Earlier in August , Liam had told how badly his relationship with his older brother Noel had gotten , revealing that the two no longer speak with each other , travel separately while on tour and only see each other when they are on stage . It is quite a conflictual relationship .
“ It takes more than blood to be my brother ,” Liam told the online entertainment magazine NME . The band ’ s vocalist said the last time the two had spoken was in an argument at an airport which had left Noel in tears . What brought their relationship to this point ?
The bad vibes between the siblings continued a series of falling- outs between them , dating back to 1995 when Liam refused to go on tour in America with the band . In 2000 , Noel walked out on the group ’ s world tour reported unhappy about Liam ’ s outlandish behaviour .
While neither brother quit the group , other band members did , but Oasis continued to produce new albums , and altogether Oasis has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide over the past 15 years .
Backstage , Paris , pre-Oasis gig , August 28 , 2009 . Noel and Liam , those Gallagher brothers , have yet another spectacular row . Noel reportedly smashes Liam ’ s guitar ( which had been given to him by his wife Nicole , née Appleton ). The show is cancelled .
Earlier in August , Liam had told how badly his relationship with his older brother Noel had gotten , revealing that the two no longer speak with each other , travel separately while on tour and only see each other when they are on stage . It is quite a conflictual relationship .
This is drama , but surely not particularly out-of-theordinary drama — after all , the Gallagher brothers , defining members of the defining British band of the past 20 years , have been rowing since they were toddlers . Fraternal aggro is programmed into their DNA . It turns out , though , that this spat is , for Noel at least , an Oasis-killer . Shortly afterwards he formally exits the biggest British band since the Beatles . He posts this explanation : “ People will write and say what they
Singer Noel Gallagher shakes his signature tambourine during a live show in Manchester .
like but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer .” W
Liam — the only Gallagher still in Oasis — has so far kept shtoom about that bust-up and the future of his band . Informed speculation has it that Oasis is not over ; that Liam ( the lead singer , the charismatic one , the one the fans chant for even if Noel wrote all the big tunes ) will carry on .
Liam Gallagher pronounces Oasis dead , over , kaput , when we are more than halfway through a running-late , al-
“ And it ’ s a shame but that ’ s life . We had a good run at it .”
ready-cancelled-once interview that I had expected — given his boorish , hard-to-handle reputation — to be neither enjoyable nor revelatory . Under no circumstances , ran the edict , would Liam be discussing Noel , his brother ’ s departure from the band , the future of the band , or anything band-sensitive . Get it ? This was to be an interview about clothes ; Liam ’ s passion for them and , most of all , his new fashion label Pretty Green , which some have suggested ( a lame suggestion , surely ) was a factor in Noel ’ s apoplectic departure . //
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