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Does the red light
mean it's on, yeah?

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Yeah.
- Pour a few glasses at me.

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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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All right, how are we
doing in there, are we good?

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Yeah, we're rolling,
I'm just going to do a sync pip.

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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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It is a big question,
and it deserves a big answer.

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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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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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In just over three years, Oasis
will have gone from being a new signing

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to one of rock's true giants.

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Oasis! Oasis! Oasis!

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Three, two, one!

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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 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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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 bit of a stoner, a bit 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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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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Definitely a bit 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 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."

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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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# 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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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 bit of that."

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He went, "Right, look,
do you want to be in this band?"

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I 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 Inspiral 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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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 part of a road
crew for Inspiral 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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I'm okay with me.

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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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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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Lazy cunts!

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Yeah!

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I'd like to thank the Inspiral
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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It's Noel.

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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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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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# 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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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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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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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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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 bit 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

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# You know I'm blind,
so why do you disagree?

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# Take me away because
I just don't want to stay

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# And the lies you make me say
are getting deeper every day

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# These are crazy days
but they make me shine

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# Time keeps rolling by

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# All around the world

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# You've got to spread the word

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# Tell them what you heard

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# Because you know
it's going to be okay

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To hear your own stuff played
back, it was really a mega moment.

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And then it went
nowhere for two years.

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So, I mean, there is the myth that I
kicked open the fuckin' rehearsal room door

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to the theme tune from
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,

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and said, "Everybody, stop what you're
doing. I am here to make us all millionaires."

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You know, It wasn't that
at all, you know what I mean?

235
00:14:24,158 --> 00:14:26,118
No, the truth is, he got on
his hands and knees and said,

236
00:14:26,198 --> 00:14:29,878
"Listen, I'll do anything, just,
please, let me be in your band."

237
00:14:29,958 --> 00:14:33,359
I said, "Get up off your hands and
knees, son. You're all right, you can do it."

238
00:14:33,439 --> 00:14:35,282
I think I've got a
picture of it somewhere.

239
00:14:35,839 --> 00:14:38,799
For that 18 months to
two years, we never gave up.

240
00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:40,483
If nothing else,
we were dedicated.

241
00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,400
Yeah, I loved it. I loved it.

242
00:14:58,480 --> 00:14:59,600
That was when we
were on our own for a bit,

243
00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:01,640
when everyone was in the
hacienda popping pills and that,

244
00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:03,280
and all my mates would be
knocking on the door going,

245
00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:04,400
"What are you doing now?"

246
00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:05,640
"I'm going down
to the fucking rehearsal room."

247
00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,561
The whole fucking city was
like just immersed in this music

248
00:15:09,641 --> 00:15:12,443
that didn't make sense to
me, you know what I mean?

249
00:15:14,201 --> 00:15:17,001
We weren't the best
musicians, but we had spirit, man,

250
00:15:17,081 --> 00:15:20,321
and that was lacking
massively at that point.

251
00:15:20,401 --> 00:15:22,801
I always thought that we were
greater than the sum of our parts,

252
00:15:22,881 --> 00:15:24,121
you know what I mean?

253
00:15:24,201 --> 00:15:26,090
Bonehead?

254
00:15:26,202 --> 00:15:28,442
He was kind of the glue
that held it all together.

255
00:15:28,522 --> 00:15:29,562
God bless him.

256
00:15:29,642 --> 00:15:32,486
If anything, I'd say Bonehead
was the spirit of Oasis.

257
00:15:33,562 --> 00:15:36,162
He's a top musician and all, Bonehead.
He's like, he can play anything,

258
00:15:36,242 --> 00:15:38,202
but he's a mental cunt
and I loved his mad side.

259
00:15:38,282 --> 00:15:41,092
So me and him would get up to mad
shit together, you know what I mean?

260
00:15:42,282 --> 00:15:44,883
Guigsy? Guigs brought
a calmness to it all.

261
00:15:44,963 --> 00:15:46,203
He never got flustered.

262
00:15:46,763 --> 00:15:51,243
He loved cricket and Doctor Who,
and weed and Man City.

263
00:15:51,323 --> 00:15:54,443
I'd say fifth after
that was being in Oasis.

264
00:15:54,523 --> 00:15:56,366
I'd say that
came a lowly fifth.

265
00:15:57,283 --> 00:15:58,923
Guigsy, chilled
out motherfucker, man.

266
00:15:59,003 --> 00:16:02,770
Lovely lad, but just a
complete and utter fucking stoner.

267
00:16:04,044 --> 00:16:07,127
Tony was a person that I shared
a room in the early days, you know,

268
00:16:07,244 --> 00:16:10,804
and I really, really got on
with Tony. Really nice person.

269
00:16:10,884 --> 00:16:14,331
Very Irish in his ways, you know,
came from a massive Irish family.

270
00:16:14,924 --> 00:16:16,364
Definitely the quiet one.

271
00:16:16,444 --> 00:16:18,484
The one who
was most reserved.

272
00:16:18,564 --> 00:16:21,728
None of them lot had kids,
none of them had responsibility.

273
00:16:21,845 --> 00:16:23,645
I had a different outlook on life.

274
00:16:23,725 --> 00:16:25,725
I always had my daughter
in the back of my head.

275
00:16:25,805 --> 00:16:26,806
That moulded me.

276
00:16:27,925 --> 00:16:30,805
Oasis was going for about
maybe six months, a year,

277
00:16:30,885 --> 00:16:33,650
and I was writing songs
just to amuse myself,

278
00:16:34,725 --> 00:16:38,333
and then one night, I went down
with a song and everything changed

279
00:16:52,326 --> 00:16:57,572
# Maybe I don't
really want to know

280
00:16:58,287 --> 00:17:00,733
# How your garden grows

281
00:17:02,007 --> 00:17:04,658
# Because I just want to fly

282
00:17:05,487 --> 00:17:10,812
# Lately, did you
ever feel the pain?

283
00:17:12,047 --> 00:17:15,248
# In the morning rain

284
00:17:15,328 --> 00:17:17,695
# As it soaks you to the bone

285
00:17:19,768 --> 00:17:22,968
# Maybe I just want to fly

286
00:17:23,048 --> 00:17:26,528
# I want to live,
I don't want to die

287
00:17:26,608 --> 00:17:29,728
# Maybe I just want to breathe

288
00:17:29,808 --> 00:17:33,009
# Maybe I just don't believe

289
00:17:33,089 --> 00:17:36,289
# Maybe you're
the same as me

290
00:17:36,369 --> 00:17:39,689
# We see things
they'll never see

291
00:17:39,769 --> 00:17:43,137
# You and I, we're
gonna live forever

292
00:17:46,009 --> 00:17:48,409
Bonehead, he was saying,
"You've not just fucking written that.

293
00:17:48,489 --> 00:17:50,450
"That's no way that's your song."

294
00:17:50,530 --> 00:17:51,610
Well, I wouldn't believe it.

295
00:17:51,690 --> 00:17:52,930
For someone to come
in a room and just go,

296
00:17:53,010 --> 00:17:55,290
"Oh, I'll play you one of my songs",
and then play you Live Forever,

297
00:17:55,370 --> 00:17:56,530
it's like, "Fuck off!

298
00:17:56,610 --> 00:17:58,490
"You didn't write that."
He said, "Why didn't I?"

299
00:17:58,570 --> 00:18:00,010
I said, "Because listen to it!"

300
00:18:00,090 --> 00:18:02,770
You know, I thought, "Wow!
What a song! You didn't write it."

301
00:18:02,850 --> 00:18:04,370
"Yeah, I did."
"No, you didn't."

302
00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:08,571
I knew enough about music and about
songs to know that that was a great song,

303
00:18:08,651 --> 00:18:10,731
and then one followed another.

304
00:18:10,811 --> 00:18:12,531
And it's like, "No,
this happening now.

305
00:18:12,611 --> 00:18:16,058
"And even if no one else takes
any notice of it, this is happening."

306
00:18:16,811 --> 00:18:18,771
I didn't really get involved
with the music kind of thing.

307
00:18:18,851 --> 00:18:20,771
I was, like, "Look, that's
your thing, you do that.

308
00:18:20,851 --> 00:18:23,661
"I'll just be cool
as fuck over there."

309
00:18:24,451 --> 00:18:25,692
Once they were in a band

310
00:18:25,772 --> 00:18:28,372
I knew they weren't going
to listen to me about steady jobs.

311
00:18:28,452 --> 00:18:30,252
They were up and down
the country, and I would say,

312
00:18:30,332 --> 00:18:31,772
"Oh, you might be lucky tonight."

313
00:18:31,852 --> 00:18:33,492
And I'd say to
Noel, "Any luck, Noel?"

314
00:18:33,572 --> 00:18:36,412
"No." Then they'd go
off again somewhere else.

315
00:18:36,492 --> 00:18:38,415
I spend my life
worrying about them.

316
00:18:40,812 --> 00:18:44,453
We didn't have one single
paragraph written about us, ever.

317
00:18:44,533 --> 00:18:46,213
No one even said we were shit.

318
00:18:46,293 --> 00:18:48,216
Completely and
utterly fucking ignored.

319
00:18:48,333 --> 00:18:51,093
I kind of had a
feeling it'd happened, man.

320
00:18:51,173 --> 00:18:54,293
I don't know what the consequences
would have been without it happening

321
00:18:54,373 --> 00:18:55,893
because it was,
like, if it didn't happen,

322
00:18:55,973 --> 00:18:58,260
the world would be black,
do you know what I mean?

323
00:18:59,293 --> 00:19:04,934
We were sharing a rehearsal room
with an all-girl band called Sister Lovers.

324
00:19:05,014 --> 00:19:08,374
Unbeknown to us, one of the
girls in the band, Debbie Turner,

325
00:19:08,454 --> 00:19:11,454
God bless Debbie, was an
ex-girlfriend of Alan McGee's,

326
00:19:11,534 --> 00:19:15,214
the head of the coolest
record label in England.

327
00:19:15,294 --> 00:19:16,694
We were asking her
what they're up to

328
00:19:16,774 --> 00:19:18,822
and they were saying,
"We're going up to do this gig."

329
00:19:19,255 --> 00:19:22,295
I think I was probably being
quite cocky actually in saying,

330
00:19:22,375 --> 00:19:24,775
"Oi, Noel, we're
playing in Glasgow",

331
00:19:24,855 --> 00:19:28,895
which, then, for an unsigned
band to get a gig outside Manchester,

332
00:19:28,975 --> 00:19:30,784
that was like
playing Glastonbury.

333
00:19:31,415 --> 00:19:35,022
And we were like, "Well, how the
fuck have you got a gig and not us?"

334
00:19:35,175 --> 00:19:37,016
She said, "Why don't
you come with us?

335
00:19:37,096 --> 00:19:38,336
"Be on the bill, kind of thing."

336
00:19:38,416 --> 00:19:41,456
And we were like, "Yeah,
Glasgow? Fuck it, let's do it."

337
00:19:41,536 --> 00:19:42,816
For the pure love of it.

338
00:19:42,896 --> 00:19:47,416
"If we all put in £25 each,
we can hire a splitter van

339
00:19:47,496 --> 00:19:52,184
"and get up there, kip in the
van, do the gig, get back. Yay!"

340
00:19:52,616 --> 00:19:53,696
So we hired a van out,

341
00:19:53,776 --> 00:19:56,537
smoking weed, all
that nonsense, drinking.

342
00:19:56,617 --> 00:19:58,057
You know one of them
days where you just go,

343
00:19:58,137 --> 00:19:59,817
"It's fucking going
to be the day today."

344
00:19:59,897 --> 00:20:01,457
Maybe it was the
drugs or something.

345
00:20:01,537 --> 00:20:04,697
We get there really early and we
say, "We're Oasis from Manchester.

346
00:20:04,777 --> 00:20:05,897
"We've come here to play tonight."

347
00:20:05,977 --> 00:20:07,537
And the guy says,
"There's no band down here."

348
00:20:07,617 --> 00:20:09,257
I said, "Yeah, yeah, it's
all right, we're with Debbie."

349
00:20:09,337 --> 00:20:11,419
And he's like, "No, no,
no, no, no fucking way."

350
00:20:11,857 --> 00:20:15,778
I think we said, "Well, if they're
not playing, we're not going to play.

351
00:20:15,858 --> 00:20:17,578
"We'll do a really short set",

352
00:20:17,658 --> 00:20:20,938
which wasn't hard 'cause I think
we only had five songs anyway.

353
00:20:21,018 --> 00:20:23,259
Then Oasis were allowed to play.

354
00:20:27,618 --> 00:20:30,578
So we went on,
we got to do four songs

355
00:20:30,658 --> 00:20:32,184
and we didn't
think anything of it.

356
00:20:33,179 --> 00:20:38,099
Debbie didn't even know
that I was coming up to that gig.

357
00:20:38,179 --> 00:20:40,099
I'd been an evil, twisted fucker.

358
00:20:40,179 --> 00:20:42,830
I thought that I would
show up to put her on edge.

359
00:20:58,460 --> 00:21:03,182
# What was that sound
ringing around your brain?

360
00:21:04,700 --> 00:21:06,821
# Today was just a blur

361
00:21:06,901 --> 00:21:09,984
# You've got a
head like a ghost train

362
00:21:10,941 --> 00:21:14,021
# You're the outcast

363
00:21:14,101 --> 00:21:17,141
# You're the underclass

364
00:21:17,221 --> 00:21:20,541
# But you don't care

365
00:21:20,621 --> 00:21:22,544
# Because you're living fast

366
00:21:22,781 --> 00:21:27,185
At the end, there was just loads of
feedback and a smattering of applause.

367
00:21:28,862 --> 00:21:32,782
I really do believe some
things are meant to fucking be.

368
00:21:32,862 --> 00:21:35,102
I was standing there
with my kid sister, Susan.

369
00:21:35,182 --> 00:21:36,622
She immediately went,
"You should sign these",

370
00:21:36,702 --> 00:21:38,782
and I'm like, "Let's
see the second song."

371
00:21:38,862 --> 00:21:40,542
And it's like, "I'm signing these!"

372
00:21:40,622 --> 00:21:42,830
And the third song,
"I'm definitely signing these!"

373
00:21:43,663 --> 00:21:45,984
And I, sort of like,
went up to Noel and I said,

374
00:21:46,343 --> 00:21:47,943
"I'm Alan McGee.
Do you want a record deal?"

375
00:21:48,023 --> 00:21:49,183
And I said, "Who with?"

376
00:21:49,263 --> 00:21:52,312
And he went, "Creation Records",
and I kind of recognised him.

377
00:21:52,423 --> 00:21:53,424
And that was it!

378
00:22:13,664 --> 00:22:15,826
I don't remember anybody
high-fiving in the back of the van

379
00:22:15,944 --> 00:22:17,584
thinking, "Hurray, this is it!"

380
00:22:17,664 --> 00:22:19,425
I remember going
back to Manchester

381
00:22:19,505 --> 00:22:21,905
and getting in to where
I was living, you know,

382
00:22:21,985 --> 00:22:23,555
at, what, 6:00 in the morning.

383
00:22:23,945 --> 00:22:27,267
And my then missus, Louise,
was getting ready to go to work.

384
00:22:27,825 --> 00:22:29,265
And I said,

385
00:22:29,345 --> 00:22:31,145
"Creation Records
have offered us a record deal",

386
00:22:31,225 --> 00:22:32,665
and she started crying.

387
00:22:32,745 --> 00:22:36,067
She knew then that, you know,
that was going to be the end of us.

388
00:22:38,146 --> 00:22:41,506
I remember the day he came back
and told me he had the record deal.

389
00:22:41,586 --> 00:22:43,586
And of course I
thought, "Oh, this is great."

390
00:22:43,666 --> 00:22:46,546
I never really thought
it would go the way it did though.

391
00:22:46,626 --> 00:22:50,836
Liam says, "All I want, Mum,
is to earn a bit of money", he says,

392
00:22:50,946 --> 00:22:53,866
"and get myself
some new clothes."

393
00:22:53,946 --> 00:22:55,312
And then it went haywire.

394
00:22:56,507 --> 00:22:59,067
Mum was an angel, still is.

395
00:22:59,147 --> 00:23:02,913
Not impressed by all this
rock 'n roll business, and rightly so.

396
00:23:04,307 --> 00:23:06,547
You know, when I think of
those times, do you know what I mean,

397
00:23:06,627 --> 00:23:09,107
she kind of brought
us up on her own, really.

398
00:23:09,187 --> 00:23:12,028
And three lads,
particularly one of them being Liam,

399
00:23:12,108 --> 00:23:13,108
it was very tricky.

400
00:23:13,188 --> 00:23:15,429
I mean, she gave it all up
for us, you know what I mean?

401
00:23:15,908 --> 00:23:17,148
I wanted to make her proud.

402
00:23:17,228 --> 00:23:20,028
I wanted to get her to stop
from doing, like, three fucking jobs

403
00:23:20,108 --> 00:23:22,793
and put her feet up, you know
what I mean, and have nice things.

404
00:23:24,268 --> 00:23:26,111
I hated it when I
came over here first.

405
00:23:26,908 --> 00:23:31,069
It was a big shock, I'm telling you,
to come to a big city like Manchester.

406
00:23:31,149 --> 00:23:33,749
Oh, I must have cried
for about six months.

407
00:23:33,829 --> 00:23:36,719
It was after the New Year,
I think it was 1963.

408
00:23:37,029 --> 00:23:38,872
I went to the
carousel and met him there.

409
00:23:39,749 --> 00:23:41,109
Tommy Gallagher.

410
00:23:41,189 --> 00:23:44,189
We got married after
about nine or ten months.

411
00:23:44,269 --> 00:23:45,269
And that was it!

412
00:23:45,349 --> 00:23:46,714
He was lovely
when I met him, like.

413
00:23:47,709 --> 00:23:51,470
Paul arrived ten months
after I was married.

414
00:23:51,550 --> 00:23:53,996
Then Noel arrived a
year after that again.

415
00:23:55,190 --> 00:23:57,030
We were dressed identical.

416
00:23:57,110 --> 00:23:59,070
She used to knit our clothes.

417
00:23:59,150 --> 00:24:02,390
So you can imagine, you've got no choice.
You couldn't say, "I don't like them, Mum",

418
00:24:02,470 --> 00:24:05,553
because she's just spent
four years knitting you a jumper.

419
00:24:05,791 --> 00:24:09,711
Liam arrived five-and-a-half
years after, which was great.

420
00:24:09,791 --> 00:24:12,271
Well, that was the
best time with the kids.

421
00:24:12,351 --> 00:24:16,751
I don't know, I think there was always
that bit of jealousy with Liam and Noel.

422
00:24:16,831 --> 00:24:19,791
I idolised Paul and Noel
because there were only the two of them,

423
00:24:19,871 --> 00:24:22,471
and Noel was absolutely
beautiful when he was a baby,

424
00:24:22,551 --> 00:24:26,392
and then, of course, Liam comes
along, takes the limelight off you.

425
00:24:26,472 --> 00:24:27,712
He probably thought, "Urgh!"

426
00:24:27,792 --> 00:24:30,602
But you could tell the disagreements
that were there with them.

427
00:24:31,672 --> 00:24:33,552
I was glad they
were together in a band.

428
00:24:33,632 --> 00:24:36,476
I would not have wanted
Liam in a band without Noel.

429
00:24:37,712 --> 00:24:39,919
But it all happened too quick,

430
00:24:40,032 --> 00:24:41,558
just too quick altogether.

431
00:24:42,453 --> 00:24:45,082
Good evening, Great Britain!

432
00:24:45,993 --> 00:24:47,518
Hello!

433
00:24:47,753 --> 00:24:49,323
Oasis, are you down there?

434
00:24:49,473 --> 00:24:51,993
We certainly are.
- Do you fancy having a bit of a chat?

435
00:24:52,073 --> 00:24:53,073
Go on then.

436
00:24:53,153 --> 00:24:56,313
"Go on then." There's a story about
you lot getting signed to Creation.

437
00:24:56,393 --> 00:24:58,393
Alan McGee saw you in a
club in Glasgow. Is that right?

438
00:24:58,473 --> 00:24:59,954
Don't believe the hype.

439
00:25:00,034 --> 00:25:01,154
No, he did, yeah.

440
00:25:01,234 --> 00:25:03,554
There was like seven people there,
I think, and he was two of them.

441
00:25:03,634 --> 00:25:04,634
Right.

442
00:25:04,714 --> 00:25:06,234
And he signed us there
and then, on the spot.

443
00:25:06,314 --> 00:25:07,314
Was he drunk?

