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Become a Card Shark AMERICASCARDROOM.COM 2 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,560 Does the red light mean it's on, yeah? 3 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,847 - Yeah. - Pour a few glasses at me. 4 00:00:39,260 --> 00:00:41,360 I've had about four fucking coffees today, man, 5 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,000 and they've fucking proper knocked me out. 6 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:45,120 What the fuck's going on? 7 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,362 Now I'm fucking double tired, it's like, come on. 8 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,200 All right, how are we doing in there, are we good? 9 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,920 Yeah, we're rolling, I'm just going to do a sync pip. 10 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,960 Okay, lovely. 11 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,120 So, what do you think looking back at that time 12 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,000 because it was, like, two-and-a-half years really, 13 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:01,800 from being signed to playing Knebworth. 14 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,760 What happened to that band? What happened to you in those three years? 15 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:07,040 Sorry, that was a big question. 16 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,964 It is a big question, and it deserves a big answer. 17 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,560 RAs Oasis gears up to rock a quarter of a million fans, 18 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,400 we're live from Knebworth. 19 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,080 By Sunday night, Oasis will have played 20 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,800 to more than a third of a million people in just over one week. 21 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,800 Hi, this is Jo Whiley welcoming you to a rather special event, 22 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:28,800 the live gig of the decade. 23 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,400 In just over three years, Oasis will have gone from being a new signing 24 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:34,700 to one of rock's true giants. 25 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,723 Oasis! Oasis! Oasis! 26 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,646 Three, two, one! 27 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,808 Are we not playing a game? 28 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:18,802 Oasis was definitely like a fucking Ferrari. 29 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,000 Great to look at, great to drive, 30 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,961 and it would fucking spin out of control every now and again when you go too fast. 31 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,042 We were just lads from a council estate. 32 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,128 Two brothers, head cases. 33 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:37,645 Oasis' greatest strength was the relationship between me and Liam. 34 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:39,880 It's also what drove the band into the ground in the end, 35 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:41,166 you know what I mean? 36 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:46,320 # There we were, now here we are 37 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,880 # All this confusion 38 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,320 # Nothing's the same to me 39 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:56,200 # There we were, now here we are 40 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,600 # All this confusion 41 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,840 # Nothing's the same to me 42 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,760 # I can't tell you the way I feel because 43 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:10,840 # The way I feel is oh so new to me 44 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:15,440 # I can't tell you the way I feel because 45 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:21,081 # The way I feel is oh so new to me # 46 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,440 For me, music, I wasn't into it until, like, 47 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,488 when I was about 16 or 17 maybe. 48 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:26,600 Anyone with a guitar, or in a band 49 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,480 I thought was a bit suspect, you know what I mean? 50 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,369 And like, I'd hurl abuse at them. 51 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,800 I used to share a room with Noel. 52 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,520 A bit of a stoner, a bit of a loner. 53 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,640 You know, he had a guitar, so he was copping for it, 54 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:39,926 you know what I mean? 55 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:42,804 Always very quiet, Noel. 56 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,200 Always in his room with a piece of paper and a pen 57 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:46,640 and he'd be writing. 58 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,007 Always strumming the guitar. 59 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,600 Many is the time I went up and I knocked that guitar and said, 60 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,927 "Bloody guitar, you get on my bloody nerves!" 61 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,160 Yeah, I mean, once I'd discovered weed and guitars, 62 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,080 you got into another world. 63 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:01,640 What would you want to go out for? 64 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,520 Everything I ever wanted in life was coming out of the speakers. 65 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,840 I don't know why me and Liam would be so different. 66 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,241 We both had the same childhood, do you know what I mean? 67 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,760 He was a devil, Liam. 68 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:15,524 Full of it, yeah. 69 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:18,320 Total attention seeker. 70 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,400 Robbing your clothes, robbing your records, robbing your this, robbing your that. 71 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:22,720 Robbing your money. 72 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:24,720 Definitely a bit of a show-off, 73 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,120 but not to the point where it's, like, fucking, 74 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,560 you know, Bonnie Langford, do you know what I mean? 75 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,211 Or one of them little fucking brats with jazz hands. 