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INTERVIEWER: Does the red light
mean it's on, yeah?
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MAN: Yeah.
LIAM GALLAGHER: Pour a few glasses at me.
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(NOEL GALLAGHER YAWNS)
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I've had about four fucking
coffees today, man,
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and they've fucking proper knocked me out.
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What the fuck's going on?
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Now I'm fucking double tired,
it's like, come on.
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INTERVIEWER: All right,
how are we doing in there, are we good?
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MAN: Yeah, we're rolling,
I'm just going to do a sync pip.
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{BEEP}
- INTERVIEWER: Okay, lovely.
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So, what do you think
looking back at that time
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because it was, like,
two-and-a-half years really,
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from being signed to playing Knebworth.
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What happened to that band?
What happened to you in those three years?
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Sorry, that was a big question.
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LIAM: It is a big question,
and it deserves a big answer.
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REPORTER 1: As Oasis gears up
to rock a quarter of a million fans,
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we're live from Knebworth.
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REPORTER 2: By Sunday night,
Oasis will have played
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to more than a third of a million people
in just over one week.
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Hi, this is Jo Whiley
welcoming you to a rather special event,
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the live gig of the decade.
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REPORTER 1: In just over three years,
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Oasis will have gone
from being a new signing
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to one of rock's true giants.
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(CHEERING)
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(HELICOPTER ROTORS WHIRRING)
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CROWD: (CHANTING) Oasis! Oasis! Oasis!
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CROWD: (CHANTING) Three, two, one!
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(CHEERING)
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(CHEERING INTENSIFIES)
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Are we not playing a game?
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Oasis was definitely like a fucking Ferrari.
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Great to look at, great to drive,
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and it would fucking spin out
of control every now and again
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when you go too fast.
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We were just lads from a council estate-
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Two brothers, head cases.
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Oasis' greatest strength
was the relationship between me and Liam.
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It's also what drove the band
into the ground in the end,
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you know what I mean?
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# There we were, now here we are
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# All this confusion
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# Nothing's the same to me
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# There we were, now here we are
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# All this confusion
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# Nothing's the same to me
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# I can't tell you the way I feel because
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# The way I feel is oh so new to me
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# I can't tell you the way I feel because
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# The way I feel is oh so new to me #
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(MUSIC PLAYING)
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(LIAM SPEAKING)
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(LAUGHTER)
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(LIAM SPEAKING)
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(LAUGHTER)
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For me, music, I wasn't into it until, like,
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when I was about 16 or 17 maybe.
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Anyone with a guitar, or in a band
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I thought was a bit suspect,
you know what I mean?
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And like, I'd hurl abuse at them.
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I used to share a room with Noel.
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A biz' of a stoner, a biz' of a loner.
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You know, he had a guitar,
so he was copping for it,
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you know what I mean?
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Always very quiet, Noel.
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Always in his room
with a piece of paper and a pen
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and he'd be writing.
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Always strumming the guitar.
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Many is the time I went up
and I knocked that guitar and said,
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"Bloody guitar,
you get on my bloody nerves!"
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Yeah, I mean,
once I'd discovered weed and guitars,
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you got into another world.
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What would you want to go out for?
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Everything I ever wanted in life
was coming out of the speakers.
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I don't know why me and Liam
would be so different.
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We both had the same childhood,
do you know what I mean?
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PEGGIE: He was a devil, Liam.
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Full of it, yeah.
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Total attention seeker.
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Robbing your clothes, robbing your records,
robbing your this, robbing your that.
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Robbing your money.
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NOEL: Definitely a biz' of a show-off,
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but not to the point where it's, like, fucking,
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you know, Bonnie Langford,
do you know what I mean?
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Or one of them little fucking brats
with jazz hands.
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Well, Liam was, allegedly,
he was the cock of the school.
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No one messed with him.
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I think one day some rival school turned up
and boshed him on the head with a hammer.
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We were stood there having a cig
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and I remember all these lads coming down.
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These kids pulled out this
little fucking hammer
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and went whack on my head.
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Blood everywhere.
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Got out of fucking double Maths,
so that was all right.
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I've got a perfect alibi for that,
so it's nothing to do with me!
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From that day on,
and I know it sounds stupid,
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but it was like as if something had fucking
clicked, do you know what I mean?
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You know, I started hearing music,
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it started making sense,
you know what I mean?
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So, whoever he is, thank you.
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Somebody hammered the music into him.
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He's got a fucking lot to answer for,
hasn't he?
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All my life as it existed then was,
like going to sign on,
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getting my cash, cashing my dole,
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going to the Sifters, getting a record,
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buying some weed, going into Greggs,
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going back home and fucking blasting it out
and getting soaked in it.
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I was just obsessed with being in a band.
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Just ob-fucking-sessed, man.
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Actually, I never thought
Liam was interested in music
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until he used to sit out there in the kitchen
and say,
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"I'm going to be famous one day," he said.
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"And you're going to be really proud of me."
I said, "Am I?"
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I said, "Well, I hope it's before
I start pushing up daisies-" (LAUGHS)
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"Because we need the money now!"
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And then of course,
Bonehead started coming round,
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and Tony McCarroll and Guigsy.
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That's when Liam formed the band.
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I knew Bonehead and I knew Guigs,
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and they were in a band called The Rain.
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They'd heard I was cool,
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and I'd had my epiphany,
and all that bollocks.
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Someone in passing just said,
"You know, Liam wanted to be in a band."
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Liam came round my house.
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His voice was just like, "Whoa!"
You know, it's like, "Yeah!"
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LIAM: # I used to live my life in vain
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# Until today it's been the same
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# I've gone away... #
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BONEHEAD: It wasn't the Liam we all know.
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A bit more softer, a lot more melodic-
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And obviously his look. I mean, he looked
like Liam's always looked, you know.
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He had a great haircut, great walk.
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"I'll have a biz' of that."
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He went, "Right, look,
do you want to be in this band?"
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Noel says, "Yeah, but we'll have to change that
fucking name though'cause it's terrible."
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There was a poster in our room
for the lnspiral Carpets.
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It certainly wasn't about Swindon Oasis.
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It was like, you know,
there was a kebab shop called Oasis.
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There was a fucking taxi rank called Oasis.
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That fucking name keeps coming up, "Oasis".
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We were, kind of, a little bit out on our own.
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I just thought, "Oasis", that was good, man.
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NOEL: I'm not in Oasis at this point.
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I'm not in a band,
I've no intention of being in a band.
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I'm just pan' of a road crew
for lnspiral Carpets
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trying not to get sacked from this job
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because I fucking blagged my way into it
and I'm an absolute chancer.
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The main thing was, like,
getting Noel in the band.
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Good morning!
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He was a songwriter.
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He's a tight bastard!
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(LAUGHTER)
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I'm okay with me.
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LIAM: In my head,
I thought, "He'll come off tour
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"when he sees that we're doing it
instead of talking about it,
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"he'll want to join our band
and he'll do the business."
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(LIAM SPEAKING)
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I've done a couple of tours of America-
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I'd been to Argentina.
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I'd been to Japan.
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So as far as they went, I went with them.
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I met Mark Coyle,
sat at the back of the tour bus
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smoking weed and doing the monitors.
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That's how I met Noel,
pulling this fucking face
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because this is his thing.
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He's the roadie for that band.
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And as soon as we started talking
we were, fucking, best mates straightaway.
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If there's one thing I'd remember about Noel,
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is that he never had a fucking dirty hand.
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But he loved that band.
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They were all terrified of him.
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Yeah, he was just the boss all the way,
from the minute go when I met him.
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I thought we were great.
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I mean, clearly we weren't
because we did get fired,
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separately got fired by the band,
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for being unprofessional
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and somewhat unapproachable
by various tour managers.
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(CHUCKLES) Lazy cunts!
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(LAUGHING) Yeah!
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I'd like to thank the lnspiral Carpets
for sacking him. Well done!
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We had some great, funny fucking times.
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I wasn't sitting at the side of the stage,
tuning guitars, thinking,
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"One day, this is going to be me."
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I thought that I'd arrived at that point
and that was it.
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I thought, "This will fucking do me,"
do you know what I mean?
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I was doing a gig in Munich.
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I was somebody sound-checking a bass drum.
Boom.
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One, two. What's sibilance?
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I used to phone home on a Sunday,
phone my mum.
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(PHONE RINGING)
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It's Noel.
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PEGGIE: On the phone? Just a minute.
I'll get it out here. Hello?
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How are you, Noel?
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- Are you all right?
- Yeah.
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Just doing Liam's washing for him.
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Doing his dirty washing for him.
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NOEL: But, anyway, we were chatting
away about family stuff
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and then I said, "How's Liam?"
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"Oh, he's out rehearsing."
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"What for? He's not joined the
Shakespeare fucking group, has he?"
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"Oh, no, he's in a band."
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"What? Doing what?"
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"He's the singer."
"He's the singer? He can't fucking sing."
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"Oh, I don't know now.
He said he's the singer."
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And that was it, and then I, kind of, got home
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and our Paul's going,
"Oh, yeah, he's in this band.
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"They're pretty fucking good, you know."
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And then they were playing
at the local band night
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on at the Boardwalk.
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And I went down to see them.
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(MUSIC PLAYING)
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# Take me, when I'm young and true
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# Was it me or was it you?
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# Take me, when I'm not so strong
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# Why has it taken you so long? #
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NOEL: I was like, "Wow, fucking hell!
I'm pretty impressed."
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They had their own songs,
and Liam didn't look that out of place.
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(LAUGHTER)
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NOEL: The first thing they said when they
come up to me was, "What did you think?"
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I said, "It was fucking great,"
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and they said, "We were thinking,
would you fancy being our manager?"
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I was like, "What?
What the fuck are they talking about? No."
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And they were, like, "Because you know
loads of people, and all that."
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"Not sure about that.
I think you'd get a better manager than me."
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And then a couple of weeks later
Liam said, "Come and fucking jam with us."
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(MUSIC PLAYING)
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You know, so I went and sat in with them
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and I was playing their tunes,
and it was great.
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And then I think the second time I went,
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Liam was going, "Play them
that fucking song that you played us."
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(PLAYING GUITAR)
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And then once everybody all joined in
and you hear this thing
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that you've, in inverted commas, "written,"
being played back to you in this room
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and it's like,
"Wow! Fucking hell! That's amazing!"
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It just went from there, really.
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# It's a biz' early in the midnight hour for me
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# To think of all the things I want to be
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# I don't believe in everything I see
240
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# You know I'm blind,
so why do you disagree?
241
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# Take me away
because I just don'z' want to stay
242
00:14:05,914 --> 00:14:11,754
# And the lies you make me say
are getting deeper every day
243
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# These are crazy days
but they make me shine
244
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# Time keeps rolling by
245
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# All around the world
246
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# You've got to spread the word
247
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# Tell them what you heard
248
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# Because you know it's going to be okay #
249
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NOEL: To hear your own stuff played back,
it was really a mega moment.
250
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And then it went nowhere
for two years. (LAUGHS)
251
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So, I mean, there is the myth that I kicked
open the fuckin' rehearsal room door
252
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to the theme tune from
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,
253
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and said, "Everybody, stop what you're doing.
I am here to make us all millionaires."
254
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You know, It wasn't that at all,
you know what I mean?
255
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No, the truth is,
he got on his hands and knees and said,
256
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"Listen, I'll do anything,
just, please, let me be in your band."
257
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I said, "Get up off your hands and knees, son.
You're all right, you can do it."
258
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I think I've got a picture of it somewhere.
259
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For that 18 months to two years,
we never gave up.
260
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If nothing else, we were dedicated.
261
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Yeah, I loved it. I loved it.
262
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That was when we were on our own for a biz',
263
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when everyone was in the hacienda
popping pills and that,
264
00:15:30,834 --> 00:15:32,394
and all my mates would be
knocking on the door going,
265
00:15:32,474 --> 00:15:33,514
"What are you doing now?"
266
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"I'm going down
to the fucking rehearsal room."
267
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The whole fucking city was like
just immersed in this music
268
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that didn't make sense to me,
you know what I mean?
269
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(TECHNO MUSIC PLAYING)
270
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We weren't the best musicians,
but we had spirit, man,
271
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and that was lacking massively at that point.
272
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I always thought that we were greater
than the sum of our parts,
273
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you know what I mean?
274
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Bonehead? (LAUGHS)
275
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He was kind of the glue
that held it all together.
276
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God bless him.
277
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If anything, I'd say Bonehead
was the spirit of Oasis.
278
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He's a top musician and all, Bonehead.
He's like, he can play anything,
279
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but he's a mental cunt
and I loved his mad side.
280
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So me and him would get up to mad
shit together, you know what I mean?
281
00:16:11,394 --> 00:16:13,994
Guigsy? Guigs brought a calmness to it all.
282
00:16:14,074 --> 00:16:15,314
He never got flustered.
283
00:16:15,874 --> 00:16:20,354
He loved cricket and Doctor Who,
and weed and Man City.
284
00:16:20,434 --> 00:16:23,554
I'd say fifth after that was being in Oasis.
285
00:16:23,634 --> 00:16:25,474
I'd say that came a lowly fifth.
286
00:16:26,394 --> 00:16:28,034
Guigsy, chilled out motherfucker, man.
287
00:16:28,114 --> 00:16:31,874
Lovely lad, but just a complete
and utter fucking stoner.
288
00:16:33,154 --> 00:16:36,234
Tony was a person that I shared a room
in the early days, you know,
289
00:16:36,354 --> 00:16:39,914
and I really, really got on with Tony.
Really nice person.
290
00:16:39,994 --> 00:16:43,434
Very Irish in his ways, you know,
came from a massive Irish family.
291
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Definitely the quiet one.
292
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The one who was most reserved.
293
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TONY MCCARROLL: None of them lot
had kids, none of them had responsibility.
294
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I had a different outlook on life.
295
00:16:52,834 --> 00:16:54,834
I always had my daughter
in the back of my head.
296
00:16:54,914 --> 00:16:55,914
That moulded me.
297
00:16:57,034 --> 00:16:59,914
Oasis was going for about maybe six months,
a year,
298
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and I was writing songs just to amuse myself,
299
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and then one night, I went down with a song
and everything changed
300
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(GUITAR PLAYING)
301
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# Maybe I don't really want to know
302
00:17:27,394 --> 00:17:29,834
# How your garden grows
303
00:17:31,114 --> 00:17:33,754
# Because I just want to fly
304
00:17:34,594 --> 00:17:39,914
# Lately, did you ever feel the pain?
305
00:17:41,154 --> 00:17:44,354
# In the morning rain
306
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# As it soaks you to the bone
307
00:17:48,874 --> 00:17:52,074
# Maybe I just want to fly
308
00:17:52,154 --> 00:17:55,634
# I want to live, I don't want to die
309
00:17:55,714 --> 00:17:58,834
# Maybe I just want to breathe
310
00:17:58,914 --> 00:18:02,114
# Maybe I just don't believe
311
00:18:02,194 --> 00:18:05,394
# Maybe you're the same as me
312
00:18:05,474 --> 00:18:08,794
# We see things they'll never see
313
00:18:08,874 --> 00:18:12,234
# You and I, we're gonna live forever #
314
00:18:15,114 --> 00:18:17,514
NOEL: Bonehead, he was saying,
"You've not just fucking written that.
315
00:18:17,594 --> 00:18:19,554
"That's no way that's your song."
316
00:18:19,634 --> 00:18:20,714
Well, I wouldn't believe it.
317
00:18:20,794 --> 00:18:22,034
For someone to come in a room and just go,
318
00:18:22,114 --> 00:18:24,394
"Oh, I'll play you one of my songs,"
and then play you Live Forever,
319
00:18:24,474 --> 00:18:25,634
it's like, "Fuck Off!
320
00:18:25,714 --> 00:18:27,594
"You didn't write that."
He said, "Why didn't I?"
321
00:18:27,674 --> 00:18:29,114
I said, "Because listen to it!"
322
00:18:29,194 --> 00:18:31,874
You know, I thought, "Wow! What a song!
You didn't write it."
323
00:18:31,954 --> 00:18:33,474
"Yeah, I did- " "NO, you didn't."
324
00:18:33,554 --> 00:18:37,674
I knew enough about music and about songs
to know that that was a great song,
325
00:18:37,754 --> 00:18:39,834
and then one followed another.
326
00:18:39,914 --> 00:18:41,634
And it's like, "No, this happening now.
327
00:18:41,714 --> 00:18:45,154
"And even if no one else takes any notice
of it, this is happening."
328
00:18:45,914 --> 00:18:47,874
I didn't really get involved
with the music kind of thing.
329
00:18:47,954 --> 00:18:49,874
I was, like, "Look, that's your thing,
you do that.
330
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"I'll just be cool as fuck over there- "
331
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Once they were in a band
332
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I knew they weren't going to listen to me
about steady jobs.
333
00:18:57,554 --> 00:18:59,354
They were up and down the country,
and I would say,
334
00:18:59,434 --> 00:19:00,874
"Oh, you might be lucky tonight."
335
00:19:00,954 --> 00:19:02,594
And I'd say to Noel, "Any luck, Noel?"
336
00:19:02,674 --> 00:19:05,514
"No." Then they'd go off again
somewhere else.
337
00:19:05,594 --> 00:19:07,514
I spend my life worrying about them.
338
00:19:09,914 --> 00:19:13,554
We didn't have one single paragraph
written about us, ever.
339
00:19:13,634 --> 00:19:15,314
No one even said we were shit.
340
00:19:15,394 --> 00:19:17,314
Completely and utterly fucking ignored.
341
00:19:17,434 --> 00:19:20,194
I kind of had a feeling it'd happened, man.
342
00:19:20,274 --> 00:19:23,394
I don't know what the consequences
would have been without it happening
343
00:19:23,474 --> 00:19:24,994
because it was, like, if it didn't happen,
344
00:19:25,074 --> 00:19:27,354
the world would be black,
do you know what I mean?
345
00:19:28,394 --> 00:19:34,034
We were sharing a rehearsal room
with an all-girl band called Sister Lovers.
346
00:19:34,114 --> 00:19:37,474
Unbeknown to us, one of the girls
in the band, Debbie Turner,
347
00:19:37,554 --> 00:19:40,554
God bless Debbie,
was an ex-girlfriend of Alan McGee's,
348
00:19:40,634 --> 00:19:44,314
the head of the coolest record label
in England.
349
00:19:44,394 --> 00:19:45,794
We were asking her what they're up to
350
00:19:45,874 --> 00:19:47,914
and they were saying,
"We're going up to do this gig."
351
00:19:48,354 --> 00:19:51,394
I think I was probably
being quite cocky actually in saying,
352
00:19:51,474 --> 00:19:53,874
"Oi, Noel, we're playing in Glasgow, "
353
00:19:53,954 --> 00:19:57,994
which, then, for an unsigned band
to get a gig outside Manchester,
354
00:19:58,074 --> 00:19:59,874
that was like playing Glastonbury.
355
00:20:00,514 --> 00:20:04,114
And we were like, "Well, how the fuck
have you got a gig and not us?"
356
00:20:04,274 --> 00:20:06,114
She said, "Why don't you come with us?
357
00:20:06,194 --> 00:20:07,434
"Be on the bill, kind of thing."
358
00:20:07,514 --> 00:20:10,554
And we were like, "Yeah, Glasgow?
Fuck it, let's do it."
359
00:20:10,634 --> 00:20:11,914
For the pure love of it.
360
00:20:11,994 --> 00:20:16,514
"If we all put in £25 each,
we can hire a splitter van
361
00:20:16,594 --> 00:20:21,274
"and get up there, kip in the van,
do the gig, get back. Yay!"
362
00:20:21,714 --> 00:20:22,794
So we hired a van out,
363
00:20:22,874 --> 00:20:25,634
smoking weed, all that nonsense, drinking.
364
00:20:25,714 --> 00:20:27,154
You know one of them days
where you just go,
365
00:20:27,234 --> 00:20:28,914
"It's fucking going to be the day today."
366
00:20:28,994 --> 00:20:30,554
Maybe it was the drugs or something.
367
00:20:30,634 --> 00:20:33,794
We get there really early
and we say, "We're Oasis from Manchester.
368
00:20:33,874 --> 00:20:34,994
"We've come here to play tonight."
369
00:20:35,074 --> 00:20:36,634
And the guy says,
"There's no band down here."
370
00:20:36,714 --> 00:20:38,354
I said, "Yeah, yeah, it's all right,
we're with Debbie-"
371
00:20:38,434 --> 00:20:40,514
And he's like,
"No, no, no, no, no fucking way."
372
00:20:40,954 --> 00:20:44,874
I think we said, "Well, if they're not playing,
we're not going to play.
373
00:20:44,954 --> 00:20:46,674
"We'll do a really short set, "
374
00:20:46,754 --> 00:20:50,034
which wasn't hard 'cause I think
we only had five songs anyway.
375
00:20:50,114 --> 00:20:52,354
Then Oasis were allowed to play.
376
00:20:56,714 --> 00:20:59,674
NOEL: So we went on,
we got to do four songs
377
00:20:59,754 --> 00:21:01,274
and we didn't think anything of it.
378
00:21:02,274 --> 00:21:07,194
Debbie didn't even know
that I was coming up to that gig.
379
00:21:07,274 --> 00:21:09,194
I'd been an evil, twisted fucker.
380
00:21:09,274 --> 00:21:11,914
I thought that I would show up
to put her on edge.
381
00:21:13,394 --> 00:21:14,394
(MUSIC PLAYING)
382
00:21:27,554 --> 00:21:32,274
# What was that sound
ringing around your brain?
383
00:21:33,794 --> 00:21:35,914
# Today was just a blur
384
00:21:35,994 --> 00:21:39,074
# You've got a head like a ghost train
385
00:21:40,034 --> 00:21:43,114
# You're the outcast
386
00:21:43,194 --> 00:21:46,234
# You're the underclass
387
00:21:46,314 --> 00:21:49,634
# But you don't care
388
00:21:49,714 --> 00:21:51,634
# Because you're living fast #
389
00:21:51,874 --> 00:21:56,274
At the end, there was just loads of feedback
and a smattering of applause.
390
00:21:56,714 --> 00:21:57,714
(APPLAUSE)
391
00:21:57,954 --> 00:22:01,874
I really do believe
some things are meant to fucking be.
392
00:22:01,954 --> 00:22:04,194
I was standing there
with my kid sister, Susan.
393
00:22:04,274 --> 00:22:05,714
She immediately went,
"You should sign these,"
394
00:22:05,794 --> 00:22:07,874
and I'm like, "Let's see the second song."
395
00:22:07,954 --> 00:22:09,634
And it's like, "I'm signing these!"
396
00:22:09,714 --> 00:22:11,914
And the third song,
"I'm definitely signing these!"
397
00:22:12,754 --> 00:22:15,074
And I, son' of like, went up to Noel and I said,
398
00:22:15,434 --> 00:22:17,034
"I'm Alan McGee. Do you want a record deal?"