444
00:25:07,394 --> 00:25:10,474
He actually thinks we're the
greatest band in the fucking world.

445
00:25:10,554 --> 00:25:14,081
He's phoned me up, about
fucking 5:00 in the morning,

446
00:25:14,194 --> 00:25:15,234
going, "You know, man,

447
00:25:15,314 --> 00:25:18,842
"we're going to annihilate
the fucking world, man!"

448
00:25:20,235 --> 00:25:23,035
McGee wanted Bring It
On Down to be the first single

449
00:25:23,115 --> 00:25:25,075
and I was fine with
that, I love that song.

450
00:25:25,155 --> 00:25:26,355
They're just... It's punk.

451
00:25:26,435 --> 00:25:28,595
"You're the outcast,
you're the underclass.

452
00:25:28,675 --> 00:25:30,595
"You don't care,
but you're living fast."

453
00:25:30,675 --> 00:25:31,835
I just loved it.

454
00:25:31,915 --> 00:25:35,476
I can't say why
Bring It On Down was chosen,

455
00:25:35,556 --> 00:25:37,636
but it wasn't coming together.

456
00:25:37,716 --> 00:25:39,923
I don't know what the
fuck was wrong with it, like.

457
00:25:40,516 --> 00:25:42,996
I mean, it would become
apparent why that session didn't work.

458
00:25:43,076 --> 00:25:47,923
It's because our drummer at
the time wasn't the most consistent

459
00:25:48,276 --> 00:25:52,436
from one fucking bar to the next,
never mind one day to the next.

460
00:25:52,516 --> 00:25:55,117
And that's his big
moment, that, a fucking riff.

461
00:25:55,197 --> 00:25:57,199
"Just fucking do it in time, son."

462
00:25:59,677 --> 00:26:01,277
Fucking hell, we're
up against it here.

463
00:26:01,357 --> 00:26:03,637
We'd not recorded anything.

464
00:26:03,717 --> 00:26:06,197
Why I chose to
write a new song

465
00:26:06,277 --> 00:26:10,237
as opposed to record any of
the others off of Definitely Maybe

466
00:26:10,317 --> 00:26:11,729
is still a little bit of a mystery.

467
00:26:19,198 --> 00:26:21,438
Noel's got the riff,
but that's all he's got,

468
00:26:21,518 --> 00:26:23,678
so they're just kind of
knocking this little thing,

469
00:26:23,758 --> 00:26:26,718
which all bands do,
you know, a little riff.

470
00:26:26,798 --> 00:26:29,239
Someone had sent out for
Chinese, or fish and chips or something.

471
00:26:29,319 --> 00:26:30,639
Or Chinese fish and chips?

472
00:26:30,719 --> 00:26:31,925
I went in the back room

473
00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:35,119
and, as bizarre as it
sounds, wrote Supersonic

474
00:26:35,199 --> 00:26:40,046
in about however long it takes
six other guys to eat a Chinese meal.

475
00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:43,639
Then he came back
in the room with us.

476
00:26:43,719 --> 00:26:46,040
He said, "Look, I've
just written another song."

477
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,400
And we nailed it
and mixed it that night.

478
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,680
Rapid, because that's what we'd been
doing every night in the Boardwalk, you know,

479
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,285
and it sounded massive.

480
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,365
Give it up for Oasis, making
their TV debut with Supersonic.

481
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,401
# I need to be myself

482
00:27:08,481 --> 00:27:11,405
# I can't be no one else

483
00:27:13,361 --> 00:27:16,121
# I'm feeling supersonic

484
00:27:16,201 --> 00:27:18,601
# Give me gin and tonic

485
00:27:18,681 --> 00:27:20,161
# You can have it all

486
00:27:20,241 --> 00:27:22,893
# But how much do you want it?

487
00:27:23,562 --> 00:27:24,802
# You make me laugh...

488
00:27:24,882 --> 00:27:27,722
We'd done gigs before that
and there were people coming along

489
00:27:27,802 --> 00:27:29,042
because they'd read
about us in the press.

490
00:27:29,122 --> 00:27:31,011
But nobody knew
any of the songs.

491
00:27:31,642 --> 00:27:33,644
On the day that Supersonic came out,

492
00:27:33,842 --> 00:27:35,362
bang, the crowd
were right there,

493
00:27:35,442 --> 00:27:38,922
and I remember people
singing the lyrics to Supersonic.

494
00:27:39,002 --> 00:27:41,883
You know, they're singing your words
back that you've nonsensically wrote down

495
00:27:41,963 --> 00:27:43,613
at fucking 3:00 in the morning.

496
00:27:43,723 --> 00:27:48,163
# You need to find a way
for what you want to say

497
00:27:48,243 --> 00:27:50,928
# But before tomorrow

498
00:27:51,243 --> 00:27:55,612
# 'Cause my friend
said he'd take you home

499
00:27:55,923 --> 00:28:00,327
# He sits in a corner all alone

500
00:28:00,684 --> 00:28:05,124
# He lives under a waterfall

501
00:28:05,204 --> 00:28:07,164
# Nobody can see him

502
00:28:07,244 --> 00:28:10,204
# Nobody can ever hear him call...

503
00:28:10,284 --> 00:28:12,525
We'd play a town, we'd go
off and do the next, do the next,

504
00:28:12,644 --> 00:28:15,614
and then come back to that one you
did a few weeks before and do it again.

505
00:28:16,484 --> 00:28:19,534
Trouble seemed to
find us at any given point.

506
00:28:20,325 --> 00:28:22,565
We're barred from
a full chain of hotels

507
00:28:22,645 --> 00:28:24,886
and honestly, no one
would take us anywhere.

508
00:28:25,005 --> 00:28:28,485
I do remember one hotel,
the whole bedroom went out of the window,

509
00:28:28,565 --> 00:28:30,645
mattress, pillows, everything.

510
00:28:30,725 --> 00:28:32,090
If it moves, fling it.

511
00:28:32,725 --> 00:28:33,726
Poof.

512
00:28:33,885 --> 00:28:36,966
I could never understand it,
you know, hotel rooms being smashed up.

513
00:28:37,046 --> 00:28:38,766
That's like hard work.

514
00:28:38,846 --> 00:28:40,246
You'd get a sweat on.

515
00:28:40,326 --> 00:28:41,966
What do you do?
Go to bed at 10:00 every night?

516
00:28:42,046 --> 00:28:44,846
I don't think so, you know
what I mean? You only get it once.

517
00:28:44,926 --> 00:28:46,926
You're going to
live it to the full.

518
00:28:47,006 --> 00:28:48,451
Have it! And we did!

519
00:28:49,086 --> 00:28:51,686
You can't ask a 21-year-old
lad to be professional, it's like...

520
00:28:51,766 --> 00:28:54,532
It's like, "I don't even understand
that word, what are you on about?"

521
00:28:54,887 --> 00:28:57,287
You're feeling Supersonic?
Go to bed at 9:30!

522
00:28:57,367 --> 00:29:00,527
"Give me gin and tonic"?
Get my head down at about 10:30.

523
00:29:00,607 --> 00:29:02,609
Fuck off, mate,
you know what I mean?

524
00:29:15,328 --> 00:29:18,008
There was something
very different about this band.

525
00:29:18,088 --> 00:29:23,048
It just had a devilish,
belligerent, filthy little sound to it.

526
00:29:23,128 --> 00:29:26,132
Coyle could really
mix sound in little clubs.

527
00:29:26,248 --> 00:29:29,209
He was really good at
making it sound fucking epic.

528
00:29:29,289 --> 00:29:33,249
Noel, I didn't understand
what "Feeling Supersonic" meant,

529
00:29:33,329 --> 00:29:36,649
but I'm with you, whatever
it is, I'd die for you right now.

530
00:29:36,729 --> 00:29:39,573
That's how I felt about Oasis.

531
00:29:39,929 --> 00:29:40,929
Thank you very much.

532
00:29:41,009 --> 00:29:42,769
Did you get your friends
working for you then,

533
00:29:42,849 --> 00:29:44,049
so you can tour
around in a big group?

534
00:29:44,129 --> 00:29:45,574
No, it's just so
we can exploit them.

535
00:29:46,450 --> 00:29:48,890
Thing is, if we didn't have them
working for us when we're away,

536
00:29:48,970 --> 00:29:49,970
they'd be burgling our houses.

537
00:29:50,050 --> 00:29:52,210
So it's best to have them
on the road with us.

538
00:29:52,290 --> 00:29:54,810
You're being hyped as the
best band around at the moment.

539
00:29:54,890 --> 00:29:55,891
Is all the hype true?

540
00:29:56,730 --> 00:29:58,650
Yeah.
- It is? Good.

541
00:29:58,730 --> 00:30:02,210
The best band about
today on the planet.

542
00:30:02,290 --> 00:30:03,291
It's a fact.

543
00:30:04,171 --> 00:30:10,656
# I'd shake along with me...

544
00:30:12,331 --> 00:30:15,651
We're in a band, we're into football,
we're into taking drugs, and meeting women

545
00:30:15,731 --> 00:30:16,851
and all the rest of it, right?

546
00:30:16,931 --> 00:30:18,611
We won't deny anything
that's been written about us.

547
00:30:18,691 --> 00:30:20,651
Why should we?
They want to write about it, fine.

548
00:30:20,731 --> 00:30:21,771
We're happy with that.

549
00:30:21,851 --> 00:30:23,452
Our music will stand the
test of time. That is a fact.

550
00:30:23,532 --> 00:30:24,932
Right, all this media hype

551
00:30:25,012 --> 00:30:27,174
and all this thing about us
being this, that, and the other, right,

552
00:30:27,292 --> 00:30:29,012
will be dead in a year's time.

553
00:30:29,092 --> 00:30:30,252
Everyone will have
forgotten about it.

554
00:30:30,332 --> 00:30:32,539
The records that we make
will be in the shops forever.

555
00:30:34,132 --> 00:30:36,783
# Shake along with me

556
00:30:56,373 --> 00:30:57,899
It was a wild tour.

557
00:30:58,934 --> 00:31:03,934
At one point, we were going to Amsterdam
to support this band from Wigan, The Verve.

558
00:31:04,014 --> 00:31:06,062
Our first international gig.

559
00:31:06,174 --> 00:31:09,454
So this guy picked us up in a van,
and he's going to be our roadie.

560
00:31:09,534 --> 00:31:10,660
Jason Rhodes.

561
00:31:17,335 --> 00:31:19,975
Marcus got in touch and said,
"Right, do you want to go to Amsterdam?"

562
00:31:20,055 --> 00:31:21,695
I went, "Yeah!"

563
00:31:21,775 --> 00:31:23,135
Up your bum!

564
00:31:23,215 --> 00:31:24,341
I said to him, "All
right, nice to meet you.

565
00:31:24,455 --> 00:31:27,135
"Fucking forget that.
Did they give you a float?"

566
00:31:27,215 --> 00:31:28,855
And he said, "No, no,
no, that's for petrol."

567
00:31:28,935 --> 00:31:30,175
I said, "Never mind petrol."

568
00:31:30,255 --> 00:31:32,855
And we took the float off him
and then spent about an hour

569
00:31:32,935 --> 00:31:34,536
driving around
Manchester getting drugs.

570
00:31:34,616 --> 00:31:36,416
And then set off.

571
00:31:36,496 --> 00:31:37,656
Get on the ferry.

572
00:31:37,736 --> 00:31:41,027
I don't know how we get on the ferry
because we're pissed, but we get on this ferry.

573
00:31:41,176 --> 00:31:44,576
As fate would have it,
there's a load of West Ham fans

574
00:31:44,656 --> 00:31:47,936
on this overnight ferry, it's got
a casino on it and a fucking night club.

575
00:31:48,016 --> 00:31:50,256
The Thursday night
ferry to "The 'Dam."

576
00:31:50,336 --> 00:31:52,577
Who goes to Amsterdam
on a ferry for the weekend?

577
00:31:52,657 --> 00:31:54,697
What kind of clientele?

578
00:31:54,777 --> 00:31:59,908
The drink of choice for a few hours
was champagne and Jack Daniels slammers.

579
00:32:00,017 --> 00:32:06,184
The next thing is that sporadic
fighting is breaking out all round us really.

580
00:32:06,537 --> 00:32:12,018
Liam is very excited by the
prospects of a lot of chaos going on

581
00:32:12,098 --> 00:32:13,738
and he goes and joins in.

582
00:32:13,818 --> 00:32:16,338
Yeah, it was fucking
mayhem, man, I loved it.

583
00:32:16,418 --> 00:32:19,698
You can see him running
through the windows along the deck.

584
00:32:19,778 --> 00:32:20,778
He's having a great time.

585
00:32:20,858 --> 00:32:24,058
He looks like he's in a
school playground chasing leaves.

586
00:32:24,138 --> 00:32:26,138
Liam at one point said
they'd ran through a casino

587
00:32:26,218 --> 00:32:30,699
and he flung all the roulette shit
off the table as he was running past.

588
00:32:30,779 --> 00:32:32,747
Then there was
a fight broke out

589
00:32:32,899 --> 00:32:35,345
and all I remember
was it was a bit "Benny Hill."

590
00:32:35,459 --> 00:32:41,299
The next time I see him, he's still running,
but he's got policemen running after him.

591
00:32:41,379 --> 00:32:43,299
Someone's punched someone,
someone's kicked someone.

592
00:32:43,379 --> 00:32:44,979
Someone's got nicked,
then we're handcuffed

593
00:32:45,059 --> 00:32:48,260
and sent down to the bottom
of the boat, we get locked up.

594
00:32:48,340 --> 00:32:51,020
Woke up the next day and I
spoke to the Customs and I said,

595
00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:53,420
"Look, you know,
I'm kind of missing four people.

596
00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:54,660
"Do you know where they are?"

597
00:32:54,740 --> 00:32:57,020
We were heading back,
we didn't have any money,

598
00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:58,820
couldn't phone anyone,
couldn't do nothing.

599
00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:01,471
I can remember getting to the hotel
and having to ring Marcus and Alan

600
00:33:01,580 --> 00:33:06,101
and they're going,
"You fucking what? You what?"

601
00:33:06,181 --> 00:33:08,946
And he says,
"You've fucking blown it, you've blown it."

602
00:33:09,061 --> 00:33:10,981
But that was punk rock, man!
I just went, "Fuck them!"

603
00:33:11,061 --> 00:33:13,826
I never listened to a word those
clowns said anyway, you know what I mean?

604
00:33:14,101 --> 00:33:17,461
I called McGee, and I'll never forget this
and this is another reason why I love McGee,

605
00:33:17,541 --> 00:33:20,261
I said, "Are you sitting down?
I've got some news.

606
00:33:20,341 --> 00:33:22,022
"Everybody's been arrested."

607
00:33:22,102 --> 00:33:23,911
The only word
he said was, "Brilliant."

608
00:33:24,502 --> 00:33:28,802
A hell of a start that, isn't it?
That's a great first day at work. Love it!

609
00:33:30,302 --> 00:33:32,582
Oasis were deported
from Holland last week

610
00:33:32,662 --> 00:33:36,182
after they were involved in a
drunken brawl on a cross-Channel ferry.

611
00:33:36,262 --> 00:33:37,822
The Creation act
were forced to cancel...

612
00:33:37,902 --> 00:33:41,423
I thought it was game. That's how
I want my rock 'n roll stars to act.

613
00:33:41,503 --> 00:33:44,423
Stick up for themselves, get in
a bit of shenanigans and that's it.

614
00:33:44,503 --> 00:33:45,903
We lived to fight another day.

615
00:33:45,983 --> 00:33:47,633
To me, it felt right.

616
00:33:48,383 --> 00:33:49,903
The thing about
getting thrown off ferries,

617
00:33:49,983 --> 00:33:53,749
blah, blah, blah, getting deported
is summat that I'm not proud about.

618
00:33:53,863 --> 00:33:54,863
Well, I am.

619
00:33:54,943 --> 00:33:57,709
Right, well, if you're proud
about getting thrown off ferries,

620
00:33:57,824 --> 00:34:00,864
then why don't you go and support
West Ham and get the fuck out of my band?

621
00:34:00,944 --> 00:34:03,544
These lot think it's rock 'n
roll to get thrown off a ferry.

622
00:34:03,624 --> 00:34:04,984
No I don't
- To get... Shut up!

623
00:34:05,064 --> 00:34:07,544
These lot think it's
rock 'n roll to get...

624
00:34:07,624 --> 00:34:09,144
Shut the fuck up, man!

625
00:34:09,224 --> 00:34:10,826
These lot think...

626
00:34:10,944 --> 00:34:13,506
Am I going to have to say this
part or are you going to shut up?

627
00:34:18,905 --> 00:34:20,545
Is this my question?
- This is your question.

628
00:34:20,625 --> 00:34:25,185
No, I ain't a hooligan.
I'm not a hooligan. Right?

629
00:34:25,625 --> 00:34:27,505
Obviously, once you
get that reputation,

630
00:34:27,585 --> 00:34:31,105
there's always someone who's
going to go, "Well, I'll show him."

631
00:34:31,185 --> 00:34:35,077
If it'd never been in the paper, having a
ruck, that probably wouldn't have happened.

632
00:34:49,306 --> 00:34:53,027
There was a full section of the tour,
it was just going off every night.

633
00:34:53,107 --> 00:34:56,347
I felt that people were
turning up to cause trouble.

634
00:34:56,427 --> 00:34:58,111
It was getting me
down, if I'm being honest.

635
00:34:58,907 --> 00:34:59,908
Fucking dick!

636
00:35:14,468 --> 00:35:18,788
We were getting a reputation
as these bad boys of rock 'n roll.

637
00:35:18,868 --> 00:35:22,628
"That's all fucking great, but
can we talk about the music first?"

638
00:35:22,708 --> 00:35:25,908
I think any band worth their
salt, it's not about just the music.

639
00:35:25,988 --> 00:35:28,989
If you haven't got that kind of
behaviour and you've just got great tunes,

640
00:35:29,069 --> 00:35:31,909
then you're fucking pretty
boring, as far as I'm concerned.

641
00:35:31,989 --> 00:35:33,029
It's about both.

642
00:35:33,109 --> 00:35:35,874
When both come together,
you'll have greatness.

643
00:35:40,229 --> 00:35:42,189
We showed their video
a good couple of months ago.

644
00:35:42,269 --> 00:35:45,310
They've wasted no time in
releasing a new single, Shakermaker,

645
00:35:45,390 --> 00:35:47,030
Noel and Liam from Oasis.

646
00:35:47,110 --> 00:35:49,351
Thanks for interrupting
your hectic schedule.

647
00:35:49,630 --> 00:35:51,758
What's it like being
brothers in a band?

648
00:35:54,350 --> 00:35:56,114
He's speechless.
Look at that.

649
00:35:59,630 --> 00:36:02,591
It's all right. I think it's all right, me.
I think it's very, very funny.

650
00:36:02,671 --> 00:36:04,831
I mean, if you row, what
sort of things do you row about?

651
00:36:04,911 --> 00:36:08,311
Everything. Everything.
We don't even have to row.

652
00:36:08,391 --> 00:36:10,631
All we got to do is look at
each other in a certain kind of way

653
00:36:10,711 --> 00:36:12,951
and we row without
even opening our mouth.

654
00:36:13,031 --> 00:36:15,511
We're just going, "Grrr" inside
our heads, you know what I mean?

655
00:36:17,431 --> 00:36:21,592
I hate the term "sibling rivalry",
but that's effectively what it is.

656
00:36:21,672 --> 00:36:24,392
I know my brother
better than anybody else.

657
00:36:24,472 --> 00:36:27,237
Liam's like a dog,
and I'm like a cat.

658
00:36:27,352 --> 00:36:29,432
Cats are very
independent creatures.

659
00:36:29,512 --> 00:36:31,912
They don't give
a fuck, right bastards.

660
00:36:31,992 --> 00:36:34,232
Dogs are just fucking,
"Play with me, play with me.

661
00:36:34,312 --> 00:36:36,072
"Please fucking throw
that ball for me."

662
00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:38,793
Because they fucking
need some company.

663
00:36:38,873 --> 00:36:42,434
It's as basic as that, can't
change the way that you are.

664
00:36:53,273 --> 00:36:57,074
I'm a cat, okay?
That's just what I am.

665
00:36:57,154 --> 00:36:59,760
I've accepted it.
I'm a bit of a bastard.

666
00:37:06,714 --> 00:37:09,684
What can I say, you know?
I'm a bit of a cunt.

667
00:37:10,514 --> 00:37:13,914
They are two brothers,
grew up together,

668
00:37:13,994 --> 00:37:16,315
one's one way, one's the other.

