have all the stages gone?

I mean, literally, where have they gone?

They've been having to bring stages from South Africa

and from Saudi Arabia and all sorts of places.

Barriers, showers, toilets, tour buses--

Where did all the tour buses go?

- There wasn't enough crew.

So it's, like, everything was very difficult to pull off

on that front.

A lot of people go, oh yeah, I could do it.

Put your fucking money where your mouth is, mate,

and do it. Stop talking about it.

Or don't even fucking think about it

unless you're gonna do it.

When you play fucking, like, 100 people,

it's just as important as playing for 1,000 people

or 80,000 or a million people. You know what I mean?

It's like, yeah, I want to do the best gig for me,

you know what I mean?

'Cause that's where I get my fills and my hits.

It's like big governments, man.

We're lucky to get these things.

And obviously, with the Jubilee going on.

You know, and I'm not anti-royalist

and I'm not, like, pro-royal either.

I just like-- we're doing our thing,

the people fucking from the streets,

you know, the working class lot and all that.

But as long as you prepare, right,

everything will be all right, you know what I mean?

You can only do your best, can't you?

[jackhammer rattling]

♪ ♪

- My most precious is this one--

in all the collection, is this one.

It's the Liam "As You Were" and it's so beautiful.

Liam is my savior, in a way,

because with him I'm just myself.

People are gonna say what they say anyway.

Let's give them a good story to tell, you know?

When I started listening to Liam,

it helps me a lot to, like, letting things go.

Sometimes I spend my entire days when I feel blue and sad

and when I feel I'm not enough, watching Liam interview.

Just do whatever you want, whenever you want.

And my mom is really unhappy about this.

My mom doesn't really say thank you to Liam.

When I was 16, I started to work.

And then I started my record collection.

I just want to rock.

And I'm a graduate not this year

because actually I have my biggest exam on the third

and the third is Knebworth.

So I'm not in Belgium. [laughs]

Like, when you're going to go to a Liam gig,

everybody's living,

everybody is screaming and dancing.

And I really feel like I belong.

This is why I don't mind going at my gigs alone.

Because I know I'm gonna meet people

my age or older or younger.

And I can't believe in two days,

I'm not going to the toilet just to be front row.

Some of my friends, they're like,

"Yeah, but you're already going to see Liam,

like, five times this summer."

I'm like, "You might be missing the best gig of your life

because of an exam?" No way.

I'm good with my rock and roll.

♪ ♪

[engine rumbling]

- What's been going on this past week?

It's not just about this show, is it?

Something quite big happened in the last few days.

- Yeah, I got me hair cut. [both chuckle]

All right, no, Man City won the league and the Liver--

and the scousers fucking bottled it.

So it was marvelous. All is good, man.

- You also put out your third record, as well.

- Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.

Yeah, that come out-- when did that come out, Liz?

Friday, yeah.

Yeah, man, I mean, the album was

done in November last year.

So it's been a long time, you know what I mean,

just sitting about on the shelf.

So sometimes I think the longer it's sort of sitting there,

you sort of-- you listen to it and you go,

"Fucking hell, is this any good or what?"

Have we fucking-- have we maybe gone

a bit too far in that but--

Oh no, I just think I can't wait

to get this fucking out and get on stage

and do it, you know.

I'm not putting a gun to your fucking head

to come and buy our records.

I'm certainly not putting a gun to your head

to come and fucking interview me.

Play it or don't play it.

No skin off my nose.

The people that buy it and like the fans and all

that down in the front, they're the one's with the best ears.

And they're the ones that actually you try to impress,

not some fucking spotty little herb called fucking Eugene.

They've never bought me a nice holiday.

Yeah, man, I mean, it's not my moment,either,

it's my band and all that.

And obviously, it's the fans' moment, you know what I mean?

And I'm just--I'm just there to entertain them.

It's their day out and that.

It's the people that come to the gigs, innit?

♪ ♪

- When I was back in my teens,

I used to collect basically any "Q" magazines,

"Select" magazine--

anything that had Oasis or Liam on it,

or books.

This is a "Be Here Now" Live program from Earls Court.

Had The Verve supporting them that night.

These are the two.

It's when they tried to break America.

And then some gig tickets--

so Liam at the Albert Hall,

at the O2 just before COVID hit,

and then obviously the Holy Grail,

which is the Knebworth '96 ticket.

♪ ♪

My dad died when I was three.

So my older brother was pretty much

my father figure growing up, right?

He's 14 years older than me.

And he was into The Smiths, Sex Pistols.

So that was his scene.

You know, he had a crew cut and that.

He was the cooler older brother that you wanted to be.

He used to take me out.

He used to have a little old school Ford Fiesta,

a little red one,

with just a little tape deck in the front.

And we were out one day and he had had this cassette.

And I'm like, "Fucking hell, what's that?"