399
00:22:17,114 --> 00:22:18,274
And I said, "Who With?"
400
00:22:18,354 --> 00:22:21,394
And he went, "Creation Records,"
and I kind of recognised him.
401
00:22:21,514 --> 00:22:22,514
And that was it!
402
00:22:25,394 --> 00:22:26,834
(LIAM SPEAKING)
403
00:22:42,754 --> 00:22:44,914
I don't remember anybody
high-fiving in the back of the van
404
00:22:45,034 --> 00:22:46,674
thinking, "Hurray, this is it!"
405
00:22:46,754 --> 00:22:48,514
I remember going back to Manchester
406
00:22:48,594 --> 00:22:50,994
and getting in to where
I was living, you know,
407
00:22:51,074 --> 00:22:52,634
at, what, 6:00 in the morning.
408
00:22:53,034 --> 00:22:56,354
And my then missus, Louise,
was getting ready to go to work.
409
00:22:56,914 --> 00:22:58,354
And I said,
410
00:22:58,434 --> 00:23:00,234
"Creation Records
have offered us a record deal, "
411
00:23:00,314 --> 00:23:01,754
and she started crying.
412
00:23:01,834 --> 00:23:05,154
She knew then that, you know,
that was going to be the end of us.
413
00:23:07,234 --> 00:23:10,594
I remember the day he came back
and told me he had the record deal.
414
00:23:10,674 --> 00:23:12,674
And of course I thought, "Oh, this is great."
415
00:23:12,754 --> 00:23:15,634
I never really thought
it would go the way it did though.
416
00:23:15,714 --> 00:23:19,914
Liam says, "All I want, Mum,
is to earn a biz' of money, " he says,
417
00:23:20,034 --> 00:23:22,954
"and get myself some new clothes."
(LAUGHS)
418
00:23:23,034 --> 00:23:24,394
And then it went haywire.
419
00:23:25,594 --> 00:23:28,154
Mum was an angel, still is.
420
00:23:28,234 --> 00:23:31,994
Not impressed by all this
rock 'n roll business, and rightly so.
421
00:23:33,394 --> 00:23:35,634
You know, when I think of those times,
do you know what I mean,
422
00:23:35,714 --> 00:23:38,194
she kind of brought us up on her own, really.
423
00:23:38,274 --> 00:23:41,114
And three lads,
particularly one of them being Liam,
424
00:23:41,194 --> 00:23:42,194
it was very tricky.
425
00:23:42,274 --> 00:23:44,514
I mean, she gave it all up for us,
you know what I mean?
426
00:23:44,994 --> 00:23:46,234
I wanted to make her proud.
427
00:23:46,314 --> 00:23:49,114
I wanted to get her to stop from doing,
like, three fucking jobs
428
00:23:49,194 --> 00:23:51,874
and put her feet up, you know what I mean,
and have nice things.
429
00:23:53,354 --> 00:23:55,194
I hated it when I came over here first.
430
00:23:55,994 --> 00:24:00,154
It was a big shock, I'm telling you,
to come to a big city like Manchester.
431
00:24:00,234 --> 00:24:02,834
Oh, I must have cried for about six months.
432
00:24:02,914 --> 00:24:05,794
It was after the New Year, I think it was 1963.
433
00:24:06,114 --> 00:24:07,954
I went to the carousel and met him there.
434
00:24:08,834 --> 00:24:10,194
Tommy Gallagher.
435
00:24:10,274 --> 00:24:13,274
We got married
after about nine or ten months.
436
00:24:13,354 --> 00:24:14,354
And that was it!
437
00:24:14,434 --> 00:24:15,794
He was lovely when I met him, like-
438
00:24:16,794 --> 00:24:20,554
Paul arrived ten months after I was married-
439
00:24:20,634 --> 00:24:23,074
Then Noel arrived a year after that again.
440
00:24:24,274 --> 00:24:26,114
We were dressed identical.
441
00:24:26,194 --> 00:24:28,154
She used to knit our clothes.
442
00:24:28,234 --> 00:24:31,474
So you can imagine, you've got no choice.
You couldn't say, "I don't like them, Mum,"
443
00:24:31,554 --> 00:24:34,634
because she's just spent four years
knitting you a jumper.
444
00:24:34,874 --> 00:24:38,794
Liam arrived five-and-a-half years after,
which was great.
445
00:24:38,874 --> 00:24:41,354
Well, that was the best time with the kids.
446
00:24:41,434 --> 00:24:45,834
(SIGHS) I think there was always that
bit of jealousy with Liam and Noel.
447
00:24:45,914 --> 00:24:48,874
I idolised Paul and Noel
because there were only the two of them,
448
00:24:48,954 --> 00:24:51,554
and Noel was absolutely beautiful
when he was a baby,
449
00:24:51,634 --> 00:24:55,474
and then, of course, Liam comes along,
takes the limelight off you.
450
00:24:55,554 --> 00:24:56,794
He probably thought, "Urgh!"
451
00:24:56,874 --> 00:24:59,674
But you could tell the disagreements
that were there with them.
452
00:25:00,754 --> 00:25:02,634
I was glad they were together in a band.
453
00:25:02,714 --> 00:25:05,554
I would not have wanted Liam
in a band without Noel.
454
00:25:06,794 --> 00:25:08,994
But it all happened too quick,
455
00:25:09,114 --> 00:25:10,634
just too quick altogether.
456
00:25:11,354 --> 00:25:12,354
(CHEERING)
457
00:25:12,434 --> 00:25:14,154
LIAM: Good evening, Great Britain!
458
00:25:15,074 --> 00:25:16,594
Hello!
459
00:25:16,834 --> 00:25:18,394
MAN: Oasis, are you down there?
460
00:25:18,554 --> 00:25:21,074
- LIAM: We certainly are.
- Do you fancy having a biz' of a chat?
461
00:25:21,154 --> 00:25:22,154
LIAM: Go on then.
462
00:25:22,234 --> 00:25:25,394
MAN: "Go on then." There's a story about
you lot getting signed to Creation.
463
00:25:25,474 --> 00:25:27,474
Alan McGee saw you in a club in Glasgow.
Is that right?
464
00:25:27,554 --> 00:25:29,034
LIAM: Don't believe the hype.
465
00:25:29,114 --> 00:25:30,234
NOEL: No, he did, yeah.
466
00:25:30,314 --> 00:25:32,634
There was like seven people there, I think,
and he was two of them.
467
00:25:32,714 --> 00:25:33,714
MAN; Right.
468
00:25:33,794 --> 00:25:35,314
NOEL: And he signed us there and then,
on the spot.
469
00:25:35,394 --> 00:25:36,394
MAN: Was he drunk?
470
00:25:36,474 --> 00:25:39,554
NOEL: He actually thinks
we're the greatest band in the fucking world.
471
00:25:39,634 --> 00:25:43,154
He's phoned me up,
about fucking 5:00 in the morning,
472
00:25:43,274 --> 00:25:44,314
going, "You know, man,
473
00:25:44,394 --> 00:25:47,914
"we're going to annihilate
the fucking world, man!"
474
00:25:49,314 --> 00:25:52,114
McGee wanted
Bring It On Down to be the first single
475
00:25:52,194 --> 00:25:54,154
and I was fine with that, I love that song.
476
00:25:54,234 --> 00:25:55,434
They're just... It's punk.
477
00:25:55,514 --> 00:25:57,674
"You're the outcast, you're the underclass.
478
00:25:57,754 --> 00:25:59,674
"You don't care, but you're living fast."
479
00:25:59,754 --> 00:26:00,914
I just loved it.
480
00:26:00,994 --> 00:26:04,554
I can't say why Bring It On Down was chosen,
481
00:26:04,634 --> 00:26:06,714
but it wasn't coming together.
482
00:26:06,794 --> 00:26:08,994
I don't know what the fuck
was wrong with it, like.
483
00:26:09,594 --> 00:26:12,074
I mean, it would become apparent
why that session didn't work.
484
00:26:12,154 --> 00:26:16,994
It's because our drummer at the time
wasn't the most consistent
485
00:26:17,354 --> 00:26:21,514
from one fucking bar to the next,
never mind one day to the next.
486
00:26:21,594 --> 00:26:24,194
And that's his big moment, that, a fucking riff.
487
00:26:24,274 --> 00:26:26,274
"Just fucking do it in time, son."
488
00:26:28,754 --> 00:26:30,354
Fucking hell, we're up against it here.
489
00:26:30,434 --> 00:26:32,714
We'd not recorded anything.
490
00:26:32,794 --> 00:26:35,274
Why I chose to write a new song
491
00:26:35,354 --> 00:26:39,314
as opposed to record any of the
others off of Definitely Maybe
492
00:26:39,394 --> 00:26:40,794
is still a little bit of a mystery.
493
00:26:48,274 --> 00:26:50,514
Noel's got the riff, but that's all he's got,
494
00:26:50,594 --> 00:26:52,754
so they're just kind of
knocking this little thing,
495
00:26:52,834 --> 00:26:55,794
which all bands do, you know, a little riff.
496
00:26:55,874 --> 00:26:58,314
Someone had sent out for Chinese,
or fish and chips or something.
497
00:26:58,394 --> 00:26:59,714
Or Chinese fish and chips?
498
00:26:59,794 --> 00:27:00,994
I went in the back room
499
00:27:01,114 --> 00:27:04,194
and, as bizarre as it sounds,
wrote Supersonic
500
00:27:04,274 --> 00:27:09,114
in about however long it takes
six other guys to eat a Chinese meal.
501
00:27:11,354 --> 00:27:12,714
Then he came back in the room with us.
502
00:27:12,794 --> 00:27:15,114
He said,
"Look, I've just written another song."
503
00:27:18,474 --> 00:27:21,474
And we nailed it and mixed it that night.
504
00:27:21,554 --> 00:27:25,754
Rapid, because that's what we'd been doing
every night in the Boardwalk, you know,
505
00:27:25,834 --> 00:27:27,354
and it sounded massive.
506
00:27:28,354 --> 00:27:32,434
ANNOUNCER: Give it up for Oasis,
making their TV debut with Supersonic.
507
00:27:32,834 --> 00:27:33,834
(CHEERING)
508
00:27:33,914 --> 00:27:37,474
# I need to be myself
509
00:27:37,554 --> 00:27:40,474
# I can't be no one else
510
00:27:42,434 --> 00:27:45,194
# I'm feeling supersonic
511
00:27:45,274 --> 00:27:47,674
# Give me gin and tonic
512
00:27:47,754 --> 00:27:49,234
# You can have it all
513
00:27:49,314 --> 00:27:51,954
# But how much do you want it?
514
00:27:52,634 --> 00:27:53,874
# You make me laugh...
515
00:27:53,954 --> 00:27:56,794
We'd done gigs before that
and there were people coming along
516
00:27:56,874 --> 00:27:58,114
because they'd read about us in the press.
517
00:27:58,194 --> 00:28:00,074
But nobody knew any of the songs.
518
00:28:00,714 --> 00:28:02,714
On the day that Supersonic came out,
519
00:28:02,914 --> 00:28:04,434
bang, the crowd were right there,
520
00:28:04,514 --> 00:28:07,994
and I remember people
singing the lyrics to Supersonic.
521
00:28:08,074 --> 00:28:10,954
You know, they're singing your words back
that you've nonsensically wrote down
522
00:28:11,034 --> 00:28:12,674
at fucking 3:00 in the morning.
523
00:28:12,794 --> 00:28:17,234
# You need to find a way
for what you want to say
524
00:28:17,314 --> 00:28:19,994
# But before tomorrow
525
00:28:20,314 --> 00:28:24,674
# 'Cause my friend said he'd take you home
526
00:28:24,994 --> 00:28:29,394
# He sits in a corner all alone
527
00:28:29,754 --> 00:28:34,194
# He lives under a waterfall
528
00:28:34,274 --> 00:28:36,234
# Nobody can see him
529
00:28:36,314 --> 00:28:39,274
# Nobody can ever hear him call... #
530
00:28:39,354 --> 00:28:41,594
We'd play a town,
we'd go off and do the next, do the next,
531
00:28:41,714 --> 00:28:44,674
and then come back to that one you did
a few weeks before and do it again.
532
00:28:45,554 --> 00:28:48,594
Trouble seemed to find us at any given point.
533
00:28:49,394 --> 00:28:51,634
We're barred from a full chain of hotels
534
00:28:51,714 --> 00:28:53,954
and honestly,
no one would take us anywhere.
535
00:28:54,074 --> 00:28:57,554
I do remember one hotel,
the whole bedroom went out of the window,
536
00:28:57,634 --> 00:28:59,714
mattress, pillows, everything.
537
00:28:59,794 --> 00:29:01,154
If it moves, fling it.
538
00:29:01,794 --> 00:29:02,794
Poof.
539
00:29:02,954 --> 00:29:06,034
I could never understand it, you know,
hotel rooms being smashed up.
540
00:29:06,114 --> 00:29:07,834
That's like hard work.
541
00:29:07,914 --> 00:29:09,314
You'd get a sweat on.
542
00:29:09,394 --> 00:29:11,034
What do you do?
Go to bed at 10:00 every night?
543
00:29:11,114 --> 00:29:13,914
I don't think so, you know what I mean?
You only get it once.
544
00:29:13,994 --> 00:29:15,994
You're going to live it to the full.
545
00:29:16,074 --> 00:29:17,514
Have it! And we did!
546
00:29:18,154 --> 00:29:20,754
You can't ask a 21-year-old lad
to be professional, it's like...
547
00:29:20,834 --> 00:29:23,594
It's like, "I don't even understand
that word, what are you on about?"
548
00:29:23,954 --> 00:29:26,354
You're feeling Supersonic?
Go to bed at 9:30!
549
00:29:26,434 --> 00:29:29,594
"Give me gin and tonic"?
Get my head down at about 10:30.
550
00:29:29,674 --> 00:29:31,674
Fuck off, mate, you know what I mean?
551
00:29:32,674 --> 00:29:34,914
(NOEL SPEAKING)
552
00:29:44,394 --> 00:29:47,074
There was something
very different about this band.
553
00:29:47,154 --> 00:29:52,114
It just had a devilish, belligerent,
filthy little sound to it.
554
00:29:52,194 --> 00:29:55,194
Coyle could really mix sound in little clubs.
555
00:29:55,314 --> 00:29:58,274
He was really good at making
it sound fucking epic.
556
00:29:58,354 --> 00:30:02,314
Noel, I didn't understand
what "Feeling Supersonic" meant,
557
00:30:02,394 --> 00:30:05,714
but I'm with you, whatever it is,
I'd die for you right now.
558
00:30:05,794 --> 00:30:08,634
That's how I felt about Oasis.
559
00:30:08,994 --> 00:30:09,994
LIAM: Thank you very much.
560
00:30:10,074 --> 00:30:11,834
INTERVIEWER: Did you get your friends
working for you then,
561
00:30:11,914 --> 00:30:13,114
so you can tour around in a big group?
562
00:30:13,194 --> 00:30:14,634
No, it's just so we can exploit them.
563
00:30:14,834 --> 00:30:15,834
(LAUGHS)
564
00:30:15,914 --> 00:30:17,954
Thing is, if we didn't have them
working for us when we're away,
565
00:30:18,034 --> 00:30:19,034
they'd be burgling our houses.
566
00:30:19,114 --> 00:30:21,274
- So it's best to have them on the road with us.
-(LAUGHTER)
567
00:30:21,354 --> 00:30:23,874
You're being hyped as the best band
around at the moment.
568
00:30:23,954 --> 00:30:24,954
Is all the hype true?
569
00:30:25,794 --> 00:30:27,714
- Yeah.
- It is? Good.
570
00:30:27,794 --> 00:30:31,274
The best band about today on the planet.
571
00:30:31,354 --> 00:30:32,354
It's a fact.
572
00:30:33,234 --> 00:30:39,714
# I'd shake along with me...
573
00:30:41,394 --> 00:30:44,714
We're in a band, we're into football,
we're into taking drugs, and meeting women
574
00:30:44,794 --> 00:30:45,914
and all the rest of it, right?
575
00:30:45,994 --> 00:30:47,674
We won't deny anything
that's been written about us.
576
00:30:47,754 --> 00:30:49,714
Why should we?
They want to write about it, fine.
577
00:30:49,794 --> 00:30:50,834
We're happy with that.
578
00:30:50,914 --> 00:30:52,514
Our music will stand the test of time.
That is a fact.
579
00:30:52,594 --> 00:30:53,994
Right, all this media hype
580
00:30:54,074 --> 00:30:56,234
and all this thing about us being this, that,
and the other, right,
581
00:30:56,354 --> 00:30:58,074
will be dead in a year's time.
582
00:30:58,154 --> 00:30:59,314
Everyone will have forgotten about it.
583
00:30:59,394 --> 00:31:01,594
The records that we make
will be in the shops forever.
584
00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:05,834
# Shake along with me #
585
00:31:25,434 --> 00:31:26,954
It was a wild tour.
586
00:31:27,994 --> 00:31:32,994
At one point, we were going to Amsterdam
to support this band from Wigan, The Verve.
587
00:31:33,074 --> 00:31:35,114
Our first international gig.
588
00:31:35,234 --> 00:31:38,514
So this guy picked us up in a van,
and he's going to be our roadie.
589
00:31:38,594 --> 00:31:39,714
Jason Rhodes.
590
00:31:46,394 --> 00:31:49,034
Marcus got in touch and said,
"Right, do you want to go to Amsterdam?"
591
00:31:49,114 --> 00:31:50,754
I went, "Yeah!" (LAUGHS)
592
00:31:50,834 --> 00:31:52,194
Up your burn!
593
00:31:52,274 --> 00:31:53,394
I said to him, "All right, nice to meet you-
594
00:31:53,514 --> 00:31:56,194
"Fucking forget that.
Did they give you a float?"
595
00:31:56,274 --> 00:31:57,914
And he said, "No, no, no, that's for petrol."
596
00:31:57,994 --> 00:31:59,234
I said, "Never mind petrol."
597
00:31:59,314 --> 00:32:01,914
And we took the float off him
and then spent about an hour
598
00:32:01,994 --> 00:32:03,594
driving around Manchester getting drugs.
599
00:32:03,674 --> 00:32:05,474
And then set off.
600
00:32:05,554 --> 00:32:06,714
Get on the ferry.
601
00:32:06,794 --> 00:32:08,594
I don't know how we get on the ferry
because we're pissed,
602
00:32:08,674 --> 00:32:10,074
but we get on this ferry.
603
00:32:10,234 --> 00:32:13,634
As fate would have it,
there's a load of West Ham fans
604
00:32:13,714 --> 00:32:16,994
on this overnight ferry, it's got a casino on it
and a fucking night club.
605
00:32:17,074 --> 00:32:19,314
The Thursday night ferry to "The 'Dam."
606
00:32:19,394 --> 00:32:21,634
Who goes to Amsterdam
on a ferry for the weekend?
607
00:32:21,714 --> 00:32:23,754
What kind of clientele?
608
00:32:23,834 --> 00:32:28,954
The drink of choice for a few hours
was champagne and Jack Daniels slammers.
609
00:32:29,074 --> 00:32:35,234
The next thing is that sporadic fighting
is breaking out all round us really.
610
00:32:35,594 --> 00:32:41,074
Liam is very excited by the prospects
of a lot of chaos going on
611
00:32:41,154 --> 00:32:42,794
and he goes and joins in.
612
00:32:42,874 --> 00:32:45,394
Yeah, it was fucking mayhem, man, I loved it-
613
00:32:45,474 --> 00:32:48,754
You can see him running
through the windows along the deck.
614
00:32:48,834 --> 00:32:49,834
He's having a great time.
615
00:32:49,914 --> 00:32:53,114
He looks like he's in a school playground
chasing leaves.
616
00:32:53,194 --> 00:32:55,194
Liam at one point said
they'd ran through a casino
617
00:32:55,274 --> 00:32:59,754
and he flung all the roulette shit
off the table as he was running past.
618
00:32:59,834 --> 00:33:01,794
Then there was a fight broke out
619
00:33:01,954 --> 00:33:04,394
and all I remember
was it was a bit 'Benny Hill."
620
00:33:04,514 --> 00:33:10,354
The next time I see him, he's still running,
but he's got policemen running after him.
621
00:33:10,434 --> 00:33:12,354
Someone's punched someone,
someone's kicked someone.
622
00:33:12,434 --> 00:33:14,034
Someone's got nicked, then we're handcuffed
623
00:33:14,114 --> 00:33:17,314
and sent down to the bottom of the boat,
we get locked up.
624
00:33:17,394 --> 00:33:20,074
Woke up the next day
and I spoke to the Customs and I said,
625
00:33:20,154 --> 00:33:22,474
"Look, you know,
I'm kind of missing four people.
626
00:33:22,554 --> 00:33:23,714
"Do you know where they are?"
627
00:33:23,794 --> 00:33:26,074
We were heading back,
we didn't have any money,
628
00:33:26,154 --> 00:33:27,874
couldn't phone anyone, couldn't do nothing.
629
00:33:27,954 --> 00:33:30,514
I can remember getting to the hotel
and having to ring Marcus and Alan
630
00:33:30,634 --> 00:33:35,154
and they're going,
"You fucking what? You what?"
631
00:33:35,234 --> 00:33:37,994
And he says,
"You've fucking blown it, you've blown it."
632
00:33:38,114 --> 00:33:40,034
But that was punk rock, man!
I just went, "Fuck them!"
633
00:33:40,114 --> 00:33:42,874
I never listened to a word those clowns said
anyway, you know what I mean?
634
00:33:43,154 --> 00:33:46,514
I called McGee, and I'll never forget this
and this is another reason why I love McGee,
635
00:33:46,594 --> 00:33:49,314
I said, "Are you sitting down?
I've got some news.
636
00:33:49,394 --> 00:33:51,074
"E veg/body's been arrested."
637
00:33:51,154 --> 00:33:52,954
The only word he said was, "Brilliant."
638
00:33:53,554 --> 00:33:57,354
A hell of a start that, isn't it?
That's a great first day at work. Love it!
639
00:33:57,834 --> 00:33:59,074
(CHUCKLING)
640
00:33:59,354 --> 00:34:01,634
REPORTER: Oasis were deported
from Holland last week
641
00:34:01,714 --> 00:34:05,234
after they were involved in a drunken brawl
on a cross-Channel ferry.
642
00:34:05,314 --> 00:34:06,874
The Creation act were forced to cancel...
643
00:34:06,954 --> 00:34:10,474
I thought it was game.
That's how I want my rock 'n roll stars to act.
644
00:34:10,554 --> 00:34:13,474
Stick up for themselves,
get in a bit of shenanigans and that's it.
645
00:34:13,554 --> 00:34:14,954
We lived to fight another day.
646
00:34:15,034 --> 00:34:16,674
To me, it felt right.
647
00:34:17,434 --> 00:34:18,954
NOEL: The thing about
getting thrown off ferries,
648
00:34:19,034 --> 00:34:22,794
blah, blah, blah, getting deported
is summat that I'm not proud about.