669
00:37:16,395 --> 00:37:18,155
Noel has a lot of buttons.

670
00:37:18,235 --> 00:37:20,806
Liam has a lot of fingers.
It's that simple, really.

671
00:37:21,955 --> 00:37:24,675
It's about a power
struggle, is what it is.

672
00:37:24,755 --> 00:37:27,955
It's about me being in charge

673
00:37:28,035 --> 00:37:31,996
and everybody directing
everything towards me,

674
00:37:32,076 --> 00:37:34,316
and Liam being
pissed off about it.

675
00:37:34,396 --> 00:37:36,637
That's basically
what starts it all.

676
00:37:37,636 --> 00:37:40,076
I think it all stems down to
when he bought a stereo years ago

677
00:37:40,156 --> 00:37:42,079
when we shared a room.

678
00:37:42,196 --> 00:37:44,116
I think one night
I've come in pissed,

679
00:37:44,196 --> 00:37:48,121
and I couldn't find the light switch,
so I pissed all over his fucking new stereo.

680
00:37:48,396 --> 00:37:51,837
I think it basically boils down
to that. He's held that grudge.

681
00:37:51,917 --> 00:37:53,487
You let go of them grudges, brother!

682
00:37:55,837 --> 00:37:57,441
Democracy never works in a band.

683
00:37:58,197 --> 00:37:59,477
It's been proven a million times.

684
00:37:59,557 --> 00:38:00,677
And the trouble
you had with Oasis is

685
00:38:00,757 --> 00:38:03,966
you had two people
vying for the Prime Minister job.

686
00:38:05,237 --> 00:38:09,038
That tension, that
antagonism, it drove that band,

687
00:38:10,518 --> 00:38:12,520
and it killed that
band, is what it did.

688
00:38:12,678 --> 00:38:14,680
No lifting of the arms.

689
00:38:14,798 --> 00:38:16,838
He got a better
stance than me.

690
00:38:18,718 --> 00:38:20,720
He's a dick! Official!

691
00:38:21,838 --> 00:38:23,920
Yeah, but, anyway. Right?

692
00:38:30,439 --> 00:38:34,399
It's all about what's inside
the fucking tin of beans that counts,

693
00:38:34,479 --> 00:38:37,639
not what the fucking
wrapper is, or how much it costs,

694
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,999
or who you buy it off,
or what till you get it from.

695
00:38:40,079 --> 00:38:44,040
Or even whether it's your Spar,
your Kwiksave, or your fucking Sainsbury's.

696
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,320
Man, it's about what's
inside the tin of beans, man.

697
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,080
And, like, if it's
right, it's right.

698
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,840
If this ever goes on, like,
a video, for the kids, right,

699
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,120
I would apologise, but I'm not
going to! Because he's a prick!

700
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:57,770
Check it out!

701
00:39:02,561 --> 00:39:05,551
One-two, one-two,
one. One... Two?

702
00:39:05,681 --> 00:39:07,801
When people go,
"Oh, what's the best thing about Oasis?"

703
00:39:07,881 --> 00:39:10,081
It's just getting that
chance to record our album

704
00:39:10,161 --> 00:39:11,681
because we knew
we weren't going to fuck it up.

705
00:39:11,761 --> 00:39:12,762
We were ripping, man!

706
00:39:14,801 --> 00:39:16,361
So, we'd been to Monnow Valley.

707
00:39:16,441 --> 00:39:18,648
We recorded what we
thought was a great album.

708
00:39:18,961 --> 00:39:23,331
Everybody else surrounding
the band kept chanting this mantra,

709
00:39:23,442 --> 00:39:26,202
"Oh, it doesn't sound like they do live,
it doesn't sound like they do live."

710
00:39:26,282 --> 00:39:29,047
I was like, "Well, who does it
fucking sound like, Spandau Ballet?"

711
00:39:37,723 --> 00:39:41,808
# Is it my imagination

712
00:39:41,963 --> 00:39:47,367
# Or have I finally found
something worth living for?

713
00:39:47,643 --> 00:39:50,374
I said to Noel Gallagher,
"It's not good enough."

714
00:39:50,523 --> 00:39:53,254
I knew what Oasis should
sound like 'cause I'd seen it live

715
00:39:53,403 --> 00:39:55,132
and I just knew the
performances were wrong.

716
00:39:57,204 --> 00:39:59,604
At one point, he was so
frustrated by the whole thing,

717
00:39:59,684 --> 00:40:03,405
he went, "Look, why don't we just put it out
and we'll get it right in the second album?"

718
00:40:03,724 --> 00:40:06,534
And I went, "You'll never
get to the second album."

719
00:40:06,764 --> 00:40:09,164
# 'Cause when it comes on top

720
00:40:09,244 --> 00:40:12,646
# You got to make it happen

721
00:40:13,165 --> 00:40:15,736
It was not happening.
The pressure was definitely on.

722
00:40:16,605 --> 00:40:19,131
I phoned up Marcus
one Saturday morning.

723
00:40:36,366 --> 00:40:38,886
I'd be interested to know
why they took that risk,

724
00:40:38,966 --> 00:40:40,806
just putting me
in charge of that.

725
00:40:40,886 --> 00:40:44,006
No track record whatsoever.

726
00:40:44,086 --> 00:40:46,851
The thinking is,
"Who does the live sound?"

727
00:40:46,966 --> 00:40:49,652
"Mark does.
So let's go do it live."

728
00:40:50,887 --> 00:40:53,572
Time for plan B
on Definitely Maybe.

729
00:40:54,647 --> 00:40:57,127
And thank God for that, you know,
because we all knew that Coyle understood us.

730
00:40:57,207 --> 00:41:00,097
He always made us
sound how we should sound.

731
00:41:01,367 --> 00:41:05,167
We hit upon this system in the Sawmills,
everything was crowded around the drum kit.

732
00:41:05,247 --> 00:41:08,528
We'd just do three takes
of each song and then move on.

733
00:41:08,608 --> 00:41:09,648
I would have thought that

734
00:41:09,728 --> 00:41:13,574
that album was recorded
in three days, maximum.

735
00:41:15,448 --> 00:41:20,375
But, I started mixing and it
didn't really sound very good.

736
00:41:20,768 --> 00:41:24,375
I think at that stage,
I'd took it as far as I could.

737
00:41:25,169 --> 00:41:28,769
I do remember taking a cassette,
the final mix we did with Mark,

738
00:41:28,849 --> 00:41:30,089
to McGee's flat

739
00:41:30,169 --> 00:41:33,329
and sensing that he was
completely underwhelmed by it.

740
00:41:33,409 --> 00:41:35,696
And me thinking,
"Oh, fuck it, I give up!"

741
00:41:36,409 --> 00:41:40,539
Marcus announces that he's going
to get Owen Morris to do a mix on spec.

742
00:41:41,129 --> 00:41:44,010
Marcus got me in because
I don't think he knew anybody else.

743
00:41:44,090 --> 00:41:46,252
So I was very lucky
to be in the right place.

744
00:41:46,450 --> 00:41:49,770
And I'm thinking, "What has
he done? You know, I don't get it."

745
00:41:49,850 --> 00:41:52,581
He did one mix and
it was just outrageous.

746
00:42:10,571 --> 00:42:14,091
We did a session.
That's where I met Liam.

747
00:42:14,171 --> 00:42:15,731
And I told him he
sounded like John Lennon

748
00:42:15,811 --> 00:42:18,171
and he was like, "You got it!"
at, like, 1:00 in the afternoon.

749
00:42:18,251 --> 00:42:20,414
Liam, lead vocal, rock 'n roll star.

750
00:42:20,692 --> 00:42:26,938
# I live my life in the city
and there's no easy way out

751
00:42:28,132 --> 00:42:31,773
# The day's moving
just too fast for me...

752
00:42:34,492 --> 00:42:36,452
Noel was like, "That
sounds great. That'll do."

753
00:42:36,533 --> 00:42:38,581
And they let me do
exactly what I wanted.

754
00:42:38,693 --> 00:42:41,813
And there was this new box and
you could make things twice as loud

755
00:42:41,893 --> 00:42:44,773
without going into
digital distortion on your CD.

756
00:42:44,853 --> 00:42:49,177
It was in every fucking jukebox in the country,
twice as loud. It was funny as fuck, man.

757
00:42:50,293 --> 00:42:53,173
It's just a pity that
Definitely Maybe came out

758
00:42:53,253 --> 00:42:55,454
and then we didn't see
Alan for a couple of years.

759
00:42:55,534 --> 00:42:56,934
I took too many drugs.

760
00:42:57,014 --> 00:42:59,134
More and more and more,
that's what we were all about,

761
00:42:59,214 --> 00:43:01,501
and eventually it was too much.

762
00:43:02,374 --> 00:43:04,854
It's just that's what happens, isn't it?
When you play with fire, mate.

763
00:43:04,934 --> 00:43:07,585
Some people can last
the pace, some people can't.

764
00:43:07,694 --> 00:43:10,504
Do you know what?
I don't regret any of that shit.

765
00:43:10,614 --> 00:43:12,014
That's just life.

766
00:43:12,094 --> 00:43:14,975
We didn't know it then, but
he was the last of a dying breed.

767
00:43:15,055 --> 00:43:18,295
He's up there with the most important
people in my life, you know what I mean,

768
00:43:18,375 --> 00:43:19,865
that's made a
fucking real difference.

769
00:43:23,695 --> 00:43:26,699
Twelve songs that are about
being alive and having a good time.

770
00:43:27,495 --> 00:43:29,215
About being happy.
About enjoying yourself.

771
00:43:29,295 --> 00:43:32,016
And then about being sad,
you know what I mean?

772
00:43:32,096 --> 00:43:33,496
But knowing that
it can get better.

773
00:43:33,576 --> 00:43:34,737
About everything. Just life.

774
00:43:56,337 --> 00:43:59,697
Their debut album is already
being hailed as a classic of our time.

775
00:43:59,777 --> 00:44:01,417
A year ago, they were
playing to empty venues.

776
00:44:01,497 --> 00:44:04,497
Last night, they embarked
on their first UK sell-out tour.

777
00:44:04,577 --> 00:44:07,058
One of the biggest British
bands since the Beatles.

778
00:44:09,578 --> 00:44:11,218
There isn't a band like Oasis.

779
00:44:11,298 --> 00:44:14,698
They're trying to get the youth culture
out of raves, taking drugs and stuff,

780
00:44:14,778 --> 00:44:17,145
and back into the gigs,
where they belong.

781
00:44:17,458 --> 00:44:19,738
And they're really good, and
Liam Gallagher is just gorgeous

782
00:44:19,818 --> 00:44:21,582
and I'll have his children!

783
00:44:22,178 --> 00:44:25,099
Our first single came out
in England four months ago.

784
00:44:25,179 --> 00:44:27,219
It went into the
charts at number 32.

785
00:44:27,299 --> 00:44:29,099
Everyone said an
indie band can't do that.

786
00:44:29,179 --> 00:44:31,739
Well, the album's gone out and
it's gone in straight at number one

787
00:44:31,819 --> 00:44:35,259
above Pavarotti, above
Prince, even above Elvis.

788
00:44:35,339 --> 00:44:38,024
The fastest-selling debut
album of all time in England,

789
00:44:38,139 --> 00:44:39,584
and quite deservedly so.

790
00:44:39,939 --> 00:44:42,860
Here's Rock 'n Roll Star. Here they are!
- That to me was just a day in bed

791
00:44:42,940 --> 00:44:46,500
# I'm gonna take my
car and drive real far

792
00:44:46,580 --> 00:44:49,629
# You're not concerned
about the way we are

793
00:44:49,900 --> 00:44:53,063
# In my mind my
dreams are real

794
00:44:53,220 --> 00:44:55,905
# Now you're concerned
about the way I feel

795
00:44:56,140 --> 00:45:01,432
# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star

796
00:45:02,741 --> 00:45:07,429
# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star

797
00:45:11,581 --> 00:45:14,630
# It's just rock 'n roll

798
00:45:15,141 --> 00:45:17,428
# It's just rock 'n roll

799
00:45:18,622 --> 00:45:21,671
# It's just rock 'n roll

800
00:45:23,542 --> 00:45:25,510
Thank you very much.

801
00:45:45,503 --> 00:45:47,583
So next thing you know,
we were going to Japan.

802
00:45:47,663 --> 00:45:48,703
What do you expect?

803
00:45:48,783 --> 00:45:51,863
I've never been to Japan, so you
think, "All right, I'm prepared", you know.

804
00:45:51,943 --> 00:45:56,344
No. Nothing ever on this
planet was going to prepare me.

805
00:45:56,424 --> 00:45:58,313
Japan! Japan!

806
00:45:58,664 --> 00:46:01,907
We arrived in Japan and there were,
fucking, like, 1.000 girls at the airport.

807
00:46:02,504 --> 00:46:05,144
People waiting for us
and shouting my name!

808
00:46:05,224 --> 00:46:07,664
"Liam, Liam! Noel!
Guigs! Tony!"

809
00:46:07,744 --> 00:46:10,264
It was just, like,
"Fuck off! This is Japan?

810
00:46:10,344 --> 00:46:11,625
"But they know my name?"

811
00:46:11,705 --> 00:46:14,785
"Yeah, of course they do!"
It got me and I loved it.

812
00:46:14,865 --> 00:46:16,833
I loved every last minute of it.

813
00:46:17,505 --> 00:46:20,105
Fucking hell, they
followed us everywhere,

814
00:46:20,185 --> 00:46:23,025
outside hotels,
in the fucking foyer,

815
00:46:23,105 --> 00:46:26,507
outside your room, in your
fucking room, everywhere you went.

816
00:46:26,625 --> 00:46:28,065
It was like mania,
you know what I mean?

817
00:46:28,145 --> 00:46:29,910
It was like what
we'd always read about.

818
00:46:32,606 --> 00:46:36,073
First time in Japan.
First time on a jumbo plane.

819
00:46:36,546 --> 00:46:38,947
It was just mental, you
know what I mean? Just mad!

820
00:46:42,706 --> 00:46:44,390
Just, you're all off
your heads, and it's mad.

821
00:46:44,506 --> 00:46:46,031
And it's top!
I love youse all.

822
00:46:46,906 --> 00:46:48,397
I absolutely loved Japan.

823
00:46:48,547 --> 00:46:49,628
It was fucking mayhem.

824
00:46:50,547 --> 00:46:52,147
Guigs wasn't too
keen on it, he was like,

825
00:46:52,227 --> 00:46:53,787
"Oh, I don't know
what they're fussing about."

826
00:46:53,867 --> 00:46:56,677
And I'm like, "Me, you fucking lunatic!
That's what they're fussing about!"

827
00:46:58,787 --> 00:46:59,993
Where's the toilet?

828
00:47:10,108 --> 00:47:14,388
# Is it my imagination

829
00:47:14,468 --> 00:47:19,599
# Or have I finally found
something worth living for?

830
00:47:26,869 --> 00:47:30,874
# I was looking for some action

831
00:47:31,589 --> 00:47:36,470
# But all I found
was cigarettes and alcohol...

832
00:47:37,029 --> 00:47:41,911
That might have been the one time in my
life where I thought, "Fucking hell! Wow!

833
00:47:42,030 --> 00:47:43,310
"How has it landed here?

834
00:47:43,390 --> 00:47:45,310
"Why are all these people
who don't speak English

835
00:47:45,390 --> 00:47:46,470
"obsessed with it already

836
00:47:46,550 --> 00:47:48,359
"before we even fucking
plugged in and played?"

837
00:47:48,870 --> 00:47:53,350
# To spend your
days in the sunshine

838
00:47:53,430 --> 00:47:56,470
# You might as well
do the white line

839
00:47:56,550 --> 00:47:59,591
# 'Cause when it comes on top

840
00:47:59,671 --> 00:48:03,751
# You got to make it happen

841
00:48:03,831 --> 00:48:06,311
# You got to make it happen

842
00:48:11,151 --> 00:48:15,395
I was writing for a "Nancy Boys"
magazine as far as they were concerned.

843
00:48:16,071 --> 00:48:18,074
I knew that I was ten
years older than them.

844
00:48:19,032 --> 00:48:21,192
I was female,
and it was all blokes.

845
00:48:21,272 --> 00:48:23,032
I was a mum,
and I just thought,

846
00:48:23,112 --> 00:48:26,352
"Right. I'm going to stay up later
than you, I'm going to drink more than you,

847
00:48:26,432 --> 00:48:28,272
"I'm going to behave
more badly than you",

848
00:48:28,352 --> 00:48:30,753
because I wasn't going
to get this story otherwise.

849
00:48:33,032 --> 00:48:36,593
The first night in Japan,
we'd all been out

850
00:48:36,673 --> 00:48:39,673
and it had been about
3:00 in the morning.

851
00:48:39,753 --> 00:48:42,993
My head had just hit the
pillow, and the phone rang.

852
00:48:43,073 --> 00:48:44,074
"Who's calling me?"

853
00:48:44,193 --> 00:48:46,953
I picked up the
phone and it was Liam.

854
00:48:47,033 --> 00:48:48,593
"Get down here now!"

855
00:48:48,673 --> 00:48:51,753
So I walked down the
corridor back into their room

856
00:48:51,833 --> 00:48:57,154
and Liam said to me, and honestly,
it was like he was shimmering,

857
00:48:57,234 --> 00:49:01,834
he just said to me, "Do you
believe in God? Do you think there's a God?"

858
00:49:01,914 --> 00:49:04,914
And, I sort of looked
at him and I said,

859
00:49:04,994 --> 00:49:06,434
"How did we get
on to this one?"

860
00:49:06,514 --> 00:49:08,354
And he said, "Because I
don't believe there's a God,

861
00:49:08,434 --> 00:49:12,035
"because if there was a God,
all that wouldn't have happened."

862
00:49:12,115 --> 00:49:15,075
And I said, "What
wouldn't have happened?"

863
00:49:15,155 --> 00:49:17,435
I didn't know what
he was on about.

864
00:49:17,515 --> 00:49:20,962
There was all this
pent-up simmering rage.

865
00:49:22,955 --> 00:49:25,635
I was definitely angry with
life and that, I guess, you know.

866
00:49:25,715 --> 00:49:29,880
You know, I mean, shit with
my dad and just life in general.

867
00:49:29,996 --> 00:49:32,316
I was an angry young man,

868
00:49:32,396 --> 00:49:37,036
so singing them songs sort of
released all my shit onto other people,

869
00:49:37,116 --> 00:49:38,720
but in a good way,
you know what I mean?

870
00:49:41,076 --> 00:49:43,682
My dad, he used to
knock my mum about.

871
00:49:45,116 --> 00:49:47,802
There were many times
when, like, it got like that.

872
00:49:48,517 --> 00:49:51,805
He never touched me,
I don't know why he didn't.

873
00:49:52,277 --> 00:49:54,317
You know, sometimes he'd
fucking, he'd want the craic

874
00:49:54,397 --> 00:49:56,240
instead of having to witness it.

875
00:49:57,557 --> 00:49:59,197
He used to kill Noel.

876
00:49:59,277 --> 00:50:01,883
Noel was the one
that got it the most.

877
00:50:01,997 --> 00:50:04,878
I remember Noel once saying, "If you
don't get out of here, Mum, and leave him",

878
00:50:04,958 --> 00:50:06,678
he says, "I'm going to kill him."

879
00:50:06,758 --> 00:50:09,807
And I thought, "Oh, Jesus. You can't
be doing time for the likes of him."

880
00:50:11,198 --> 00:50:14,158
Yeah, my dad used to beat
the living daylights out of me.

881
00:50:14,238 --> 00:50:19,118
I've never felt compelled
to either talk about it or write about it.

882
00:50:19,198 --> 00:50:21,280
I know that I think
it's no one else's business.

883
00:50:22,759 --> 00:50:26,679
You can't let that kind of
thing affect you in any way

884
00:50:26,759 --> 00:50:30,525
because then you're carrying
that weight all the way through life.

885
00:50:31,959 --> 00:50:35,239
He always thought, "You'd never
leave him because you had nowhere to go to."

886
00:50:35,319 --> 00:50:38,402
"You'll never leave me."
I said, "Won't I? Try it."

887
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:42,724
One night, we got
the courage to get out

888
00:50:43,720 --> 00:50:46,166
and I left him a knife
and a fork and a spoon,

889
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,000
and I think I left him too much.

890
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:51,129
He never once come
after us, wouldn't dare.

891
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,487
It was a sense of
"See you later, we're free!"

892
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:59,048
It definitely affected them,
because they got very bitter.