He said, "Oh, it's this new Manchester band,

just on the scene called Oasis."

It was just something that was

so raw and different to anything

that had been knocking around at the time.

He is the voice of a generation.

And he's our voice, you know, he's the working class voice.

And I think that's one of the great things about Liam.

He makes you feel good about yourself.

And yeah, from that moment on, I was absolutely sold.

♪ ♪

Just before Liam released his solo album, first one,

but that year previous to that,

Ilost my sister in the February to brain cancer.

And then I lost my mom in the November to cancer, as well.

She'd done eight years of chemo, et cetera.

And she'd been in remission and recovery

and so on and so forth.

♪ ♪

I was in a dark place.

Like, I had had various moments

where I didn't really want to be here.

And I was luckily enough, I had Alf,

which is pretty much the only thing

that really kept me going.

♪ ♪

It sounds a bit cliche,

but the fact that Liam is coming back

and having something to look forward to and to hold on to

was, like--it pulled me through some dark times.

♪ ♪

People just grab onto things, don't they?

And it means something to them.

It might not necessarily mean that meaning,

but you can take from it what you want.

Music does wonderful things to people.

And it's a very unique process.

My son Alf loves Liam.

You know, I was 15 when I went to Knebworth in '96.

He'll be 15 June this year.

So you know, it's exactly the same point in our lives.

But yeah, it's different generations

and bringing them all together is incredible.

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

- [chuckles]

- [indistinct]

[drumming]

[guitar strumming]

[drumsticks clacking]

[Liam Gallagher's "More Power"]

♪ ♪

- Preparation, well, I was meant to be off the booze

for a month leading up to it.

But the football got the better of me.

Man City, man, fucking-- fucking stressed me out, man.

So I had a little drink this Sunday when we won the league.

I mean, I didn't go mad, but I had a bit of a drink and that.

♪ ♪

Like I said, now I'll just keep me head down and that.

And hopefully get these two out of the way and Saturday night.

I'm looking forward to like, just chilling, drying off,

cigarette, fucking Guinness,

and just slowly easing into the mad zone.

I mean, we'll see, man.

Well, you say that, I'll probably fucking have

two pints and be fucking in bed.

You know what I mean? Getting old now, aren't we?

- ♪ I wish I had more power ♪

♪ I wish I had more power ♪

♪ I wish I had more power ♪

- Nothing prepares you for the dynamic of being outdoors.

The energy of that amount of people--

you can't-- you can't ignore it.

You know, it is surreal and it becomes daft

after a certain amount of people.

- Try and remain cool and not let the fucking,

um, the occasion get the better of you

and become a giddy fucking idiot.

I don't jump about and all that.

And I don't really speak that much,

depending on how fucking strong the band is and that.

- And that seems deceivingly simple.

he just stands there and sings.

It's not--it's not like that.

That extra dimension is everything.

- But there'll be a few people on that stage

getting a bit carried away with themselves, trust me.

And they get fined if there's any dancing.

Toe tapping's all right.

A little toe tap, that's fucking fine.

Any fucking-- any other than that, man,

we'll be having words.

- Even when you're doing a guitar solo,

that's double loud or whatever,

everyone's just looking at him. [laughs]

I don't see anyone's faces,

I just see, like, cheeks,

when I look out in the audience.

♪ ♪

- Just have a good time.

Fucking be nice to each other, get fucking drunk,

get fucking high.

Fall in love.

You deserve it.

We all deserve it.

I just want these clouds to fuck off, anyway.

'Cause you don't want it to rain and that.

[thunder rumbles]

♪ ♪

- My dad being a mod

and growing up with that mod stuff,

a lot of that is derived from French culture.

And since then,

I really got into, like, '60s chanson French music.

And then online I learned

that you can actually write to Brigitte Bardot

and she'll reply.

Through that, I acquired

a signed Brigitte Bardot postcard sort of thing.

And I didn't expect it to have "my Scottish lover" on it.

But I can only take that as a compliment,

even if she is 87.

♪ ♪

When I went to high school,

no one was into the same stuff as me.

Until like a year ago,

I'd never met anyone that was into My Bloody Valentine.

I just never knew anyone like that.

And it really made me feel a bit excluded.

♪ ♪

But I think anyone that likes the same music as me,

as soon as it was announced--

basically everyone had an inkling,

no matter where you are in the world,

to go to Knebworth.

'Cause it is such a monumental

and historic sort of concert.

I just hope he can bring the same energy

from the original gig.

and bring that same sort of feeling

that the people in the crowd have.

Because everyone who was there will talk about that

for the rest of their life. And I want to have

that same experience.

It's my 18th on the fifth.

So the day after Knebworth, obviously.

It's just going straight from being with my family

from the train station.

So it's going to be a long two days.

But yeah, kind of gives Knebworth that extra kick.

So I'm buying myself some beers for the train back up.