649
00:34:22,914 --> 00:34:23,914
LIAM: Well, I am.
650
00:34:23,994 --> 00:34:26,754
NOEL: Right, well, if you're proud about
getting thrown off ferries,
651
00:34:26,874 --> 00:34:29,914
then why don't you go and support West Ham
and get the fuck out of my band?
652
00:34:29,994 --> 00:34:32,594
These lot think it's rock 'n roll
to get thrown off a ferry.
653
00:34:32,674 --> 00:34:34,034
LIAM: No I don't
NOEL: To get... Shut up!
654
00:34:34,114 --> 00:34:36,594
These lot think it's rock 'n roll to get...
655
00:34:36,674 --> 00:34:38,194
Shut the fuck up, man!
656
00:34:38,274 --> 00:34:40,274
- These lot think...
-(LAUGHTER AND CLAPPING)
657
00:34:40,394 --> 00:34:42,554
Am I going to have to say this
pan' or are you going to shut up?
658
00:34:43,354 --> 00:34:44,354
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)
659
00:34:47,954 --> 00:34:49,594
- Is this my question?
- This is your question.
660
00:34:49,674 --> 00:34:53,234
No, I ain't a hooligan.
I'm not a hooligan. Right?
661
00:34:53,314 --> 00:34:54,314
(LAUGHING)
662
00:34:54,674 --> 00:34:56,554
Obviously, once you get that reputation,
663
00:34:56,634 --> 00:35:00,154
there's always someone
who's going to go, "Well, I'll show him."
664
00:35:00,234 --> 00:35:04,114
If it'd never been in the paper, having a ruck,
that probably wouldn't have happened.
665
00:35:04,954 --> 00:35:05,954
(CHEERING)
666
00:35:18,354 --> 00:35:22,074
There was a full section of the tour,
it was just going off every night.
667
00:35:22,154 --> 00:35:25,394
I felt that people were turning up
to cause trouble.
668
00:35:25,474 --> 00:35:27,154
It was getting me down, if I'm being honest.
669
00:35:27,954 --> 00:35:28,954
MAN: Fucking dick!
670
00:35:34,874 --> 00:35:35,874
(CHEERING)
671
00:35:43,514 --> 00:35:47,834
NOEL: We were getting a reputation
as these bad boys of rock 'n roll.
672
00:35:47,914 --> 00:35:51,674
"That's all fucking great,
but can we talk about the music first?"
673
00:35:51,754 --> 00:35:54,954
I think any band worth their salt,
it's not about just the music.
674
00:35:55,034 --> 00:35:58,034
If you haven't got that kind of behaviour
and you've just got great tunes,
675
00:35:58,114 --> 00:36:00,954
then you're fucking pretty boring,
as far as I'm concerned.
676
00:36:01,034 --> 00:36:02,074
It's about both.
677
00:36:02,154 --> 00:36:04,914
When both come together,
you'll have greatness.
678
00:36:09,274 --> 00:36:11,234
We showed their video
a good couple of months ago.
679
00:36:11,314 --> 00:36:14,354
They've wasted no time in releasing
a new single, Shakermaker,
680
00:36:14,434 --> 00:36:16,074
Noel and Liam from Oasis.
681
00:36:16,154 --> 00:36:18,394
Thanks for interrupting your hectic schedule.
682
00:36:18,674 --> 00:36:20,794
What's it like being brothers in a band?
683
00:36:23,394 --> 00:36:25,154
He's speechless. Look at that.
684
00:36:28,674 --> 00:36:31,634
It's all right. I think it's all right, me.
I think it's very, very funny.
685
00:36:31,714 --> 00:36:33,874
I mean, if you row,
what sort of things do you row about?
686
00:36:33,954 --> 00:36:37,354
Everything. Everything.
We don't even have to row.
687
00:36:37,434 --> 00:36:39,674
All we got to do is look at each other
in a certain kind of way
688
00:36:39,754 --> 00:36:41,994
and we row without even opening our mouth.
689
00:36:42,074 --> 00:36:44,554
We're just going, "Grrr" inside our heads,
you know what I mean?
690
00:36:46,474 --> 00:36:50,634
I hate the term "sibling rivalry,"
but that's effectively what it is.
691
00:36:50,714 --> 00:36:53,434
I know my brother better than anybody else.
692
00:36:53,514 --> 00:36:56,274
Liam's like a dog, and I'm like a cat.
693
00:36:56,394 --> 00:36:58,474
Cats are very independent creatures.
694
00:36:58,554 --> 00:37:00,954
They don't give a fuck, right bastards.
695
00:37:01,034 --> 00:37:03,274
Dogs are just fucking,
"Play with me, play with me.
696
00:37:03,354 --> 00:37:05,114
"Please fucking throw that ball for me."
697
00:37:05,194 --> 00:37:07,834
(CHUCKLING)
Because they fucking need some company.
698
00:37:07,914 --> 00:37:11,474
It's as basic as that,
can't change the way that you are.
699
00:37:12,514 --> 00:37:14,354
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)
700
00:37:22,314 --> 00:37:26,114
NOEL: I'm a cat, okay? That's just what I am.
701
00:37:26,194 --> 00:37:28,794
I've accepted it. I'm a biz' of a bastard.
702
00:37:35,754 --> 00:37:38,714
What can I say, you know? I'm a biz' of a cunt.
703
00:37:39,554 --> 00:37:42,954
They are two brothers, grew up together,
704
00:37:43,034 --> 00:37:45,354
one's one way, one's the other.
705
00:37:45,434 --> 00:37:47,194
Noel has a lot of buttons-
706
00:37:47,274 --> 00:37:49,834
Liam has a lot of fingers.
It's that simple, really.
707
00:37:50,994 --> 00:37:53,714
It's about a power struggle, is what it is.
708
00:37:53,794 --> 00:37:56,994
It's about me being in charge
709
00:37:57,074 --> 00:38:01,034
and everybody directing
everything towards me,
710
00:38:01,114 --> 00:38:03,354
and Liam being pissed off about it.
711
00:38:03,434 --> 00:38:05,674
That's basically what starts it all.
712
00:38:06,674 --> 00:38:09,114
I think it all stems down
to when he bought a stereo years ago
713
00:38:09,194 --> 00:38:11,114
when we shared a room. (CHUCKLES)
714
00:38:11,234 --> 00:38:13,154
I think one night I've come in pissed,
715
00:38:13,234 --> 00:38:17,154
and I couldn't find the light switch,
so I pissed all over his fucking new stereo.
716
00:38:17,434 --> 00:38:20,874
I think it basically boils down to that.
He's held that grudge.
717
00:38:20,954 --> 00:38:22,514
You let go of them grudges, brother!
718
00:38:24,874 --> 00:38:26,474
Democracy never works in a band.
719
00:38:27,234 --> 00:38:28,514
It's been proven a million times.
720
00:38:28,594 --> 00:38:29,714
And the trouble you had with Oasis is
721
00:38:29,794 --> 00:38:32,994
you had two people
vying for the Prime Minister job.
722
00:38:34,274 --> 00:38:38,074
That tension, that antagonism,
it drove that band,
723
00:38:39,554 --> 00:38:41,554
and it killed that band, is what it did.
724
00:38:41,714 --> 00:38:43,714
No lifting of the arms.
725
00:38:43,834 --> 00:38:45,074
He got a better stance than me.
726
00:38:45,154 --> 00:38:46,154
(LAUGHTER)
727
00:38:47,754 --> 00:38:49,754
He's a dick! Official!
728
00:38:50,874 --> 00:38:52,954
Yeah, but, anyway. Right?
729
00:38:59,474 --> 00:39:03,434
It's all about what's inside
the fucking tin of beans that counts,
730
00:39:03,514 --> 00:39:06,674
not what the fucking wrapper is,
or how much it costs,
731
00:39:06,754 --> 00:39:09,034
or who you buy it off,
or what till you get it from.
732
00:39:09,114 --> 00:39:13,074
Or even whether it's your Spar,
your Kwiksave, or your fucking Sainsbury's.
733
00:39:13,154 --> 00:39:16,354
Man, it's about what's inside
the tin of beans, man.
734
00:39:16,434 --> 00:39:18,114
And, like, if it's right, it's right.
735
00:39:18,194 --> 00:39:21,874
If this ever goes on, like,
a video, for the kids, right,
736
00:39:21,954 --> 00:39:25,154
I would apologise, but I'm not going to!
Because he's a prick!
737
00:39:25,234 --> 00:39:26,794
-(LAUGHTER)
- Check it out!
738
00:39:31,594 --> 00:39:34,474
- LIAM: One-two, one-two, one. One... Two?
-(MIC FEEDBACK)
739
00:39:34,914 --> 00:39:36,834
When people go,
"Oh, what's the best thing about Oasis?"
740
00:39:36,914 --> 00:39:39,114
It's just getting that chance
to record our album
741
00:39:39,194 --> 00:39:40,714
because we knew
we weren't going to fuck it up.
742
00:39:40,794 --> 00:39:41,794
We were ripping, man!
743
00:39:42,274 --> 00:39:43,754
(TAPPING DRUMSTICKS)
744
00:39:43,834 --> 00:39:45,394
So, we'd been to Monnow Valley.
745
00:39:45,474 --> 00:39:47,674
We recorded what we thought
was a great album.
746
00:39:47,994 --> 00:39:52,354
Everybody else surrounding the band
kept chanting this mantra,
747
00:39:52,474 --> 00:39:55,234
"Oh, it doesn't sound like they do live,
it doesn't sound like they do live."
748
00:39:55,314 --> 00:39:58,074
I was like, "Well, who does it
fucking sound like, Spandau Ballet?"
749
00:39:58,514 --> 00:39:59,874
(MUSIC PLAYING)
750
00:40:06,754 --> 00:40:10,834
# Is it my imagination
751
00:40:10,994 --> 00:40:16,394
# Or have I finally found
something worth living for?
752
00:40:16,674 --> 00:40:19,394
I said to Noel Gallagher,
"It's not good enough."
753
00:40:19,554 --> 00:40:22,274
I knew what Oasis should sound like
'cause I'd seen it live
754
00:40:22,434 --> 00:40:24,154
and I just knew the performances were wrong.
755
00:40:26,234 --> 00:40:28,634
At one point, he was so frustrated
by the whole thing,
756
00:40:28,714 --> 00:40:32,434
he went, "Look, why don't we just put it out
and we'll get it right in the second album?"
757
00:40:32,754 --> 00:40:35,554
And I went,
"You'll never get to the second album."
758
00:40:35,794 --> 00:40:38,194
# 'Cause when it comes on top
759
00:40:38,274 --> 00:40:41,674
# You got to make it happen
760
00:40:42,194 --> 00:40:44,754
It was not happening.
The pressure was definitely on.
761
00:40:45,634 --> 00:40:48,154
I phoned up Marcus one Saturday morning.
762
00:41:05,394 --> 00:41:07,914
I'd be interested to know
why they took that risk,
763
00:41:07,994 --> 00:41:09,834
just putting me in charge of that.
764
00:41:09,914 --> 00:41:13,034
No track record whatsoever.
765
00:41:13,114 --> 00:41:15,874
The thinking is, "Who does the live sound?"
766
00:41:15,994 --> 00:41:18,674
"Mark does. So let's go do it live."
767
00:41:19,914 --> 00:41:22,594
MARK: Time for plan B on Definitely Maybe.
768
00:41:23,674 --> 00:41:24,714
And thank God for that, you know,
769
00:41:24,794 --> 00:41:26,154
because we all knew
that Coyle understood us.
770
00:41:26,234 --> 00:41:29,114
He always made us sound
how we should sound.
771
00:41:30,394 --> 00:41:34,194
We hit upon this system in the Sawmills,
everything was crowded around the drum kit.
772
00:41:34,274 --> 00:41:37,554
We'd just do three takes
of each song and then move on.
773
00:41:37,634 --> 00:41:38,674
I would have thought that
774
00:41:38,754 --> 00:41:42,594
that album was recorded
in three days, maximum.
775
00:41:44,474 --> 00:41:49,394
But, I started mixing
and it didn't really sound very good-
776
00:41:49,794 --> 00:41:53,394
I think at that stage,
I'd took it as far as I could.
777
00:41:54,194 --> 00:41:57,794
I do remember taking a cassette,
the final mix we did with Mark,
778
00:41:57,874 --> 00:41:59,114
to McGee's flat
779
00:41:59,194 --> 00:42:02,354
and sensing that he was
completely underwhelmed by it.
780
00:42:02,434 --> 00:42:04,714
And me thinking, "Oh, fuck it, I give up!"
781
00:42:05,434 --> 00:42:09,554
Marcus announces that he's going to get
Owen Morris to do a mix on spec.
782
00:42:10,154 --> 00:42:13,034
Marcus got me in because
I don't think he knew anybody else.
783
00:42:13,114 --> 00:42:15,274
So I was very lucky to be in the right place.
784
00:42:15,474 --> 00:42:18,794
And I'm thinking, "What has he done?
You know, I don't get it."
785
00:42:18,874 --> 00:42:21,594
He did one mix and it was just outrageous.
786
00:42:22,274 --> 00:42:23,714
(MUSIC PLAYING)
787
00:42:39,594 --> 00:42:43,114
We did a session. That's where I met Liam.
788
00:42:43,194 --> 00:42:44,754
And I told him he sounded like John Lennon
789
00:42:44,834 --> 00:42:47,194
and he was like, "You got it!"
at, like, 1:00 in the afternoon.
790
00:42:47,274 --> 00:42:49,434
Liam, lead vocal, rock 'n roll star.
791
00:42:49,714 --> 00:42:55,954
# I live my life in the city
and there's no easy way out
792
00:42:57,154 --> 00:43:00,794
# The day's moving just too fast for me... #
793
00:43:03,514 --> 00:43:05,474
Noel was like, "That sounds great- That'll do-"
794
00:43:05,554 --> 00:43:07,594
And they let me do exactly what I wanted.
795
00:43:07,714 --> 00:43:10,834
And there was this new box
and you could make things twice as loud
796
00:43:10,914 --> 00:43:13,794
without going into digital distortion
on your CD.
797
00:43:13,874 --> 00:43:18,194
It was in every fucking jukebox in the country,
twice as loud. It was funny as fuck, man.
798
00:43:19,314 --> 00:43:22,194
It's just a pity that Definitely Maybe came out
799
00:43:22,274 --> 00:43:24,474
and then we didn't see Alan
for a couple of years.
800
00:43:24,554 --> 00:43:25,954
I took too many drugs.
801
00:43:26,034 --> 00:43:28,154
More and more and more,
that's what we were all about,
802
00:43:28,234 --> 00:43:30,514
and eventually it was too much.
803
00:43:31,394 --> 00:43:33,874
It's just that's what happens, isn't it?
When you play with fire, mate.
804
00:43:33,954 --> 00:43:36,594
Some people can last the pace,
some people can't.
805
00:43:36,714 --> 00:43:39,514
Do you know what?
I don't regret any of that shit.
806
00:43:39,634 --> 00:43:41,034
That's just life.
807
00:43:41,114 --> 00:43:43,994
We didn't know it then,
but he was the last of a dying breed.
808
00:43:44,074 --> 00:43:47,314
He's up there with the most important people
In my life, you know what I mean,
809
00:43:47,394 --> 00:43:48,874
that's made a fucking real difference.
810
00:43:49,594 --> 00:43:50,994
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)
811
00:43:52,714 --> 00:43:55,714
Twelve songs that are about being
alive and having a good time.
812
00:43:56,514 --> 00:43:58,234
About being happy. About enjoying yourself.
813
00:43:58,314 --> 00:44:01,034
And then about being sad,
you know what I mean?
814
00:44:01,114 --> 00:44:02,514
But knowing that it can get better.
815
00:44:02,594 --> 00:44:03,754
About everything. Just life.
816
00:44:04,754 --> 00:44:06,194
(NOEL SPEAKING)
817
00:44:25,354 --> 00:44:28,714
REPORTER: Their debut album is
already being hailed as a classic of our time.
818
00:44:28,794 --> 00:44:30,434
A year ago,
they were playing to empty venues.
819
00:44:30,514 --> 00:44:33,514
Last night, they embarked
on their first UK sell-out tour.
820
00:44:33,594 --> 00:44:36,074
One of the biggest British
bands since the Beatles-
821
00:44:38,594 --> 00:44:40,234
WOMAN: There isn't a band like Oasis.
822
00:44:40,314 --> 00:44:43,714
They're trying to get the youth culture
out of raves, taking drugs and stuff,
823
00:44:43,794 --> 00:44:46,154
and back into the gigs, where they belong.
824
00:44:46,474 --> 00:44:48,754
And they're really good,
and Liam Gallagher is just gorgeous
825
00:44:48,834 --> 00:44:50,594
and I'll have his children! (LAUGHING)
826
00:44:51,194 --> 00:44:54,114
Our first single came out
in England four months ago-
827
00:44:54,194 --> 00:44:56,234
It went into the charts at number 32.
828
00:44:56,314 --> 00:44:58,114
Everyone said an indie band can't do that.
829
00:44:58,194 --> 00:45:00,754
Well, the album's gone out
and it's gone in straight at number one
830
00:45:00,834 --> 00:45:04,274
above Pavarotti, above Prince,
even above Elvis.
831
00:45:04,354 --> 00:45:07,034
The fastest-selling debut album
of all time in England,
832
00:45:07,154 --> 00:45:08,594
and quite deservedly so.
833
00:45:08,954 --> 00:45:11,074
- Here's Rock 'n Roll Star. Here they are!
-(CHEERING)
834
00:45:11,154 --> 00:45:12,474
# That to me was just a day in bed
835
00:45:12,554 --> 00:45:15,514
# I'm gonna take my car and drive real far
836
00:45:15,594 --> 00:45:18,634
# You're not concerned about the way we are
837
00:45:18,914 --> 00:45:22,074
# In my mind my dreams are real
838
00:45:22,234 --> 00:45:24,914
# Now you're concerned about the way I feel
839
00:45:25,154 --> 00:45:30,434
# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star
840
00:45:31,754 --> 00:45:36,434
# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star
841
00:45:40,594 --> 00:45:43,634
# It's just rock 'n roll
842
00:45:44,154 --> 00:45:46,434
# It's just rock 'n roll
843
00:45:47,634 --> 00:45:50,674
# It's just rock 'n roll #
844
00:45:52,554 --> 00:45:54,514
- Thank you very much.
-(CHEERING)
845
00:45:57,554 --> 00:45:58,834
(NOEL SPEAKING)
846
00:46:14,514 --> 00:46:16,594
So next thing you know,
we were going to Japan.
847
00:46:16,674 --> 00:46:17,714
What do you expect?
848
00:46:17,794 --> 00:46:20,874
I've never been to Japan, so you think,
"All right, I'm prepared, "you know.
849
00:46:20,954 --> 00:46:25,354
No. Nothing ever on this planet
was going to prepare me.
850
00:46:25,434 --> 00:46:27,314
Japan! Japan!
851
00:46:27,674 --> 00:46:30,914
We arrived in Japan and there were,
fucking, like, 1,000 girls at the airport.
852
00:46:31,514 --> 00:46:34,154
People waiting for us and shouting my name!
853
00:46:34,234 --> 00:46:36,674
"Liam, Liam! Noel! Guigs! Tony!"
854
00:46:36,754 --> 00:46:39,274
It was just, like, "Fuck off! This is Japan?
855
00:46:39,354 --> 00:46:40,634
"But they know my name?"
856
00:46:40,714 --> 00:46:43,794
"Yeah, of course they do!"
It got me and I loved it.
857
00:46:43,874 --> 00:46:45,834
I loved every last minute of it.
858
00:46:46,514 --> 00:46:49,114
Fucking hell, they followed us everywhere,
859
00:46:49,194 --> 00:46:52,034
outside hotels, in the fucking foyer,
860
00:46:52,114 --> 00:46:55,514
outside your room, in your fucking room,
everywhere you went.
861
00:46:55,634 --> 00:46:57,074
It was like mania, you know what I mean?
862
00:46:57,154 --> 00:46:58,914
It was like what we'd always read about.
863
00:47:00,434 --> 00:47:01,554
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)
864
00:47:01,634 --> 00:47:02,634
Yeah.
865
00:47:02,714 --> 00:47:05,074
First time in Japan.
First time on a jumbo plane.
866
00:47:05,554 --> 00:47:07,954
It was just mental,
you know what I mean? Just mad!
867
00:47:08,954 --> 00:47:10,234
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)
868
00:47:11,714 --> 00:47:13,394
Just, you're all off your heads, and it's mad.
869
00:47:13,514 --> 00:47:15,034
And it's top! I love youse all.
870
00:47:15,914 --> 00:47:17,394
I absolutely loved Japan.
871
00:47:17,554 --> 00:47:18,634
It was fucking mayhem.
872
00:47:19,554 --> 00:47:21,154
Guigs wasn't too keen on it, he was like,
873
00:47:21,234 --> 00:47:22,794
"Oh, I don't know what they're fussing about."
874
00:47:22,874 --> 00:47:25,674
And I'm like, "Me, you fucking lunatic!
That's what they're fussing about!"
875
00:47:27,794 --> 00:47:28,994
Where's the toilet?
876
00:47:33,074 --> 00:47:34,874
(MUSIC PLAYING)
877
00:47:39,114 --> 00:47:43,394
# Is it my imagination
878
00:47:43,474 --> 00:47:48,594
# Or have I finally found
something worth living for?
879
00:47:55,874 --> 00:47:59,874
# I was looking for some action
880
00:48:00,594 --> 00:48:05,474
# But all I found was cigarettes and alcohol...
881
00:48:06,034 --> 00:48:10,914
That might have been the one time in my life
where I thought, "Fucking hell! Wow!
882
00:48:11,034 --> 00:48:12,314
"How has it landed here?
883
00:48:12,394 --> 00:48:14,314
"Why are all these people
who don't speak English
884
00:48:14,394 --> 00:48:15,474
"obsessed with it already
885
00:48:15,554 --> 00:48:17,354
"before we even fucking
plugged in and played?"
886
00:48:17,874 --> 00:48:22,354
# To spend your days in the sunshine
887
00:48:22,434 --> 00:48:25,474
# You might as well do the white line
888
00:48:25,554 --> 00:48:28,594
# 'Cause when it comes on top
889
00:48:28,674 --> 00:48:32,754
# You got to make it happen
890
00:48:32,834 --> 00:48:35,314
# You got to make it happen #
891
00:48:40,154 --> 00:48:44,394
I was writing for a "Nancy Boys" magazine
as far as they were concerned.
892
00:48:45,074 --> 00:48:47,074
I knew that I was ten years older than them.
893
00:48:48,034 --> 00:48:50,194
I was female, and it was all blokes.