893
00:51:00,241 --> 00:51:01,481
I wouldn't say I was scarred,

894
00:51:01,561 --> 00:51:04,451
but everybody's childhood
makes them what they are.

895
00:51:05,881 --> 00:51:09,328
You can't think about it too deeply
because it would fucking drive you mad.

896
00:51:10,441 --> 00:51:14,841
I think it benefitted me in the way
that it made me withdraw into my own world

897
00:51:14,921 --> 00:51:17,926
and from that came
the learning to play the guitar.

898
00:51:19,642 --> 00:51:24,284
I guess, in some way,
my old fella beat the talent into me.

899
00:51:31,682 --> 00:51:34,643
On Live 105, Oasis.

900
00:51:34,723 --> 00:51:35,724
Supersonic, yeah?

901
00:51:44,283 --> 00:51:46,763
The contrast of getting
on a plane and coming from Japan,

902
00:51:46,883 --> 00:51:49,363
where the mania
was like, fucking, "Blam!"

903
00:51:50,323 --> 00:51:54,884
Then getting to America,
where nobody had heard of us,

904
00:51:54,964 --> 00:51:56,364
that didn't freak me out.

905
00:51:56,444 --> 00:51:59,607
I was ready to start again,
you know what I mean?

906
00:51:59,724 --> 00:52:01,284
But I also knew

907
00:52:01,364 --> 00:52:04,573
that you won't get anywhere
on attitude in the States.

908
00:52:04,684 --> 00:52:05,765
You've got be able to play.

909
00:52:06,844 --> 00:52:10,045
I went over there with definitely
a fucking chip on my shoulder,

910
00:52:10,125 --> 00:52:11,685
but a good chip,
you know what I mean?

911
00:52:11,765 --> 00:52:14,845
It was like, "Look, we're going to fucking
have youse and if you like us, great,

912
00:52:14,925 --> 00:52:16,370
"if you don't,
I don't give a shit."

913
00:52:17,045 --> 00:52:18,685
American Customs
then asked a question

914
00:52:18,765 --> 00:52:20,654
that would fucking blow
Liam's mind, you know what I mean?

915
00:52:21,205 --> 00:52:22,925
Right, who've
we got here then?

916
00:52:23,005 --> 00:52:24,925
He's a singer.

917
00:52:25,005 --> 00:52:26,605
"What's the purpose of your visit?"

918
00:52:26,685 --> 00:52:29,246
"You what?"
"Not a fucking visit.

919
00:52:29,326 --> 00:52:31,135
"I'm not visiting, mate,
I'm a fucking rock star.

920
00:52:31,606 --> 00:52:33,046
"I'm here to steal your soul."

921
00:52:33,126 --> 00:52:35,606
"Okay, you can follow me now, sir.
You're coming this way."

922
00:52:40,686 --> 00:52:43,966
There's always pressure that's on
the bands to break America as well,

923
00:52:44,046 --> 00:52:48,287
you know, but breaking America
quite often breaks the fucking band

924
00:52:48,367 --> 00:52:52,887
because they're that concerned
about it and it's that vast. Fuck me, man.

925
00:52:52,967 --> 00:52:54,807
You have a good time and
all that, but I'll tell you what,

926
00:52:54,887 --> 00:52:57,967
when you get home,
your carpet don't look the same.

927
00:52:58,047 --> 00:53:01,098
And we've got the two Gallagher
brothers from the band Oasis.

928
00:53:01,207 --> 00:53:03,968
And you're playing at the Whisky
tonight. Is it sold out, do you know?

929
00:53:04,048 --> 00:53:05,168
Of course it's sold out.

930
00:53:05,248 --> 00:53:06,448
Okay, and what
have you been doing?

931
00:53:06,528 --> 00:53:08,208
We've just been doing
loads of interviews, and gigs.

932
00:53:08,288 --> 00:53:10,208
Working. Melissa's been
making us work dead hard.

933
00:53:10,288 --> 00:53:11,328
She's on top.

934
00:53:11,408 --> 00:53:13,608
I think what they said was
there were some interviews

935
00:53:13,688 --> 00:53:15,848
and hanging out and
doing work and stuff.

936
00:53:15,928 --> 00:53:18,568
You're right.
- I'll be the translator here.

937
00:53:18,648 --> 00:53:20,808
Diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle

938
00:53:20,888 --> 00:53:22,095
Anything else?

939
00:53:22,809 --> 00:53:25,729
Someone had discovered
the joys of crystal meth,

940
00:53:25,809 --> 00:53:28,609
which is effectively
like ninja speed.

941
00:53:28,689 --> 00:53:31,529
It's not even fun, you know what
I mean? It's a fucking horrible drug.

942
00:53:31,609 --> 00:53:32,849
I don't know
who fucking got it,

943
00:53:32,929 --> 00:53:35,614
but it was there and
we all thought it was coke.

944
00:53:36,449 --> 00:53:40,410
And we were doing big fucking lines of
it and it just fucking kept us up for days.

945
00:53:40,490 --> 00:53:41,970
Everybody had a dig at it.

946
00:53:42,050 --> 00:53:44,970
The only problem with that
is that you couldn't get to sleep.

947
00:53:45,050 --> 00:53:46,050
You couldn't sleep.

948
00:53:46,130 --> 00:53:50,010
Right, I don't mind having a dig
at anything as long as, you know,

949
00:53:50,090 --> 00:53:52,855
about 10:30 at night,
I have a cup of tea and go to bed.

950
00:53:53,570 --> 00:53:56,330
The Whisky a Go Go
on Sunset Strip, fucking hell,

951
00:53:56,410 --> 00:53:58,698
it's the most
famous club in LA.

952
00:53:58,811 --> 00:53:59,972
We get to the sound check,

953
00:54:00,611 --> 00:54:02,613
everybody's been up
all night and looked like it.

954
00:54:03,491 --> 00:54:07,416
All right, L.A., Whisky
a Go Go. This is the spot.

955
00:54:07,851 --> 00:54:09,451
The best band in Britain.

956
00:54:09,531 --> 00:54:12,716
I say they're the
best band in the universe.

957
00:54:13,851 --> 00:54:16,434
None other than Oasis!

958
00:54:16,852 --> 00:54:18,013
All right, Oasis!

959
00:54:18,692 --> 00:54:19,739
And there you have it.

960
00:54:20,772 --> 00:54:22,979
This one's called
Rock 'n Roll Star.

961
00:54:42,733 --> 00:54:46,973
# I live my life in the city
and there's no easy way out...

962
00:54:47,053 --> 00:54:48,173
Everyone was appalling.

963
00:54:48,253 --> 00:54:50,933
Every member of the crew,
every member of the fucking band

964
00:54:51,013 --> 00:54:52,254
because of crystal meth.

965
00:54:55,454 --> 00:54:57,814
Phil Smith, our roadie,

966
00:54:57,894 --> 00:55:00,054
who was responsible
for putting the set lists out,

967
00:55:00,134 --> 00:55:02,819
for some reason, my set list
was different to everybody else's.

968
00:55:03,014 --> 00:55:05,858
# You're not concerned
about the way we are...

969
00:55:06,934 --> 00:55:09,855
They were all playing
different songs at the same time.

970
00:55:09,935 --> 00:55:11,937
"Whoa! What's going on here?"

971
00:55:12,415 --> 00:55:15,455
# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star...

972
00:55:15,535 --> 00:55:19,096
It was a shambles, man.
It was an absolute fucking shambles.

973
00:55:20,135 --> 00:55:23,105
# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll...

974
00:55:25,615 --> 00:55:27,459
Do it again for you, you know?

975
00:55:28,656 --> 00:55:30,536
The whole thing just fell apart.

976
00:55:30,616 --> 00:55:32,096
I've never seen it
with this band before.

977
00:55:32,176 --> 00:55:33,496
All right, Rock 'n Roll Star.

978
00:55:33,576 --> 00:55:34,577
Again.

979
00:55:38,376 --> 00:55:40,696
I think there were a
lot of tension on stage,

980
00:55:40,776 --> 00:55:42,585
a lot of gesturing
between Noel and Liam.

981
00:55:42,696 --> 00:55:44,616
Well, more from Liam to Noel.

982
00:55:44,696 --> 00:55:46,937
And then the
tambourine came flying.

983
00:55:47,017 --> 00:55:48,057
I think he said summat

984
00:55:48,137 --> 00:55:50,537
and I fucking launched the
tambourine at him or summat.

985
00:55:50,617 --> 00:55:53,537
Not like the Bruce Lee
throwing-star or a fucking lightsabre,

986
00:55:53,617 --> 00:55:54,617
it was a tambourine.

987
00:55:54,697 --> 00:55:57,137
But when it hit me on
the shoulder it went, "Tshhh!"

988
00:55:57,217 --> 00:55:58,548
Out of time, I might add.

989
00:55:59,217 --> 00:56:02,543
It was lucky I didn't fucking launch a
monitor at him or summat, or a fucking drummer.

990
00:56:03,698 --> 00:56:04,779
What?

991
00:56:06,538 --> 00:56:10,098
I could see Liam was going behind one
of the amps throughout the gig, man,

992
00:56:10,178 --> 00:56:13,018
and he was just snorting
lines of crystal meth on stage.

993
00:56:13,098 --> 00:56:14,748
"That's going to
go tits up, isn't it?"

994
00:56:24,339 --> 00:56:26,539
It was a bit
of a catastrophe.

995
00:56:26,619 --> 00:56:28,303
Yeah. I was in a fury.

996
00:56:29,539 --> 00:56:32,179
I left a little bit of me
on that stage that night.

997
00:56:32,259 --> 00:56:35,547
After that night, it was more
"me and them" as opposed to "us".

998
00:56:36,859 --> 00:56:41,180
I remember going back to the hotel
and saying to Maggie, our tour manager,

999
00:56:41,260 --> 00:56:42,860
I think I took the float off her.

1000
00:56:42,940 --> 00:56:44,704
Noel was quite upset about it.

1001
00:56:44,820 --> 00:56:47,220
He said, "Can you give me money?"
And I said, "Well, what do you want?"

1002
00:56:47,300 --> 00:56:48,940
He goes, "Well, enough
money to go back home."

1003
00:56:49,020 --> 00:56:51,990
So I just gave him, like, $700.
That's all I had, I said, you know.

1004
00:56:52,580 --> 00:56:54,548
He said, "Can I have my
passport?" So I gave him his passport.

1005
00:56:55,140 --> 00:56:57,381
But I remember ringing up
Marcus saying, "He's going to leave",

1006
00:56:57,461 --> 00:56:58,941
and he was like,
"No, no, no, he'll be fine, be fine.

1007
00:56:59,021 --> 00:57:00,541
"He's going to sleep it
off, it'll be fine, be fine."

1008
00:57:00,621 --> 00:57:02,783
I was like, "Oh,
no, I don't think so!"

1009
00:57:04,861 --> 00:57:06,341
I don't know
what I was thinking.

1010
00:57:06,421 --> 00:57:08,947
Maybe I thought it was
the end, I really don't know.

1011
00:57:09,781 --> 00:57:11,381
He takes the money and runs.

1012
00:57:11,461 --> 00:57:14,341
I remember some fucking soppy note
coming through the door, saying, like,

1013
00:57:14,422 --> 00:57:16,542
"How can we
go on like brothers?"

1014
00:57:16,622 --> 00:57:18,502
It was like, "Fuck right off!"

1015
00:57:18,582 --> 00:57:19,622
So that got rolled up

1016
00:57:19,702 --> 00:57:23,046
and then another line of crystal meth
went up the old fucking tubular bells.

1017
00:57:24,902 --> 00:57:27,782
So, I woke up in the morning and
I found a note underneath my door

1018
00:57:27,862 --> 00:57:31,304
and I opened it up, and I knew it.
He said, "I'm leaving." "Bollocks!"

1019
00:57:31,862 --> 00:57:34,264
He's gone missing.
Nobody knows where he is.

1020
00:57:35,263 --> 00:57:36,823
There's our songwriter gone.

1021
00:57:36,903 --> 00:57:39,349
"Shit! I think it's
really over, isn't it?"

1022
00:57:40,143 --> 00:57:41,743
I came up with this idea.

1023
00:57:41,823 --> 00:57:46,223
I got his bill and then I traced
all the last numbers he rang.

1024
00:57:46,303 --> 00:57:48,063
And then I noticed
there was one number "415",

1025
00:57:48,143 --> 00:57:50,184
and I thought,
"Ah, San Francisco."

1026
00:57:50,264 --> 00:57:52,744
We've just been to San Francisco

1027
00:57:52,824 --> 00:57:55,864
and I knew that he had
some little fling over there.

1028
00:57:55,944 --> 00:57:57,904
Marcus said, "I'm
going to ring the number."

1029
00:57:57,984 --> 00:58:01,064
So he gets her on the phone and he says,
"You know, we're not saying anything,

1030
00:58:01,144 --> 00:58:03,184
"but obviously, legally,
he's a missing person, you know.

1031
00:58:03,264 --> 00:58:05,144
"We're going to have to
have to get the police involved."

1032
00:58:05,224 --> 00:58:07,795
And the minute he hung up the phone,
I said, "He's there."

1033
00:58:10,145 --> 00:58:13,105
Let me see if I can get
my story straight here.

1034
00:58:13,185 --> 00:58:15,756
I met this girl at an Oasis gig.

1035
00:58:16,425 --> 00:58:19,745
I must have phoned her
and said, "It's fucked up here."

1036
00:58:19,825 --> 00:58:22,465
And I got on a plane
and flew off to San Francisco.

1037
00:58:22,545 --> 00:58:23,945
I don't know what the
fuck I thought I was doing.

1038
00:58:24,025 --> 00:58:26,546
I was just going to,
like, disappear, you know.

1039
00:58:26,626 --> 00:58:28,826
It was quite a traumatic time.

1040
00:58:28,906 --> 00:58:33,146
But Talk Tonight was
written about those few days

1041
00:58:33,226 --> 00:58:35,672
and out of that
came that great song.

1042
00:58:36,306 --> 00:58:37,466
So it was meant to be.

1043
00:58:37,546 --> 00:58:38,707
It was meant to be.

1044
00:58:38,986 --> 00:58:41,106
# Sleeping on a plane

1045
00:58:41,186 --> 00:58:44,027
# You know you can't complain

1046
00:58:44,107 --> 00:58:49,427
# You took your last
chance once again

1047
00:58:49,507 --> 00:58:56,117
# I landed, stranded

1048
00:58:56,227 --> 00:58:59,788
# Hardly even knew your name

1049
00:59:02,428 --> 00:59:05,716
# I want to talk tonight

1050
00:59:08,028 --> 00:59:11,749
# Until the morning light

1051
00:59:13,508 --> 00:59:17,399
# About how you saved my life

1052
00:59:19,308 --> 00:59:22,756
# You and me see how we are

1053
00:59:24,629 --> 00:59:28,069
I kind of sat in this girl's flat,
probably doing too many fucking drugs

1054
00:59:28,149 --> 00:59:29,560
and being a bit fucking mad.

1055
00:59:30,629 --> 00:59:34,395
Unbeknown to me, they'd found out,
"This is where we think he is."

1056
00:59:35,909 --> 00:59:38,270
If I close my eyes now,
I can't even picture the girl.

1057
00:59:38,350 --> 00:59:41,240
I can't remember her
name, it's a bit of a blur.

1058
00:59:42,630 --> 00:59:44,110
You meet them
people in America,

1059
00:59:44,190 --> 00:59:46,350
you don't meet them
anywhere else in the world.

1060
00:59:46,430 --> 00:59:49,110
They take you under
their wing, you know.

1061
00:59:49,190 --> 00:59:52,270
They're spiritual people is what they are.

1062
00:59:52,350 --> 00:59:53,681
She was one of them.

1063
00:59:54,630 --> 00:59:57,591
She was saying,
"What, you're going to leave?

1064
00:59:57,671 --> 00:59:58,671
"And what are
you going to do?"

1065
00:59:58,751 --> 01:00:01,591
And I guess at that point I'm thinking,
"Actually, that's a very good point.

1066
01:00:01,671 --> 01:00:04,481
"What am I going to do?"
I can't sing. I wasn't a singer then.

1067
01:00:04,591 --> 01:00:06,431
I'm not a front man.

1068
01:00:06,511 --> 01:00:09,351
I just needed a bit
of time out, I guess.

1069
01:00:09,431 --> 01:00:12,431
I may have been trying
to teach somebody a lesson.

1070
01:00:12,511 --> 01:00:14,560
I failed miserably.

1071
01:00:15,832 --> 01:00:18,832
I think we'd heard about a couple
of days that, "Yes, he's coming back."

1072
01:00:18,912 --> 01:00:20,552
It means the band
is staying together

1073
01:00:20,632 --> 01:00:22,600
rather than going home
and signing on the dole.

1074
01:00:23,512 --> 01:00:25,232
And obviously, by the
time he's about to turn up,

1075
01:00:25,312 --> 01:00:27,752
everyone's fucking shitting it,
because, you know,

1076
01:00:27,832 --> 01:00:30,756
because he can
put on a stern face.

1077
01:00:30,872 --> 01:00:32,477
You know, he can unsettle you.

1078
01:00:34,433 --> 01:00:38,722
The new era started when
he walked back into that hotel

1079
01:00:39,753 --> 01:00:41,513
and everything
was different after that.

1080
01:00:41,593 --> 01:00:43,553
And we all had to be different

1081
01:00:43,633 --> 01:00:45,715
because if you're not
with him, you're going home.

1082
01:00:46,793 --> 01:00:48,553
I'd written these new songs.

1083
01:00:48,633 --> 01:00:50,636
Someone had booked
a recording session.

1084
01:00:51,194 --> 01:00:53,314
Like this was Oasis'
fucking cure for everything.

1085
01:00:53,394 --> 01:00:55,034
"Let's go in the studio."

1086
01:00:55,114 --> 01:00:59,554
Talk Tonight, well, that's
one moody fucking song, that.

1087
01:00:59,634 --> 01:01:04,314
It shows that
delicate side to him...

1088
01:01:05,394 --> 01:01:07,114
that you just
don't really see.

1089
01:01:07,194 --> 01:01:10,675
He doesn't show these
emotions, Noel. He never did.

1090
01:01:10,755 --> 01:01:15,395
Apart from when you stick him
behind the glass with a microphone,

1091
01:01:15,475 --> 01:01:18,955
and then he can let this
emotion loose that he's got

1092
01:01:19,035 --> 01:01:21,686
and suddenly you can see "Noel."

1093
01:01:22,835 --> 01:01:28,081
You kind of see, almost,
a little boy or summat, you know.

1094
01:01:28,196 --> 01:01:31,837
Something very, very
innocent and very pure.

1095
01:01:33,396 --> 01:01:36,076
They're my
favourite moments.

1096
01:01:36,156 --> 01:01:39,956
It's like a door opens
and a bit of light comes in,

1097
01:01:40,036 --> 01:01:43,439
and then the door's shut again,
you know, and he's calling you a twat.

1098
01:01:51,837 --> 01:01:55,887
# Some might say that
sunshine follows thunder...

1099
01:01:55,997 --> 01:01:59,917
In those days, I would write
every day because I was fucking so driven.

1100
01:01:59,997 --> 01:02:05,084
I recognised that I was in a moment
and everything that I wrote felt great.

1101
01:02:08,878 --> 01:02:11,838
There's a strange
melancholy to Some Might Say

1102
01:02:11,918 --> 01:02:13,798
considering I knew
it was going to be number one

1103
01:02:13,878 --> 01:02:15,398
before I even sat and wrote it.

1104
01:02:15,478 --> 01:02:16,559
I fucking knew it.

1105
01:02:18,158 --> 01:02:19,649
What is going on
in this room now?

1106
01:02:19,759 --> 01:02:21,599
You can walk next door
to Boyzone, yeah, go in there.

1107
01:02:21,679 --> 01:02:24,649
They'll be like,
"Hey, fuck, oh, Jesus...

1108
01:02:26,159 --> 01:02:29,079
"We've got to get this fucking thing
together now, because it's not in time.

1109
01:02:29,159 --> 01:02:32,606
"It's not in time, just fucking
me and you going like, 'Huh!"'

1110
01:02:32,759 --> 01:02:36,039
You go in there and you
hear, "Hey, do that, hey!"

1111
01:02:36,119 --> 01:02:39,200
You come in this room and it's
like, you know, it's the funny farm.

1112
01:02:39,380 --> 01:02:41,000
And that's what
it's all about, it's like,

1113
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:44,200
"Do what you friggin' want."
If you want to go like that, do it,

1114
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:46,640
because it don't mean nothing.
If you want to go... Do that.