The artists that particularly appeal to me

are ones that have maybe been in similar situations

to me, like, living in a council house.

"Bring It On Down" is the song that relates to me the most,

obviously, the lyric "Yeah, you're the class.

You're the under class," really just stands out.

Yeah, I think people are disgruntled.

And I think if you want to talk about Scotland, specifically,

extremely disgruntled.

I think the last major lockdown was

the one just after Christmas.

I think that hit hard for a lot of people, as it did me.

It was difficult, just sitting inside doing nothing,

not being able to go to gigs,

not being able to do anything.

Being able to put on a record and kind of have that

as like the friend

that I couldn't go and meet, basically.

Yeah, it was that comfort during that time.

- Obviously, it was terrible for families and, you know.

I didn't see my mum for a bit

and the kids and all that stuff.

But other people had it way worse than me, man.

- There was a dark period there

where you were justthinking,

if there are vaccinations, will it be three or four years?

And will everybody still be able to do this then?

- You know, we had Brexit and that made

a lot of people happy.

I wasn't one of the people

that was made happy with Brexit.

It doesn't feel as though it's been

the joyous turn that everybody expected.

- People were having to, like,

choose between their human rights,

whether to feed their children or like heat their house.

- As long as I can remember, it's always been shit.

It's still shit, innit?

It doesn't matter whether I've got money,

my fucking cousins ain't got money, you know what I mean,

and me fucking aunties and all that.

You know, the bills are fucking too high,

you know what I mean? There's loads of this shit.

There's a load of that shit. And it's like,

the government's not fucking listening.

- There is a war going on in Europe.

And you know, that hasn't happened

for a very, very long time.

I guess a show like Knebworth has got

all sorts of functions.

It's clearly an escape from what is a pretty awful reality

that we're in at the moment.

- With the pandemic, we were, like, good kids.

We were like, "Okay, mask. Okay, one meter."

And now the bad kids are out again, you know?

Now it's gonna be all together, you know,

just kissing and hugging and--and happiness.

- It seems like there's a generation of men

that, you know, they're, like, my age and above

who don't really know how to be emotional

with each other in any kind of useful way,

and these kind of gigs, it gives them an excuse

to put their arms around each other

and share something that, you know,

without telling each other that they love each other,

I think they're sort of doing it in a safe space.

- I think it's gonna be, you know,

80,000 people in a field at Knebworth

absolutely going for it.

If there was a roof on it, it'd get blown off.

You know, the cows will be flying around the fields,

I'm sure, on the other side,

because it's just gonna go off.

From minute one to the last song,

it's gonna go mental.

♪ ♪

- This is needed in a way to remind people,

I suppose, that anything is possible.

And although we've had a shit, weird time,

that we bring people together.

And that's the important thing.

And we all sort of sing a few songs

and it sort of jogs the memory of, "Oh, yeah, you know what?

No, I think we're gonna be all right."

We just gotta, you know, move on, bigger and better.

- And then times get better, I think, you know?

[laughing] Because it can't get much worse anyway

than the last couple of years.

So you know, hopefully this is the kickstart

that the world needs.

♪ ♪

[Liam Gallaher's "Greedy Soul"]

♪ ♪

- Okay, Dad, we're gonna drive down

to, obviously, Knebworth, the venue.

Me and my dad are going to stay in the hotel

whilst Mummy camps out in the pop-up tent.

- It's the night before Knebworth.

We're out, we're still out

'cause we're preparing for Knebworth, man.

- I'm looking forward to the greatest day of my life.

Some of the guys are feeling a bit worse for wear.

- Couldn't sleep last night. I was like a kid at Christmas.

- I'm too wired to sleep

because I'm on the way to Knebworth.

- Packed, ready, car's full.

- I'm just about to leave. I'm so excited.

- We'll be heading down the motorway on the Friday.

And there's my wife and my two children

and then father-in-law and mother-in-law.

- Yeah, we're traveling up in the car on a Friday.

So me, my son Alf, my fiancée Demi.

- I'm just going down by train.

I think it's about five hours.

And then dump my bags and hop in a taxi

and go straight there.

- And we're gonna give our kid a good welcome

back to Knebworth, as we should, as we were.

Come on, you know.

- Come on, you know!

- Come on, Liam, we're ready for this big day!

- ♪ And it's a long way down ♪

♪ When you're the wrong way around ♪

♪ And now it's all too much ♪

♪ I've got the Midas touch ♪

- The excitement on this car is palpable.

Hell of a day, isn't it? - It is, eh!

- All the essentials.

- Today is gonna be the better day of our life.

Everything is electric.

Come on!

- ♪ And now it's all too much ♪

♪ I got the Midas touch ♪

♪ ♪

- It's the Queen's Jubilee weekend,

so they'll be enjoying the Queen's Jubilee weekend

and we'll be going to see the King of Knebworth.