894
00:48:50,274 --> 00:48:52,034
I was a mum, and I just thought,
895
00:48:52,114 --> 00:48:55,354
"Right. I'm going to stay up later than you,
I'm going to drink more than you,
896
00:48:55,434 --> 00:48:57,274
"I'm going to behave more badly than you,"
897
00:48:57,354 --> 00:48:59,754
because I wasn't going
to get this story otherwise.
898
00:49:02,034 --> 00:49:05,594
The first night in Japan, we'd all been out
899
00:49:05,674 --> 00:49:08,674
and it had been about 3:00 in the morning.
900
00:49:08,754 --> 00:49:11,994
(CHUCKLING) My head
had just hit the pillow, and the phone rang.
901
00:49:12,074 --> 00:49:13,074
"Who's calling me?"
902
00:49:13,194 --> 00:49:15,954
I picked up the phone and it was Liam.
903
00:49:16,034 --> 00:49:17,594
"Get down here now!"
904
00:49:17,674 --> 00:49:20,754
So I walked down the corridor
back into their room
905
00:49:20,834 --> 00:49:26,154
and Liam said to me, and honestly,
it was like he was shimmering,
906
00:49:26,234 --> 00:49:30,834
he just said to me, "Do you believe in God?
Do you think there's a God?"
907
00:49:30,914 --> 00:49:33,914
And, I son' of looked at him and I said,
908
00:49:33,994 --> 00:49:35,434
"How did we get on to this one?"
909
00:49:35,514 --> 00:49:37,354
And he said,
"Because I don't believe there's a God,
910
00:49:37,434 --> 00:49:41,034
"because if there was a God,
all that wouldn't have happened."
911
00:49:41,114 --> 00:49:44,074
And I said, "What wouldn't have happened?"
912
00:49:44,154 --> 00:49:46,434
I didn't know what he was on about.
913
00:49:46,514 --> 00:49:49,954
There was all this pent-up simmering rage.
914
00:49:51,954 --> 00:49:54,634
I was definitely angry with life and that,
I guess, you know.
915
00:49:54,714 --> 00:49:58,874
You know, I mean,
shit with my dad and just life in general-
916
00:49:58,994 --> 00:50:01,314
I was an angry young man,
917
00:50:01,394 --> 00:50:06,034
so singing them songs sort of
released all my shit onto other people,
918
00:50:06,114 --> 00:50:07,714
but in a good way, you know what I mean?
919
00:50:10,074 --> 00:50:12,674
My dad, he used to knock my mum about.
920
00:50:14,114 --> 00:50:16,794
There were many times when,
like, it got like that.
921
00:50:17,514 --> 00:50:20,794
He never touched me,
I don't know why he didn't.
922
00:50:21,274 --> 00:50:23,314
You know, sometimes he'd fucking,
he'd want the craic
923
00:50:23,394 --> 00:50:25,234
instead of having to witness it.
924
00:50:26,554 --> 00:50:28,194
He used to kill Noel.
925
00:50:28,274 --> 00:50:30,874
Noel was the one that got it the most.
926
00:50:30,994 --> 00:50:33,874
I remember Noel once saying, "if you don't
get out of here, Mum, and leave him, "
927
00:50:33,954 --> 00:50:35,674
he says, "I'm going to kill him."
928
00:50:35,754 --> 00:50:38,794
And I thought, "Oh, Jesus.
You can't be doing time for the likes of him."
929
00:50:40,194 --> 00:50:43,154
Yeah, my dad used to beat
the living daylights out of me.
930
00:50:43,234 --> 00:50:48,114
I've never felt compelled
to either talk about it or write about it.
931
00:50:48,194 --> 00:50:50,274
I know that I think it's no one else's business.
932
00:50:51,754 --> 00:50:55,674
You can't let that kind of thing
affect you in any way
933
00:50:55,754 --> 00:50:59,514
because then you're carrying
that weight all the way through life.
934
00:51:00,954 --> 00:51:04,234
He always thought, "You'd never leave him
because you had nowhere to go to."
935
00:51:04,314 --> 00:51:07,394
"You'll never leave me."
I said, "Won't I? Try it."
936
00:51:08,714 --> 00:51:11,714
One night, we got the courage to get out
937
00:51:12,714 --> 00:51:15,154
and I left him a knife and a fork and a spoon,
938
00:51:15,274 --> 00:51:16,994
and I think I left him too much.
939
00:51:17,074 --> 00:51:20,114
PETE GALLAGHER:
He never once come after us, wouldn't dare.
940
00:51:21,274 --> 00:51:23,474
It was a sense of "See you later, we're free!"
941
00:51:24,514 --> 00:51:28,034
It definitely affected them,
because they got very bitter.
942
00:51:29,234 --> 00:51:30,474
I wouldn't say I was scarred,
943
00:51:30,554 --> 00:51:33,434
but everybody's childhood
makes them what they are.
944
00:51:34,874 --> 00:51:38,314
You can't think about it too deeply
because it would fucking drive you mad.
945
00:51:39,434 --> 00:51:43,834
I think it benefitted me in the way
that it made me withdraw into my own world
946
00:51:43,914 --> 00:51:46,914
and from that
came the learning to play the guitar.
947
00:51:48,634 --> 00:51:53,274
I guess, in some way,
my old fella beat the talent into me.
948
00:52:00,674 --> 00:52:03,634
RADIO JOCKEY: On Live 105, Oasis-
949
00:52:03,714 --> 00:52:04,714
LIAM: Supersonic, yeah?
950
00:52:13,274 --> 00:52:15,754
NOEL: The contrast of getting
on a plane and coming from Japan,
951
00:52:15,874 --> 00:52:18,354
where the mania was like, fucking, "Blam!"
952
00:52:19,314 --> 00:52:23,874
Then getting to America,
where nobody had heard of us,
953
00:52:23,954 --> 00:52:25,354
that didn't freak me out.
954
00:52:25,434 --> 00:52:28,594
I was ready to start again,
you know what I mean?
955
00:52:28,714 --> 00:52:30,274
But I also knew
956
00:52:30,354 --> 00:52:33,554
that you won't get anywhere
on attitude in the States.
957
00:52:33,674 --> 00:52:34,754
You've got be able to play.
958
00:52:35,834 --> 00:52:39,034
I went over there with definitely
a fucking chip on my shoulder,
959
00:52:39,114 --> 00:52:40,674
but a good chip, you know what I mean?
960
00:52:40,754 --> 00:52:43,834
It was like, "Look, we're going to fucking
have youse and if you like us, great,
961
00:52:43,914 --> 00:52:45,354
"if you don't, I don't give a shit."
962
00:52:46,034 --> 00:52:47,674
American Customs then asked a question
963
00:52:47,754 --> 00:52:49,634
that would fucking blow Liam's mind,
you know what I mean?
964
00:52:50,194 --> 00:52:51,914
Right, who've we got here then?
965
00:52:51,994 --> 00:52:53,914
- He's a singer.
-(LAUGHING)
966
00:52:53,994 --> 00:52:55,594
NOEL: "What's the purpose of your visit?"
967
00:52:55,674 --> 00:52:58,234
"You what?"
(LAUGHING) "Not a fucking visit.
968
00:52:58,314 --> 00:53:00,114
"I'm not visiting, mate, I'm a fucking rock star.
969
00:53:00,594 --> 00:53:02,034
"I'm here to steal your soul."
970
00:53:02,114 --> 00:53:04,594
"Okay, you can follow me now, sir.
You're coming this way. "
971
00:53:04,674 --> 00:53:06,114
(LAUGHING)
972
00:53:09,674 --> 00:53:12,954
There's always pressure that's on
the bands to break America as well,
973
00:53:13,034 --> 00:53:17,274
you know, but breaking America
quite often breaks the fucking band
974
00:53:17,354 --> 00:53:21,874
because they're that concerned about it
and it's that vast. Fuck me, man.
975
00:53:21,954 --> 00:53:23,794
You have a good time and all that,
but I'll tell you what,
976
00:53:23,874 --> 00:53:26,954
when you get home,
your carpet don't look the same.
977
00:53:27,034 --> 00:53:28,674
RADIO JOCKEY: And we've got
the two Gallagher brothers
978
00:53:28,754 --> 00:53:30,074
from the band Oasis.
979
00:53:30,194 --> 00:53:32,954
And you're playing at the Whisky tonight.
Is it sold out, do you know?
980
00:53:33,034 --> 00:53:34,154
LIAM: Of course it's sold out.
981
00:53:34,234 --> 00:53:35,434
RADIO JOCKEY:
Okay, and what have you been doing?
982
00:53:35,514 --> 00:53:37,194
NOEL: We've just been doing loads
of interviews, and gigs.
983
00:53:37,274 --> 00:53:39,194
LIAM: Working. Melissa's been making us
work dead hard.
984
00:53:39,274 --> 00:53:40,314
She's on top.
985
00:53:40,394 --> 00:53:42,594
RADIO JOCKEY: I think what they said
was there were some interviews
986
00:53:42,674 --> 00:53:44,834
and hanging out and doing work and stuff.
987
00:53:44,914 --> 00:53:47,554
NOEL: You're right.
RADIO JOCKEY: I'll be the translator here.
988
00:53:47,634 --> 00:53:49,794
- LIAM: Diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle
-(NOEL LAUGHING)
989
00:53:49,874 --> 00:53:51,074
RADIO JOCKEY: (LAUGHING) Anything else?
990
00:53:51,794 --> 00:53:54,714
Someone had discovered
the joys of crystal meth,
991
00:53:54,794 --> 00:53:57,594
which is effectively like ninja speed.
992
00:53:57,674 --> 00:54:00,514
It's not even fun, you know what I mean?
It's a fucking horrible drug.
993
00:54:00,594 --> 00:54:01,834
I don't know who fucking got it,
994
00:54:01,914 --> 00:54:04,594
but it was there
and we all thought it was coke.
995
00:54:05,434 --> 00:54:09,394
And we were doing big fucking lines of it
and it just fucking kept us up for days.
996
00:54:09,474 --> 00:54:10,954
Everybody had a dig at it.
997
00:54:11,034 --> 00:54:13,954
The only problem with that
is that you couldn't get to sleep.
998
00:54:14,034 --> 00:54:15,034
You couldn't sleep.
999
00:54:15,114 --> 00:54:18,994
Right, I don't mind having a dig
at anything as long as, you know,
1000
00:54:19,074 --> 00:54:21,834
about 10:30 at night,
I have a cup of tea and go to bed.
1001
00:54:22,554 --> 00:54:25,314
The Whisky a Go Go
on Sunset Strip, fucking hell,
1002
00:54:25,394 --> 00:54:27,674
it's the most famous club in LA.
1003
00:54:27,794 --> 00:54:28,954
We get to the sound check,
1004
00:54:29,594 --> 00:54:31,594
everybody's been up all night
and looked like it.
1005
00:54:32,474 --> 00:54:36,394
All right, LA, Whisky a Go Go.
This is the spot.
1006
00:54:36,834 --> 00:54:38,434
The best band in Britain.
1007
00:54:38,514 --> 00:54:41,194
I say they're the best band in the universe.
1008
00:54:41,434 --> 00:54:42,434
(CHEERING)
1009
00:54:42,834 --> 00:54:44,914
None other than Oasis!
1010
00:54:45,834 --> 00:54:46,994
All right, Oasis!
1011
00:54:47,674 --> 00:54:48,714
LIAM: And there you have it.
1012
00:54:49,754 --> 00:54:51,954
This one's called Rock 'n Roll Star.
1013
00:54:52,434 --> 00:54:53,554
(MUSIC PLAYING)
1014
00:55:11,714 --> 00:55:15,954
# I live my life in the city
and there's no easy way out...
1015
00:55:16,034 --> 00:55:17,154
Everyone was appalling.
1016
00:55:17,234 --> 00:55:19,914
Every member of the crew,
every member of the fucking band
1017
00:55:19,994 --> 00:55:21,234
because of crystal meth.
1018
00:55:24,434 --> 00:55:26,794
Phil Smith, our roadie,
1019
00:55:26,874 --> 00:55:29,034
who was responsible
for putting the set lists out,
1020
00:55:29,114 --> 00:55:31,794
for some reason, my set list
was different to everybody else's.
1021
00:55:31,994 --> 00:55:34,834
# You're not concerned
about the way we are...
1022
00:55:35,914 --> 00:55:38,834
They were all playing different songs
at the same time.
1023
00:55:38,914 --> 00:55:40,914
"Whoa! What's going on here?"
(LAUGHING)
1024
00:55:41,394 --> 00:55:44,434
# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star...
1025
00:55:44,514 --> 00:55:48,074
It was a shambles, man.
It was an absolute fucking shambles.
1026
00:55:49,114 --> 00:55:52,074
# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll... #
1027
00:55:54,594 --> 00:55:56,434
Do it again for you, you know?
1028
00:55:57,634 --> 00:55:59,514
The whole thing just fell apart.
1029
00:55:59,594 --> 00:56:01,074
I've never seen it with this band before.
1030
00:56:01,154 --> 00:56:02,474
All right, Rock 'n Roll Star.
1031
00:56:02,554 --> 00:56:03,554
Again.
1032
00:56:04,794 --> 00:56:06,234
(MUSIC PLAYING)
1033
00:56:07,354 --> 00:56:09,674
I think there were a lot of tension on stage,
1034
00:56:09,754 --> 00:56:11,554
a lot of gesturing between Noel and Liam.
1035
00:56:11,674 --> 00:56:13,594
Well, more from Liam to Noel.
1036
00:56:13,674 --> 00:56:15,914
And then the tambourine came flying.
1037
00:56:15,994 --> 00:56:17,034
I think he said summat
1038
00:56:17,114 --> 00:56:19,514
and I fucking launched the tambourine
at him or summat.
1039
00:56:19,594 --> 00:56:22,514
Not like the Bruce Lee throwing-star
or a fucking lightsabre,
1040
00:56:22,594 --> 00:56:23,594
it was a tambourine.
1041
00:56:23,674 --> 00:56:26,114
But when it hit me on the shoulder
it went, "Tshhh!"
1042
00:56:26,194 --> 00:56:27,514
Out of time, I might add.
1043
00:56:28,194 --> 00:56:30,314
It was lucky I didn't fucking
launch a monitor at him or summat,
1044
00:56:30,394 --> 00:56:31,514
or a fucking drummer. (CHUCKLES)
1045
00:56:32,674 --> 00:56:33,754
What?
1046
00:56:33,874 --> 00:56:34,994
(CROWD HECKLING)
1047
00:56:35,914 --> 00:56:39,074
I could see Liam was going behind one
of the amps throughout the gig, man,
1048
00:56:39,154 --> 00:56:41,994
and he was just snorting lines
of crystal meth on stage.
1049
00:56:42,074 --> 00:56:43,714
"That's going to go tits up, isn't it?"
1050
00:56:53,314 --> 00:56:55,514
(CHUCKLING) It was a bit of a catastrophe.
1051
00:56:55,594 --> 00:56:57,274
Yeah. I was in a fury.
1052
00:56:58,514 --> 00:57:01,154
I left a little bit of me on that stage that night.
1053
00:57:01,234 --> 00:57:04,514
After that night, it was more
"me and them" as opposed to "us".
1054
00:57:05,834 --> 00:57:10,154
I remember going back to the hotel
and saying to Maggie, our tour manager,
1055
00:57:10,234 --> 00:57:11,834
I think I took the float off her.
1056
00:57:11,914 --> 00:57:13,674
Noel was quite upset about it.
1057
00:57:13,794 --> 00:57:16,194
He said, "Can you give me money?"
And I said, "Well, what do you want?"
1058
00:57:16,274 --> 00:57:17,914
He goes, "Well, enough money
to go back home."
1059
00:57:17,994 --> 00:57:20,954
So I just gave him, like, $700-
That's all I had, I said, you know.
1060
00:57:21,554 --> 00:57:23,514
He said, "Can I have my passport?"
So I gave him his passport.
1061
00:57:24,114 --> 00:57:26,354
But I remember ringing up Marcus
saying, "He's going to leave, "
1062
00:57:26,434 --> 00:57:27,914
and he was like,
"No, no, no, he'll be fine, be fine.
1063
00:57:27,994 --> 00:57:29,514
"He's going to sleep it off,
it'll be fine, be fine."
1064
00:57:29,594 --> 00:57:31,754
I was like, "on, no, / don't think so!"
(LAUGHING)
1065
00:57:33,834 --> 00:57:35,314
I don't know what I was thinking.
1066
00:57:35,394 --> 00:57:37,914
Maybe I thought it was the end,
I really don't know.
1067
00:57:38,754 --> 00:57:40,354
He takes the money and runs.
1068
00:57:40,434 --> 00:57:43,314
I remember some fucking soppy note
coming through the door, saying, like,
1069
00:57:43,394 --> 00:57:45,514
"How can we go on like brothers?"
1070
00:57:45,594 --> 00:57:47,474
It was like, "Fuck right off!"
1071
00:57:47,554 --> 00:57:48,594
So that got rolled up
1072
00:57:48,674 --> 00:57:51,514
and then another line of crystal meth
went up the old fucking tubular bells.
1073
00:57:51,634 --> 00:57:52,634
(LAUGHS)
1074
00:57:53,874 --> 00:57:56,754
So, I woke up in the morning
and I found a note underneath my door
1075
00:57:56,834 --> 00:57:58,034
and I opened it up, and I knew it.
1076
00:57:58,114 --> 00:58:00,274
He said, "I'm leaving." "Bollocks!"
1077
00:58:00,834 --> 00:58:03,234
He's gone missing.
Nobody knows where he is.
1078
00:58:04,234 --> 00:58:05,794
There's our songwriter gone.
1079
00:58:05,874 --> 00:58:08,314
"Shit! I think it's really over, isn't it?"
1080
00:58:09,114 --> 00:58:10,714
I came up with this idea.
1081
00:58:10,794 --> 00:58:15,194
I got his bill and then I traced
all the last numbers he rang. (LAUGHS)
1082
00:58:15,274 --> 00:58:17,034
And then I noticed there was
one number "415, "
1083
00:58:17,114 --> 00:58:19,154
and I thought, "Ah, San Francisco."
1084
00:58:19,234 --> 00:58:21,714
(LAUGHING) We've just been to San Francisco
1085
00:58:21,794 --> 00:58:24,834
and I knew that he had
some little fling over there.
1086
00:58:24,914 --> 00:58:26,874
Marcus said, "I'm going to ring the number."
1087
00:58:26,954 --> 00:58:30,034
So he gets her on the phone and he says,
"You know, we're not saying anything,
1088
00:58:30,114 --> 00:58:32,154
"but obviously, legally,
he's a missing person, you know.
1089
00:58:32,234 --> 00:58:34,114
"We're going to have to have
to get the police involved."
1090
00:58:34,194 --> 00:58:36,754
And the minute he hung up the phone,
I said, "He's there."
1091
00:58:39,114 --> 00:58:42,074
Let me see if I can get my story straight here-
1092
00:58:42,154 --> 00:58:44,714
I met this girl at an Oasis gig.
1093
00:58:45,394 --> 00:58:48,714
I must have phoned her
and said, "It's fucked up here."
1094
00:58:48,794 --> 00:58:51,434
And I got on a plane
and flew off to San Francisco.
1095
00:58:51,514 --> 00:58:52,914
I don't know
what the fuck I thought I was doing.
1096
00:58:52,994 --> 00:58:55,514
I was just going to, like, disappear, you know.
1097
00:58:55,594 --> 00:58:57,794
It was quite a traumatic time.
1098
00:58:57,874 --> 00:59:02,114
But Talk Tonight
was written about those few days
1099
00:59:02,194 --> 00:59:04,634
and out of that came that great song.
1100
00:59:05,274 --> 00:59:06,434
So it was meant to be.
1101
00:59:06,514 --> 00:59:07,674
It was meant to be.
1102
00:59:07,954 --> 00:59:10,074
# Sleeping on a plane
1103
00:59:10,154 --> 00:59:12,994
# You know you can't complain
1104
00:59:13,074 --> 00:59:18,394
# You took your last chance once again
1105
00:59:18,474 --> 00:59:25,074
# I landed, stranded
1106
00:59:25,194 --> 00:59:28,754
# Hardly even knew your name
1107
00:59:31,394 --> 00:59:34,674
# I want to talk tonight
1108
00:59:36,994 --> 00:59:40,714
# Until the morning light
1109
00:59:42,474 --> 00:59:46,354
# About how you saved my life
1110
00:59:48,274 --> 00:59:51,714
# You and me see how we are #
1111
00:59:53,594 --> 00:59:57,034
I kind of sat in this girl's flat,
probably doing too many fucking drugs
1112
00:59:57,114 --> 00:59:58,514
and being a biz' fucking mad.
1113
00:59:59,594 --> 01:00:03,354
Unbeknown to me, they'd found out,
"This is where we think he is."
1114
01:00:04,874 --> 01:00:07,234
If I close my eyes now,
I can't even picture the girl.
1115
01:00:07,314 --> 01:00:10,194
I can't remember her name, it's a biz' of a blur.
1116
01:00:11,594 --> 01:00:13,074
You meet them people in America,
1117
01:00:13,154 --> 01:00:15,314
you don't meet them
anywhere else in the world.
1118
01:00:15,394 --> 01:00:18,074
They take you under their wing, you know.
1119
01:00:18,154 --> 01:00:21,234
They're spiritual people is what they are.
1120
01:00:21,314 --> 01:00:22,634
She was one of them.
1121
01:00:23,594 --> 01:00:26,554
She was saying,
"What, you're going to leave?
1122
01:00:26,634 --> 01:00:27,634
"And what are you going to do?"
1123
01:00:27,714 --> 01:00:30,554
And I guess at that point I'm thinking,
"Actually, that's a very good point.
1124
01:00:30,634 --> 01:00:33,434
"What am I going to do?"
I can't sing. I wasn't a singer then.
1125
01:00:33,554 --> 01:00:35,394
I'm not a from' man.
1126
01:00:35,474 --> 01:00:38,314
I just needed a biz' of time out, I guess.
1127
01:00:38,394 --> 01:00:41,394
I may have been trying
to teach somebody a lesson.
1128
01:00:41,474 --> 01:00:43,514
I failed miserably. (CHUCKLES)
1129
01:00:44,794 --> 01:00:47,794
I think we'd heard about a couple of days
that, "Yes, he's coming back."
1130
01:00:47,874 --> 01:00:49,514
It means the band is staying together
1131
01:00:49,594 --> 01:00:51,554
rather than going home
and signing on the dole.
1132
01:00:52,474 --> 01:00:54,194
And obviously,
by the time he's about to turn up,
1133
01:00:54,274 --> 01:00:56,714
everyone's fucking shitting it,
because, you know,
1134
01:00:56,794 --> 01:00:59,714
because he can put on a stern face.
1135
01:00:59,834 --> 01:01:01,434
You know, he can unsettle you.
1136
01:01:03,394 --> 01:01:07,674
The new era started
when he walked back into that hotel
1137
01:01:08,714 --> 01:01:10,474
and everything was different after that.