1115
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:50,760
If you want to go...
"Hey, fuck man." Like, "Hey, fuck", right?

1116
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:51,880
You can do that.

1117
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:53,880
But if you want
to just do this...

1118
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:56,282
what I'm doing here now,
just do it, because it's like...

1119
01:02:56,401 --> 01:02:59,361
This is an advert
for not taking drugs.

1120
01:02:59,441 --> 01:03:01,121
This is an advert?
It's an advert?

1121
01:03:01,201 --> 01:03:03,481
This is an advert for not
getting into chemical abuse, big time.

1122
01:03:03,561 --> 01:03:05,201
No, no, hey, hey, hey!

1123
01:03:05,281 --> 01:03:08,441
People who know, know
that I have not been a fucking...

1124
01:03:08,521 --> 01:03:09,681
I've never been an abuser.

1125
01:03:09,761 --> 01:03:12,762
I've never been an
abuser, I've been a user.

1126
01:03:13,242 --> 01:03:16,362
I've never been an abuser, man.
Nothing to do with drugs.

1127
01:03:16,442 --> 01:03:19,602
It's to do with the air,
the air, man, and music.

1128
01:03:19,682 --> 01:03:22,762
And that is it, that is it,
and I'm ranting now, come on!

1129
01:03:22,842 --> 01:03:24,003
You know what
I mean? It's right.

1130
01:03:24,162 --> 01:03:25,573
That's it. That's it.

1131
01:03:26,242 --> 01:03:27,402
Giving a performance
of their brand-new song.

1132
01:03:27,482 --> 01:03:30,805
It's the best song around.
It is Some Might Say!

1133
01:03:45,563 --> 01:03:51,094
# Some might say that
sunshine follows thunder

1134
01:03:53,684 --> 01:03:59,646
# Go and tell it to the
man who cannot shine

1135
01:04:01,924 --> 01:04:03,972
Yeah, and that
was Tony's last gig.

1136
01:04:04,564 --> 01:04:06,725
Yeah, I'd probably
made up my mind

1137
01:04:06,805 --> 01:04:08,845
knowing that Champagne
Supernova was coming up

1138
01:04:08,925 --> 01:04:11,885
and Don't Look Back
In Anger, and Wonderwall,

1139
01:04:11,965 --> 01:04:15,048
that he wasn't going to
be able to play those songs.

1140
01:04:17,005 --> 01:04:20,445
It had become apparent
recording Definitely Maybe.

1141
01:04:20,525 --> 01:04:24,566
We spent a lot of time fucking
about trying to get the drums right.

1142
01:04:24,646 --> 01:04:25,727
And it was never right.

1143
01:04:26,926 --> 01:04:28,690
When we were doing
Some Might Say and stuff,

1144
01:04:28,806 --> 01:04:30,086
Noel was like, to me,

1145
01:04:30,166 --> 01:04:32,886
"That's the fucking last time
he's ever in the fucking studio."

1146
01:04:32,966 --> 01:04:35,806
I was going to Tony, "Tony, you've
got to get your shit together, Tony.

1147
01:04:35,886 --> 01:04:37,297
"Or bye, Tony."

1148
01:04:37,886 --> 01:04:41,413
Drummers are really smelly,
useless, talentless losers, man.

1149
01:04:42,166 --> 01:04:44,247
I mean, fancy having a job
where you bang things all day.

1150
01:04:44,327 --> 01:04:46,327
I thought orangutans
do that, don't they?

1151
01:04:46,407 --> 01:04:47,807
Gorillas and monkeys and that.

1152
01:04:47,887 --> 01:04:51,577
They just bang things, like bang
dustbin lids on their heads and all that.

1153
01:04:51,967 --> 01:04:53,087
Well, that's what
they do, isn't it?

1154
01:04:53,167 --> 01:04:54,967
And drummers just do it and
get paid loads of money for it.

1155
01:04:55,047 --> 01:04:57,175
Fucking sack them all.
Drum machines, I say, man.

1156
01:04:57,287 --> 01:04:59,247
I'm telling you, can't wait
to say I'm in a dance band.

1157
01:04:59,327 --> 01:05:02,008
Press the button, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk."
Doesn't answer back, don't have to feed it.

1158
01:05:02,088 --> 01:05:03,808
Don't have to pay no money,
don't have to buy it any drugs.

1159
01:05:03,888 --> 01:05:05,528
Don't have to get it any
women, don't have to do nothing.

1160
01:05:05,608 --> 01:05:07,168
Put it on a flight,
"Fuck it, in the back of the truck",

1161
01:05:07,248 --> 01:05:08,995
and never have
to speak to it again.

1162
01:05:10,128 --> 01:05:13,688
As it went through that
American tour, it got really nasty with Tony,

1163
01:05:13,768 --> 01:05:15,928
and you'd have
to feel for the boy.

1164
01:05:16,008 --> 01:05:19,731
I'd hold my hands up and say,
I gave him a terrible time as well.

1165
01:05:21,169 --> 01:05:23,169
And I shared a room with him.

1166
01:05:23,249 --> 01:05:24,369
Tony would just
pour it out, you know.

1167
01:05:24,449 --> 01:05:25,729
"Fucking hell, Bonehead,
do you know?

1168
01:05:25,809 --> 01:05:28,209
"People are getting at me,
and people are doing this?"

1169
01:05:28,289 --> 01:05:30,576
It was hard for me
to be the guy in the middle.

1170
01:05:31,249 --> 01:05:34,537
Maybe I talked to Noel, talked to Liam,
"Look, go easy on the guy, man."

1171
01:05:35,849 --> 01:05:37,730
I was quite a reserved guy.

1172
01:05:37,810 --> 01:05:40,570
I think people might have looked
at that as some kind of weakness,

1173
01:05:40,650 --> 01:05:44,130
but no, I didn't want
to be the leader.

1174
01:05:44,210 --> 01:05:45,974
I'll sit back here
and do my drums.

1175
01:05:47,050 --> 01:05:50,170
You know, like, when a pack
of feral dogs exclude one puppy,

1176
01:05:50,250 --> 01:05:51,490
it became like that, I think.

1177
01:05:52,890 --> 01:05:55,571
Our Kid, I just think, made his
mind up, you know what I mean,

1178
01:05:55,651 --> 01:05:56,971
and just didn't fancy him.

1179
01:05:57,051 --> 01:05:58,851
"He's not going to be
able to do these next songs."

1180
01:05:58,931 --> 01:06:01,377
Or "I don't want him to do it",
you know what I mean?

1181
01:06:02,131 --> 01:06:05,294
Yeah, I mean, I'm gutted
for him, but it is what it is, man.

1182
01:06:05,971 --> 01:06:07,851
I had an argument with Noel.

1183
01:06:07,931 --> 01:06:10,051
He said something, and I
finally went, "Fuck you, mate."

1184
01:06:10,131 --> 01:06:11,811
You know what
I mean, "Fuck off."

1185
01:06:11,892 --> 01:06:14,692
I told him in no uncertain
words what I thought of him.

1186
01:06:14,772 --> 01:06:16,217
I kind of regret that a touch.

1187
01:06:17,572 --> 01:06:21,252
We might have had words.
It's quite likely, I don't know.

1188
01:06:21,332 --> 01:06:25,496
Whatever he says is probably
true. I wouldn't deny it at all.

1189
01:06:26,892 --> 01:06:28,972
I was at home
and Marcus phoned.

1190
01:06:29,052 --> 01:06:30,813
He says, "Are you sat down?

1191
01:06:30,893 --> 01:06:34,893
"Listen, I've got some bad news
for you. The band want you out."

1192
01:06:34,973 --> 01:06:37,213
I was shell-shocked.

1193
01:06:37,293 --> 01:06:39,613
Still, to this day, it's with me.

1194
01:06:39,693 --> 01:06:42,014
I think about it every
day, believe it or not.

1195
01:06:42,933 --> 01:06:44,773
Hard for him, you
know, poor old Tony,

1196
01:06:44,853 --> 01:06:48,495
but all of a sudden it's like,
"Shit! We need another drummer."

1197
01:06:49,174 --> 01:06:51,745
Paul Weller's drummer
had a brother called Alan.

1198
01:06:51,854 --> 01:06:54,134
And I was going, "Right, cool,
I'm arsed, what does he look like?"

1199
01:06:54,214 --> 01:06:55,215
"Smegly little mod."

1200
01:06:55,574 --> 01:06:57,144
"Cool. Let's get him down here."

1201
01:06:58,774 --> 01:07:00,974
And I'd never met
this guy before.

1202
01:07:01,054 --> 01:07:03,654
He starts talking
about the drums

1203
01:07:03,734 --> 01:07:07,342
and I'm like, "I'm fucking not
interested in how you can play.

1204
01:07:07,815 --> 01:07:10,136
"As long as you look
the part, you'll do.

1205
01:07:10,695 --> 01:07:13,095
"By the way, you're doing
Top of The Pops on Wednesday."

1206
01:07:13,175 --> 01:07:14,336
And that was his first thing.

1207
01:07:15,415 --> 01:07:17,735
# Some might say

1208
01:07:17,815 --> 01:07:21,297
# We will find a brighter day

1209
01:07:24,056 --> 01:07:26,216
# Some might say

1210
01:07:26,296 --> 01:07:30,096
# We will find a brighter day

1211
01:07:32,096 --> 01:07:35,856
# Yeah, 'cause I've been
standing at the station

1212
01:07:35,936 --> 01:07:39,179
# In need of education in the rain

1213
01:07:42,457 --> 01:07:44,697
# You made no preparation

1214
01:07:44,777 --> 01:07:47,940
# For my reputation once again

1215
01:07:50,097 --> 01:07:51,781
# Some might say

1216
01:07:52,417 --> 01:07:53,703
# Some might say

1217
01:07:54,537 --> 01:07:57,537
Morning Glory was
incredibly quick and easy.

1218
01:07:57,617 --> 01:08:01,058
Rockfield, the posh studio,
fucking Queen and all that.

1219
01:08:01,138 --> 01:08:03,538
Fucking Bohemian Rhapsody and all that.

1220
01:08:03,618 --> 01:08:07,018
Don't film me, Tim. Seriously.

1221
01:08:07,098 --> 01:08:08,458
Film him, Tim, film him.

1222
01:08:08,538 --> 01:08:09,698
He's giving birth?

1223
01:08:09,778 --> 01:08:11,109
I'm fucking knackered.

1224
01:08:11,378 --> 01:08:12,709
Right, play this track, man.

1225
01:08:12,938 --> 01:08:15,623
This is the nerve centre,
the bridge as we call this.

1226
01:08:15,738 --> 01:08:16,739
Full steam ahead!

1227
01:08:16,858 --> 01:08:20,219
Oh, I don't know where a fucking light is.
I don't know where anything is at the moment.

1228
01:08:20,299 --> 01:08:22,419
But you know where
the top is, don't you?

1229
01:08:22,499 --> 01:08:24,183
Because that's where
we're going, Morris.

1230
01:08:24,979 --> 01:08:27,710
The topmost of the most
popper most. - That's us.

1231
01:08:28,659 --> 01:08:31,139
Noel had the songs
and the arrangements

1232
01:08:31,219 --> 01:08:34,419
and he was totally
in control of the band,

1233
01:08:34,499 --> 01:08:38,660
so that first week of Morning Glory,
we were doing a song a day.

1234
01:08:38,740 --> 01:08:41,340
Finished. Extraordinary.

1235
01:08:41,420 --> 01:08:42,706
He is like God, isn't he?

1236
01:08:50,140 --> 01:08:53,581
I knew the songs were a lot
more richer than Definitely Maybe.

1237
01:08:53,661 --> 01:08:55,789
I knew they had, like,
definitely gone up a notch.

1238
01:09:01,221 --> 01:09:03,781
I loved Owen, mental Welshman.

1239
01:09:03,861 --> 01:09:05,141
He was always
setting fire to shit

1240
01:09:05,221 --> 01:09:08,341
and things were always
blowing up because he had it too loud.

1241
01:09:08,421 --> 01:09:12,950
No rule book, with his big, mad laugh,
going, "Yeah, let's fucking have it!"

1242
01:09:13,382 --> 01:09:15,669
They were the best
times I ever had recording.

1243
01:09:16,222 --> 01:09:17,826
It's gorgeous and sexy, and...

1244
01:09:23,022 --> 01:09:24,023
Have your priorities right.

1245
01:09:28,142 --> 01:09:29,583
Liam was extraordinary.

1246
01:09:29,663 --> 01:09:33,263
And they had this freaky thing
where Noel would play the song once

1247
01:09:33,343 --> 01:09:35,743
on an acoustic guitar in
the control room, to Liam,

1248
01:09:35,823 --> 01:09:38,588
give him the words
and he'd fucking sing it.

1249
01:09:38,783 --> 01:09:40,823
Noel would listen to it once

1250
01:09:40,903 --> 01:09:43,463
to check Liam's got the
phrasing for the entire song

1251
01:09:43,543 --> 01:09:45,307
that he's only
just heard the once.

1252
01:09:46,223 --> 01:09:48,224
Noel would go, "Nice one, Liam",

1253
01:09:48,304 --> 01:09:51,304
and there was always football
on when Oasis were recording.

1254
01:09:51,384 --> 01:09:52,384
Noel would fuck off,

1255
01:09:52,464 --> 01:09:53,989
Liam would just bang
another four tracks down.

1256
01:09:55,144 --> 01:09:56,864
This would be, like,
1:00 in the afternoon.

1257
01:09:56,944 --> 01:09:58,912
Cup of tea, lead vocal, done.

1258
01:10:00,024 --> 01:10:01,024
I was like, "What the fuck?"

1259
01:10:01,104 --> 01:10:03,471
You know, he's only
heard the song once.

1260
01:10:04,104 --> 01:10:06,585
Five songs, five days,
man. Fucking amazing!

1261
01:10:07,265 --> 01:10:10,185
# Slowly walking down the hall

1262
01:10:10,265 --> 01:10:13,425
# Faster than a cannonball

1263
01:10:13,505 --> 01:10:17,945
# Where were you while
we were getting high?

1264
01:10:18,025 --> 01:10:21,345
# Someday you will find me

1265
01:10:21,425 --> 01:10:25,506
# Caught beneath the landslide

1266
01:10:25,586 --> 01:10:30,746
# In a champagne
supernova in the sky

1267
01:10:30,826 --> 01:10:34,146
# Someday you will find me

1268
01:10:34,226 --> 01:10:38,386
# Caught beneath the landslide

1269
01:10:38,466 --> 01:10:41,827
# In a champagne supernova

1270
01:10:41,907 --> 01:10:44,867
# A champagne supernova

1271
01:10:44,947 --> 01:10:47,827
# Because people believe

1272
01:10:47,907 --> 01:10:53,755
# That they're going to
get away for the summer

1273
01:10:57,947 --> 01:11:01,148
# But you and I,
we live and die

1274
01:11:01,228 --> 01:11:03,388
# The world's still spinning round

1275
01:11:03,468 --> 01:11:07,518
# We don't know why

1276
01:11:07,628 --> 01:11:11,792
# Why, why, why, why

1277
01:11:15,228 --> 01:11:16,229
No, we don't
need that last one.

1278
01:11:18,069 --> 01:11:19,070
Yeah!

1279
01:11:23,029 --> 01:11:24,989
This is soaking
the boats here.

1280
01:11:25,069 --> 01:11:26,909
The boats are the Blues.

1281
01:11:26,989 --> 01:11:31,631
Come on, the Blues!

1282
01:11:32,869 --> 01:11:34,998
Come on, the Pool!

1283
01:11:35,630 --> 01:11:37,314
It's the fucking curse of United!

1284
01:11:38,310 --> 01:11:40,056
Come on!

1285
01:11:54,751 --> 01:11:56,560
Come on, you baldy twat!

1286
01:12:00,471 --> 01:12:01,591
Fucking, hey!

1287
01:12:01,671 --> 01:12:02,951
Come on!

1288
01:12:03,031 --> 01:12:05,320
Dalglish!

1289
01:12:07,551 --> 01:12:08,712
Dalglish!

1290
01:12:09,991 --> 01:12:10,993
Come on then!

1291
01:12:14,512 --> 01:12:16,792
Good times, man.
I loved it in that place,

1292
01:12:16,872 --> 01:12:18,952
but it's not fucking prison,
is it, you know what I mean?

1293
01:12:19,032 --> 01:12:20,912
If I'm not needed today,

1294
01:12:20,992 --> 01:12:24,392
I'm hardly going to sit and fucking
watch you play guitar, you know what I mean, like?

1295
01:12:24,472 --> 01:12:25,832
I'm fucking going to the pub.

1296
01:12:25,912 --> 01:12:27,392
But it did cause arguments.

1297
01:12:27,472 --> 01:12:29,157
Nearly. That's that then, lad.

1298
01:12:29,833 --> 01:12:30,833
So it'd always be like that.

1299
01:12:30,913 --> 01:12:33,962
"Right, he's doing his guitars,
he'll be in there all fucking day, won't he?

1300
01:12:34,073 --> 01:12:35,553
"We can go to the fucking pub."

1301
01:12:35,633 --> 01:12:36,713
And he'd come out,
and he'd be like,

1302
01:12:36,793 --> 01:12:38,795
"All right, guys, what does
everyone think... Where is everyone?"

1303
01:12:40,273 --> 01:12:41,274
Where is everyone gone?

1304
01:12:43,353 --> 01:12:45,355
Yeah, I was a sucker
for the pub, man.

1305
01:12:45,994 --> 01:12:49,362
You go in there one day, and you
meet the local fucking drug dealer.

1306
01:12:49,674 --> 01:12:51,961
Yeah, I probably did bring
a few people back one night.

1307
01:12:53,274 --> 01:12:56,005
Probably a bad move, because
Noel was still working in the studio.

1308
01:12:56,914 --> 01:12:58,794
No, I shouldn't have
brought them back,

1309
01:12:58,874 --> 01:13:00,874
but I thought we were a
rock 'n roll band, you know what I mean?

1310
01:13:00,954 --> 01:13:02,954
I thought anything goes in
Oasis, you know what I mean?

1311
01:13:03,034 --> 01:13:05,242
Obviously, the other people
had rules, you know what I mean?

1312
01:13:06,595 --> 01:13:07,676
Fuck the rules, man.

1313
01:13:09,635 --> 01:13:15,075
# Sing a sad song
in a lonely place

1314
01:13:15,155 --> 01:13:17,795
# Try to put a word in for me...

1315
01:13:17,875 --> 01:13:21,075
As I recall, Liam was
going pretty fucking mad.

1316
01:13:21,155 --> 01:13:24,636
Somebody let a fire
extinguisher off in the farmhouse.

1317
01:13:24,716 --> 01:13:27,956
I think maybe one of my guitars
got damaged, and I blamed him.

1318
01:13:28,036 --> 01:13:31,196
It just exploded into a big
fucking bunch of chaos

1319
01:13:31,276 --> 01:13:33,356
like you've never seen, man.

1320
01:13:33,436 --> 01:13:35,236
I ended up having a
proper fight with Liam.

1321
01:13:35,316 --> 01:13:38,081
I mean, it might have been
the biggest fight we ever had.

1322
01:13:38,196 --> 01:13:42,122
I remember smashing his
head in with a cricket bat, yeah.

1323
01:13:42,437 --> 01:13:45,317
# What we don't
touch we cannot feel...

1324
01:13:45,397 --> 01:13:47,517
The whole studio
got smashed to pieces.

1325
01:13:47,597 --> 01:13:49,877
There's like loads of little
bits in the corner went, "Bzzt."

1326
01:13:49,957 --> 01:13:52,677
Everything just
got fucking blitzed.

1327
01:13:52,757 --> 01:13:56,837
I'm not generally an
obnoxious person, dude,

1328
01:13:56,917 --> 01:13:59,798
but somebody must've got
on my tits, you know what I mean?

1329
01:13:59,878 --> 01:14:00,998
Probably me not giving a fuck

1330
01:14:01,078 --> 01:14:03,604
and him trying to write
fucking Bohemian Rhapsody.

1331
01:14:03,718 --> 01:14:06,119
And me sort of just going,
"Bollocks! Let's have it!"

1332
01:14:07,478 --> 01:14:11,758
I do remember jumping out of
a window, driving off with Whitey.

1333
01:14:11,838 --> 01:14:16,359
Liam appeared out of nowhere
and threw a dustbin at the car,

1334
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:19,759
and we'd only known Alan
about two weeks and he was saying,

1335
01:14:19,839 --> 01:14:22,160
"It can't be over,
I've only just joined."