76 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,880 Well, Liam was, allegedly, he was the cock of the school. 77 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:39,360 No one messed with him. 78 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:44,400 I think one day some rival school turned up and boshed him on the head with a hammer. 79 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,440 We were stood there having a cig 80 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,160 and I remember all these lads coming down. 81 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,520 These kids pulled out this little fucking hammer and went whack on my head. 82 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:52,800 Blood everywhere. 83 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,645 Got out of fucking double Maths, so that was all right. 84 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,930 I've got a perfect alibi for that, so it's nothing to do with me! 85 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,611 From that day on, and I know it sounds stupid, 86 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,600 but it was like as if something had fucking clicked, do you know what I mean? 87 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,240 You know, I started hearing music, 88 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:09,800 it started making sense, you know what I mean? 89 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,486 So, whoever he is, thank you. 90 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,920 Somebody hammered the music into him. 91 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,002 He's got a fucking lot to answer for, hasn't he? 92 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,080 All my life as it existed then was, like going to sign on, 93 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,400 getting my cash, cashing my dole, 94 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,880 going to the Sifters, getting a record, 95 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,120 buying some weed, going into Greggs, 96 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:33,728 going back home and fucking blasting it out and getting soaked in it. 97 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,960 I was just obsessed with being in a band. 98 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,008 Just ob-fucking-sessed, man. 99 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,680 Actually, I never thought Liam was interested in music 100 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:45,440 until he used to sit out there in the kitchen and say, 101 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,240 "I'm going to be famous one day," he said. 102 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,360 "And you're going to be really proud of me." I said, "Am I?" 103 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,762 I said, "Well, I hope it's before I start pushing up daisies." 104 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:54,769 "Because we need the money now!" 105 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,640 And then of course, Bonehead started coming round, 106 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,440 and Tony McCarroll and Guigsy. 107 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,363 That's when Liam formed the band. 108 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,360 I knew Bonehead and I knew Guigs, 109 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,360 and they were in a band called The Rain. 110 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:08,600 They'd heard I was cool, 111 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,967 and I'd had my epiphany, and all that bollocks. 112 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,368 Someone in passing just said, "You know, Liam wanted to be in a band." 113 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:16,920 Liam came round my house. 114 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,083 His voice was just like, "Whoa!" You know, it's like, "Yeah!" 115 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:25,800 # I used to live my life in vain 116 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:30,440 # Until today it's been the same 117 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:32,640 # I've gone away... # 118 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:34,640 It wasn't the Liam we all know. 119 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,040 A bit more softer, a lot more melodic. 120 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,880 And obviously his look. I mean, he looked like Liam's always looked, you know. 121 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,320 He had a great haircut, great walk. 122 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:43,526 "I'll have a bit of that." 123 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,000 He went, "Right, look, do you want to be in this band?" 124 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,320 I says, "Yeah, but we'll have to change that fucking name though 'cause it's terrible." 125 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,643 There was a poster in our room for the Inspiral Carpets. 126 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,760 It certainly wasn't about Swindon Oasis. 127 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,440 It was like, you know, there was a kebab shop called Oasis. 128 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,440 There was a fucking taxi rank called Oasis. 129 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,200 That fucking name keeps coming up, "Oasis". 130 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,440 We were, kind of, a little bit out on our own. 131 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,522 I just thought, "Oasis", that was good, man. 132 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,760 I'm not in Oasis at this point. 133 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,560 I'm not in a band, I've no intention of being in a band. 134 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,920 I'm just part of a road crew for Inspiral Carpets 135 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,082 trying not to get sacked from this job 136 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,802 because I fucking blagged my way into it and I'm an absolute chancer. 137 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:24,800 The main thing was, like, getting Noel in the band. 138 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:25,880 Good morning! 139 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:27,200 He was a songwriter. 140 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:28,890 He's a tight bastard! 141 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:31,681 I'm okay with me. 142 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,000 In my head, I thought, "He'll come off tour 143 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,200 "when he sees that we're doing it instead of talking about it, 144 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,601 "he'll want to join our band and he'll do the business." 145 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,440 I've done a couple of tours of America. 146 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:57,320 I'd been to Argentina. 