1138
01:01:10,554 --> 01:01:12,514
And we all had to be different
1139
01:01:12,594 --> 01:01:14,674
because if you're not with him,
you're going home.
1140
01:01:15,754 --> 01:01:17,514
I'd written these new songs.
1141
01:01:17,594 --> 01:01:19,594
Someone had booked a recording session.
1142
01:01:20,154 --> 01:01:22,274
Like this was Oasis'
fucking cure for everything.
1143
01:01:22,354 --> 01:01:23,994
"Let's go in the studio."
1144
01:01:24,074 --> 01:01:28,514
Talk Tonight,
well, that's one moody fucking song, that.
1145
01:01:28,594 --> 01:01:34,274
It shows that delicate side to him... (LAUGHS)
1146
01:01:34,354 --> 01:01:36,074
---that you just don't really see-
1147
01:01:36,154 --> 01:01:39,634
He doesn't show these emotions, Noel.
He never did.
1148
01:01:39,714 --> 01:01:44,354
Apart from when you stick him
behind the glass with a microphone,
1149
01:01:44,434 --> 01:01:47,914
and then he can let this emotion loose
that he's got
1150
01:01:47,994 --> 01:01:50,634
and suddenly you can see "Noel."
1151
01:01:51,794 --> 01:01:57,034
You kind of see, almost,
a little boy or summat, you know.
1152
01:01:57,154 --> 01:02:00,794
Something very, very innocent and very pure.
1153
01:02:02,354 --> 01:02:05,034
They're my favourite moments.
1154
01:02:05,114 --> 01:02:08,914
It's like a door opens
and a bit of light comes in,
1155
01:02:08,994 --> 01:02:12,394
and then the door's shut again, you know,
and he's calling you a twat.
1156
01:02:20,794 --> 01:02:24,834
# Some might say
that sunshine follows thunder... #
1157
01:02:24,954 --> 01:02:28,874
In those days, I would write every day
because I was fucking so driven.
1158
01:02:28,954 --> 01:02:34,034
I recognised that I was in a moment
and everything that I wrote felt great.
1159
01:02:34,554 --> 01:02:35,914
(INDISTINCT)
1160
01:02:37,834 --> 01:02:40,794
There's a strange melancholy
to Some Might Say
1161
01:02:40,874 --> 01:02:42,754
considering I knew
it was going to be number one
1162
01:02:42,834 --> 01:02:44,354
before I even sat and wrote it.
1163
01:02:44,434 --> 01:02:45,514
I fucking knew it.
1164
01:02:47,114 --> 01:02:48,594
What is going on in this room now?
1165
01:02:48,714 --> 01:02:50,554
You can walk next door to Boyzone,
yeah, go in there.
1166
01:02:50,634 --> 01:02:53,594
They'll be like, "Hey, fuck, oh, Jesus...
1167
01:02:55,114 --> 01:02:58,034
"We've got to get this fucking thing
together now, because it's not in time.
1168
01:02:58,114 --> 01:03:01,554
"It's not in time,
just fucking me and you going like, 'Huh!"'
1169
01:03:01,714 --> 01:03:04,994
You go in there and you hear,
"Hey, do that, hey!"
1170
01:03:05,074 --> 01:03:07,954
You come in this room and it's like,
you know, it's the funny farm.
1171
01:03:08,034 --> 01:03:09,954
-(LAUGHTER)
- And that's what it's all about, it's like,
1172
01:03:10,034 --> 01:03:11,034
"Do what you friggin' want."
1173
01:03:11,114 --> 01:03:13,154
If you want to go like that, do it,
1174
01:03:13,234 --> 01:03:15,594
because it don't mean nothing.
If you want to go... Do that.
1175
01:03:15,674 --> 01:03:19,714
If you want to go... (IN AMERICAN ACCENT)
"Hey, fuck man." Like, "Hey, fuck," right?
1176
01:03:19,794 --> 01:03:20,834
You can do that.
1177
01:03:20,914 --> 01:03:22,834
- But if you want to just do this...
-(LAUGHTER)
1178
01:03:22,914 --> 01:03:25,234
...what I'm doing here now,
just do it, because it's like...
1179
01:03:25,354 --> 01:03:28,314
This is an advert for not taking drugs.
1180
01:03:28,394 --> 01:03:30,074
This is an advert? It's an advert?
1181
01:03:30,154 --> 01:03:32,434
This is an advert for not getting
into chemical abuse, big time.
1182
01:03:32,514 --> 01:03:34,154
No, no, hey, hey, hey!
1183
01:03:34,234 --> 01:03:37,394
People who know,
know that I have not been a fucking...
1184
01:03:37,474 --> 01:03:38,634
I've never been an abuser.
1185
01:03:38,714 --> 01:03:40,914
I've never been an abuser, I've been a user.
1186
01:03:40,994 --> 01:03:41,994
(LAUGHTER)
1187
01:03:42,194 --> 01:03:45,314
I've never been an abuser, man.
Nothing to do with drugs.
1188
01:03:45,394 --> 01:03:48,554
It's to do with the air, the air, man, and music.
1189
01:03:48,634 --> 01:03:51,714
And that is it, that is it,
and I'm ranting now, come on!
1190
01:03:51,794 --> 01:03:52,954
You know what I mean? It's right.
1191
01:03:53,114 --> 01:03:54,514
That's it. That's it.
1192
01:03:55,194 --> 01:03:56,354
Giving a performance
of their brand-new song.
1193
01:03:56,434 --> 01:03:59,754
It's the best song around.
It is Some Might Say!
1194
01:03:59,914 --> 01:04:01,794
(MUSIC PLAYING)
1195
01:04:14,514 --> 01:04:20,034
# Some might say that
sunshine follows thunder
1196
01:04:22,634 --> 01:04:28,594
# Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine #
1197
01:04:30,874 --> 01:04:32,914
Yeah, and that was Tony's last gig.
1198
01:04:33,514 --> 01:04:35,674
Yeah, I'd probably made up my mind
1199
01:04:35,754 --> 01:04:37,794
knowing that Champagne Supernova
was coming up
1200
01:04:37,874 --> 01:04:40,834
and Don't Look Back In Anger,
and Wonderwall,
1201
01:04:40,914 --> 01:04:43,994
that he wasn't going to be
able to play those songs.
1202
01:04:45,954 --> 01:04:49,394
It had become apparent
recording Definitely Maybe.
1203
01:04:49,474 --> 01:04:53,514
We spent a lot of time fucking about
trying to get the drums right.
1204
01:04:53,594 --> 01:04:54,674
And it was never right.
1205
01:04:55,874 --> 01:04:57,634
When we were doing
Some Might Say and stuff,
1206
01:04:57,754 --> 01:04:59,034
Noel was like, to me,
1207
01:04:59,114 --> 01:05:01,834
"That's the fucking last time
he's ever in the fucking studio."
1208
01:05:01,914 --> 01:05:04,754
I was going to Tony, "Tony, you've got to get
your shit together, Tony.
1209
01:05:04,834 --> 01:05:06,234
"Or bye, Tony."
1210
01:05:06,834 --> 01:05:10,354
NOEL: Drummers are really smelly,
useless, talentless losers, man.
1211
01:05:11,114 --> 01:05:13,194
I mean, fancy having a job
where you bang things all day.
1212
01:05:13,274 --> 01:05:15,274
I thought orangutans do that, don't they?
1213
01:05:15,354 --> 01:05:16,754
Gorillas and monkeys and that.
1214
01:05:16,834 --> 01:05:19,714
They just bang things, like bang dustbin lids
on their heads and all that.
1215
01:05:19,834 --> 01:05:20,834
(LAUGHTER)
1216
01:05:20,914 --> 01:05:22,034
Well, that's what they do, isn't it?
1217
01:05:22,114 --> 01:05:23,914
And drummers just do it
and get paid loads of money for it.
1218
01:05:23,994 --> 01:05:26,114
Fucking sack them all.
Drum machines, I say, man.
1219
01:05:26,234 --> 01:05:28,194
I'm telling you,
can't wait to say I'm in a dance band.
1220
01:05:28,274 --> 01:05:29,794
Press the button, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk."
1221
01:05:29,874 --> 01:05:30,954
Doesn't answer back, don't have to feed it.
1222
01:05:31,034 --> 01:05:32,754
Don't have to pay no money,
don't have to buy it any drugs.
1223
01:05:32,834 --> 01:05:34,474
Don't have to get it any women,
don't have to do nothing.
1224
01:05:34,554 --> 01:05:36,114
Put it on a flight,
"Fuck it, in the back of the truck,"
1225
01:05:36,194 --> 01:05:37,234
and never have to speak to it again.
1226
01:05:39,074 --> 01:05:42,634
As it went through that American tour,
it got really nasty with Tony,
1227
01:05:42,714 --> 01:05:44,874
and you'd have to feel for the boy.
1228
01:05:44,954 --> 01:05:48,274
I'd hold my hands up and say,
I gave him a terrible time as well.
1229
01:05:48,554 --> 01:05:49,714
(INDISTINCT)
1230
01:05:50,114 --> 01:05:52,114
And I shared a room with him.
1231
01:05:52,194 --> 01:05:53,314
Tony would just pour it out, you know.
1232
01:05:53,394 --> 01:05:54,674
"Fucking hell, Bonehead, do you know?
1233
01:05:54,754 --> 01:05:57,154
"People are getting at me,
and people are doing this?"
1234
01:05:57,234 --> 01:05:59,514
It was hard for me to be the guy in the middle.
1235
01:06:00,194 --> 01:06:03,474
Maybe I talked to Noel, talked to Liam,
"Look, go easy on the guy, man."
1236
01:06:04,794 --> 01:06:06,674
I was quite a reserved guy.
1237
01:06:06,754 --> 01:06:09,514
I think people might have looked
at that as some kind of weakness,
1238
01:06:09,594 --> 01:06:13,074
but no, I didn't want to be the leader.
1239
01:06:13,154 --> 01:06:14,914
I'll sit back here and do my drums.
1240
01:06:15,994 --> 01:06:19,114
You know, like, when a pack of feral dogs
exclude one puppy,
1241
01:06:19,194 --> 01:06:20,434
it became like that, I think.
1242
01:06:21,834 --> 01:06:24,514
Our Kid, I just think, made his mind up,
you know what I mean,
1243
01:06:24,594 --> 01:06:25,914
and just didn't fancy him.
1244
01:06:25,994 --> 01:06:27,794
"He's not going to be
able to do these next songs."
1245
01:06:27,874 --> 01:06:30,314
Or "I don't want him to do it,"
you know what I mean?
1246
01:06:31,074 --> 01:06:34,234
Yeah, I mean, I'm gutted for him,
but it is what it is, man-
1247
01:06:34,914 --> 01:06:36,794
I had an argument with Noel.
1248
01:06:36,874 --> 01:06:38,994
He said something,
and I finally went, "Fuck you, mate."
1249
01:06:39,074 --> 01:06:40,754
You know what I mean, "Fuck off."
1250
01:06:40,834 --> 01:06:43,634
I told him in no uncertain words
what I thought of him.
1251
01:06:43,714 --> 01:06:45,154
I kind of regret that a touch.
1252
01:06:46,514 --> 01:06:50,194
We might have had words.
It's quite likely, I don't know.
1253
01:06:50,274 --> 01:06:54,434
Whatever he says is probably true.
I wouldn't deny it at all.
1254
01:06:55,834 --> 01:06:57,914
I was at home and Marcus phoned.
1255
01:06:57,994 --> 01:06:59,754
He says, "Are you sat down?
1256
01:06:59,834 --> 01:07:03,834
"Listen, I've got some bad news for you.
The band want you out."
1257
01:07:03,914 --> 01:07:06,154
I was shell-shocked.
1258
01:07:06,234 --> 01:07:08,554
Still, to this day, it's with me-
1259
01:07:08,634 --> 01:07:10,954
I think about it every day, believe it or not.
1260
01:07:11,874 --> 01:07:13,714
Hard for him, you know, poor old Tony,
1261
01:07:13,794 --> 01:07:17,434
but all of a sudden it's like,
"Shit! We need another drummer."
1262
01:07:18,114 --> 01:07:20,674
Paul Weller's drummer
had a brother called Alan.
1263
01:07:20,794 --> 01:07:23,074
And I was going, "Right, cool,
I'm arsed, what does he look like?"
1264
01:07:23,154 --> 01:07:24,154
"Smegly little mod."
1265
01:07:24,514 --> 01:07:26,074
"Cool. Let's get him down here-"
1266
01:07:27,714 --> 01:07:29,914
And I'd never met this guy before.
1267
01:07:29,994 --> 01:07:32,594
He starts talking about the drums
1268
01:07:32,674 --> 01:07:36,274
and I'm like, "I'm fucking not interested
in how you can play.
1269
01:07:36,754 --> 01:07:39,074
"As long as you look the pan', you'll do.
1270
01:07:39,634 --> 01:07:42,034
"By the way, you're doing
Top of The Pops on Wednesday."
1271
01:07:42,114 --> 01:07:43,274
And that was his first thing.
1272
01:07:44,354 --> 01:07:46,674
# Some might say
1273
01:07:46,754 --> 01:07:50,234
# We will find a brighter day
1274
01:07:52,994 --> 01:07:55,154
# Some might say
1275
01:07:55,234 --> 01:07:59,034
# We will find a brighter day
1276
01:08:01,034 --> 01:08:04,794
# Yeah, 'cause I've been
standing at the station
1277
01:08:04,874 --> 01:08:08,114
# In need of education in the rain
1278
01:08:11,394 --> 01:08:13,634
# You made no preparation
1279
01:08:13,714 --> 01:08:16,874
# For my reputation once again
1280
01:08:19,034 --> 01:08:20,714
# Some might say
1281
01:08:21,354 --> 01:08:22,634
# Some might say #
1282
01:08:23,474 --> 01:08:26,474
Morning Glory was incredibly quick and easy.
1283
01:08:26,554 --> 01:08:29,994
Rockfield, the posh studio,
fucking Queen and all that.
1284
01:08:30,074 --> 01:08:32,474
Fucking Bohemian Rhapsody and all that.
1285
01:08:32,554 --> 01:08:35,954
Don't film me, Tim. Seriously.
1286
01:08:36,034 --> 01:08:37,394
Film him, Tim, film him.
1287
01:08:37,474 --> 01:08:38,634
TIM: He's giving birth?
1288
01:08:38,714 --> 01:08:40,034
I'm fucking knackered.
1289
01:08:40,314 --> 01:08:41,634
NOEL: Right, play this track, man.
1290
01:08:41,874 --> 01:08:44,554
This is the nerve centre,
the bridge as we call this.
1291
01:08:44,674 --> 01:08:45,674
Full steam ahead!
1292
01:08:45,794 --> 01:08:49,154
Oh, I don't know where a fucking light is.
I don't know where anything is at the moment.
1293
01:08:49,234 --> 01:08:51,354
But you know where the top is, don't you?
1294
01:08:51,434 --> 01:08:53,114
Because that's where we're going, Morris.
1295
01:08:53,914 --> 01:08:56,634
- The topmost of the most popper most.
- That's us.
1296
01:08:57,594 --> 01:09:00,074
TIM: Noel had the songs
and the arrangements
1297
01:09:00,154 --> 01:09:03,354
and he was totally in control of the band,
1298
01:09:03,434 --> 01:09:07,594
so that first week of Morning Glory,
we were doing a song a day.
1299
01:09:07,674 --> 01:09:10,274
Finished. Extraordinary.
1300
01:09:10,354 --> 01:09:11,634
He is like God, isn't he?
1301
01:09:19,074 --> 01:09:22,514
I knew the songs were a lot more
richer than Definitely Maybe.
1302
01:09:22,594 --> 01:09:24,714
I knew they had, like,
definitely gone up a notch.
1303
01:09:25,554 --> 01:09:27,274
(MUSIC PLAYING)
1304
01:09:30,154 --> 01:09:32,714
I loved Owen, mental Welshman-
1305
01:09:32,794 --> 01:09:34,074
He was always setting fire to shit
1306
01:09:34,154 --> 01:09:37,274
and things were always blowing up
because he had it too loud.
1307
01:09:37,354 --> 01:09:41,874
No rule book, with his big, mad laugh, going,
"Yeah, let's fucking have it!"
1308
01:09:42,314 --> 01:09:44,594
They were the best times I ever had recording.
1309
01:09:45,154 --> 01:09:46,754
It's gorgeous and sexy, and...
1310
01:09:49,194 --> 01:09:50,194
(LAUGHS)
1311
01:09:51,954 --> 01:09:52,954
Have your priorities right.
1312
01:09:53,434 --> 01:09:54,434
(OWEN SPEAKING)
1313
01:09:57,074 --> 01:09:58,514
Liam was extraordinary.
1314
01:09:58,594 --> 01:09:59,674
And they had this freaky thing
1315
01:09:59,754 --> 01:10:02,194
where Noel would play the song once
1316
01:10:02,274 --> 01:10:04,674
on an acoustic guitar in the control room,
to Liam,
1317
01:10:04,754 --> 01:10:07,514
give him the words and he'd fucking sing it.
1318
01:10:07,714 --> 01:10:09,754
Noel would listen to it once
1319
01:10:09,834 --> 01:10:12,394
to check Liam's got the phrasing
for the entire song
1320
01:10:12,474 --> 01:10:14,234
that he's only just heard the once.
1321
01:10:15,154 --> 01:10:17,154
Noel would go, "Nice one, Liam,"
1322
01:10:17,234 --> 01:10:20,234
and there was always football on
when Oasis were recording.
1323
01:10:20,314 --> 01:10:21,314
Noel would fuck off,
1324
01:10:21,394 --> 01:10:22,914
Liam would just bang
another four tracks down.
1325
01:10:24,074 --> 01:10:25,794
This would be, like, 1:00 in the afternoon.
1326
01:10:25,874 --> 01:10:27,834
Cup of tea, lead vocal, done.
1327
01:10:28,954 --> 01:10:29,954
I Was like, "What the fuck?"
1328
01:10:30,034 --> 01:10:32,394
You know, he's only heard the song once.
(LAUGHS)
1329
01:10:33,034 --> 01:10:35,514
Five songs, five days, man. Fucking amazing!
1330
01:10:36,194 --> 01:10:39,114
# Slowly walking down the hall
1331
01:10:39,194 --> 01:10:42,354
# Faster than a cannonball
1332
01:10:42,434 --> 01:10:46,874
# Where were you while we were getting high?
1333
01:10:46,954 --> 01:10:50,274
# Someday you will find me
1334
01:10:50,354 --> 01:10:54,434
# Caught beneath the landslide
1335
01:10:54,514 --> 01:10:59,674
# In a champagne supernova in the sky
1336
01:10:59,754 --> 01:11:03,074
# Someday you will find me
1337
01:11:03,154 --> 01:11:07,314
# Caught beneath the landslide
1338
01:11:07,394 --> 01:11:10,754
# In a champagne supernova
1339
01:11:10,834 --> 01:11:13,794
# A champagne supernova
1340
01:11:13,874 --> 01:11:16,754
# Because people believe
1341
01:11:16,834 --> 01:11:22,674
# That they're going to
get away for the summer
1342
01:11:26,874 --> 01:11:30,074
# But you and I, we live and die
1343
01:11:30,154 --> 01:11:32,314
# The world's still spinning round
1344
01:11:32,394 --> 01:11:36,434
# We don't know why
1345
01:11:36,554 --> 01:11:40,714
# Why, why, why, why#
1346
01:11:44,154 --> 01:11:45,154
OWEN: No, we don't need that last one.
1347
01:11:46,994 --> 01:11:47,994
OWEN: Yeah!
1348
01:11:50,834 --> 01:11:51,834
(FOOTBALL ON TV)
1349
01:11:51,954 --> 01:11:53,914
TIM: This is soaking the boats here.
1350
01:11:53,994 --> 01:11:55,834
The boats are the Blues.
1351
01:11:55,914 --> 01:11:57,314
Come on, the Blues!
1352
01:11:57,394 --> 01:11:58,954
Come on, the Blues!
1353
01:11:59,074 --> 01:12:00,554
Come on, the Blues!
1354
01:12:01,794 --> 01:12:03,914
- Come on, the Pool!
-(LAUGHTER)
1355
01:12:04,554 --> 01:12:06,234
It's the fucking curse of United!
1356
01:12:07,234 --> 01:12:09,674
- Come on!
-(ALL CHEERING)
1357
01:12:13,954 --> 01:12:15,274
(TIM LAUGHING)
1358
01:12:16,274 --> 01:12:18,234
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
1359
01:12:19,474 --> 01:12:20,474
(LAUGHTER)
1360
01:12:23,674 --> 01:12:25,474
- Come on, you baldy twat!
-(OWEN LAUGHING)
1361
01:12:29,394 --> 01:12:30,514
Fucking, hey!
1362
01:12:30,594 --> 01:12:31,874
Come on!
1363
01:12:31,954 --> 01:12:33,754
Dalglish! (CLAPPING)
1364
01:12:33,834 --> 01:12:36,234
Dalglish! (CLAPPING)
1365
01:12:36,474 --> 01:12:37,634
Dalglish!
1366
01:12:38,914 --> 01:12:39,914
Come on then!
1367
01:12:43,434 --> 01:12:45,714
Good times, man. I loved it in that place,
1368
01:12:45,794 --> 01:12:47,874
but it's not fucking prison, is it,
you know what I mean?
1369
01:12:47,954 --> 01:12:49,834
If I'm not needed today,
1370
01:12:49,914 --> 01:12:51,874
I'm hardly going to sit
and fucking watch you play guitar,
1371
01:12:51,954 --> 01:12:53,314
you know what I mean, like?
1372
01:12:53,394 --> 01:12:54,754
I'm fucking going to the pub.
1373
01:12:54,834 --> 01:12:56,314
But it did cause arguments.
1374
01:12:56,394 --> 01:12:58,074
Nearly. That's that then, lad.
1375
01:12:58,754 --> 01:12:59,754
So it'd always be like that.
1376
01:12:59,834 --> 01:13:02,874
"Right, he's doing his guitars,
he'll be in there all fucking day, won't he?
1377
01:13:02,994 --> 01:13:04,474
"We can go to the fucking pub."
1378
01:13:04,554 --> 01:13:05,634
And he'd come out, and he'd be like,
1379
01:13:05,714 --> 01:13:07,714
"All right, guys, what does everyone think...
Where is everyone?"
1380
01:13:09,194 --> 01:13:10,194
NOEL: Where is everyone gone?
1381
01:13:12,274 --> 01:13:14,274
LIAM: Yeah, I was a sucker for the pub, man.
1382
01:13:14,914 --> 01:13:18,274
You go in there one day,
and you meet the local fucking drug dealer.
1383
01:13:18,594 --> 01:13:20,874
Yeah, I probably did bring
a few people back one night.
1384
01:13:22,194 --> 01:13:24,914
Probably a bad move,
because Noel was still working in the studio.