1336
01:14:22,279 --> 01:14:26,199
We were like, "No, no, no, no.
This is going to happen all the time."

1337
01:14:26,279 --> 01:14:29,399
And he was going, "Fucking hell, mate.
What kind of fucking band is this?"

1338
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:31,527
Go and fucking join The Troggs!

1339
01:14:31,759 --> 01:14:35,880
# We're throwing it all away

1340
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:37,560
Yeah, it was terrible.

1341
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:41,920
It happened, man, but there was no need
for the cricket fucking bat around my head,

1342
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:43,081
you know what I mean?

1343
01:14:45,440 --> 01:14:48,960
Every time there was
ever a scene in Oasis,

1344
01:14:49,040 --> 01:14:53,281
when we'd all got back together
it was like nothing had ever happened.

1345
01:14:53,361 --> 01:14:54,921
We had a tour booked

1346
01:14:55,001 --> 01:14:57,601
and we were rehearsing
in Brixton Academy.

1347
01:14:57,681 --> 01:15:00,601
It was all fine.
Me and Guigs got a taxi home.

1348
01:15:00,681 --> 01:15:03,605
The next day, Guigs
just doesn't show up.

1349
01:15:03,721 --> 01:15:07,931
Marcus arrives and says,
"Guigs wants to leave the band."

1350
01:15:09,402 --> 01:15:12,162
What's happened to Guigs
is he's had a bit of a fucking breakdown.

1351
01:15:12,242 --> 01:15:13,962
That's when you kick
yourself, you know.

1352
01:15:14,042 --> 01:15:16,442
When you're that blinkered
that you couldn't stop

1353
01:15:16,522 --> 01:15:18,843
and notice that your
mate wasn't feeling right.

1354
01:15:19,762 --> 01:15:21,802
Any kind of chaos
going on around,

1355
01:15:21,882 --> 01:15:23,242
he would have shot down,
do you know what I mean?

1356
01:15:23,322 --> 01:15:24,562
Bass players are like that.

1357
01:15:24,642 --> 01:15:26,242
Guigs is a gentle soul,
you know what I mean?

1358
01:15:26,322 --> 01:15:28,723
He wasn't like me
and Noel, or like Bonehead.

1359
01:15:28,803 --> 01:15:31,123
You know, we were
fucking pretty mental.

1360
01:15:31,203 --> 01:15:34,103
He was suffering from
nervous exhaustion...

1361
01:15:34,683 --> 01:15:36,723
as rock stars always are.

1362
01:15:36,803 --> 01:15:38,403
"My nerves are exhausted."

1363
01:15:38,483 --> 01:15:41,803
Or "My exhaustion is fucking
getting me nervous", I don't know.

1364
01:15:41,883 --> 01:15:44,170
I never had it myself.
It's a funny thing.

1365
01:15:44,643 --> 01:15:45,964
Maybe he smoked
too much weed.

1366
01:15:46,044 --> 01:15:48,764
Maybe he just needed a
breather, you know what I mean?

1367
01:15:48,844 --> 01:15:52,804
We weren't the kind of band that
was like, "Oh, poor Guigs", or "Poor Liam."

1368
01:15:52,884 --> 01:15:55,844
It was like, "Fuck that cunt!
We've got shit to do, man."

1369
01:15:55,924 --> 01:15:57,124
We went for Scott MacLeod

1370
01:15:57,204 --> 01:16:00,174
from a little band that we'd
played with in the past called The Ya Ya's.

1371
01:16:00,764 --> 01:16:02,444
What a great job
he got, didn't he?

1372
01:16:02,524 --> 01:16:04,368
"Do you fancy being bass
player in Oasis?" "Fucking yes!"

1373
01:16:06,445 --> 01:16:09,685
I don't know how long it was before
we got on the plane to go to the States,

1374
01:16:09,765 --> 01:16:11,130
but even that was chaos.

1375
01:16:20,685 --> 01:16:23,486
We were on the way to
New York to do David Letterman.

1376
01:16:23,566 --> 01:16:25,806
Maggie, our tour manager,
God bless that woman,

1377
01:16:25,886 --> 01:16:29,246
we put her through
absolute fucking hell,

1378
01:16:29,326 --> 01:16:30,886
she came in kind
of half-laughing, going,

1379
01:16:30,966 --> 01:16:32,726
"You're not going to
guess what's just happened.

1380
01:16:32,806 --> 01:16:35,491
"Scott's just told me
he wants to, like, quit."

1381
01:16:35,606 --> 01:16:37,646
And I remember going to the
back lounge and saying to him,

1382
01:16:37,726 --> 01:16:39,327
"Mate, what?
What? What?"

1383
01:16:39,407 --> 01:16:43,567
And he said these words,
"I'm just missing my bird."

1384
01:16:43,647 --> 01:16:46,167
You know, there's people who are cut
out for it and there's people that ain't.

1385
01:16:46,247 --> 01:16:49,207
He might have just gone
"You know what, this is not for me."

1386
01:16:49,287 --> 01:16:52,658
It's either that or his bird must have
been fit as fuck, you know what I mean?

1387
01:16:54,047 --> 01:16:55,287
I always take things like that.

1388
01:16:55,367 --> 01:16:58,008
I would always laugh my way
through it and think, even you know,

1389
01:16:58,088 --> 01:17:00,408
as you're driving into
America to do David Letterman,

1390
01:17:00,488 --> 01:17:03,048
and the bass player
that's standing in

1391
01:17:03,128 --> 01:17:06,048
for the bass player who's
got nervous exhaustion, is saying,

1392
01:17:06,128 --> 01:17:08,889
"I can't handle it any more."
You're laughing, going,

1393
01:17:09,248 --> 01:17:12,728
"We must be the biggest
bunch of cunts in the world,

1394
01:17:12,808 --> 01:17:16,529
"because our mate is fucking
sat at home watching the cricket,

1395
01:17:16,609 --> 01:17:18,089
"he don't want to
be in a band with us.

1396
01:17:18,169 --> 01:17:21,491
"This fucking clown here,
who's on the dole in England,

1397
01:17:22,169 --> 01:17:23,249
"he don't want
to be either! What?

1398
01:17:23,329 --> 01:17:26,492
"I mean, are we like the
biggest three cunts in the world?"

1399
01:17:27,289 --> 01:17:28,489
It didn't deter us.

1400
01:17:28,569 --> 01:17:31,249
We got to New York.
Bonehead got up.

1401
01:17:31,329 --> 01:17:33,856
"You're playing bass and
we do it as a four-piece."

1402
01:17:34,570 --> 01:17:37,410
Our next guests are the most popular
rock 'n roll band in Britain today.

1403
01:17:37,490 --> 01:17:40,050
Can you guys prove it, seriously?
How would we know? Are you really?

1404
01:17:40,130 --> 01:17:43,210
Okay, I'll take your word for it,
all right, okay, I believe you.

1405
01:17:43,290 --> 01:17:45,330
I'm going to believe you this
time, but if there's trouble later

1406
01:17:45,410 --> 01:17:46,450
with the equipment missing...

1407
01:17:46,530 --> 01:17:47,736
All right, just relax.

1408
01:17:49,210 --> 01:17:51,657
# Need a little time to wake up

1409
01:17:52,691 --> 01:17:56,011
# Need a little time
to wake up, wake up

1410
01:17:56,091 --> 01:17:59,211
# Need a little
time to wake up

1411
01:17:59,291 --> 01:18:02,811
# Need a little time
to rest your mind

1412
01:18:02,891 --> 01:18:06,293
# You know you should so
I guess that you might as well

1413
01:18:09,452 --> 01:18:12,572
# What's the story, morning glory?

1414
01:18:12,652 --> 01:18:13,778
# Well?

1415
01:18:14,772 --> 01:18:15,772
Being in the best band

1416
01:18:15,852 --> 01:18:18,092
and the most important
band of your generation

1417
01:18:18,172 --> 01:18:20,254
shouldn't be a walk in the
park, you know what I mean?

1418
01:18:21,332 --> 01:18:23,652
We come back to England,

1419
01:18:23,732 --> 01:18:26,012
we got these gigs
coming up, they're sold out.

1420
01:18:26,092 --> 01:18:29,017
They're going to be monumental.
We didn't have a bass player.

1421
01:18:29,773 --> 01:18:31,059
Radio One...

1422
01:18:31,853 --> 01:18:34,213
The biggest ever
indoor gig in Britain

1423
01:18:34,293 --> 01:18:38,493
will rock the capital tomorrow
night as Oasis roll into London.

1424
01:18:38,573 --> 01:18:41,893
They'll play two blistering sets
over the weekend at Earls Court

1425
01:18:41,973 --> 01:18:44,375
in front of nearly 40.000 fans.

1426
01:18:45,014 --> 01:18:46,094
Hey, Noel?
- Hello.

1427
01:18:46,174 --> 01:18:47,380
Rumours of a split, or what?

1428
01:18:47,974 --> 01:18:49,174
A banana split, yeah.

1429
01:18:49,254 --> 01:18:50,654
Yeah, where's the rest
of the band tonight then?

1430
01:18:50,734 --> 01:18:51,735
Who cares?

1431
01:18:51,894 --> 01:18:54,625
Marcus was saying
"We'll just cancel everything",

1432
01:18:54,734 --> 01:18:57,294
to a chorus of, "Whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa! What the fuck?

1433
01:18:57,374 --> 01:18:59,094
"That's not how we run shit."

1434
01:18:59,174 --> 01:19:03,295
If my fucking mum has got to
play bass, that gig is happening.

1435
01:19:03,375 --> 01:19:07,935
I think we gave Guigs first refusal, and said,
"Are you going to do this gig, or what?"

1436
01:19:08,015 --> 01:19:09,535
I remember just
getting a message like,

1437
01:19:09,615 --> 01:19:11,215
"Guigsy is going to
come back and do the gig."

1438
01:19:11,295 --> 01:19:12,695
Hallelujah!

1439
01:19:12,775 --> 01:19:14,215
But then there was
a part of me thinking,

1440
01:19:14,295 --> 01:19:15,935
"Oh, God, is he going to
come on and just collapse?"

1441
01:19:16,015 --> 01:19:17,141
It was pretty hairy.

1442
01:19:17,655 --> 01:19:19,055
We were never
fussed about it, it was like,

1443
01:19:19,135 --> 01:19:22,536
"Have a nice fucking rest,
did you, you lazy fucker?

1444
01:19:22,616 --> 01:19:24,256
"I didn't even know
you'd fucking gone!

1445
01:19:24,336 --> 01:19:27,216
"What, you had a fucking breakdown?
Fuck, when did that happen?"

1446
01:19:27,296 --> 01:19:31,256
Look, Oasis wasn't for wimps,
so I was glad Guigs came back.

1447
01:19:31,336 --> 01:19:33,496
You know what I mean,
he was part of the band,

1448
01:19:33,576 --> 01:19:35,260
but the show must go on.

1449
01:19:54,537 --> 01:19:56,779
Are we going to have it away in
here tonight, or what? Come on!

1450
01:20:27,779 --> 01:20:31,619
# I don't know what it is
that makes me feel alive

1451
01:20:31,699 --> 01:20:35,700
# I don't know how to wake
the things that sleep inside

1452
01:20:35,780 --> 01:20:41,264
# I only want to see the light
that shines behind your eyes

1453
01:20:43,700 --> 01:20:47,580
# There are many things
that I would like to know

1454
01:20:47,660 --> 01:20:51,501
# And there are many
places that I wish to go

1455
01:20:51,581 --> 01:20:57,270
# But everything's depending
on the way the wind may blow

1456
01:21:03,621 --> 01:21:06,830
# Because we need each other

1457
01:21:06,981 --> 01:21:10,262
# We believe in one another

1458
01:21:10,342 --> 01:21:14,182
# And I know we're
going to uncover

1459
01:21:14,262 --> 01:21:16,503
# What's sleeping in our soul...

1460
01:21:17,742 --> 01:21:20,222
There were days when you were
in the zone, you know what I mean,

1461
01:21:20,302 --> 01:21:22,222
where you could just
stand perfectly fucking still

1462
01:21:22,302 --> 01:21:24,622
while there's all this
chaos going on around you

1463
01:21:24,702 --> 01:21:26,623
and all these kids are
just fucking leaping about

1464
01:21:26,703 --> 01:21:29,274
and the sound's
like pumping, roaring.

1465
01:21:29,823 --> 01:21:33,823
I'd just be stood completely
fucking still like a boxer just thinking,

1466
01:21:33,903 --> 01:21:36,943
"This is the best
feeling in the world."

1467
01:21:37,023 --> 01:21:38,024
Pure control.

1468
01:21:40,663 --> 01:21:43,474
Not feeling the need
to join the madness.

1469
01:21:44,344 --> 01:21:47,393
Just absolute fucking still.

1470
01:21:50,304 --> 01:21:53,308
# Because we need

1471
01:21:53,744 --> 01:21:56,315
# Because we believe

1472
01:22:09,025 --> 01:22:10,026
Cheers.

1473
01:22:14,505 --> 01:22:19,433
Liam Gallagher, Sunday,
pre-fucking the Liquid Room.

1474
01:22:21,626 --> 01:22:22,627
One word?

1475
01:22:24,266 --> 01:22:25,266
Sausages. What?

1476
01:22:28,946 --> 01:22:31,186
Liam was always
cooler than me, I think.

1477
01:22:31,266 --> 01:22:33,586
He had a better walk and
clothes looked better on him

1478
01:22:33,666 --> 01:22:35,826
and he was taller,
and he had a better haircut.

1479
01:22:35,906 --> 01:22:37,508
And he was funnier.

1480
01:22:38,787 --> 01:22:42,587
Liam clearly would have liked
to have had my talent as a songwriter.

1481
01:22:50,347 --> 01:22:53,227
And there's not a day
goes by when I don't wish

1482
01:22:53,307 --> 01:22:54,877
I could rock a
parka like that man.

1483
01:23:02,748 --> 01:23:04,468
I know Noel thinks
I'm doing okay.

1484
01:23:04,548 --> 01:23:07,428
We didn't need to pat each other
on the back and go, "Oh, you're great."

1485
01:23:07,508 --> 01:23:09,476
Me and him are like telepathic,
you know what I mean?

1486
01:23:10,268 --> 01:23:11,268
Kiss for the camera.

1487
01:23:11,348 --> 01:23:14,349
There was a period where he
was the greatest singer in the world,

1488
01:23:14,429 --> 01:23:16,069
added to that, the
greatest front man,

1489
01:23:16,149 --> 01:23:18,389
added to that he was a
fucking good-looking boy as well.

1490
01:23:18,469 --> 01:23:20,029
They were the
magic years, you know.

1491
01:23:20,109 --> 01:23:22,179
The trick is keeping
that shit going.

1492
01:23:23,549 --> 01:23:27,069
What's all that about Liam
walking off the stage or something?

1493
01:23:27,149 --> 01:23:28,149
What happened there?

1494
01:23:28,229 --> 01:23:29,669
He does it all the
time, now. He does it...

1495
01:23:29,749 --> 01:23:30,750
It's part of the show?

1496
01:23:31,190 --> 01:23:32,874
Liam, Liam!

1497
01:23:33,510 --> 01:23:35,550
It never dawned
on me to be a singer

1498
01:23:35,630 --> 01:23:37,670
until he started walking
off stage in the middle of gigs

1499
01:23:37,750 --> 01:23:39,510
and it's kind of like,
"Oh, fucking hell", you know.

1500
01:23:39,590 --> 01:23:42,241
"We've got another 40 minutes left
here, someone had better do something."

1501
01:23:57,991 --> 01:24:01,791
I had problems, man, with my throat.
Just probably caning it too much.

1502
01:24:01,871 --> 01:24:03,711
Fucking screaming,
shouting, I don't know.

1503
01:24:03,791 --> 01:24:07,752
Singing them songs the way I sing
them is like being in a boxing match.

1504
01:24:07,832 --> 01:24:09,322
It takes its wear and tear.

1505
01:24:10,472 --> 01:24:13,592
And, of course, what
happened, nine times out of ten,

1506
01:24:13,672 --> 01:24:15,392
was I'd take over.

1507
01:24:15,472 --> 01:24:17,232
But the more
you'd finish the gigs,

1508
01:24:17,312 --> 01:24:19,394
the more it
enabled him to do it,

1509
01:24:19,512 --> 01:24:20,832
and then he'd just
do it at the drop of a hat.

1510
01:24:20,912 --> 01:24:22,880
Just give us a minute, right?

1511
01:24:22,992 --> 01:24:24,961
I'm going to have
to sing for you, right, sorry.

1512
01:24:27,393 --> 01:24:30,033
I never ever could not be
arsed getting on that stage.

1513
01:24:30,113 --> 01:24:32,434
I fucking take
massive offence to that.

1514
01:24:35,233 --> 01:24:37,713
That's one of the reasons
why I had to start doing vocals,

1515
01:24:37,793 --> 01:24:38,794
you know what I mean?

1516
01:24:38,913 --> 01:24:41,473
And then I thought,
"Oh, hang on a minute. This is all right.

1517
01:24:41,553 --> 01:24:44,637
"That girl's staring at
me, that's even better."

1518
01:24:44,954 --> 01:24:46,954
Wonderwall, actually you
guys have been doing for a while.

1519
01:24:47,034 --> 01:24:49,034
Noel's been doing it
acoustically. - Yeah.

1520
01:24:49,114 --> 01:24:51,234
How did that come about?

1521
01:24:51,314 --> 01:24:54,274
He just decided he wanted to
do an acoustic song, which is cool.

1522
01:24:54,354 --> 01:24:56,434
But now when we get back to
England we're going to spread it out,

1523
01:24:56,514 --> 01:24:57,794
we're going to do it as a band.

1524
01:24:57,874 --> 01:25:00,555
Are you still having a good time?
- Yeah, I'm rocking, yeah.

1525
01:25:00,635 --> 01:25:02,715
When I'm allowed
to do the job,

1526
01:25:02,795 --> 01:25:04,875
that thing's good,
yeah, I'm happy.

1527
01:25:04,955 --> 01:25:06,957
When I'm not allowed to
do the job, I'm not happy.

1528
01:25:09,635 --> 01:25:12,235
He's a great fucking
songwriter and always will be,

1529
01:25:12,315 --> 01:25:14,235
but singing's my gig.

1530
01:25:14,315 --> 01:25:16,035
If you're going to start
singing the fucking songs

1531
01:25:16,115 --> 01:25:18,960
as well as writing them, what
am I doing, making the fucking tea?

1532
01:25:20,316 --> 01:25:22,116
All the coming off, and
the "I'm doing this tune."

1533
01:25:22,196 --> 01:25:25,836
I was walking on stage like a fucking
yo-yo, you know what I mean, half the time.

1534
01:25:25,916 --> 01:25:28,236
"Here he comes, here
he goes, here he comes.

1535
01:25:28,316 --> 01:25:30,956
"Leave it out! You're
taking the piss, mate!"

1536
01:25:31,036 --> 01:25:34,836
So therefore there will be a bit of frustration
and the wheels might come off tonight.

1537
01:25:36,997 --> 01:25:37,998
I've left once.

1538
01:25:39,157 --> 01:25:40,157
For a long period?

1539
01:25:40,237 --> 01:25:42,157
A couple of weeks.
Shouldn't have come back.

1540
01:25:42,237 --> 01:25:43,997
Biggest mistake I ever
made was coming back.

1541
01:25:44,077 --> 01:25:45,957
Because Morning Glory would
have been my first solo album

1542
01:25:46,037 --> 01:25:47,482
and I'd have had a
load of fucking money.

1543
01:25:47,717 --> 01:25:49,957
Yeah, I mean, you know,
Our Kid has left on a couple of occasions,

1544
01:25:50,037 --> 01:25:53,917
and been sacked on a couple of
occasions actually. But, yeah, I suppose...

1545
01:25:53,997 --> 01:25:56,678
How does that work?
Four-fifths of vote sort of thing?

1546
01:25:56,758 --> 01:25:59,409
Oh, no, I just
sack him. "You? Out!"

1547
01:26:00,398 --> 01:26:04,078
Noel said in the music
papers the other day about

1548
01:26:04,158 --> 01:26:06,684
"Only a couple more records."
- About him leaving the band?

1549
01:26:06,798 --> 01:26:09,678
I think he's got loads and
loads of albums left inside him

1550
01:26:09,758 --> 01:26:13,119
and us as a band have got
loads and loads of gigs to do

1551
01:26:13,199 --> 01:26:15,639
and things to do, and can make
them, you know what I mean?

1552
01:26:15,719 --> 01:26:19,239
I don't feel no way we're splitting
up, right. I'm not into that at all.