147 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:58,600 I'd been to Japan. 148 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:01,286 So as far as they went, I went with them. 149 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:03,560 I met Mark Coyle, sat at the back of the tour bus 150 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:05,324 smoking weed and doing the monitors. 151 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,640 That's how I met Noel, pulling this fucking face 152 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:11,280 because this is his thing. 153 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,328 He's the roadie for that band. 154 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:18,489 And as soon as we started talking we were, fucking, best mates straightaway. 155 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,571 If there's one thing I'd remember about Noel, 156 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,960 is that he never had a fucking dirty hand. 157 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,240 But he loved that band. 158 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:28,970 They were all terrified of him. 159 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,004 Yeah, he was just the boss all the way, from the minute go when I met him. 160 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:34,200 I thought we were great. 161 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:36,520 I mean, clearly we weren't because we did get fired, 162 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:38,250 separately got fired by the band, 163 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:40,560 for being unprofessional 164 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,240 and somewhat unapproachable by various tour managers. 165 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,226 Lazy cunts! 166 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:47,770 Yeah! 167 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,083 I'd like to thank the Inspiral Carpets for sacking him. Well done! 168 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,447 We had some great, funny fucking times. 169 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,361 I wasn't sitting at the side of the stage, tuning guitars, thinking, 170 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:00,520 "One day, this is going to be me." 171 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,480 I thought that I'd arrived at that point and that was it. 172 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:06,927 I thought, "This will fucking do me," do you know what I mean? 173 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:11,960 I was doing a gig in Munich. 174 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,160 I was somebody sound-checking a bass drum. Boom. 175 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,080 One, two. What's sibilance? 176 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,322 I used to phone home on a Sunday, phone my mum. 177 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:25,641 It's Noel. 178 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,362 On the phone? Just a minute. I'll get it out here. Hello? 179 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:31,161 How are you, Noel? 180 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:33,410 - Are you all right? - Yeah. 181 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:35,450 Just doing Liam's washing for him. 182 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:37,720 Doing his dirty washing for him. 183 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,080 But, anyway, we were chatting away about family stuff 184 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,162 and then I said, "How's Liam?" 185 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:43,971 "Oh, he's out rehearsing." 186 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,920 "What for? He's not joined the Shakespeare fucking group, has he?" 187 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,480 "Oh, no, he's in a band." 188 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:50,369 "What? Doing what?" 189 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:53,331 "He's the singer." "He's the singer? He can't fucking sing." 190 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:55,808 "Oh, I don't know now. He said he's the singer." 191 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,120 And that was it, and then I, kind of, got home 192 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,520 and our Paul's going, "Oh, yeah, he's in this band. 193 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:01,880 "They're pretty fucking good, you know." 194 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,160 And then they were playing at the local band night 195 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:05,240 on at the Boardwalk. 196 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:06,810 And I went down to see them. 197 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,200 # Take me, when I'm young and true 198 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,921 # Was it me or was it you? 199 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,880 # Take me, when I'm not so strong 200 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,407 # Why has it taken you so long? # 201 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,680 I was like, "Wow, fucking hell! I'm pretty impressed." 202 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:36,369 They had their own songs, and Liam didn't look that out of place. 203 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,760 The first thing they said when they come up to me was, "What did you think?" 204 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:51,000 I said, "It was fucking great," 205 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,960 and they said, "We were thinking, would you fancy being our manager?" 206 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,800 I was like, "What? What the fuck are they talking about? No." 207 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,200 And they were, like, "Because you know loads of people, and all that." 208 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,520 "Not sure about that. I think you'd get a better manager than me." 209 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,082 And then a couple of weeks later Liam said, "Come and fucking jam with us." 210 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:11,440 You know, so I went and sat in with them 211 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,840 and I was playing their tunes, and it was great. 212 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:15,160 And then I think the second time I went, 213 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,762 Liam was going, "Play them that fucking song that you played us." 214 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,120 And then once everybody all joined in and you hear this thing 215 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,444 that you've, in inverted commas, "written," being played back to you in this room 216 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:33,882 and it's like, "Wow! Fucking hell! That's amazing!" 217 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:35,485 It just went from there, really. 