1385
01:13:25,834 --> 01:13:27,714
No, I shouldn't have brought them back,
1386
01:13:27,794 --> 01:13:29,794
but I thought we were a rock 'n roll band,
you know what I mean?
1387
01:13:29,874 --> 01:13:31,874
I thought anything goes in Oasis,
you know what I mean?
1388
01:13:31,954 --> 01:13:34,154
Obviously, the other people had rules,
you know what I mean?
1389
01:13:35,514 --> 01:13:36,594
Fuck the rules, man.
1390
01:13:38,554 --> 01:13:43,994
# Sing a sad song in a lonely place
1391
01:13:44,074 --> 01:13:46,714
# Try to put a word in for me...
1392
01:13:46,794 --> 01:13:49,994
As I recall,
Liam was going pretty fucking mad.
1393
01:13:50,074 --> 01:13:53,554
Somebody let a fire extinguisher off
in the farmhouse.
1394
01:13:53,634 --> 01:13:56,874
I think maybe one of my guitars
got damaged, and I blamed him.
1395
01:13:56,954 --> 01:14:00,114
It just exploded into a big
fucking bunch of chaos
1396
01:14:00,194 --> 01:14:02,274
like you've never seen, man.
1397
01:14:02,354 --> 01:14:04,154
I ended up having a proper fight with Liam.
1398
01:14:04,234 --> 01:14:06,994
I mean, it might have been the
biggest fight we ever had.
1399
01:14:07,114 --> 01:14:11,034
I remember smashing his head
in with a cricket bat, yeah.
1400
01:14:11,354 --> 01:14:14,234
# What we don't touch we cannot feel...
1401
01:14:14,314 --> 01:14:16,434
The whole studio got smashed to pieces.
1402
01:14:16,514 --> 01:14:18,794
There's like loads of little bits
in the corner went, "Bzzt."
1403
01:14:18,874 --> 01:14:21,594
Everything just got fucking blitzed.
1404
01:14:21,674 --> 01:14:25,754
I'm not generally an obnoxious person, dude,
1405
01:14:25,834 --> 01:14:28,714
but somebody must've got on my tits,
you know what I mean?
1406
01:14:28,794 --> 01:14:29,914
Probably me not giving a fuck
1407
01:14:29,994 --> 01:14:32,514
and him trying to write
fucking Bohemian Rhapsody.
1408
01:14:32,634 --> 01:14:35,034
And me son' of just going,
"Bollocks! Let's have it!"
1409
01:14:36,394 --> 01:14:40,674
I do remember jumping out of a window,
driving off with Whitey.
1410
01:14:40,754 --> 01:14:45,274
Liam appeared out of nowhere
and threw a dustbin at the car,
1411
01:14:45,354 --> 01:14:48,674
and we'd only known Alan
about two weeks and he was saying,
1412
01:14:48,754 --> 01:14:51,074
"It can't be over, I've only just joined."
1413
01:14:51,194 --> 01:14:55,114
We were like, "No, no, no, no.
This is going to happen all the time."
1414
01:14:55,194 --> 01:14:58,314
And he was going, "Fucking hell, mate.
What kind of fucking band is this?"
1415
01:14:58,394 --> 01:15:00,434
Go and fucking join The Troggs!
1416
01:15:00,674 --> 01:15:04,794
# We're throwing it all away #
1417
01:15:04,874 --> 01:15:06,474
Yeah, it was terrible.
1418
01:15:06,554 --> 01:15:10,834
It happened, man, but there was no need
for the cricket fucking bat around my head,
1419
01:15:10,914 --> 01:15:11,994
you know what I mean?
1420
01:15:14,354 --> 01:15:17,874
Every time there was ever a scene in Oasis,
1421
01:15:17,954 --> 01:15:22,194
when we'd all got back together
it was like nothing had ever happened.
1422
01:15:22,274 --> 01:15:23,834
We had a tour booked
1423
01:15:23,914 --> 01:15:26,514
and we were rehearsing in Brixton Academy.
1424
01:15:26,594 --> 01:15:29,514
It was all fine. Me and Guigs got a taxi home.
1425
01:15:29,594 --> 01:15:32,514
The next day, Guigs just doesn't show up.
1426
01:15:32,634 --> 01:15:36,834
Marcus arrives and says,
"Guigs wants to leave the band."
1427
01:15:38,314 --> 01:15:41,074
What's happened to Guigs
is he's had a bit of a fucking breakdown.
1428
01:15:41,154 --> 01:15:42,874
That's when you kick yourself, you know.
1429
01:15:42,954 --> 01:15:45,354
When you're that blinkered
that you couldn't stop
1430
01:15:45,434 --> 01:15:47,754
and notice that your mate wasn't feeling right.
1431
01:15:48,674 --> 01:15:50,714
Any kind of chaos going on around,
1432
01:15:50,794 --> 01:15:52,154
he would have shot down,
do you know what I mean?
1433
01:15:52,234 --> 01:15:53,474
Bass players are like that.
1434
01:15:53,554 --> 01:15:55,154
Guigs is a gentle soul,
you know what I mean?
1435
01:15:55,234 --> 01:15:57,634
He wasn't like me and Noel, or like Bonehead.
1436
01:15:57,714 --> 01:16:00,034
You know, we were fucking pretty mental.
1437
01:16:00,114 --> 01:16:03,514
He was suffering
from nervous exhaustion... (LAUGHS)
1438
01:16:03,594 --> 01:16:05,634
...as rock stars always are.
1439
01:16:05,714 --> 01:16:07,314
"My nerves are exhausted."
1440
01:16:07,394 --> 01:16:10,714
Or "My exhaustion is fucking
getting me nervous," I don't know.
1441
01:16:10,794 --> 01:16:13,074
I never had it myself. It's a funny thing.
1442
01:16:13,554 --> 01:16:14,874
Maybe he smoked too much weed.
1443
01:16:14,954 --> 01:16:17,674
Maybe he just needed a breather,
you know what I mean?
1444
01:16:17,754 --> 01:16:21,714
We weren't the kind of band that was like,
"Oh, poor Guigs, " or "Poor Liam."
1445
01:16:21,794 --> 01:16:24,754
It was like, "Fuck that cunt!
We've got shit to do, man."
1446
01:16:24,834 --> 01:16:26,034
We went for Scott MacLeod
1447
01:16:26,114 --> 01:16:29,074
from a little band that we'd played with
in the past called The Ya Ya's-
1448
01:16:29,674 --> 01:16:31,354
What a great job he got, didn't he?
1449
01:16:31,434 --> 01:16:33,274
"Do you fancy being bass player in Oasis?"
"Fucking yes!"
1450
01:16:35,354 --> 01:16:38,594
I don't know how long it was
before we got on the plane to go to the States,
1451
01:16:38,674 --> 01:16:40,034
but even that was chaos.
1452
01:16:42,034 --> 01:16:43,034
(CHEERING)
1453
01:16:49,594 --> 01:16:52,394
NOEL: We were on the way to New York
to do David Letterman.
1454
01:16:52,474 --> 01:16:54,714
Maggie, our tour manager,
God bless that woman,
1455
01:16:54,794 --> 01:16:58,154
we put her through absolute fucking hell,
1456
01:16:58,234 --> 01:16:59,794
she came in kind of half-laughing, going,
1457
01:16:59,874 --> 01:17:01,634
"You're not going to guess
what's just happened.
1458
01:17:01,714 --> 01:17:04,394
"Scott's just told me he wants to, like, quit."
1459
01:17:04,514 --> 01:17:06,554
And I remember going to the back lounge
and saying to him,
1460
01:17:06,634 --> 01:17:08,234
"Mate, what? What? What?"
1461
01:17:08,314 --> 01:17:12,474
And he said these words,
"I'm just missing my bird."
1462
01:17:12,554 --> 01:17:13,914
You know, there's people
who are out out for it
1463
01:17:13,994 --> 01:17:15,074
and there's people that ain't.
1464
01:17:15,154 --> 01:17:18,114
He might have just gone
"You know what, this is not for me."
1465
01:17:18,194 --> 01:17:20,154
It's either that or his bird
must have been fit as fuck,
1466
01:17:20,234 --> 01:17:21,554
you know what I mean?
1467
01:17:22,954 --> 01:17:24,194
I always take things like that.
1468
01:17:24,274 --> 01:17:26,914
I would always laugh my way through it
and think, even you know,
1469
01:17:26,994 --> 01:17:29,314
as you're driving into America
to do David Letterman,
1470
01:17:29,394 --> 01:17:31,954
and the bass player that's standing in
1471
01:17:32,034 --> 01:17:34,954
for the bass player
who's got nervous exhaustion, is saying,
1472
01:17:35,034 --> 01:17:36,634
"I can't handle it any more." (LAUGHING)
1473
01:17:36,714 --> 01:17:37,794
You're laughing, going,
1474
01:17:38,154 --> 01:17:41,634
"We must be the biggest bunch
of cunts in the world,
1475
01:17:41,714 --> 01:17:45,434
"because our mate is fucking
sat at home watching the cricket,
1476
01:17:45,514 --> 01:17:46,994
"he don't want to be in a band with us.
1477
01:17:47,074 --> 01:17:50,394
"This fucking clown here,
who's on the dole in England,
1478
01:17:51,074 --> 01:17:52,154
"he don't want to be either! What?
1479
01:17:52,234 --> 01:17:55,394
"I mean, are we like the biggest
three cunts in the world?"
1480
01:17:56,194 --> 01:17:57,394
It didn't deter us.
1481
01:17:57,474 --> 01:18:00,154
We got to New York. Bonehead got up.
1482
01:18:00,234 --> 01:18:02,754
"You're playing bass
and we do it as a four-piece."
1483
01:18:03,474 --> 01:18:06,314
Our next guests are the most popular
rock 'n roll band in Britain today.
1484
01:18:06,394 --> 01:18:08,954
Can you guys prove it, seriously?
How would we know? Are you really?
1485
01:18:09,034 --> 01:18:10,034
(LIAM SPEAKING)
1486
01:18:10,114 --> 01:18:12,114
Okay, I'll take your word for it,
all right, okay, I believe you.
1487
01:18:12,194 --> 01:18:14,234
I'm going to believe you this time,
but if there's trouble later
1488
01:18:14,314 --> 01:18:15,354
with the equipment missing...
1489
01:18:15,434 --> 01:18:16,634
All right, just relax.
1490
01:18:17,034 --> 01:18:18,034
(MUSIC PLAYING)
1491
01:18:18,114 --> 01:18:20,554
# Need a little time to wake up
1492
01:18:21,594 --> 01:18:24,914
# Need a little time to wake up, wake up
1493
01:18:24,994 --> 01:18:28,114
# Need a little time to wake up
1494
01:18:28,194 --> 01:18:31,714
# Need a little time to rest your mind
1495
01:18:31,794 --> 01:18:35,194
# You know you should
so I guess that you might as well
1496
01:18:38,354 --> 01:18:41,474
# What's the story, morning glory?
1497
01:18:41,554 --> 01:18:42,674
# Well? #
1498
01:18:43,674 --> 01:18:44,674
Being in the best band
1499
01:18:44,754 --> 01:18:46,994
and the most important band
of your generation
1500
01:18:47,074 --> 01:18:49,154
shouldn't be a walk in the park,
you know what I mean?
1501
01:18:50,234 --> 01:18:52,554
We come back to England,
1502
01:18:52,634 --> 01:18:54,914
we got these gigs coming up,
they're sold out.
1503
01:18:54,994 --> 01:18:57,914
They're going to be monumental.
We didn't have a bass player.
1504
01:18:58,674 --> 01:18:59,954
RADIO JOCKEY: Radio One...
1505
01:19:00,754 --> 01:19:03,114
The biggest ever indoor gig in Britain
1506
01:19:03,194 --> 01:19:07,394
will rock the capital tomorrow night
as Oasis roll into London.
1507
01:19:07,474 --> 01:19:10,794
They'll play two blistering sets
over the weekend at Earls Court
1508
01:19:10,874 --> 01:19:13,274
in front of nearly 40, 000 fans.
1509
01:19:13,914 --> 01:19:14,994
- Hey, Noel?
- Hello.
1510
01:19:15,074 --> 01:19:16,274
Rumours of a split, or what?
1511
01:19:16,874 --> 01:19:18,074
A banana split, yeah.
1512
01:19:18,154 --> 01:19:19,554
Yeah, where's the rest of
the band tonight then?
1513
01:19:19,634 --> 01:19:20,634
Who cares?
1514
01:19:20,794 --> 01:19:23,514
NOEL: Marcus was saying
"We'll just cancel everything, "
1515
01:19:23,634 --> 01:19:26,194
to a chorus of,
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! What the fuck?
1516
01:19:26,274 --> 01:19:27,994
"That's not how we run shit."
1517
01:19:28,074 --> 01:19:32,194
If my fucking mum has got to play bass,
that gig is happening.
1518
01:19:32,274 --> 01:19:36,834
I think we gave Guigs first refusal, and said,
"Are you going to do this gig, or what?"
1519
01:19:36,914 --> 01:19:38,434
I remember just getting a message like,
1520
01:19:38,514 --> 01:19:40,114
"Guigsy is going to come back
and do the gig."
1521
01:19:40,194 --> 01:19:41,594
Hallelujah!
1522
01:19:41,674 --> 01:19:43,114
But then there was a pan' of me thinking,
1523
01:19:43,194 --> 01:19:44,834
"Oh, God, is he going
to come on and just collapse?"
1524
01:19:44,914 --> 01:19:46,034
It was pretty hairy.
1525
01:19:46,554 --> 01:19:47,954
We were never fussed about it, it was like,
1526
01:19:48,034 --> 01:19:51,434
"Have a nice fucking rest, did you,
you lazy fucker?
1527
01:19:51,514 --> 01:19:53,154
"I didn't even know you'd fucking gone!
1528
01:19:53,234 --> 01:19:56,114
"What, you had a fucking breakdown?
Fuck, when did that happen?"
1529
01:19:56,194 --> 01:20:00,154
Look, Oasis wasn't for wimps,
so I was glad Guigs came back.
1530
01:20:00,234 --> 01:20:02,394
You know what I mean,
he was pan' of the band,
1531
01:20:02,474 --> 01:20:04,154
but the show must go on.
1532
01:20:12,634 --> 01:20:13,634
(CHEERING)
1533
01:20:23,434 --> 01:20:25,674
Are we going to have it away in
here tonight, or what? Come on!
1534
01:20:28,634 --> 01:20:29,634
(MUSIC PLAYING)
1535
01:20:56,674 --> 01:21:00,514
# I don't know what it is
that makes me feel alive
1536
01:21:00,594 --> 01:21:04,594
# I don't know how to wake
the things that sleep inside
1537
01:21:04,674 --> 01:21:10,154
# I only want to see the light
that shines behind your eyes
1538
01:21:12,594 --> 01:21:16,474
# There are many things
that I would like to know
1539
01:21:16,554 --> 01:21:20,394
# And there are many places that I wish to go
1540
01:21:20,474 --> 01:21:26,154
# But everything's depending
on the way the wind may blow
1541
01:21:32,514 --> 01:21:35,714
# Because we need each other
1542
01:21:35,874 --> 01:21:39,154
# We believe in one another
1543
01:21:39,234 --> 01:21:43,074
# And I know we're going to uncover
1544
01:21:43,154 --> 01:21:45,394
# What's sleeping in our soul...
1545
01:21:46,634 --> 01:21:49,114
There were days when you were in the zone,
you know what I mean,
1546
01:21:49,194 --> 01:21:51,114
where you could just stand
perfectly fucking still
1547
01:21:51,194 --> 01:21:53,514
while there's all this chaos
going on around you
1548
01:21:53,594 --> 01:21:55,514
and all these kids are just fucking
leaping about
1549
01:21:55,594 --> 01:21:58,154
and the sound's like pumping, roaring.
1550
01:21:58,714 --> 01:22:02,714
I'd just be stood completely fucking still
like a boxer just thinking,
1551
01:22:02,794 --> 01:22:05,834
"This is the best feeling in the world."
1552
01:22:05,914 --> 01:22:06,914
Pure control.
1553
01:22:09,554 --> 01:22:12,354
Not feeling the need to join the madness.
1554
01:22:13,234 --> 01:22:16,274
Just absolute fucking still.
1555
01:22:19,194 --> 01:22:22,194
# Because we need
1556
01:22:22,634 --> 01:22:25,194
# Because we believe #
1557
01:22:37,914 --> 01:22:38,914
Cheers.
1558
01:22:43,394 --> 01:22:48,314
MAN: Liam Gallagher, Sunday,
pre-fucking the Liquid Room.
1559
01:22:50,514 --> 01:22:51,514
One word?
1560
01:22:51,874 --> 01:22:53,074
(NOEL SPEAKING)
1561
01:22:53,154 --> 01:22:54,154
Sausages. What?
1562
01:22:54,234 --> 01:22:55,354
(NOEL SPEAKING)
1563
01:22:57,834 --> 01:23:00,074
NOEL:
Liam was always cooler than me, I think.
1564
01:23:00,154 --> 01:23:02,474
He had a better walk
and clothes looked better on him
1565
01:23:02,554 --> 01:23:04,714
and he was taller, and he had a better haircut.
1566
01:23:04,794 --> 01:23:05,794
And he was funnier.
1567
01:23:06,234 --> 01:23:07,234
(INAUDIBLE)
1568
01:23:07,674 --> 01:23:11,474
Liam clearly would have liked
to have had my talent as a songwriter.
1569
01:23:19,234 --> 01:23:22,114
And there's not a day goes by
when I don't wish
1570
01:23:22,194 --> 01:23:23,754
I could rock a parka like that man.
1571
01:23:31,634 --> 01:23:33,354
I know Noel thinks I'm doing okay.
1572
01:23:33,434 --> 01:23:36,314
We didn't need to pat each other
on the back and go, "Oh, you're great."
1573
01:23:36,394 --> 01:23:38,354
Me and him are like telepathic,
you know what I mean?
1574
01:23:39,154 --> 01:23:40,154
MAN: Kiss for the camera.
1575
01:23:40,234 --> 01:23:43,234
There was a period where
he was the greatest singer in the world,
1576
01:23:43,314 --> 01:23:44,954
added to that, the greatest front man,
1577
01:23:45,034 --> 01:23:47,274
added to that he was a fucking
good-looking boy as well.
1578
01:23:47,354 --> 01:23:48,914
They were the magic years, you know.
1579
01:23:48,994 --> 01:23:50,554
The trick is keeping that shit going.
1580
01:23:51,034 --> 01:23:52,034
(LAUGHTER)
1581
01:23:52,434 --> 01:23:55,954
INTERVIEWER: What's all that about Liam
walking off the stage or something?
1582
01:23:56,034 --> 01:23:57,034
What happened there?
1583
01:23:57,114 --> 01:23:58,554
He does it all the time, now. He does it...
1584
01:23:58,634 --> 01:23:59,634
It's part of the show?
1585
01:24:00,074 --> 01:24:01,754
CROWD: (CHANTING) Liam, Liam!
1586
01:24:02,394 --> 01:24:04,434
NOEL: It never dawned on me to be a singer
1587
01:24:04,514 --> 01:24:06,554
until he started walking off stage
in the middle of gigs
1588
01:24:06,634 --> 01:24:08,394
and it's kind of like,
"Oh, fucking hell, " you know.
1589
01:24:08,474 --> 01:24:11,114
"We've got another 40 minutes left here,
someone had better do something."
1590
01:24:26,874 --> 01:24:30,674
I had prob/ems, man, with my throat-
Just probably caning it too much-
1591
01:24:30,754 --> 01:24:32,594
Fucking screaming, shouting, I don't know.
1592
01:24:32,674 --> 01:24:36,634
Singing them songs the way I sing them
is like being in a boxing match.
1593
01:24:36,714 --> 01:24:38,194
It takes its wear and tear.
1594
01:24:39,354 --> 01:24:42,474
And, of course, what happened,
nine times out of ten,
1595
01:24:42,554 --> 01:24:44,274
was I'd take over.
1596
01:24:44,354 --> 01:24:46,114
But the more you'd finish the gigs,
1597
01:24:46,194 --> 01:24:48,274
the more it enabled him to do it,
1598
01:24:48,394 --> 01:24:49,714
and then he'd just do it at the drop of a hat.
1599
01:24:49,794 --> 01:24:51,754
NOEL: Just give us a minute, right?
1600
01:24:51,874 --> 01:24:53,834
I'm going to have to sing for you, right, sorry.
1601
01:24:56,274 --> 01:24:58,914
I never ever could not be arsed
getting on that stage.
1602
01:24:58,994 --> 01:25:01,314
I fucking take massive of fence to that.
1603
01:25:04,114 --> 01:25:06,594
That's one of the reasons
why I had to start doing vocals,
1604
01:25:06,674 --> 01:25:07,674
you know what I mean?
1605
01:25:07,794 --> 01:25:10,354
And then I thought,
"Oh, hang on a minute. This is all right.
1606
01:25:10,434 --> 01:25:13,514
"That girl's staring at me, that's even better."
(LAUGHING)
1607
01:25:13,834 --> 01:25:15,834
Wonderwall, actually you guys
have been doing for a while.
1608
01:25:15,914 --> 01:25:17,914
- Noel's been doing it acoustically.
- Yeah.
1609
01:25:17,994 --> 01:25:20,114
How did that come about?
1610
01:25:20,194 --> 01:25:23,154
He just decided he wanted
to do an acoustic song, which is cool.
1611
01:25:23,234 --> 01:25:25,314
But now when we get back to England
we're going to spread it out,
1612
01:25:25,394 --> 01:25:26,674
we're going to do it as a band.
1613
01:25:26,754 --> 01:25:29,434
- Are you still having a good time?
- Yeah, I'm rocking, yeah.
1614
01:25:29,514 --> 01:25:31,594
When I'm allowed to do the job,
1615
01:25:31,674 --> 01:25:33,754
that thing's good, yeah, I'm happy.
1616
01:25:33,834 --> 01:25:35,834
When I'm not allowed to do the job,
I'm not happy.
1617
01:25:38,514 --> 01:25:41,114
He's a great fucking songwriter
and always will be,
1618
01:25:41,194 --> 01:25:43,114
but singing's my 9/9-
1619
01:25:43,194 --> 01:25:44,914
If you're going to start
singing the fucking songs
1620
01:25:44,994 --> 01:25:47,834
as well as writing them, what am I doing,
making the fucking tea?
1621
01:25:49,194 --> 01:25:50,994
All the coming off,
and the "I'm doing this tune."
1622
01:25:51,074 --> 01:25:54,714
I was walking on stage like a fucking yo-yo,
you know what I mean, half the time.
1623
01:25:54,794 --> 01:25:57,114
"Here he comes, here he goes, here he comes.
1624
01:25:57,194 --> 01:25:59,834
"Leave it out! You're taking the piss, mate!"
1625
01:25:59,914 --> 01:26:03,714
So therefore there will be a bit of frustration
and the wheels might come off tonight.