- Come on, you know!

- Come on, you know. [laughter]

- [chuckles] That's how I'm looking at it.

[indistinct chatter]

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

[Liam Gallagher's "Shockwave" on ukulele]

- ♪ The lights are up on me ♪

♪ They tried to keep me locked away ♪

♪ But hallelujah, I feel free ♪

[cheering and applause]

Knebworth! [applause]

- Oh, 4:00 in the morning. - Yeah.

- Not even joking.

Literally parked in front of the car park entrance

and just went to sleep. [laughs]

- Yeah, like, when we came out of our home town,

it was, like, dark. - Yeah.

- It looked like it was, like, 2:00 a.m. in the morning.

- The guy couldn't believe it.

He was like, "What are you doing here?"

He's like--this doesn't open

for, like, another four or five hours.

I was like, "Yeah, we want to be at the front."

[Liam Gallagher's "Everything's Electric"]

♪ ♪

- That opening of the gates is the fruition, in a way,

of all of the planning, all of the work

in order to be able to connect the fan with the artist.

♪ ♪

And for me, it's unbridled joy.

It's my favorite moment of every show,

is opening the gate.

♪ ♪

- 9:00, I've been there at 9:00,

but I was on the other side.

And my mates from London are coming this way,

so I had an asthma crisis running.

But I'm here, here I am.

♪ ♪

- It's like, weird walking back through the--

through the same gates I did 25 years ago.

I don't really remember massive amounts about '96,

but then you turn up here and you sort of see the layout

and you see where the stage is.

Being here now with Alf, it's a lovely experience

and something to hold on to.

♪ ♪

- This is Molly's granddad, my father-in-law.

We've all traveled down from Halifax yesterday.

And I think it goes from, like, most mental to least mental.

[laughter] But we'll see in a few hours.

You know, we'll see what happens in a few hours.

♪ ♪

- Came down on my own, and it was surprisingly smooth.

I managed to get from Midlothian to Edinburgh

to Stevenage to Royston to here.

And I'm surprised nothing went wrong.

[spacey rock music]

- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ ♪

Oh, right, right, right, Knebworth right about now.

I want to see everybody's hands in the air.

Right to the back.

Everybody hold your hands to the sky.

Right to the back. Hold 'em high!

For when this kicks in, we go fucking mental!

One, two, three!

[upbeat rock music]

♪ ♪

So many people.

You see the front bit and everything else,

it just melts into, like-- you know, it's mad.

♪ ♪

I think it's just one massive release

for the audience and the bands.

You realize how much you've missed gatherings,

you know, and being outside and listening to loud music.

[Amyl and the Sniffers' "Balaclava Lover Boogie"]

- ♪ The Sun never could commit to being on a team ♪

♪ I hold on the days that are 23 degrees ♪

♪ Woken up by duties, and send out to the day ♪

♪ I get home to Balaclava, where my baby waits ♪

♪ Balaclava, with my lover ♪

♪ Balaclava Lover Boogie ♪

- This is the biggest crowd we've ever played to, I'd say.

- And, like, looking out at the crowd,

you're already like, "Oh, cool, so, like,

this is what it's like to be in Oasis."

- A lot of bucket hats.

It makes me wish that I had invested

in a bucket hat company before I came here.

[laughter]

Dick's bucket hats and sunscreen,

and I'd never have to play a show again, you know?

I could buy a house on that.

- ♪ Ba-di-ba-di-ba-ba ♪

♪ Tearing up and burning down ♪

♪ Ba-di-ba-di-ba-ba ♪

♪ Leave all sadness underground ♪

♪ Ba-di-ba-di-ba-ba ♪

- Just seeing that many faces, it's just quite surreal.

I'm still taking it in, to be honest with you.

- I mean, yeah, that's the first time

we've seen that many people together in our lives.

[laughter]

It's like, regardless of music, like,

I've never seen that many people in a space.

- Being a woman playing music, it was always like,

oh, you can join our band, but like,

you have to sing or you have to play, like, bass.

You can't play guitar.

All of these kind of things that's constantly

adding towards you feeling like you're not good enough,

when obviously, it's all bollocks

and I know that now.

- In my head, I'm just going,

"I'm a rock star, I'm a rock star."

[laughter]

How hard can I hit this drum? How hard?

- ♪ [singing indistinctly] ♪

- Whoo!

♪ [singing indistinctly] ♪

♪ ♪

- I've never been in this world ever.

- Yeah, this is a--

- This is-- - Liam Gallagher's Knebworth...

- This is his world. - Is a new--

- We're just tourists here.

- ♪ [screaming indistinctly] ♪

- If they could even, like, mildly enjoy it,

I'll be very surprised. - Hear, hear!

- Anything beyond complete stasis would be great.

- I know people who fucking love 'em,

I know people who fucking despise 'em.

That is, to me, success.