1553
01:26:19,319 --> 01:26:22,239
But if he feels it, then he
feels it, you know what I mean?

1554
01:26:22,319 --> 01:26:24,401
A good slap around the jaw,
man, will change his mind.

1555
01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:30,286
This is yet another song
with shit lyrics... Wonderwall.

1556
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:48,321
# Today was going to be the day
they were going to throw it back to you

1557
01:26:48,401 --> 01:26:53,321
# By now, you should have somehow
realised what you've got to do

1558
01:26:53,401 --> 01:26:59,329
# I don't believe that anybody
feels the way I do about you now...

1559
01:26:59,641 --> 01:27:03,121
Morning Glory took on a life
of its own after Wonderwall

1560
01:27:03,201 --> 01:27:06,882
and then Don't Look Back In Anger
came consecutively as singles.

1561
01:27:06,962 --> 01:27:09,362
Then, it just blew up
all over the world.

1562
01:27:09,442 --> 01:27:12,013
# And all the lights that
lead the way are blinding

1563
01:27:13,762 --> 01:27:17,842
# There are many things
that I would like to say to you

1564
01:27:17,922 --> 01:27:19,253
# But I don't know how

1565
01:27:20,562 --> 01:27:22,246
# I don't know how

1566
01:27:23,322 --> 01:27:26,763
# I said maybe

1567
01:27:26,843 --> 01:27:27,963
# You're going to be
the one that saves me

1568
01:27:28,043 --> 01:27:31,323
The songs on that record,
they're extraordinary songs,

1569
01:27:31,403 --> 01:27:34,323
and they're not extraordinary
songs because of anything that I did.

1570
01:27:34,403 --> 01:27:37,003
I only wrote them,
and we only played them.

1571
01:27:37,083 --> 01:27:41,043
It's the millions of people since who
fucking sing them back to you to this day

1572
01:27:41,123 --> 01:27:42,888
that have made
them extraordinary.

1573
01:27:46,724 --> 01:27:50,934
# Today was going to be the day
but they'll never throw it all back to you

1574
01:27:52,124 --> 01:27:56,891
# By now, you should have somehow
realised what you're not to do

1575
01:27:57,004 --> 01:28:03,331
# I don't believe that anybody
feels the way I do about you now

1576
01:28:03,565 --> 01:28:06,285
There's nothing better than
singing them songs, man, to the people.

1577
01:28:06,365 --> 01:28:08,085
Fucking blast their souls.

1578
01:28:08,165 --> 01:28:09,805
And them just
going fucking apeshit.

1579
01:28:09,885 --> 01:28:12,013
# And all the roads
we have to walk are winding

1580
01:28:12,925 --> 01:28:17,485
# And all the lights
that light the way are blinding

1581
01:28:18,046 --> 01:28:21,966
# There are many things
that I would like to say to you

1582
01:28:22,046 --> 01:28:24,566
# But I don't know how

1583
01:28:24,646 --> 01:28:27,126
# I don't know how

1584
01:28:27,206 --> 01:28:30,210
# Because maybe

1585
01:28:30,926 --> 01:28:35,090
# You're going to be
the one that saves me

1586
01:28:35,567 --> 01:28:42,496
# And after all,
you're my Wonderwall

1587
01:28:46,207 --> 01:28:49,687
# I said maybe

1588
01:28:49,767 --> 01:28:59,088
# You're going to be
the one that saves me

1589
01:28:59,168 --> 01:29:03,059
# You're going to be
the one that saves me

1590
01:29:12,529 --> 01:29:14,329
Maine Road, and
the streets surrounding it

1591
01:29:14,409 --> 01:29:17,458
really are a stone's
throw from where I was born.

1592
01:29:17,769 --> 01:29:21,091
That really was a homecoming
gig, you know, it was, for all of us.

1593
01:29:24,819 --> 01:29:27,140
Cheers, thank you very much.

1594
01:29:27,449 --> 01:29:30,170
I'm a Man City supporter
and have been all my life.

1595
01:29:30,250 --> 01:29:33,971
To be offered to play at a gig
like that, it was unbelievable.

1596
01:29:35,290 --> 01:29:39,420
We still felt like a cult band
selling out two nights at a stadium.

1597
01:29:41,570 --> 01:29:44,653
From the greatest band in the world to
the greatest fans in the world. Good night!

1598
01:29:47,371 --> 01:29:50,691
I remember sitting in
a box on my own

1599
01:29:50,771 --> 01:29:53,377
watching the stadium
emptying, with the floodlights on,

1600
01:29:53,491 --> 01:29:55,011
trying to appreciate it,

1601
01:29:55,091 --> 01:29:57,253
thinking, "Where does
it go from here?"

1602
01:29:57,931 --> 01:30:00,332
But then almost immediately,
bang, you're into a party.

1603
01:30:00,851 --> 01:30:04,051
Still to come, it's gone
thirteen times platinum,

1604
01:30:04,131 --> 01:30:07,492
it charted a year ago today,
is it the greatest album ever written?

1605
01:30:07,572 --> 01:30:10,332
I think it's fair to
say that Morning Glory

1606
01:30:10,412 --> 01:30:13,012
is probably one of the
biggest-selling albums of all time.

1607
01:30:13,092 --> 01:30:16,132
Without doubt, the biggest band
around in Britain at the moment is Oasis.

1608
01:30:16,212 --> 01:30:19,216
The fastest-selling
album of the decade.

1609
01:30:19,852 --> 01:30:21,263
What? Are you
asking me if I'm happy?

1610
01:30:21,412 --> 01:30:23,654
Listen, I've got �87
million in the bank.

1611
01:30:23,893 --> 01:30:26,453
I've got a Rolls Royce,
I've got three stalkers,

1612
01:30:26,533 --> 01:30:28,933
I'm about to go on the
board at Manchester City.

1613
01:30:29,013 --> 01:30:31,053
I'm part of the
greatest band in the world.

1614
01:30:31,133 --> 01:30:34,023
Am I happy with that?
No I'm not! I want more!

1615
01:30:41,974 --> 01:30:44,094
Well, we've got
the Oasis brothers here.

1616
01:30:44,174 --> 01:30:45,574
What do you think
about it tonight? - Boring.

1617
01:30:45,654 --> 01:30:47,334
I thought we should
have won more. - Really?

1618
01:30:47,414 --> 01:30:49,494
Yeah. We should have
been voted the Best Rap Artist.

1619
01:30:49,574 --> 01:30:51,214
I thought he should
have been voted Best Band

1620
01:30:51,294 --> 01:30:53,023
because he's got
seven personalities.

1621
01:30:56,454 --> 01:30:57,494
Oasis.

1622
01:30:57,574 --> 01:30:59,543
Oasis.
- Oasis, Wonderwall.

1623
01:31:03,855 --> 01:31:06,375
What does a Brit
Award mean? Fuck all.

1624
01:31:06,455 --> 01:31:10,016
In the grand scheme of things,
all that shit was irrelevant.

1625
01:31:11,215 --> 01:31:14,503
Has-beens shouldn't present
fucking awards to gonna-bes.

1626
01:31:17,016 --> 01:31:21,816
One of the heads of the Brits
said, "This will ruin your career."

1627
01:31:21,896 --> 01:31:23,536
You fucking bell-end!

1628
01:31:23,616 --> 01:31:25,857
If anyone's going to ruin my
career, it's going to be me, not you.

1629
01:31:31,416 --> 01:31:33,336
The one voted for
by the fans means a lot.

1630
01:31:33,416 --> 01:31:35,579
Anything that's voted
for by fans is special.

1631
01:31:35,697 --> 01:31:39,258
Anything that's voted for by idiots,
corporate pigs, means nothing to us.

1632
01:31:39,937 --> 01:31:42,377
You know, because really
the music, fuck all that.

1633
01:31:42,457 --> 01:31:45,381
Writing songs is difficult.
Talking shit is easy.

1634
01:31:46,497 --> 01:31:48,897
When I do an interview,
I'm there to be a fucking gob-shite

1635
01:31:48,977 --> 01:31:51,378
and to cause as much
fucking trouble as possible.

1636
01:31:52,097 --> 01:31:55,338
As soon as people realise that the
majority of people in this country take drugs,

1637
01:31:55,418 --> 01:31:57,227
then, I mean, the
better off we'll all be.

1638
01:31:57,338 --> 01:32:00,098
Everybody does it.
You do it, you do it, you do it.

1639
01:32:00,178 --> 01:32:02,538
You do it, you do it,
you do it and you do it.

1640
01:32:02,618 --> 01:32:05,698
He doesn't do it...
Because he's a Buddhist.

1641
01:32:05,778 --> 01:32:08,258
You know, it's like getting up and
having a cup of tea in the morning.

1642
01:32:08,458 --> 01:32:10,222
...is as common as having a cup of tea.

1643
01:32:10,939 --> 01:32:12,899
It was immediately
condemned by politicians

1644
01:32:12,979 --> 01:32:15,027
with one minister
calling him a "spoiled brat".

1645
01:32:15,819 --> 01:32:17,179
The press lapped that shit up

1646
01:32:17,259 --> 01:32:21,099
because no one had ever come
along that was even remotely like us.

1647
01:32:21,179 --> 01:32:24,069
We were the biggest
band in the country

1648
01:32:24,259 --> 01:32:25,385
and we didn't give a fuck.

1649
01:32:25,859 --> 01:32:27,379
I was asked a question,
I gave my opinions

1650
01:32:27,459 --> 01:32:29,349
and there's nothing that them
or anyone else can do about it.

1651
01:32:30,300 --> 01:32:32,740
We don't really care what
they write about us in the press

1652
01:32:32,820 --> 01:32:34,300
as long as we're on the cover.

1653
01:32:34,380 --> 01:32:35,980
They can write anything
they want about us inside,

1654
01:32:36,060 --> 01:32:38,108
but as long as we are on
the cover, then it don't matter.

1655
01:32:39,020 --> 01:32:41,740
It'd do your head in sometimes when
they were writing shit about you and that

1656
01:32:41,820 --> 01:32:43,220
and fucking outside
your house and stuff,

1657
01:32:43,300 --> 01:32:45,109
but that's what I signed
up for, you know what I mean?

1658
01:32:45,220 --> 01:32:48,192
Liam? Can we have
a quick picture? Liam?

1659
01:32:49,381 --> 01:32:51,621
You know the story, it's in
the papers, that's what's going on.

1660
01:32:51,701 --> 01:32:53,501
Second to the singing
was being the ultimate,

1661
01:32:53,581 --> 01:32:57,342
number-one fucking rock star in this
fucking country and that's what I was.

1662
01:32:58,781 --> 01:33:00,781
I remember going in a pub
some days at like 11:00.

1663
01:33:00,861 --> 01:33:02,941
By 12:30, people would
be dancing on the tables

1664
01:33:03,021 --> 01:33:04,467
and snorting cocaine,
you know what I mean?

1665
01:33:04,582 --> 01:33:07,102
You're like, "Fucking hell, I only went in
for a fucking pint and a read of the paper,

1666
01:33:07,182 --> 01:33:09,264
"now fucking all hell's broke
loose", you know what I mean?

1667
01:33:10,502 --> 01:33:12,152
It did make life
quite difficult, though.

1668
01:33:12,822 --> 01:33:18,382
The day that it steps over into the
tabloids and then stays there for years,

1669
01:33:18,462 --> 01:33:21,625
then you've gone to the dark side
and then the clock is ticking then.

1670
01:33:23,503 --> 01:33:27,423
It had been billed as one of the most
sensational trials in pop music history.

1671
01:33:27,503 --> 01:33:30,023
Tony McCarroll, the
drummer sacked by Oasis,

1672
01:33:30,103 --> 01:33:32,543
going to court in search
of a multi-million-pound slice

1673
01:33:32,623 --> 01:33:34,193
of the band's annual earnings.

1674
01:33:35,383 --> 01:33:36,663
When shit like that starts out,

1675
01:33:36,743 --> 01:33:39,463
you do start thinking
all the fun is taken out of it.

1676
01:33:39,543 --> 01:33:40,864
You start a band
with the best intentions

1677
01:33:40,944 --> 01:33:43,834
of just trying to get a
big telly and a fit bird...

1678
01:33:44,144 --> 01:33:46,944
And the next thing is
is everybody's hovering around you

1679
01:33:47,024 --> 01:33:50,224
with leather man-bags
full of shit for you to sign.

1680
01:33:50,304 --> 01:33:51,669
"How did it get to this?"

1681
01:33:53,304 --> 01:33:54,704
And that was the change.

1682
01:33:54,784 --> 01:33:56,984
Your mates are being
slowly discarded to the side.

1683
01:33:57,064 --> 01:33:58,112
It's a business now you're in.

1684
01:33:59,105 --> 01:34:01,665
The people behind the scenes
were determined to make it a brand.

1685
01:34:01,745 --> 01:34:03,395
It was even hard to get
on the guest list some days.

1686
01:34:04,345 --> 01:34:08,025
At this point, the dynamic
has changed that much.

1687
01:34:08,105 --> 01:34:10,551
It's now in the
hands of the industry.

1688
01:34:11,825 --> 01:34:15,745
And I think the spirit
of any band rapidly disappears

1689
01:34:15,825 --> 01:34:17,794
and it's all about the money.

1690
01:34:20,066 --> 01:34:24,746
Here we have Mr Mark Coyle sat
looking rather subdued in the corner.

1691
01:34:24,826 --> 01:34:25,826
Fuck off!

1692
01:34:25,906 --> 01:34:27,786
Can you say that a
little more graphically?

1693
01:34:27,866 --> 01:34:28,906
Fuck off!

1694
01:34:28,986 --> 01:34:32,146
Thank you, and
here we have Liam...

1695
01:34:32,226 --> 01:34:34,467
Always chipper in the
morning, this young man.

1696
01:34:34,547 --> 01:34:36,027
Can't get the bastard down.

1697
01:34:36,107 --> 01:34:37,547
We tried several times.

1698
01:34:37,627 --> 01:34:39,387
We've put monkeys on his back,

1699
01:34:39,467 --> 01:34:42,152
a cement mixer once and we
still couldn't get the bastard down.

1700
01:34:42,267 --> 01:34:43,598
Look at that kipper!

1701
01:34:44,067 --> 01:34:45,067
When you're in a bubble,

1702
01:34:45,147 --> 01:34:47,307
sometimes you need a
bit of guidance, don't you?

1703
01:34:47,387 --> 01:34:50,307
I felt like all the people that
were with us at the beginning

1704
01:34:50,387 --> 01:34:51,878
were kind of getting
pushed out a bit.

1705
01:34:53,388 --> 01:34:57,348
I think the best times are
when everybody's together

1706
01:34:57,428 --> 01:34:59,068
and that gang is
out on the road.

1707
01:34:59,148 --> 01:35:02,197
They're the best of times,
doing them little gigs.

1708
01:35:03,108 --> 01:35:06,999
It does lose something when,
you know, the industry grabs a hold.

1709
01:35:08,268 --> 01:35:12,593
I do recall Mark coming up to me and
saying, "I don't think I can do it any more."

1710
01:35:13,349 --> 01:35:17,035
People were regularly coming
into the dressing room and going,

1711
01:35:17,149 --> 01:35:18,878
"Fucking hell, that was loud."

1712
01:35:19,749 --> 01:35:23,640
I went to see a doctor
with my ears, got ringing ears.

1713
01:35:24,229 --> 01:35:30,636
The doctor says to me,
"Stop doing this, because you will go deaf."

1714
01:35:31,550 --> 01:35:35,714
So I left, and that was
the end of my live life.

1715
01:35:36,390 --> 01:35:38,040
I'd had enough as well, I think.

1716
01:35:38,630 --> 01:35:41,870
I think he said to me in the past that
he thought it had got a bit too big for him.

1717
01:35:41,950 --> 01:35:44,310
I really admire him for that.

1718
01:35:44,390 --> 01:35:46,271
I think it was a bit
more than that, I think.

1719
01:35:46,351 --> 01:35:48,592
It was just getting a
bit too corporate for him.

1720
01:35:49,271 --> 01:35:52,791
You know, one minute you're fucking
hanging with your mates, having a craic,

1721
01:35:52,871 --> 01:35:56,080
but when management come
into it, it changes, doesn't it?

1722
01:35:57,111 --> 01:36:00,160
If anybody was a fifth
member of that band, it was Mark.

1723
01:36:01,551 --> 01:36:05,352
Yeah, and it made me a little bit sad
that he wasn't going to be on tour any more.

1724
01:36:05,432 --> 01:36:09,072
Soon after, Phil Smith quit.

1725
01:36:09,152 --> 01:36:12,472
I still can't work out what was going
through his fucking head at the time.

1726
01:36:12,552 --> 01:36:17,472
In the early days, it was the
five band, Coyle and Phil, that was it.

1727
01:36:17,552 --> 01:36:21,793
Yeah, it's a shame that he wasn't around,
but it's not the end of the fucking world.

1728
01:36:21,873 --> 01:36:23,841
Beginning of a new world,
you know what I mean?

1729
01:36:24,593 --> 01:36:28,153
The machine goes on,
and the band goes on.

1730
01:36:28,233 --> 01:36:29,883
I am not getting
in the way of that.

1731
01:36:31,393 --> 01:36:33,600
Walking away from that,
I'll never get over that.

1732
01:36:35,713 --> 01:36:37,522
But it was the
right thing to do.

1733
01:37:28,716 --> 01:37:32,036
You can listen to their
albums, but when you go to a gig

1734
01:37:32,116 --> 01:37:33,846
and there's thousands
and thousands of people,

1735
01:37:34,717 --> 01:37:36,077
that's when it brings it home.

1736
01:37:36,157 --> 01:37:38,808
That's really when I
feel most proud of them.

1737
01:37:41,197 --> 01:37:44,637
# Slip inside the
eye of your mind

1738
01:37:44,717 --> 01:37:49,325
# Don't you know you
might find a better place to play

1739
01:37:51,438 --> 01:37:54,758
# You said that
you'd never been

1740
01:37:54,838 --> 01:37:59,799
# But all the things that
you've seen are going to fade away

1741
01:38:02,158 --> 01:38:05,367
# Going to start a
revolution from my bed

1742
01:38:06,998 --> 01:38:10,367
# 'Cause you said the
brains I had went to my head

1743
01:38:11,959 --> 01:38:15,600
# Step outside,
summertime's in bloom

1744
01:38:17,599 --> 01:38:22,159
# Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face

1745
01:38:22,239 --> 01:38:28,168
# 'Cause you ain't ever
going to burn my heart out

1746
01:38:32,520 --> 01:38:36,040
# And so Sally can wait

1747
01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:40,808
# She knows it's too late
as we're walking on by

1748
01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:46,772
# Her soul slides away

1749
01:38:47,481 --> 01:38:52,123
# But don't look back
in anger I heard you say

1750
01:38:53,441 --> 01:38:57,924
I remember those gigs at The Point
being, like, wildly emotional.

1751
01:38:58,961 --> 01:39:02,363
It was breathtaking, the kind
of energy and the vibe in the room.

1752
01:39:03,402 --> 01:39:06,963
# My soul slides away

1753
01:39:11,202 --> 01:39:13,802
# But don't look back in anger

1754
01:39:13,882 --> 01:39:16,692
# Don't look back in anger

1755
01:39:19,602 --> 01:39:21,128
# I heard you say

1756
01:39:27,203 --> 01:39:29,251
# Least not today

1757
01:39:36,403 --> 01:39:40,004
It's that immigrant thing, isn't it?
It's that sense of identity.

1758
01:39:40,084 --> 01:39:44,294
Ireland saw them as their own,
and everybody was in such a good mood.

1759
01:39:46,604 --> 01:39:50,131
So we got back to the hotel, right,
so there was loads of us in this bar.

1760
01:39:51,644 --> 01:39:53,164
That hotel was fairly public

1761
01:39:53,244 --> 01:39:56,365
because Ireland didn't really have
security around rock bands them days.

1762
01:39:56,445 --> 01:39:58,645
Anyone could walk
in off the street.

1763
01:39:58,725 --> 01:40:01,405
My dad, we'd seen him
skulking around and I thought,

1764
01:40:01,485 --> 01:40:03,328
"What the fuck
is this going on?"

1765
01:40:03,765 --> 01:40:06,245
Someone turned round and said,
"Your old fella's over there,

1766
01:40:06,325 --> 01:40:09,325
"with a journalist,
trying to get summat going."

1767
01:40:09,405 --> 01:40:10,611
And I was about to kill him.