1626
01:26:05,874 --> 01:26:06,874
NOEL: I've left once.
1627
01:26:08,034 --> 01:26:09,034
INTERVIEWER: For a long period?
1628
01:26:09,114 --> 01:26:11,034
A couple of weeks.
Shouldn't have come back.
1629
01:26:11,114 --> 01:26:12,874
Biggest mistake I ever made
was coming back.
1630
01:26:12,954 --> 01:26:14,834
Because Morning Glory
would have been my first solo album
1631
01:26:14,914 --> 01:26:16,354
and I'd have had a load of fucking money.
1632
01:26:16,594 --> 01:26:18,834
Yeah, I mean, you know,
Our Kid has left on a couple of occasions,
1633
01:26:18,914 --> 01:26:22,794
and been sacked on a couple of occasions
actually. But, yeah, I suppose...
1634
01:26:22,874 --> 01:26:25,554
How does that work?
Four-fifths of vote sort of thing?
1635
01:26:25,634 --> 01:26:28,274
Oh, no, I just sack him."You? Out!"
1636
01:26:29,274 --> 01:26:32,954
Noel said in the music papers
the other day about
1637
01:26:33,034 --> 01:26:35,554
-"Only a couple more records."
- About him leaving the band?
1638
01:26:35,674 --> 01:26:38,554
I think he's got loads and loads
of albums left inside him
1639
01:26:38,634 --> 01:26:41,994
and us as a band have got
loads and loads of gigs to do
1640
01:26:42,074 --> 01:26:44,514
and things to do, and can make them,
you know what I mean?
1641
01:26:44,594 --> 01:26:48,114
I don't feel no way we're splitting up, right.
I'm not into that at all.
1642
01:26:48,194 --> 01:26:51,114
But if he feels it, then he feels it,
you know what I mean?
1643
01:26:51,194 --> 01:26:53,274
A good slap around the jaw,
man, will change his mind.
1644
01:26:55,314 --> 01:26:59,154
This is yet another song
with shit lyrics... Wonderwall.
1645
01:26:59,594 --> 01:27:00,954
(CROWD CHEERING)
1646
01:27:12,074 --> 01:27:17,194
# Today was going to be the day
they were going to throw it back to you
1647
01:27:17,274 --> 01:27:22,194
# By now, you should have somehow
realised what you've got to do
1648
01:27:22,274 --> 01:27:28,194
# I don't believe that anybody
feels the way I do about you now...
1649
01:27:28,514 --> 01:27:31,994
Morning Glory took on a life
of its own after Wonderwall
1650
01:27:32,074 --> 01:27:35,754
and then Don't Look Back In Anger
came consecutively as singles.
1651
01:27:35,834 --> 01:27:38,234
Then, it just blew up all over the world.
1652
01:27:38,314 --> 01:27:40,874
# And all the lights that
lead the way are blinding
1653
01:27:42,634 --> 01:27:46,714
# There are many things
that I would like to say to you
1654
01:27:46,794 --> 01:27:48,114
# But I don't know how
1655
01:27:49,434 --> 01:27:51,114
# I don't know how
1656
01:27:52,194 --> 01:27:55,634
# I said maybe
1657
01:27:55,714 --> 01:27:56,834
# You're going to be the one that saves me
1658
01:27:56,914 --> 01:28:00,194
NOEL: The songs on that record,
they're extraordinary songs,
1659
01:28:00,274 --> 01:28:03,194
and they're not extraordinary songs
because of anything that I did.
1660
01:28:03,274 --> 01:28:05,874
I only wrote them, and we only played them.
1661
01:28:05,954 --> 01:28:09,914
It's the millions of people since
who fucking sing them back to you to this day
1662
01:28:09,994 --> 01:28:11,754
that have made them extraordinary.
1663
01:28:15,594 --> 01:28:19,794
# Today was going to be the day
but they'll never throw it all back to you
1664
01:28:20,994 --> 01:28:25,754
# By now, you should have somehow
realised what you're not to do
1665
01:28:25,874 --> 01:28:32,194
# I don't believe that anybody
feels the way I do about you now
1666
01:28:32,434 --> 01:28:35,154
There's nothing better than singing
them songs, man, to the people.
1667
01:28:35,234 --> 01:28:36,954
Fucking blast their souls.
1668
01:28:37,034 --> 01:28:38,674
And them just going fucking apeshit-
1669
01:28:38,754 --> 01:28:40,874
# And all the roads
we have to walk are winding
1670
01:28:41,794 --> 01:28:45,354
# And all the lights
that light the way are blinding
1671
01:28:45,434 --> 01:28:46,834
(CROWD SINGING ALONG)
1672
01:28:46,914 --> 01:28:50,834
# There are many things
that I would like to say to you
1673
01:28:50,914 --> 01:28:53,434
# But I don't know how
1674
01:28:53,514 --> 01:28:55,994
# I don't know how
1675
01:28:56,074 --> 01:28:59,074
# Because maybe
1676
01:28:59,794 --> 01:29:03,954
# You're going to be the one that saves me
1677
01:29:04,434 --> 01:29:11,354
# And after all, you're my Wonderwall
1678
01:29:15,074 --> 01:29:18,554
# I said maybe
1679
01:29:18,634 --> 01:29:23,234
# You're going to be the one that saves me
1680
01:29:23,314 --> 01:29:27,954
# You're going to be the one that saves me
1681
01:29:28,034 --> 01:29:31,914
# You're going to be the one that saves me #
1682
01:29:41,394 --> 01:29:43,194
Maine Road, and the streets surrounding it
1683
01:29:43,274 --> 01:29:46,314
really are a stone's throw
from where I was born.
1684
01:29:46,634 --> 01:29:49,954
That really was a homecoming gig,
you know, it was, for all of us.
1685
01:29:51,954 --> 01:29:52,954
(some ENDS)
1686
01:29:53,034 --> 01:29:55,354
-(CHEERING INTENSIFIES)
- Cheers, thank you very much.
1687
01:29:56,314 --> 01:29:59,034
I'm a Man City supporter
and have been all my life.
1688
01:29:59,114 --> 01:30:02,834
To be offered to play at a gig like that,
it was unbelievable.
1689
01:30:04,154 --> 01:30:08,274
We still felt like a cult band
selling out two nights at a stadium.
1690
01:30:10,434 --> 01:30:13,514
From the greatest band in the world
to the greatest fans in the world. Good night!
1691
01:30:16,234 --> 01:30:19,554
NOEL: I remember sitting in a box on my own
1692
01:30:19,634 --> 01:30:22,234
watching the stadium emptying,
with the floodlights on,
1693
01:30:22,354 --> 01:30:23,874
trying to appreciate it,
1694
01:30:23,954 --> 01:30:26,114
thinking, "Where does it go from here?"
1695
01:30:26,794 --> 01:30:29,194
But then almost immediately,
bang, you're into a party.
1696
01:30:29,714 --> 01:30:32,914
TV PRESENTER 1: Still to come,
it's gone thirteen times platinum,
1697
01:30:32,994 --> 01:30:36,354
it charted a year ago today,
is it the greatest album ever written?
1698
01:30:36,434 --> 01:30:39,194
TV PRESENTER 2: I think it's fair to say that
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
1699
01:30:39,274 --> 01:30:41,874
is probably one of the
biggest-selling albums of all time.
1700
01:30:41,954 --> 01:30:42,954
TV PRESENTER 3: Without doubt,
1701
01:30:43,034 --> 01:30:44,994
the biggest band around in Britain
at the moment is Oasis.
1702
01:30:45,074 --> 01:30:48,074
The fastest-selling album of the decade.
1703
01:30:48,714 --> 01:30:50,114
What? Are you asking me if I'm happy?
1704
01:30:50,274 --> 01:30:52,514
Listen, I've got £87 million in the bank.
1705
01:30:52,754 --> 01:30:55,314
I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got three stalkers,
1706
01:30:55,394 --> 01:30:57,794
I'm about to go on the board
at Manchester City.
1707
01:30:57,874 --> 01:30:59,914
I'm part of the greatest band in the world.
1708
01:30:59,994 --> 01:31:02,874
Am I happy with that? No I'm not! I want more!
1709
01:31:10,834 --> 01:31:12,954
MAN: Well, we've got the Oasis brothers here.
1710
01:31:13,034 --> 01:31:14,434
- What do you think about it tonight?
- Boring.
1711
01:31:14,514 --> 01:31:16,194
- I thought we should have won more.
- Really?
1712
01:31:16,274 --> 01:31:18,354
Yeah. We should have been voted
the Best Rap Artist.
1713
01:31:18,434 --> 01:31:20,074
I thought he should have been voted
Best Band
1714
01:31:20,154 --> 01:31:21,874
because he's got seven personalities.
1715
01:31:25,314 --> 01:31:26,354
Oasis.
1716
01:31:26,434 --> 01:31:28,394
- Oasis.
- Oasis, Wonderwall.
1717
01:31:32,714 --> 01:31:35,234
What does a Brit Award mean? Fuck all.
1718
01:31:35,314 --> 01:31:38,874
In the grand scheme of things,
all that shit was irrelevant.
1719
01:31:40,074 --> 01:31:43,354
Has-beens shouldn't present
fucking awards to gonna-bes.
1720
01:31:45,874 --> 01:31:50,674
NOEL: One of the heads of the Brits said,
"This will ruin your career."
1721
01:31:50,754 --> 01:31:52,394
You fucking bell-end!
1722
01:31:52,474 --> 01:31:54,714
If anyone's going to ruin my career,
it's going to be me, not you.
1723
01:31:57,834 --> 01:31:58,834
(REPORTER SPEAKING)
1724
01:32:00,274 --> 01:32:02,194
The one voted for by the fans means a lot.
1725
01:32:02,274 --> 01:32:04,434
Anything that's voted for by fans is special.
1726
01:32:04,554 --> 01:32:08,114
Anything that's voted for by idiots,
corporate pigs, means nothing to us.
1727
01:32:08,794 --> 01:32:11,234
NOEL: You know, because really the music,
fuck all that.
1728
01:32:11,314 --> 01:32:14,234
Writing songs is difficult. Talking shit is easy.
1729
01:32:15,354 --> 01:32:17,754
When I do an interview,
I'm there to be a fucking gob-shite
1730
01:32:17,834 --> 01:32:20,234
and to cause as much fucking trouble
as possible.
1731
01:32:20,954 --> 01:32:24,194
As soon as people realise that the majority
of people in this country take drugs,
1732
01:32:24,274 --> 01:32:26,074
then, I mean, the better off we'll all be.
1733
01:32:26,194 --> 01:32:28,954
Everybody does it.
You do it, you do it, you do it.
1734
01:32:29,034 --> 01:32:31,394
You do it, you do it, you do it and you do it.
1735
01:32:31,474 --> 01:32:34,554
He doesn't do it... Because he's a Buddhist.
1736
01:32:34,634 --> 01:32:37,114
You know, it's like getting up
and having a cup of tea in the morning.
1737
01:32:37,314 --> 01:32:39,074
...is as common as having a cup of tea.
1738
01:32:39,794 --> 01:32:41,754
It was immediately condemned by politicians
1739
01:32:41,834 --> 01:32:43,874
with one minister calling him a "spoiled brat".
1740
01:32:44,674 --> 01:32:46,034
The press lapped that shit up
1741
01:32:46,114 --> 01:32:49,954
because no one had ever come along
that was even remotely like us.
1742
01:32:50,034 --> 01:32:52,914
We were the biggest band in the country
1743
01:32:53,114 --> 01:32:54,234
and we didn't give a fuck.
1744
01:32:54,714 --> 01:32:56,234
I was asked a question, I gave my opinions
1745
01:32:56,314 --> 01:32:58,194
and there's nothing that them
or anyone else can do about it.
1746
01:32:59,154 --> 01:33:01,594
NOEL: We don't really care what they
write about us in the press
1747
01:33:01,674 --> 01:33:03,154
as long as we're on the cover.
1748
01:33:03,234 --> 01:33:04,834
They can write anything
they want about us inside,
1749
01:33:04,914 --> 01:33:06,954
but as long as we are on the cover,
then it don't matter.
1750
01:33:07,874 --> 01:33:09,154
It'd do your head in sometimes
1751
01:33:09,234 --> 01:33:10,594
when they were writing
shit about you and that
1752
01:33:10,674 --> 01:33:12,074
and fucking outside your house and stuff,
1753
01:33:12,154 --> 01:33:13,954
but that's what I signed up for,
you know what I mean?
1754
01:33:14,074 --> 01:33:16,634
PAPARAZZI MAN: Liam?
Can we have a quick picture? Liam?
1755
01:33:16,754 --> 01:33:17,754
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
1756
01:33:18,234 --> 01:33:20,474
You know the story, it's in the papers,
that's what's going on.
1757
01:33:20,554 --> 01:33:22,354
LIAM: Second to the singing
was being the ultimate,
1758
01:33:22,434 --> 01:33:25,114
number-one fucking rock star
in this fucking country
1759
01:33:25,194 --> 01:33:26,194
and that's what I was.
1760
01:33:27,634 --> 01:33:29,634
I remember going in a pub
some days at like 11:00.
1761
01:33:29,714 --> 01:33:31,794
By 12:30,
people would be dancing on the tab/es
1762
01:33:31,874 --> 01:33:33,314
and snorting cocaine, you know what I mean?
1763
01:33:33,434 --> 01:33:35,954
You're like, "Fucking hell, I only went in
for a fucking pint and a read of the paper,
1764
01:33:36,034 --> 01:33:38,114
"now fucking all hell's broke loose, "
you know what I mean?
1765
01:33:39,354 --> 01:33:40,994
It did make life quite difficult, though.
1766
01:33:41,674 --> 01:33:47,234
The day that it steps over into the tabloids
and then stays there for years,
1767
01:33:47,314 --> 01:33:50,474
then you've gone to the dark side
and then the clock is ticking then.
1768
01:33:52,354 --> 01:33:54,634
REPORTER: It had been billed
as one of the most sensational trials
1769
01:33:54,714 --> 01:33:56,274
in pop music history.
1770
01:33:56,354 --> 01:33:58,874
Tony McCarroll,
the drummer sacked by Oasis,
1771
01:33:58,954 --> 01:34:01,394
going to court in search
of a multi-mil/ion-pound slice
1772
01:34:01,474 --> 01:34:03,034
of the band's annual earnings.
1773
01:34:04,234 --> 01:34:05,514
NOEL: When shit like that starts out,
1774
01:34:05,594 --> 01:34:08,314
you do start thinking
all the fun is taken out of it.
1775
01:34:08,394 --> 01:34:09,714
You start a band with the best intentions
1776
01:34:09,794 --> 01:34:12,674
of just trying to get a big telly and a fit bird...
1777
01:34:12,994 --> 01:34:15,794
And the next thing is
is everybody's hovering around you
1778
01:34:15,874 --> 01:34:19,074
with leather man-bags
full of shit for you to sign.
1779
01:34:19,154 --> 01:34:20,514
"How did it get to this?"
1780
01:34:22,154 --> 01:34:23,554
And that was the change.
1781
01:34:23,634 --> 01:34:25,834
Your mates are being slowly
discarded to the side.
1782
01:34:25,914 --> 01:34:26,954
It's a business now you're in.
1783
01:34:27,954 --> 01:34:30,514
The people behind the scenes
were determined to make it a brand.
1784
01:34:30,594 --> 01:34:32,234
It was even hard to get on
the guest list some days.
1785
01:34:33,194 --> 01:34:36,874
At this point,
the dynamic has changed that much.
1786
01:34:36,954 --> 01:34:39,394
It's now in the hands of the industry.
1787
01:34:40,674 --> 01:34:44,594
And I think the spirit
of any band rapidly disappears
1788
01:34:44,674 --> 01:34:46,634
and it's all about the money.
1789
01:34:48,914 --> 01:34:53,594
Here we have Mr Mark Coyle
sat looking rather subdued in the corner.
1790
01:34:53,674 --> 01:34:54,674
Fuck off!
1791
01:34:54,754 --> 01:34:56,634
Can you say that a little more graphically?
1792
01:34:56,714 --> 01:34:57,754
Fuck off!
1793
01:34:57,834 --> 01:35:00,994
Thank you, and here we have Liam...
1794
01:35:01,074 --> 01:35:03,314
Always chipper in the morning,
this young man.
1795
01:35:03,394 --> 01:35:04,874
Can't get the bastard down.
1796
01:35:04,954 --> 01:35:06,394
We tried several times.
1797
01:35:06,474 --> 01:35:08,234
We've put monkeys on his back,
1798
01:35:08,314 --> 01:35:10,994
a cement mixer once
and we still couldn't get the bastard down.
1799
01:35:11,114 --> 01:35:12,434
Look at that kipper!
1800
01:35:12,914 --> 01:35:13,914
When you're in a bubble,
1801
01:35:13,994 --> 01:35:16,154
sometimes you need a biz' of guidance,
don't you?
1802
01:35:16,234 --> 01:35:19,154
I felt like all the people that were with us
at the beginning
1803
01:35:19,234 --> 01:35:20,714
were kind of getting pushed out a bit.
1804
01:35:22,234 --> 01:35:26,194
I think the best times
are when everybody's together
1805
01:35:26,274 --> 01:35:27,914
and that gang is out on the road.
1806
01:35:27,994 --> 01:35:31,034
They're the best of times,
doing them little gigs.
1807
01:35:31,954 --> 01:35:35,834
It does lose something when,
you know, the industry grabs a hold.
1808
01:35:37,114 --> 01:35:41,434
I do recall Mark coming up to me and saying,
"I don't think I can do it any more."
1809
01:35:42,194 --> 01:35:45,874
People were regularly coming
into the dressing room and going,
1810
01:35:45,994 --> 01:35:47,714
"Fucking hell, that was loud."
1811
01:35:48,594 --> 01:35:52,474
I went to see a doctor
with my ears, got ringing ears.
1812
01:35:53,074 --> 01:35:59,474
The doctor says to me,
"Stop doing this, because you will go deaf."
1813
01:36:00,394 --> 01:36:04,554
So I left, and that was the end of my live life.
1814
01:36:05,234 --> 01:36:06,874
I'd had enough as well, I think.
1815
01:36:07,474 --> 01:36:10,714
I think he said to me in the past that
he thought it had got a bit too big for him.
1816
01:36:10,794 --> 01:36:13,154
I really admire him for that.
1817
01:36:13,234 --> 01:36:15,114
I think it was a bit more than that, I think.
1818
01:36:15,194 --> 01:36:17,434
It was just getting a bit too corporate for him.
1819
01:36:18,114 --> 01:36:20,274
You know, one minute you're fucking
hanging with your mates,
1820
01:36:20,354 --> 01:36:21,634
having a craic,
1821
01:36:21,714 --> 01:36:24,914
but when management come into it,
it changes, doesn't it?
1822
01:36:25,954 --> 01:36:28,994
If anybody was a fifth member
of that band, it was Mark.
1823
01:36:30,394 --> 01:36:34,194
Yeah, and it made me a little bit sad
that he wasn't going to be on tour any more.
1824
01:36:34,274 --> 01:36:37,914
Soon after, Phil Smith quiz'.
1825
01:36:37,994 --> 01:36:41,314
I still can't work out what was going
through his fucking head at the time.
1826
01:36:41,394 --> 01:36:46,314
In the early days, it was the five band,
Coyle and Phil, that was it.
1827
01:36:46,394 --> 01:36:50,634
Yeah, it's a shame that he wasn't around,
but it's not the end of the fucking world.
1828
01:36:50,714 --> 01:36:52,674
Beginning of a new world,
you know what I mean?
1829
01:36:53,434 --> 01:36:56,994
The machine goes on, and the band goes on.
1830
01:36:57,074 --> 01:36:58,714
I am not getting in the way of that.
1831
01:37:00,234 --> 01:37:02,434
Walking away from that,
I'll never get over that.
1832
01:37:04,554 --> 01:37:06,354
But it was the right thing to do.
1833
01:37:13,194 --> 01:37:14,474
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1834
01:37:14,554 --> 01:37:15,954
(CHEERING IN THE DISTANCE)
1835
01:37:19,194 --> 01:37:20,594
(CHEERING INTENSIFIES)
1836
01:37:34,954 --> 01:37:36,314
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)
1837
01:37:36,394 --> 01:37:38,394
(NOEL SPEAKING OVER PHONE)
1838
01:37:38,514 --> 01:37:41,354
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)
1839
01:37:41,434 --> 01:37:42,794
(NOEL SPEAKING)
1840
01:37:45,954 --> 01:37:47,314
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)
1841
01:37:47,394 --> 01:37:48,794
(NOEL SPEAKING)
1842
01:37:55,794 --> 01:37:56,834
(INTERVIEWER CHUCKLING)
1843
01:37:58,954 --> 01:38:00,874
You can listen to their albums,
but when you go to a gig
1844
01:38:00,954 --> 01:38:02,674
and there's thousands and thousands
of people,
1845
01:38:03,554 --> 01:38:04,914
that's when it brings it home.
1846
01:38:04,994 --> 01:38:07,634
That's really when I feel most proud of them.
1847
01:38:08,714 --> 01:38:09,714
(MUSIC PLAYING)
1848
01:38:10,034 --> 01:38:13,474
# Slip inside the eye of your mind
1849
01:38:13,554 --> 01:38:18,154
# Don't you know you might find
a better place to play
1850
01:38:20,274 --> 01:38:23,594
# You said that you'd never been
1851
01:38:23,674 --> 01:38:28,634
# But all the things that you've seen
are going to fade away
1852
01:38:30,994 --> 01:38:34,194
# Going to start a revolution from my bed
1853
01:38:35,834 --> 01:38:39,194
# 'Cause you said the brains
I had went to my head
1854
01:38:40,794 --> 01:38:44,434
# Step outside, summertime's in bloom
1855
01:38:46,434 --> 01:38:50,994
# Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
1856
01:38:51,074 --> 01:38:56,994
# 'Cause you ain't ever
going to burn my heart out
1857
01:39:01,354 --> 01:39:04,874
# And so Sally can wait
1858
01:39:04,954 --> 01:39:09,634
# She knows it's too late
as we're walking on by
1859
01:39:11,714 --> 01:39:15,594
# Her soul slides away
1860
01:39:16,314 --> 01:39:20,954
# But don't look back in anger
I heard you say
1861
01:39:22,274 --> 01:39:26,754
I remember those gigs at The Point
being, like, wildly emotional.
1862
01:39:27,794 --> 01:39:31,194
It was breathtaking, the kind
of energy and the vibe in the room.
1863
01:39:32,234 --> 01:39:35,794
# My soul slides away
1864
01:39:40,034 --> 01:39:42,634
# But don't look back in anger
1865
01:39:42,714 --> 01:39:45,514
# Don't look back in anger
1866
01:39:48,434 --> 01:39:49,954
CROWD: # I heard you say
1867
01:39:56,034 --> 01:39:58,074
# Least not today #
1868
01:40:05,234 --> 01:40:08,834
It's that immigrant thing, isn't it?