That's why I wanted 'em on there,

because I knew they'd fucking twist people's heads.

- ♪ [indistinct screaming] ♪

We're gonna cover an Oasis song.

- Yeah.

- And if that doesn't win the crowd over, then nothing will.

- Fuck the crowd. - Those people? Fuck them!

- We could always get naked and see how that plays out.

- We all lived together in lockdown.

After every big night when the sun would come up,

we'd put the Oasis documentary on to go to bed,

just before we went to bed.

We did it fucking so many times.

- That was giving me anxiety.

- I know, it's like weirdly inspiring

as a rock and roll band to have that kind of figure.

Because he doesn't give a fuck obviously.

- I want to see Liam Gallagher get drunk.

I want to see him get shitfaced.

- Fingers crossed. - Yeah.

- Fingers crossed.

Yeah, he's gotta play tomorrow though.

- Yeah.

- He's got like a police escort and shit up here

to make him not get fucked up.

- But you know-- - We'll see to that.

- Police are never good at doing their job, so--

- [laughs] - Yeah, exactly.

- I grew up with my family

listening to Oasis, like, quite a lot.

There's kind of not really been anyone

on that level, like, since, which is kind of amazing.

And it's because their songs are, like, so good.

And they stand the test of time, just quite ingrained.

And it reaches, like, a huge audience

of so many different people it seems to resonate with.

It's like a very working-class thing as well.

And it's not that many bands that have kind of

united people in that way

and have that strong culture, like, around it.

And I don't know if there's many bands

that kind of tapped that or done that.

- We're backstage.

I mean, I can't believe we're here, to be honest.

It's amazing.

You know, it's-- it's like 5:00, 6:00.

The crowd are absolutely up for it.

There's a little gap between the sound system and the stage,

and I keep on looking through it.

And it just keeps on getting bigger and bigger

and more and more full.

And it's just-- it's unbelievable.

It's quite emotional, really.

Liam's coming with his mom and with Debbie.

But Liam gonna bring Peggy, his mom, along,

who didn't manage to get to the last Knebworth.

I think that's just gonna be a really

special moment for him.

Right now he's at home.

Although, I have started getting messages from Debbie

and they've given him a little bit of FOMO now.

Like, "Can you show us some photos of what's going on,

what's happening?"

So yeah, I think they are also quite keen

to get here, as well.

[Liam Gallagher's "C'mon You Know"]

♪ ♪

- You sit right down there.

You sit there and I'll climb over.

- When we land, we'll shut down completely.

- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.

- I'll come and open the doors for you.

- Yeah, great. Thank you.

- Have a lovely evening. - Cheers, mate.

♪ You know it's gonna be alright ♪

♪ And we're gonna dance all night ♪

- Right.

- ♪ Come on you know ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Get up ♪

♪ Stand up if you feel alive ♪

♪ I only wanna see you smile ♪

♪ Come on you know ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Beautiful people, come out to play ♪

♪ Brothers and sisters, it's time ♪

♪ So let's start living and be thankful and giving ♪

♪ We're only here for a short while ♪

♪ I think it's coming home again ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Show love ♪

♪ I'm sick of acting like I'm tough ♪

♪ Come on, baby, giz a hug ♪

♪ Come on, you know ♪

all: Liam! Liam! Liam! Liam! Liam! Liam!

- ♪ Freedom ♪

♪ I can feel it everywhere ♪

♪ So get your hands up in the air ♪

♪ Come on you know ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Beautiful people, come out to play ♪

♪ Brothers and sisters, it's time ♪

♪ So let's start living and be thankful and giving ♪

♪ We're only here for a short while ♪

♪ I think it's coming home again ♪

♪ I think it's coming home again ♪

[crowd chanting]

♪ So let's start living and be thankful and giving ♪

♪ We're only here for a short while ♪

♪ I think it's coming home again ♪

[cheers and applause]

all: Liam! Liam! Liam! Liam! Liam! Liam! Liam! Liam! Liam!

[cheers and applause]

- Knebworth, I am he, you are he,

you are me, and we are all together.

[cheers and applause]

[Liam Gallagher's "Wall of Glass"]

♪ ♪

♪ You would keep the secrets in ya ♪

♪ You be been keeping paraphernalia, oh ♪

♪ I think you know ♪

♪ And anyone can walk up to ya' ♪

♪ Anyone can see right through your eyes ♪

♪ All night ♪

♪ And I don't mean to be unkind ♪

♪ But I see what's in your mind ♪

♪ And the stone you throw will turn back in its path ♪

♪ One day you'll shatter like a wall of glass ♪

♪ A wall of glass ♪ - ♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

- ♪ A wall of glass ♪ - ♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

- ♪ One day you'll shatter like a wall of glass ♪

♪ A wall of glass, yeah ♪

- ♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

- ♪ A wall of glass ♪ - ♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

- ♪ One day you'll shatter like a wall of glass ♪

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

[Liam Gallagher's "Shockwave"]