1768
01:40:12,045 --> 01:40:16,006
Oh, that was awful, that.
I couldn't believe that that happened

1769
01:40:16,086 --> 01:40:17,656
because it really
spoiled their night.

1770
01:40:18,966 --> 01:40:20,806
There was a scene.

1771
01:40:20,886 --> 01:40:23,086
I was trying to take
the dignified approach.

1772
01:40:23,166 --> 01:40:26,126
Fuck him, do you know what I mean?
He doesn't mean anything to me any more.

1773
01:40:26,206 --> 01:40:28,206
We were better than that.

1774
01:40:28,286 --> 01:40:30,486
Noel was saying to
Liam, "Do not react."

1775
01:40:30,566 --> 01:40:32,207
He's at one end, and Noel
and Liam are at the other

1776
01:40:32,287 --> 01:40:34,687
and Liam's going,
"I'm going to fucking kill him."

1777
01:40:34,767 --> 01:40:36,407
And that's when
they locked horns.

1778
01:40:36,487 --> 01:40:39,058
"Don't fucking react.
You're not going to react." You know.

1779
01:40:40,967 --> 01:40:44,449
I was fucking steadfastly
not going to get involved.

1780
01:40:44,567 --> 01:40:46,649
I did think Liam
was a little bit upset.

1781
01:40:47,847 --> 01:40:51,248
To give Noel his due
credit, he contained Liam

1782
01:40:51,328 --> 01:40:55,528
because Liam would have gone
for him and Noel protected his brother.

1783
01:40:55,608 --> 01:40:57,208
Got him out of there

1784
01:40:57,288 --> 01:41:00,098
because they were obviously
looking for, you know, the big fight.

1785
01:41:01,448 --> 01:41:04,292
I probably got calmed
down by Our Kid, I think.

1786
01:41:04,528 --> 01:41:05,688
It's just pathetic,
you know what I mean?

1787
01:41:05,768 --> 01:41:08,049
In front of the press with
your son, you know what I mean?

1788
01:41:08,129 --> 01:41:09,654
It's like, "See you later, mate."

1789
01:41:10,809 --> 01:41:14,049
Round about that time, there was
a story every couple of fucking months.

1790
01:41:14,129 --> 01:41:17,129
"Poor old fucking Dad's trying
to get in touch with his famous sons,

1791
01:41:17,209 --> 01:41:20,497
"but they don't want anything
to do with him", and all that bollocks.

1792
01:41:22,089 --> 01:41:24,695
He had no intentions
of making up with them.

1793
01:41:24,809 --> 01:41:25,809
That was his last thought,

1794
01:41:25,890 --> 01:41:28,850
but of course he got paid
from the News Of The World.

1795
01:41:28,930 --> 01:41:31,490
And then, of course, it was
all over the papers the next day.

1796
01:42:06,732 --> 01:42:10,054
He's always said it was me
and the three kids that ruined his life.

1797
01:42:10,692 --> 01:42:13,692
But I would just like him to know
that it wasn't us that ruined his life.

1798
01:42:13,772 --> 01:42:15,297
He ruined his own life.

1799
01:42:17,212 --> 01:42:22,613
You know, it was kind of long since over,
whatever was going on with my old fella.

1800
01:42:22,693 --> 01:42:24,582
All I care about is
the music, you know.

1801
01:42:25,373 --> 01:42:28,573
In the end, none
of this will matter.

1802
01:42:28,653 --> 01:42:32,294
When it's all said and done,
what will remain is the songs.

1803
01:42:40,654 --> 01:42:42,214
I remember Marcus
Russell saying to me,

1804
01:42:42,294 --> 01:42:44,934
"Do we book these big
gigs just while we can?"

1805
01:42:45,014 --> 01:42:47,414
Fucking Knebworth, bigger, bigger.

1806
01:42:47,494 --> 01:42:50,774
I imagine a fucking
load of money involved.

1807
01:42:50,854 --> 01:42:53,454
"See Owen, it's like a
fucking truck going down a hill.

1808
01:42:53,534 --> 01:42:55,775
"It's burning and the
wheels are fucking falling off.

1809
01:42:55,855 --> 01:42:57,425
"But everyone's going,
'It's fucking brilliant. '

1810
01:42:57,895 --> 01:42:59,784
"So I don't know when
it's going to end, Owen."

1811
01:43:01,775 --> 01:43:03,855
Somebody suggested that
the next thing we should do

1812
01:43:03,935 --> 01:43:05,975
should be these
things at Knebworth.

1813
01:43:06,055 --> 01:43:09,343
They didn't really have
much significance to me.

1814
01:43:09,455 --> 01:43:11,535
But, you know, somebody's
only got to whisper in my ear,

1815
01:43:11,615 --> 01:43:13,656
"Oh, these are the
biggest gigs of all time",

1816
01:43:13,736 --> 01:43:15,136
and I guess, well,
that's me, yeah.

1817
01:43:15,216 --> 01:43:17,136
"You've just sold it to
me, thank you very much."

1818
01:43:17,216 --> 01:43:19,896
The giant stage
lies dark and silent.

1819
01:43:19,976 --> 01:43:23,936
Tomorrow, that'll be
the focus for 250.000 people.

1820
01:43:24,016 --> 01:43:27,256
Do you know, over 4% of the
population applied for tickets for Oasis?

1821
01:43:27,336 --> 01:43:29,259
4% of the population!

1822
01:43:29,456 --> 01:43:30,816
In just over three years,

1823
01:43:30,896 --> 01:43:34,897
Oasis will have gone from being a
new signing to one of rock's true giants.

1824
01:43:34,977 --> 01:43:36,737
You know, everyone was
taking a big leap of faith,

1825
01:43:36,817 --> 01:43:38,977
that we were going
to sell these shows out.

1826
01:43:39,057 --> 01:43:42,257
And the first one went on sale
and it sold out in, like, minutes.

1827
01:43:42,337 --> 01:43:45,857
As if by magic,
the sun's got his hat on.

1828
01:43:45,937 --> 01:43:46,984
Ha, hey, hey.

1829
01:43:47,897 --> 01:43:52,347
The idea was put to us, we should put
another two nights on sale immediately,

1830
01:43:54,178 --> 01:43:58,458
and I think, for the first time
ever, we kind of backed away.

1831
01:43:58,538 --> 01:44:01,189
I don't know, maybe we got
the sense that it had become too big.

1832
01:44:02,218 --> 01:44:05,779
Then you find out afterwards
that we could have done seven nights.

1833
01:44:06,458 --> 01:44:10,419
Can't believe that we only done two
nights. Whose fucking great idea was that?

1834
01:44:10,499 --> 01:44:12,627
We should still be
there playing right now.

1835
01:44:13,179 --> 01:44:15,750
And finally, it's been called
the rock concert of the decade.

1836
01:44:15,939 --> 01:44:18,783
A quarter of a million rock fans
at Knebworth in Hertfordshire.

1837
01:44:19,099 --> 01:44:22,308
In a few hours, the hype becomes
reality when Oasis take to the stage...

1838
01:44:22,579 --> 01:44:24,183
John, describe the scene for us.

1839
01:44:27,420 --> 01:44:29,070
I do often think,
"What was it all about?"

1840
01:44:30,500 --> 01:44:33,743
When we got to Knebworth,
we'd only just become rock stars.

1841
01:44:34,820 --> 01:44:38,020
And I said to Coyle and Phil,
"You're getting on that helicopter",

1842
01:44:38,100 --> 01:44:41,420
because they were
our two oldest mates.

1843
01:44:41,500 --> 01:44:43,469
"Really, you should be
there to see it with us.

1844
01:44:44,221 --> 01:44:46,383
"This thing that
we're all part of."

1845
01:44:49,381 --> 01:44:54,182
It did feel like the end of something
as opposed to the beginning of something.

1846
01:44:55,061 --> 01:44:57,461
I had a sense of that, even at
Knebworth, do you know what I mean?

1847
01:44:57,541 --> 01:44:59,145
That it was never
going to happen again.

1848
01:45:00,421 --> 01:45:02,542
That it happened
in such a short space of time.

1849
01:45:02,622 --> 01:45:06,382
Two-and-a-half years from
signing off to walking out on that stage.

1850
01:45:06,462 --> 01:45:07,463
It's just magic.

1851
01:45:09,102 --> 01:45:12,102
We were a band who had
the tunes, who were grafters,

1852
01:45:12,182 --> 01:45:14,947
who came from
nothing and wanted it all.

1853
01:45:16,342 --> 01:45:18,949
We were the last.
We were the greatest.

1854
01:45:19,743 --> 01:45:21,552
Nothing anybody does
could be as big as Oasis.

1855
01:45:33,303 --> 01:45:34,623
Never. It would
never get repeated.

1856
01:45:34,703 --> 01:45:36,383
Not because we were greater
or better than anyone else,

1857
01:45:36,463 --> 01:45:38,944
but just because we
didn't actually give a flying fuck.

1858
01:45:39,064 --> 01:45:43,513
We've definitely got a table upstairs
with the big boys, whether they like it or not.

1859
01:45:47,944 --> 01:45:53,110
It was the pre-digital age.
It was the pre-talent show, reality TV age.

1860
01:45:54,064 --> 01:45:56,305
Things meant more.

1861
01:45:56,385 --> 01:46:00,435
It was just a great time to be alive,
never mind a great time to be in Oasis.

1862
01:46:01,145 --> 01:46:05,665
We were about to enter
into a celebrity-driven culture

1863
01:46:05,745 --> 01:46:09,825
and I've always thought
that it was the last, great gathering

1864
01:46:09,905 --> 01:46:13,946
of the people before
the birth of the Internet.

1865
01:46:14,026 --> 01:46:17,269
It's no coincidence that things
like that don't happen any more.

1866
01:46:18,906 --> 01:46:20,266
Twenty years ago,

1867
01:46:20,346 --> 01:46:24,988
the biggest musical phenomenon
was a band that came from a council estate.

1868
01:46:26,346 --> 01:46:30,787
I just think in the times in which
we live, it would be unrepeatable.

1869
01:46:30,867 --> 01:46:32,587
We should be
worried about that

1870
01:46:32,667 --> 01:46:35,989
because where's it going
to be 20 years from now?

1871
01:46:53,948 --> 01:46:57,468
I just wanted it all, fucking there
and then, you know what I mean?

1872
01:46:57,548 --> 01:47:01,189
I just wanted it all to happen in
one big "fuck-off" explosion of madness.

1873
01:47:03,868 --> 01:47:05,029
I loved every minute of it.

1874
01:47:08,269 --> 01:47:11,113
It meant the be-all and
end-all, man. Life or death.

1875
01:47:14,789 --> 01:47:16,229
And I wouldn't change anything.

1876
01:47:16,309 --> 01:47:18,710
I'd do it all again in
a fucking heartbeat.

1877
01:47:43,751 --> 01:47:47,511
This is history!

1878
01:47:47,591 --> 01:47:50,640
Right here, right
now, this is history!

1879
01:47:50,791 --> 01:47:53,442
I thought this was Knebworth,
what are you on about?

1880
01:47:55,871 --> 01:47:58,033
That was my life.
That band was my life.

1881
01:47:58,631 --> 01:48:02,872
So it went above and
beyond anything I ever imagined.

1882
01:48:02,952 --> 01:48:04,832
That was the pinnacle for me.

1883
01:48:04,912 --> 01:48:07,279
It was like, "What the
fuck do you do from there?"

1884
01:48:11,192 --> 01:48:12,921
Champagne Supernova.

1885
01:48:19,993 --> 01:48:22,553
# How many
special people change?

1886
01:48:22,633 --> 01:48:25,393
# How many lives
are living strange?

1887
01:48:25,473 --> 01:48:29,319
# Where were you while
we were getting high?

1888
01:48:31,153 --> 01:48:33,513
# Slowly walking down the hall

1889
01:48:33,593 --> 01:48:36,234
# Faster than a cannonball

1890
01:48:36,314 --> 01:48:40,154
# Where were you while
we were getting high?

1891
01:48:40,234 --> 01:48:42,760
# Someday you will find me

1892
01:48:43,114 --> 01:48:46,714
# Caught beneath the landslide

1893
01:48:46,794 --> 01:48:50,765
# In a champagne
supernova in the sky

1894
01:48:51,274 --> 01:48:53,875
# Someday you will find me

1895
01:48:53,955 --> 01:48:57,435
# Caught beneath the landslide

1896
01:48:57,515 --> 01:49:00,355
# In a champagne supernova

1897
01:49:00,435 --> 01:49:03,564
# A champagne
supernova in the sky

1898
01:49:13,836 --> 01:49:16,516
# Wake up the
dawn and ask her why

1899
01:49:16,596 --> 01:49:19,236
# A dreamer dreams
she never dies

1900
01:49:19,316 --> 01:49:22,445
# Wipe that tear away
now from your eye

1901
01:49:24,796 --> 01:49:27,116
# Slowly walking down the hall

1902
01:49:27,196 --> 01:49:29,517
# Faster than a cannonball

1903
01:49:29,917 --> 01:49:33,717
# Where were you while
we were getting high?

1904
01:49:33,797 --> 01:49:39,957
# Someday you will find me
caught beneath the landslide

1905
01:49:40,037 --> 01:49:44,237
# In a champagne
supernova in the sky

1906
01:49:44,317 --> 01:49:50,041
# Someday you will find me
caught beneath the landslide

1907
01:49:50,678 --> 01:49:53,158
# In a champagne supernova

1908
01:49:53,238 --> 01:49:55,878
# A champagne supernova

1909
01:49:55,958 --> 01:50:02,045
# 'Cause people believe that they're
going to get away for the summer

1910
01:50:06,519 --> 01:50:08,999
# But you and I, we live and die

1911
01:50:09,239 --> 01:50:10,799
# The world's still spinning round

1912
01:50:10,879 --> 01:50:13,849
# We don't know why

1913
01:50:14,519 --> 01:50:17,568
# Why, why, why, why...

1914
01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:33,720
It felt fucking Biblical, man.

1915
01:50:33,800 --> 01:50:36,800
It was a miracle
that we even got there.

1916
01:50:36,880 --> 01:50:39,770
It was everything
and more than I asked for.

1917
01:50:40,680 --> 01:50:43,361
Yeah, we felt
untouchable, man.

1918
01:50:43,441 --> 01:50:44,931
Supersonic even.

1919
01:50:49,121 --> 01:50:51,681
People make the
mistake of thinking

1920
01:50:51,761 --> 01:50:54,681
that the people on the
stage here are defining something.

1921
01:50:54,761 --> 01:50:56,401
What if no one turns up?

1922
01:50:56,481 --> 01:50:58,681
We can all sit here
and suck each other's ball bags

1923
01:50:58,761 --> 01:51:01,562
about 2. 6 million
people applying for tickets,

1924
01:51:01,642 --> 01:51:05,322
but you know what's great
about that... Is the 2. 6 million people

1925
01:51:05,402 --> 01:51:09,643
not anything that we did.
And the people were with us.

1926
01:51:23,963 --> 01:51:26,045
# How many
special people change?

1927
01:51:26,683 --> 01:51:29,283
# How many lives
are living strange?

1928
01:51:29,363 --> 01:51:31,889
# Where were you
while we were getting high?

1929
01:51:33,163 --> 01:51:35,212
# We were getting high

1930
01:51:39,764 --> 01:51:43,044
My attitude then was,
"More, give me more, give me more."

1931
01:51:43,124 --> 01:51:46,124
Now, looking back,
I honestly think we should have just went,

1932
01:51:46,204 --> 01:51:48,366
"Thank you, every one
of youse, for getting us here.

1933
01:51:48,724 --> 01:51:51,887
"We were Oasis, and
good night", and walked off.

1934
01:51:52,764 --> 01:51:54,165
We should have...

1935
01:51:54,245 --> 01:51:56,896
We should have
disappeared into a puff of smoke.

1936
01:51:58,205 --> 01:52:00,445
But, you know, it was
my idea to keep going

1937
01:52:00,525 --> 01:52:03,085
because I keep on fishing
for it, do you know what I mean?

1938
01:52:03,165 --> 01:52:04,496
I'm an addict!

1939
01:52:05,445 --> 01:52:08,654
That's what shit kickers do,
they ride it until the wheels come off.

1940
01:52:10,365 --> 01:52:12,406
Just because you can't
get any bigger or any higher

1941
01:52:12,486 --> 01:52:15,926
doesn't mean to say you can't
keep doing it, you know what I mean?

1942
01:52:16,006 --> 01:52:18,452
Just because you kissed the
sky, give it a fucking love-bite.

1943
01:52:24,846 --> 01:52:27,372
When you're on stage,
who are you playing to?

1944
01:52:29,007 --> 01:52:31,007
On stage, when he
turns to me, and I turn to him

1945
01:52:31,087 --> 01:52:33,647
and, like, we just
both look at each other,

1946
01:52:33,727 --> 01:52:36,776
everything just clicks, and,
it just like, transcends music.

1947
01:52:37,807 --> 01:52:40,697
And it's only me and
him that will ever get this...

1948
01:52:42,167 --> 01:52:43,976
And that's what
it's about for us.

1949
01:52:45,287 --> 01:52:47,968
Sometimes, I do look
back and I think, "Well,

1950
01:52:48,048 --> 01:52:51,208
"I wish it had gone a
different way", but it hasn't.

1951
01:52:51,288 --> 01:52:54,408
It's caused a lot of
problems with them two,

1952
01:52:54,488 --> 01:52:57,617
but it's their life, so you have
to just let them get on with it.

1953
01:52:58,848 --> 01:53:00,088
I get where she's coming from

1954
01:53:00,168 --> 01:53:03,088
because obviously me and Our Kid
ain't got a relationship any more,

1955
01:53:03,168 --> 01:53:05,009
but who's to say if we'd
have been a pair of fishmongers,

1956
01:53:05,089 --> 01:53:08,571
we'd have still slapped at each other
with a bit of trout every now and again.

1957
01:53:08,689 --> 01:53:09,969
I guess it's like a fight.

1958
01:53:10,049 --> 01:53:12,489
We were kind of like a fucking
Mike Tyson band, you know what I mean?

1959
01:53:12,569 --> 01:53:16,249
We just come in fucking
blazing, knocking everyone out.

1960
01:53:16,329 --> 01:53:20,809
We were never going to do ten rounds
and it was never going to get to that point.

1961
01:53:20,889 --> 01:53:23,130
At the end of the day,
I weigh it up and I go,

1962
01:53:23,210 --> 01:53:28,090
"Right, did the good times
outweigh the bad times? Fucking 100%!"

1963
01:53:28,170 --> 01:53:29,251
I'm happy with that.

1964
01:53:30,450 --> 01:53:34,490
You couldn't say that
anybody that was ever in Oasis,

1965
01:53:34,570 --> 01:53:37,650
me included, was the
best in the world at anything.

1966
01:53:37,730 --> 01:53:40,531
But when it all came together,

1967
01:53:40,611 --> 01:53:45,060
we made people feel
something that was indefinable.

1968
01:53:45,971 --> 01:53:48,131
We're still the same band
that was playing at the Boardwalk.

1969
01:53:48,211 --> 01:53:50,571
We virtually are
wearing the same clothes.

1970
01:53:50,651 --> 01:53:56,331
All that's happened is that it's caught
fire and all these people have got on board.

1971
01:53:56,411 --> 01:54:00,940
But people will never, ever, ever
forget the way that you made them feel.

1972
01:54:02,852 --> 01:54:06,012
There's a chemistry
between the band and the audience.

1973
01:54:06,092 --> 01:54:09,212
There's something magnetic
drawing the two to each other.

1974
01:54:09,292 --> 01:54:12,612
The love, and the vibe,
and the passion and the rage

1975
01:54:12,692 --> 01:54:14,740
and the joy that
come in from the crowd.

1976
01:54:15,412 --> 01:54:17,302
If anything, that's
what Oasis was.

1977
01:54:20,973 --> 01:54:23,213
# And then dance
if you want to dance

1978
01:54:23,293 --> 01:54:24,973
# Please, brother,
take a chance

1979
01:54:25,053 --> 01:54:26,533
# You know they're going to go

1980
01:54:26,613 --> 01:54:28,373
# Which way they want to go

1981
01:54:28,453 --> 01:54:34,334
# All we know is that we don't

1982
01:54:34,414 --> 01:54:36,254
# Know how it's going to be

1983
01:54:36,334 --> 01:54:37,934
# Please, brother, let it be

1984
01:54:38,014 --> 01:54:39,494
# Life on the other hand

1985
01:54:39,574 --> 01:54:43,014
# Won't make you understand

1986
01:54:43,094 --> 01:54:49,531
# We're all part of a master plan