It's that sense of identity.
1869
01:40:08,914 --> 01:40:13,114
Ireland saw them as their own,
and everybody was in such a good mood-
1870
01:40:15,434 --> 01:40:18,954
So we got back to the hotel, right,
so there was loads of us in this bar.
1871
01:40:20,474 --> 01:40:21,994
That hotel was fairly public
1872
01:40:22,074 --> 01:40:25,194
because Ireland didn't really have security
around rock bands them days-
1873
01:40:25,274 --> 01:40:27,474
Anyone could walk in off the street.
1874
01:40:27,554 --> 01:40:30,234
My dad, we'd seen him skulking around
and I thought,
1875
01:40:30,314 --> 01:40:32,154
"What the fuck is this going on?"
1876
01:40:32,594 --> 01:40:35,074
Someone turned round and said,
"Your old fella's over there,
1877
01:40:35,154 --> 01:40:38,154
"with a journalist,
trying to get summat going- "
1878
01:40:38,234 --> 01:40:39,434
And I was about to kill him.
1879
01:40:40,874 --> 01:40:44,834
Oh, that was awful, that.
I couldn't believe that that happened
1880
01:40:44,914 --> 01:40:46,474
because it really spoiled their night.
1881
01:40:47,794 --> 01:40:49,634
There was a scene.
1882
01:40:49,714 --> 01:40:51,914
I was trying to take the dignified approach.
1883
01:40:51,994 --> 01:40:54,954
Fuck him, do you know what I mean?
He doesn't mean anything to me any more.
1884
01:40:55,034 --> 01:40:57,034
We were better than that.
1885
01:40:57,114 --> 01:40:59,314
Noel was saying to Liam, "Do not react."
1886
01:40:59,394 --> 01:41:01,034
He's at one end,
and Noel and Liam are at the other
1887
01:41:01,114 --> 01:41:03,514
and Liam's going,
"I'm going to fucking kill him."
1888
01:41:03,594 --> 01:41:05,234
And that's when they locked horns.
1889
01:41:05,314 --> 01:41:07,874
"Don't fucking react.
You're not going to react." You know.
1890
01:41:09,794 --> 01:41:13,274
I was fucking steadfastly
not going to get involved.
1891
01:41:13,394 --> 01:41:15,474
I did think Liam was a little biz' upset.
1892
01:41:16,674 --> 01:41:20,074
To give Noel his due credit,
he contained Liam
1893
01:41:20,154 --> 01:41:24,354
because Liam would have gone for him
and Noel protected his brother.
1894
01:41:24,434 --> 01:41:26,034
Got him out of there
1895
01:41:26,114 --> 01:41:28,914
because they were obviously looking for,
you know, the big fight.
1896
01:41:30,274 --> 01:41:33,114
I probably got calmed down by Our Kid,
I think.
1897
01:41:33,354 --> 01:41:34,514
It's just pathetic, you know what I mean?
1898
01:41:34,594 --> 01:41:36,874
In front of the press with your son,
you know what I mean?
1899
01:41:36,954 --> 01:41:38,474
It's like, "See you later, mate."
1900
01:41:39,634 --> 01:41:42,874
Round about that time, there was a story
every couple of fucking months.
1901
01:41:42,954 --> 01:41:45,954
"Poor old fucking Dad's trying
to get in touch with his famous sons,
1902
01:41:46,034 --> 01:41:49,314
"but they don't want anything
to do with him," and all that bollocks.
1903
01:41:50,914 --> 01:41:53,514
He had no intentions of making up with them.
1904
01:41:53,634 --> 01:41:54,634
That was his last thought,
1905
01:41:54,714 --> 01:41:57,674
but of course he got paid
from the News Of The World.
1906
01:41:57,754 --> 01:42:00,314
And then, of course,
it was all over the papers the next day.
1907
01:42:00,394 --> 01:42:01,394
(SIGHS)
1908
01:42:06,034 --> 01:42:07,634
(MAN SPEAKING OVER PHONE)
1909
01:42:14,514 --> 01:42:16,114
-(TOM GALLAGHER SPEAKING)
-(LIAM SPEAKING)
1910
01:42:20,914 --> 01:42:22,114
(TOM GALLAGHER SPEAKING)
1911
01:42:23,554 --> 01:42:25,514
(LIAM SPEAKING)
1912
01:42:31,354 --> 01:42:32,354
(PHONE HANGING UP)
1913
01:42:35,554 --> 01:42:38,874
He's always said it was me
and the three kids that ruined his life.
1914
01:42:39,514 --> 01:42:42,514
But I would just like him to know
that it wasn't us that ruined his life.
1915
01:42:42,594 --> 01:42:44,114
He ruined his own life.
1916
01:42:46,034 --> 01:42:51,434
You know, it was kind of long since over,
whatever was going on with my old fella.
1917
01:42:51,514 --> 01:42:53,394
All I care about is the music, you know.
1918
01:42:54,194 --> 01:42:57,394
In the end, none of this will matter.
1919
01:42:57,474 --> 01:43:01,114
When it's all said and done,
what will remain is the songs.
1920
01:43:09,474 --> 01:43:11,034
I remember Marcus Russell saying to me,
1921
01:43:11,114 --> 01:43:13,754
"Do we book these big gigs
just while we can?"
1922
01:43:13,834 --> 01:43:16,234
Fucking Knebworth, bigger, bigger.
1923
01:43:16,314 --> 01:43:19,594
I imagine a fucking load of money involved.
1924
01:43:19,674 --> 01:43:22,274
"See Owen, it's like a fucking truck
going down a hill.
1925
01:43:22,354 --> 01:43:24,594
"It's burning and the wheels
are fucking falling off.
1926
01:43:24,674 --> 01:43:26,234
"But everyone's going, 'It's fucking brilliant.'
1927
01:43:26,714 --> 01:43:28,594
"So I don't know
when it's going to end, Owen."
1928
01:43:30,594 --> 01:43:32,674
Somebody suggested
that the next thing we should do
1929
01:43:32,754 --> 01:43:34,794
should be these things at Knebworth.
1930
01:43:34,874 --> 01:43:38,154
They didn't really have
much significance to me.
1931
01:43:38,274 --> 01:43:40,354
But, you know,
somebody's only got to whisper in my ear,
1932
01:43:40,434 --> 01:43:42,474
(WHISPERING) "Oh,
these are the biggest gigs of all time, "
1933
01:43:42,554 --> 01:43:43,954
and I guess, well, that's me, yeah.
1934
01:43:44,034 --> 01:43:45,954
"You've just sold it to me,
thank you very much."
1935
01:43:46,034 --> 01:43:48,714
REPORTER: The giant stage
lies dark and silent.
1936
01:43:48,794 --> 01:43:52,754
Tomorrow, that'll be the focus
for 250, 000 people-
1937
01:43:52,834 --> 01:43:56,074
Do you know, over 4% of the population
applied for tickets for Oasis?
1938
01:43:56,154 --> 01:43:58,074
4% of the population!
1939
01:43:58,274 --> 01:43:59,634
REPORTER: In just over three years,
1940
01:43:59,714 --> 01:44:01,794
Oasis will have gone
from being a new signing
1941
01:44:01,874 --> 01:44:03,714
to one of rock's true giants.
1942
01:44:03,794 --> 01:44:05,554
You know, everyone was taking
a big leap of faith,
1943
01:44:05,634 --> 01:44:07,794
that we were going to sell these shows out.
1944
01:44:07,874 --> 01:44:11,074
And the first one went on sale
and it sold out in, like, minutes.
1945
01:44:11,154 --> 01:44:14,674
As if by magic, the sun's got his hat on.
1946
01:44:14,754 --> 01:44:15,794
Ha, hey, hey.
1947
01:44:16,714 --> 01:44:21,154
The idea was put to us, we should put
another two nights on sale immediately,
1948
01:44:22,994 --> 01:44:27,274
and I think, for the first time ever,
we kind of backed away.
1949
01:44:27,354 --> 01:44:29,994
I don't know, maybe we got the sense
that it had become too big.
1950
01:44:31,034 --> 01:44:34,594
Then you find out afterwards
that we could have done seven nights.
1951
01:44:35,274 --> 01:44:39,234
Can't believe that we only done two nights.
Whose fucking great idea was that?
1952
01:44:39,314 --> 01:44:41,434
We should still be there playing right now.
1953
01:44:41,994 --> 01:44:44,554
And finally, it's been called
the rock concert of the decade.
1954
01:44:44,754 --> 01:44:47,594
A quarter of a million rock fans
at Knebworth in Hertfordshire.
1955
01:44:47,914 --> 01:44:51,114
In a few hours, the hype becomes reality
when Oasis take to the stage...
1956
01:44:51,394 --> 01:44:52,994
John, describe the scene for us.
1957
01:44:56,234 --> 01:44:57,874
I do often think, "What was it all about?"
1958
01:44:59,314 --> 01:45:02,554
When we got to Knebworth,
we'd only just become rock stars.
1959
01:45:03,634 --> 01:45:06,834
And I said to Coyle and Phil,
"You're getting on that helicopter,"
1960
01:45:06,914 --> 01:45:10,234
because they were our two oldest mates.
1961
01:45:10,314 --> 01:45:12,274
"Really, you should be there
to see it with us.
1962
01:45:13,034 --> 01:45:15,194
"This thing that we're all part of."
1963
01:45:18,194 --> 01:45:22,994
It did feel like the end of something
as opposed to the beginning of something.
1964
01:45:23,874 --> 01:45:26,274
I had a sense of that, even at Knebworth,
do you know what I mean?
1965
01:45:26,354 --> 01:45:27,954
That it was never going to happen again.
1966
01:45:29,234 --> 01:45:31,354
That it happened
in such a short space of time-
1967
01:45:31,434 --> 01:45:35,194
Two-and-a-half years from signing off
to walking out on that stage.
1968
01:45:35,274 --> 01:45:36,274
It's just magic.
1969
01:45:37,914 --> 01:45:40,914
We were a band who had the tunes,
who were grafters,
1970
01:45:40,994 --> 01:45:43,754
who came from nothing and wanted it all.
1971
01:45:45,154 --> 01:45:47,754
We were the last. We were the greatest.
1972
01:45:48,554 --> 01:45:50,354
Nothing anybody does
could be as big as Oasis.
1973
01:45:51,874 --> 01:45:53,834
(MUSIC PLAYING)
1974
01:45:58,794 --> 01:46:00,114
(CROWD CHEERING)
1975
01:46:02,114 --> 01:46:03,434
Never. It would never get repeated.
1976
01:46:03,514 --> 01:46:05,194
Not because we were greater
or better than anyone else,
1977
01:46:05,274 --> 01:46:07,754
but just because we didn't
actually give a flying fuck.
1978
01:46:07,874 --> 01:46:12,314
We've definitely got a table upstairs
with the big boys, whether they like it or not.
1979
01:46:16,754 --> 01:46:21,914
It was the pre-digital age.
It was the pre-talent show, reality TV age.
1980
01:46:22,874 --> 01:46:25,114
Things meant more.
1981
01:46:25,194 --> 01:46:29,234
It was just a great time to be alive,
never mind a great time to be in Oasis.
1982
01:46:29,954 --> 01:46:34,474
We were about to enter
into a celebrity-driven culture
1983
01:46:34,554 --> 01:46:38,634
and I've always thought
that it was the last, great gathering
1984
01:46:38,714 --> 01:46:42,754
of the people before the birth of the Internet.
1985
01:46:42,834 --> 01:46:46,074
It's no coincidence that things like that
don't happen any more.
1986
01:46:47,714 --> 01:46:49,074
Twenty years ago,
1987
01:46:49,154 --> 01:46:53,794
the biggest musical phenomenon
was a band that came from a council estate.
1988
01:46:55,154 --> 01:46:59,594
I just think in the times in which we live,
it would be unrepeatable.
1989
01:46:59,674 --> 01:47:01,394
We should be worried about that
1990
01:47:01,474 --> 01:47:04,794
because where's it going to be
20 years from now?
1991
01:47:10,274 --> 01:47:11,594
(LOUD CHEERING)
1992
01:47:22,754 --> 01:47:26,274
I just wanted it all, fucking there and then,
you know what I mean?
1993
01:47:26,354 --> 01:47:29,994
I just wanted it all to happen in one big
"fuck-off" explosion of madness.
1994
01:47:32,674 --> 01:47:33,834
I loved every minute of it.
1995
01:47:37,074 --> 01:47:39,914
It meant the be-all and end-all, man.
Life or death.
1996
01:47:43,594 --> 01:47:45,034
And I wouldn't change anything.
1997
01:47:45,114 --> 01:47:47,514
I'd do it all again in a fucking heartbeat.
1998
01:47:51,194 --> 01:47:52,714
(CHEERING INTENSIFIES)
1999
01:48:12,554 --> 01:48:14,514
This is history!
2000
01:48:14,594 --> 01:48:16,314
This is history!
2001
01:48:16,394 --> 01:48:19,434
Right here, right now, this is history!
2002
01:48:19,594 --> 01:48:22,234
I thought this was Knebworth,
what are you on about?
2003
01:48:24,674 --> 01:48:26,834
That was my life. That band was my life.
2004
01:48:27,434 --> 01:48:31,674
So it went above and beyond
anything I ever imagined.
2005
01:48:31,754 --> 01:48:33,634
That was the pinnacle for me.
2006
01:48:33,714 --> 01:48:36,074
It was like,
"What the fuck do you do from there?"
2007
01:48:37,834 --> 01:48:39,154
(MUSIC STARTS)
2008
01:48:39,994 --> 01:48:41,714
Champagne Supernova.
2009
01:48:48,794 --> 01:48:51,354
# How many special people change?
2010
01:48:51,434 --> 01:48:54,194
# How many lives are living strange?
2011
01:48:54,274 --> 01:48:58,114
# Where were you while we were getting high?
2012
01:48:59,954 --> 01:49:02,314
# Slowly walking down the hall
2013
01:49:02,394 --> 01:49:05,034
# Faster than a cannonball
2014
01:49:05,114 --> 01:49:08,954
# Where were you while we were getting high?
2015
01:49:09,034 --> 01:49:11,554
# Someday you will find me
2016
01:49:11,914 --> 01:49:15,514
# Caught beneath the landslide
2017
01:49:15,594 --> 01:49:19,554
# In a champagne supernova in the sky
2018
01:49:20,074 --> 01:49:22,674
# Someday you will find me
2019
01:49:22,754 --> 01:49:26,234
# Caught beneath the landslide
2020
01:49:26,314 --> 01:49:29,154
# In a champagne supernova
2021
01:49:29,234 --> 01:49:32,354
# A champagne supernova in the sky
2022
01:49:42,634 --> 01:49:45,314
# Wake up the dawn and ask her why
2023
01:49:45,394 --> 01:49:48,034
# A dreamer dreams she never dies
2024
01:49:48,114 --> 01:49:51,234
# Wipe that tear away now from your eye
2025
01:49:53,594 --> 01:49:55,914
# Slowly walking down the hall
2026
01:49:55,994 --> 01:49:58,314
# Faster than a cannonball
2027
01:49:58,714 --> 01:50:02,514
# Where were you while we were getting high?
2028
01:50:02,594 --> 01:50:08,754
# Someday you will find me
caught beneath the landslide
2029
01:50:08,834 --> 01:50:13,034
# In a champagne supernova in the sky
2030
01:50:13,114 --> 01:50:18,834
# Someday you will find me
caught beneath the landslide
2031
01:50:19,474 --> 01:50:21,954
# In a champagne supernova
2032
01:50:22,034 --> 01:50:24,674
# A champagne supernova
2033
01:50:24,754 --> 01:50:30,834
# 'Cause people believe that they're
going to get away for the summer
2034
01:50:35,314 --> 01:50:37,794
# But you and I, we live and die
2035
01:50:38,034 --> 01:50:39,594
# The world's still spinning round
2036
01:50:39,674 --> 01:50:42,634
# We don't know why
2037
01:50:43,314 --> 01:50:46,354
# Why, why, why, Why--
2038
01:50:59,954 --> 01:51:02,514
It felt fucking Biblical, man.
2039
01:51:02,594 --> 01:51:05,594
It was a miracle that we even got there.
2040
01:51:05,674 --> 01:51:08,554
It was everything and more than I asked for.
2041
01:51:09,474 --> 01:51:12,154
Yeah, we felt untouchable, man.
2042
01:51:12,234 --> 01:51:13,714
Supersonic even.
2043
01:51:17,914 --> 01:51:20,474
People make the mistake of thinking
2044
01:51:20,554 --> 01:51:23,474
that the people on the stage here
are defining something.
2045
01:51:23,554 --> 01:51:25,194
What if no one turns up?
2046
01:51:25,274 --> 01:51:27,474
We can all sit here
and suck each other's ball bags
2047
01:51:27,554 --> 01:51:30,354
about 2. 6 million people applying for tickets,
2048
01:51:30,434 --> 01:51:34,114
but you know what's great about that...
(CHUCKLING) ls the 2.6 million people
2049
01:51:34,194 --> 01:51:37,834
not anything that we did.
And the people were with us.
2050
01:51:38,034 --> 01:51:39,034
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
2051
01:51:52,754 --> 01:51:54,834
# How many special people change?
2052
01:51:55,474 --> 01:51:58,074
# How many lives are living strange?
2053
01:51:58,154 --> 01:52:00,674
# Where were you while we were getting high?
2054
01:52:01,954 --> 01:52:03,994
# We were getting high #
2055
01:52:08,554 --> 01:52:11,834
My attitude then was,
"More, give me more, give me more."
2056
01:52:11,914 --> 01:52:14,914
Now, looking back,
I honestly think we should have just went,
2057
01:52:14,994 --> 01:52:17,154
"Thank you, every one of youse,
for getting us here.
2058
01:52:17,514 --> 01:52:20,674
"We were Oasis, and good night,"
and walked off.
2059
01:52:21,554 --> 01:52:22,954
We should have...
2060
01:52:23,034 --> 01:52:25,674
We should have disappeared
into a puff of smoke.
2061
01:52:26,994 --> 01:52:29,234
But, you know, it was my idea to keep going
2062
01:52:29,314 --> 01:52:31,874
because I keep on fishing for it,
do you know what I mean?
2063
01:52:31,954 --> 01:52:33,274
I'm an addict!
2064
01:52:34,234 --> 01:52:37,434
That's what shit kickers do,
they ride it until the wheels come off.
2065
01:52:39,154 --> 01:52:41,194
Just because you can't get any bigger
or any higher
2066
01:52:41,274 --> 01:52:44,714
doesn't mean to say you can't keep doing it,
you know what I mean?
2067
01:52:44,794 --> 01:52:47,234
Just because you kissed the sky,
give it a fucking love-bite.
2068
01:52:53,634 --> 01:52:56,154
INTERVIEWER: When you're on stage,
who are you playing to?
2069
01:52:57,794 --> 01:52:59,794
NOEL: On stage, when he turns to me,
and I turn to him
2070
01:52:59,874 --> 01:53:02,434
and, like, we just both look at each other,
2071
01:53:02,514 --> 01:53:05,554
everything just clicks, and,
it just like, transcends music.
2072
01:53:06,594 --> 01:53:09,474
And it's only me and him
that will ever get this...
2073
01:53:10,954 --> 01:53:12,754
And that's what it's about for us.
2074
01:53:14,074 --> 01:53:16,754
Sometimes, I do look back and I think, "Well,
2075
01:53:16,834 --> 01:53:19,994
"I wish it had gone a different way,"
but it hasn't.
2076
01:53:20,074 --> 01:53:23,194
It's caused a lot of problems with them two,
2077
01:53:23,274 --> 01:53:26,394
but it's their life,
so you have to just let them get on with it.
2078
01:53:27,634 --> 01:53:28,874
I get where she's coming from
2079
01:53:28,954 --> 01:53:31,874
because obviously me and Our Kid
ain't got a relationship any more,
2080
01:53:31,954 --> 01:53:33,794
but who's to say
if we'd have been a pair of fishmongers,
2081
01:53:33,874 --> 01:53:37,354
we'd have still slapped at each other
with a bit of trout every now and again.
2082
01:53:37,474 --> 01:53:38,754
I guess it's like a fight.
2083
01:53:38,834 --> 01:53:41,274
We were kind of like a fucking
Mike Tyson band, you know what I mean?
2084
01:53:41,354 --> 01:53:45,034
We just come in fucking blazing,
knocking everyone out.
2085
01:53:45,114 --> 01:53:49,594
We were never going to do ten rounds
and it was never going to get to that point.
2086
01:53:49,674 --> 01:53:51,914
At the end of the day, I weigh it up and I go,
2087
01:53:51,994 --> 01:53:56,874
"Right, did the good times outweigh
the bad times? Fucking 100%!"
2088
01:53:56,954 --> 01:53:58,034
I'm happy with that.
2089
01:53:59,234 --> 01:54:03,274
You couldn't say
that anybody that was ever in Oasis,
2090
01:54:03,354 --> 01:54:06,434
me included,
was the best in the world at anything.
2091
01:54:06,514 --> 01:54:09,314
But when it all came together,
2092
01:54:09,394 --> 01:54:13,834
we made people feel something
that was indefinable.
2093
01:54:14,754 --> 01:54:16,914
We're still the same band
that was playing at the Boardwalk.
2094
01:54:16,994 --> 01:54:19,354
We virtually are wearing the same clothes.
2095
01:54:19,434 --> 01:54:25,114
All that's happened is that it's caught fire
and all these people have got on board.
2096
01:54:25,194 --> 01:54:29,714
But people will never, ever, ever
forget the way that you made them feel.
2097
01:54:31,634 --> 01:54:34,794
There's a chemistry
between the band and the audience.
2098
01:54:34,874 --> 01:54:37,994
There's something magnetic
drawing the two to each other.
2099
01:54:38,074 --> 01:54:41,394
The love, and the vibe,
and the passion and the rage
2100
01:54:41,474 --> 01:54:43,514
and the joy that come in from the crowd.
2101
01:54:44,194 --> 01:54:46,074
If anything, that's what Oasis was.
2102
01:54:49,754 --> 01:54:51,994
# And then dance if you want to dance
2103
01:54:52,074 --> 01:54:53,754
# Please, brother, take a chance
2104
01:54:53,834 --> 01:54:55,314
# You know they're going to go
2105
01:54:55,394 --> 01:54:57,154
# Which way they want to go
2106
01:54:57,234 --> 01:55:03,114
# All we know is that we don't
2107
01:55:03,194 --> 01:55:05,034
# Know how it's going to be
2108
01:55:05,114 --> 01:55:06,714
# Please, brother, let it be
2109
01:55:06,794 --> 01:55:08,274
# Life on the other hand
2110
01:55:08,354 --> 01:55:11,794
# Won't make you understand
2111
01:55:11,874 --> 01:55:18,074
# We're all pan' of a master plan #
2112
01:55:42,394 --> 01:55:44,234
(VOCALISING)