♪ ♪

♪ You sold me right up the river ♪

♪ You had to hold me back ♪

♪ You could've looked for the sunshine, girl ♪

♪ But you had to paint the whole thing black ♪

♪ And now I'm back in the city ♪

♪ The lights are up on me ♪

♪ They tried to keep me locked away ♪

♪ But hallelujah, I feel free ♪

♪ All your darkness ♪

♪ Has come back to you in time ♪

♪ And brace yourself, world ♪

♪ It's about to blow your mind ♪

♪ I'm coming 'round like a shockwave, hey ♪

♪ I'm coming 'round like a shockwave, hey ♪

♪ You've played the game one too many times ♪

♪ You're gonna burn until you behave, hey ♪

♪ And maybe the shame will open your eyes ♪

♪ And maybe the shame will open your eyes ♪

♪ And maybe the shame will open your eyes ♪

♪ It's coming 'round like a shockwave ♪

[cheers and applause]

And ever since I seen the Stone Roses,

I just wanted to be in a band.

They weren't flashy, you know what I mean?

Like people that had been before.

They was doing it in a cool way.

Thought, "Fuck, I can do what he's doing, man.

"I definitely can, I know for a fact I can, and look cool.

I can do that without breaking into a sweat."

But now I obviously sweat me fucking ass off

because I fucking mean it.

But yeah, no, ever since I seen them,

I thought I wanted to be in a band and that is it.

And if I'm not, there'll be fucking trouble.

[Liam Gallagher's "Everything's Electric"]

♪ ♪

♪ The city is burning ♪

♪ Sinking ships in the ocean ♪

♪ With a head full of dreams at night ♪

♪ Sorrow's written the story of life ♪

♪ Ain't nothing to do, but I was digging for gold dust ♪

♪ I see the shame in your eyes this time ♪

♪ And no, baby, it's cold inside ♪

♪ Your fake humble called out, got you tongue-tied ♪

♪ Your best chance at success got ya denied ♪

♪ No, you thought I wouldn't know ♪

♪ I don't hate you, but I despise that feeling ♪

♪ There's nothing left for me here ♪

♪ You won't know if you don't go ♪

♪ Superficial feelings ♪

♪ It's hard to take it easy ♪

♪ Underneath the red sun ♪

♪ Everything's electric ♪

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

You know, there's a lot of people out there

that play stuff because they've got to play it.

I mean, fuck that.

If I don't enjoy singing it,

then it ain't getting played, you know what I mean?

I don't give a shit if it's a new single

or fucking the drums cost fucking £45,000

or fucking, you know,

fucking Frank Zappa helped me write it, I don't give a fuck.

If I don't enjoy it, it won't get played.

Thank you, and this one's called "Bad Days."

[cheers and applause]

[Liam Gallagher's "Better Days"]

♪ ♪

♪ You say you can't open up your eyes ♪

♪ 'Cause you're reeling ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Baby, try to remember ♪

♪ It's just a feeling ♪

♪ And there'll be better waves that begin to echo ♪

♪ Through the wasteland of your mind ♪

♪ Through the Milky Way, oh, my love will hold you ♪

♪ Hope it gets you through the night ♪

♪ If you're lost, I'll find you there ♪

♪ With the sunlight in your hair ♪

♪ All the sadness ♪

♪ Washed away by the rain ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Believe me, yeah ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Believe me, yeah ♪

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

I'm not precious as a lot of these other people.

A lot of people think they're curing fucking cancer

and it's like, fuck off, mate, I've heard it before.

And you're not as good as Nina Simone.

I knew who I was from an early age.

I'm a little fucking cheeky fucking monkey kind of like,

you know what I mean, who likes to have a laugh

and I obviously can be a little shit sometimes.

But deep down,

I'm a good person, you know what I mean?

And I knew that at fucking three or four or five.

And so I never want to run away from that.

Because the opposite of that is a cunt.

[Liam Gallagher's "The River"]

♪ ♪

♪ Well, come on, you're weak of knees ♪

♪ Afraid of the thought police ♪

♪ You say our generation ♪

♪ Is forsaken ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Get out of your clouds of weed ♪

♪ Get out of your time machines ♪

♪ You can say that ♪

♪ The sleeper has awakened ♪

♪ ♪

♪ You gotta scream and shout ♪

♪ If you're gonna work this out ♪

♪ Change comes when the water falls ♪

♪ I've been waiting so long for you down by the river ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Well, the walls are closing in ♪

♪ And your head's in constant spin ♪

♪ And the pain in your eyes ♪

♪ I do comprehend ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Don't believe celebrities ♪

♪ The money-suckin' MPs ♪

♪ The device in your hands ♪

♪ Imitation beauty ♪

♪ ♪

♪ You gotta scream and shout ♪

♪ If you're gonna work this out ♪

♪ Change comes when the water falls ♪

♪ I've been waiting so long for you ♪

♪ Down by the river ♪

[cheers and applause]

all: ♪ The cut, it never really heals ♪

♪ Just enough to stop the bleed ♪

♪ ♪

♪ And you won't get the girl you want ♪

♪ But you'll get the girl you need ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Mother, mother ♪

♪ I'll admit that I was angry for too long ♪

♪ Oh, I wish I had more power ♪

♪ ♪

- ♪ People talking like they're gods ♪

♪ But that's just not the deal ♪

all: ♪ Ooh ♪

- ♪ If you want to keep the things you love ♪

♪ Then you better learn to kneel ♪

all: ♪ Ooh ♪

♪ ♪

- ♪ Father, father ♪

♪ I can see so many things now that you're gone ♪

♪ How I wish I had more power ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

♪ How I wish I had more power ♪

♪ ♪

all: ♪ How I wish I had more power ♪

♪ How I wish I had more power ♪

♪ ♪

♪ How I wish I had more power ♪

- ♪ You're never alone ♪

all: ♪ How I wish I had more power ♪

♪ ♪

♪ The cutting never really heals ♪

♪ Just enough to stop the bleed ♪

all: ♪ Ooh ♪

- ♪ And you won't get the girl you want ♪

♪ But you'll get the girl you need ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Mother, mother ♪

♪ I'll admit that I was angry for too long ♪

♪ How I wish I had more power ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

♪ How I wish I had more power ♪

♪ ♪

You're fucking beautiful.

[cheers and applause]

♪ ♪

♪ Is this what you came for? ♪

♪ ♪

♪ This is what you came for ♪

♪ Is this what you came for? ♪

♪ This is what you came for ♪

♪ Is this what you came for? ♪

♪ This is what you came for ♪

♪ Is this what you came for? ♪

♪ This is what you came for ♪

♪ This is what you came for ♪

♪ ♪

all: ♪ Ah ♪

♪ Ah ♪

♪ Ah ♪

♪ ♪

[cheering and applause]

- Thank you.

It's a magical position to be around music

and to understand it and be able to make it

and be able to sing it to people

who live in a fucking other world

or another country that don't even speak your language

and still touch them with your voice.

I never took that for granted, do you know what I mean?

People in Japan that speak a different fucking language

and that, they hear my voice or hear the songs

and dig it and tell me how much they like it

and come to see us.

You know, you can't take that for granted.

It ain't for show, man.

Thank you very much.

[cheers and applause]

[Liam Gallagher's "Once"]

♪ It was easier to have fun back when we had nothing ♪

♪ Nothing much to manage ♪

♪ And back when we were damaged ♪

♪ Sometimes the freedom we wanted ♪

♪ Feels so uncool ♪

♪ We just clean the pool ♪

♪ And send the kids to school ♪

♪ But oh, I remember how you used to shine ♪

♪ Back then ♪

♪ You went down so easy like a glass of wine ♪

♪ My friend ♪

♪ When the dawn came up ♪

♪ You felt so inspired to do it again ♪

♪ But it turns out ♪

♪ We only get to do it once ♪

♪ I think it's true what they say ♪

♪ That the dream is borrowed ♪

♪ You give it back tomorrow ♪

♪ Minus the sorrow ♪

♪ And the pain she just comes in ♪

♪ To break up the daydream ♪

♪ Her knife edges waving ♪

♪ To keep from feeling the same thing ♪

♪ But oh, I remember how you used to shine ♪

♪ Back then ♪

♪ You went down so easy like a glass of wine ♪

♪ My friend ♪

♪ When the dawn came up ♪

♪ You felt so inspired to do it again ♪

♪ But it turns out ♪

♪ We only get to do it once ♪

♪ You only get to do it once ♪

♪ You only get to do it once ♪

♪ You only get to do it once ♪

♪ Oh, once ♪

♪ Once ♪

- ♪ Ooh ♪ - ♪ Once ♪

♪ Once ♪

♪ Once ♪

♪ Once ♪

- ♪ Ooh ♪ - ♪ Once ♪

♪ Once ♪

♪ But oh, I remember how you used to shine ♪

♪ Back then ♪

♪ You went down so easy like a glass of wine ♪

♪ My friend ♪

♪ When the dawn came up ♪

♪ You felt so inspired to do it again ♪

♪ But it turns out ♪

♪ We only get to do it once ♪

Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

It's kind of hard to explain, man.

It's like, you sort of--

you sort of just get into a zone, you know what I mean,

a bit of a trance, you know what I mean,

and just sort of, dare I say it,

you sort of just become a bit supersonic.

And then, you know, there's days

when you can have a fucking real moment,

like, a spiritual moment or whatever moment,

whatever the fuck it is that you're into.

It's a big fucking thing, all these people,

and watching everyone's fucking faces,

the joy that it brings and the tears

and stuff like that and all the happiness.

The word "biblical" doesn't do it

justice, you know what I mean?

There's no word. They haven't invented

any words yet for it.

But you can get a bit too carried away with that

if you zone in too much.

So you've gotta fucking stay on it and remain cool.

That's why I think this connects

because we're all the same.

It's beautiful.

Thank you. Goodnight.

Take care of yourself.

Nice one.

Without you, this didn't fucking happen.

Usually, we're bollocks.

- [indistinct]!

That was [indistinct]!

[reverb humming]

[dreamy music]

♪ ♪

- I thought we sounded half decent.

I thought the band played great.

Everyone seemed to have a nice time.

And when I played in Oasis and all that,

I was like fucking--

like, you know, jazz hands, you know what I mean?

I was like some little giddy fucking twat off Broadway.

And this time, I kind of held it down,

so I'm proud of that.

If the vocals ain't too good,

I'm proud that I fucking kept my hands in my pockets.

And the crowd were fucking-- the crowd were the best

thing about it, you know what I mean?

Like, it's the crowd, innit?

- It's an absolute buzz, an absolute buzz.

- Unreal. - That was 26 years

in the making, and we're here.

And we've only been here for 21 of 'em.

Unbelievable. - Yeah, it was

the best gig he's done by far.

- Yeah. - 100%.

- You know something's good

when you're walking out the front pit at the end,

and you just sort of stop to take it all in, don't you?

- Yeah. - Like, you've just gotta

close your eyes, it's one of those moments.

- It was incredible.

- He was singing, and I just thought,

what a perfect moment to propose to her

after eight years of being together and two little girls.

So I did, and she said yes.

So how good, eh? - How good.

- As good as it was being here at Knebworth

for Liam Gallagher, you know, to get engaged here as well,

that was just fucking brilliant.

- I'm feeling like I'm floating,

you know what I mean, like nothing was real.

I can't--it was like-- I have like--

I'm still there, you know what I mean?

I'm still screaming, and tomorrow I might

be exhausted to death,

but today is gonna be the day.

I'm feeling amazing. I'm feeling alive.

To be honest, I'm feeling alive.

- I've got a free vegan burger if you want it.

- No, thanks. - I'm not gonna eat it.

- No, that's so nice of you.

Thank you. - No problem.

- Thank you very much.

- Really, I love Liam Gallagher a long time.

You know? - Yeah.

- So tonight is really fantastic.

I'm fucking crying, really.

It's amazing. - Yeah.

- Yeah. - Fucking cry.

- Yeah. [laughter]

- Well, I went to a Knebworth show just expecting it

to be, like, some fun show,

and I actually got Liam Gallagher's tambourine.

Oh, that made me feel so happy.

I wasn't after it.

- I think overall, it was all right.

You have moments of fucking, like, greatness,

and then, like, you know, you hit a bum note

or something, and then I go into my head and go,

yeah, fucking nuts, cunt.

And then you kind of come out of it again.

So it had its--it had its moments like every gig does.

Well, that's what it's about, innit, man,

like, bringing people together.

We needed that after the pandemic.

So to have everyone come over and just wanting

to be part of it is fucking amazing,

just to get us all in that field

and have that special time again.

- You can listen to records, you can listen to music

on your phone, but hearing it live

and hearing that sort of passion actually come through,

it's not like anything else.

It is the best feeling in the world.

And sometimes it feels like it is just you,

even if you're not at the front.

It is just a proper magical experience.

- Being there with other people,

sharing it with other people,

you feel the atmosphere, the passion.

The minute the artist comes on stage and the electricity,

you know, it makes your blood boil a little bit and,

you know, the beads of sweat dripping down your face.

- You know, to go to live shows with your mates

when you're all connected there

and you're all arm in arm,

you know, to sing along and have a beer

and just relax and forget about all the things

that make you depressed or sad or worried.

And you know, it's a unique process.

- I had the Knebworth blues, man, for a bit,

for a month, man, it was like that.

Fucking hell, man, what do we do next?

And I guess you're gonna get that when there's a lot

of energy in the field, you know what I mean,

and you're putting it out there.

When you come back, you're sort of, like, a bit--

you're a bit hollow.

I'm gonna be 50 probably by the time this comes out.

So I'm just gonna go have a nice holiday,

chill out, try and stay healthy.

Fucking keep making music, man.

Don't think about it too much, you know what I mean?

For me, it's a great gig, and it's, you know,

loads of people and that, but I think I could fucking--

I could do it again in another 20 years.

I've got no big aspirations

to change the world or whatever.

I just want to live in it my way,

you know I mean, and do what I do.

If people get inspired by that, so be it.

If they don't, fuck 'em.

[Liam Gallagher's "You Better Run"]

♪ ♪