218 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:40,770 # It's a bit early in the midnight hour for me 219 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:46,204 # To think of all the things I want to be 220 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,484 # I don't believe in everything I see 221 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:58,689 # You know I'm blind, so why do you disagree? 222 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:05,320 # Take me away because I just don't want to stay 223 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:11,648 # And the lies you make me say are getting deeper every day 224 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:17,325 # These are crazy days but they make me shine 225 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,682 # Time keeps rolling by 226 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:26,360 # All around the world 227 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,440 # You've got to spread the word 228 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,520 # Tell them what you heard 229 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:33,921 # Because you know it's going to be okay # 230 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,760 To hear your own stuff played back, it was really a mega moment. 231 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,280 And then it went nowhere for two years. 232 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:43,920 So, I mean, there is the myth that I kicked open the fuckin' rehearsal room door 233 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,280 to the theme tune from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, 234 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:51,400 and said, "Everybody, stop what you're doing. I am here to make us all millionaires." 235 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:53,080 You know, It wasn't that at all, you know what I mean? 236 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,120 No, the truth is, he got on his hands and knees and said, 237 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,880 "Listen, I'll do anything, just, please, let me be in your band." 238 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,360 I said, "Get up off your hands and knees, son. You're all right, you can do it." 239 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,283 I think I've got a picture of it somewhere. 240 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,800 For that 18 months to two years, we never gave up. 241 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,484 If nothing else, we were dedicated. 242 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,400 Yeah, I loved it. I loved it. 243 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:28,600 That was when we were on our own for a bit, 244 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:30,640 when everyone was in the hacienda popping pills and that, 245 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:32,280 and all my mates would be knocking on the door going, 246 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:33,400 "What are you doing now?" 247 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:34,640 "I'm going down to the fucking rehearsal room." 248 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:38,560 The whole fucking city was like just immersed in this music 249 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,442 that didn't make sense to me, you know what I mean? 250 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,000 We weren't the best musicians, but we had spirit, man, 251 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,320 and that was lacking massively at that point. 252 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,800 I always thought that we were greater than the sum of our parts, 253 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:53,120 you know what I mean? 254 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,089 Bonehead? 255 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,440 He was kind of the glue that held it all together. 256 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:58,560 God bless him. 257 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,484 If anything, I'd say Bonehead was the spirit of Oasis. 258 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,160 He's a top musician and all, Bonehead. He's like, he can play anything, 259 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,200 but he's a mental cunt and I loved his mad side. 260 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:10,090 So me and him would get up to mad shit together, you know what I mean? 261 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,880 Guigsy? Guigs brought a calmness to it all. 262 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:15,200 He never got flustered. 263 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:20,240 He loved cricket and Doctor Who, and weed and Man City. 264 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:23,440 I'd say fifth after that was being in Oasis. 265 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,363 I'd say that came a lowly fifth. 266 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:27,920 Guigsy, chilled out motherfucker, man. 267 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,766 Lovely lad, but just a complete and utter fucking stoner. 268 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,123 Tony was a person that I shared a room in the early days, you know, 269 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,800 and I really, really got on with Tony. Really nice person. 270 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,327 Very Irish in his ways, you know, came from a massive Irish family. 271 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:45,360 Definitely the quiet one. 272 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,480 The one who was most reserved. 273 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,723 None of them lot had kids, none of them had responsibility. 274 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:52,640 I had a different outlook on life. 275 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,720 I always had my daughter in the back of my head. 276 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:55,801 That moulded me. 277 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,800 Oasis was going for about maybe six months, a year, 278 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:02,645 and I was writing songs just to amuse myself, 279 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,327 and then one night, I went down with a song and everything changed 280 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:26,565 # Maybe I don't really want to know 281 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,726 # How your garden grows 282 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,651 # Because I just want to fly 283 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:39,805 # Lately, did you ever feel the pain? 284 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,240 # In the morning rain 285 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,687 # As it soaks you to the bone 286 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,960 # Maybe I just want to fly 287 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,520 # I want to live, I don't want to die 288 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,720 # Maybe I just want to breathe 289 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:02,000 # Maybe I just don't believe 290 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,280 # Maybe you're the same as me 291 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:08,680 # We see things they'll never see 292 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,128 # You and I, we're gonna live forever # 293 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,400 Bonehead, he was saying, "You've not just fucking written that. 294 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,440 "That's no way that's your song." 295 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:20,600 Well, I wouldn't believe it. 296 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:21,920 For someone to come in a room and just go, 297 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,280 "Oh, I'll play you one of my songs," and then play you Live Forever, 298 00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:25,520 it's like, "Fuck off! 299 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:27,480 "You didn't write that." He said, "Why didn't I?" 300 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:29,000 I said, "Because listen to it!" 301 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,760 You know, I thought, "Wow! What a song! You didn't write it." 302 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,360 "Yeah, I did." "No, you didn't." 303 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,560 I knew enough about music and about songs to know that that was a great song, 304 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:39,720 and then one followed another. 305 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,520 And it's like, "No, this happening now. 306 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:45,047 "And even if no one else takes any notice of it, this is happening." 307 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:47,760 I didn't really get involved with the music kind of thing. 308 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,760 I was, like, "Look, that's your thing, you do that. 309 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,650 "I'll just be cool as fuck over there." 310 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:54,680 Once they were in a band 311 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,360 I knew they weren't going to listen to me about steady jobs. 312 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,240 They were up and down the country, and I would say, 313 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:00,760 "Oh, you might be lucky tonight." 314 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,480 And I'd say to Noel, "Any luck, Noel?" 315 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,400 "No." Then they'd go off again somewhere else. 316 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:07,403 I spend my life worrying about them. 317 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:13,440 We didn't have one single paragraph written about us, ever. 318 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,200 No one even said we were shit. 319 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,203 Completely and utterly fucking ignored. 320 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:20,080 I kind of had a feeling it'd happened, man. 321 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,280 I don't know what the consequences would have been without it happening 322 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:24,880 because it was, like, if it didn't happen, 323 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,247 the world would be black, do you know what I mean? 324 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:33,920 We were sharing a rehearsal room with an all-girl band called Sister Lovers. 325 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,360 Unbeknown to us, one of the girls in the band, Debbie Turner, 326 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,440 God bless Debbie, was an ex-girlfriend of Alan McGee's, 327 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,200 the head of the coolest record label in England. 328 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,680 We were asking her what they're up to 329 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,808 and they were saying, "We're going up to do this gig." 330 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,280 I think I was probably being quite cocky actually in saying, 331 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:53,760 "Oi, Noel, we're playing in Glasgow," 332 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,880 which, then, for an unsigned band to get a gig outside Manchester, 333 00:19:57,960 --> 00:19:59,769 that was like playing Glastonbury. 334 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,007 And we were like, "Well, how the fuck have you got a gig and not us?" 335 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,000 She said, "Why don't you come with us? 336 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,320 "Be on the bill, kind of thing." 337 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,440 And we were like, "Yeah, Glasgow? Fuck it, let's do it." 338 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:11,800 For the pure love of it. 339 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:16,400 "If we all put in £25 each, we can hire a splitter van 340 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:21,168 "and get up there, kip in the van, do the gig, get back. Yay!" 341 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:22,680 So we hired a van out, 342 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,520 smoking weed, all that nonsense, drinking. 343 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,040 You know one of them days where you just go, 344 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:28,800 "It's fucking going to be the day today." 345 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:30,440 Maybe it was the drugs or something. 346 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,680 We get there really early and we say, "We're Oasis from Manchester. 347 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:34,880 "We've come here to play tonight." 348 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:36,520 And the guy says, "There's no band down here." 349 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,240 I said, "Yeah, yeah, it's all right, we're with Debbie." 350 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,402 And he's like, "No, no, no, no, no fucking way." 351 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,760 I think we said, "Well, if they're not playing, we're not going to play. 352 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:46,560 "We'll do a really short set," 353 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,920 which wasn't hard 'cause I think we only had five songs anyway. 354 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,241 Then Oasis were allowed to play. 355 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,560 So we went on, we got to do four songs 356 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,165 and we didn't think anything of it. 357 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:07,080 Debbie didn't even know that I was coming up to that gig. 358 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,080 I'd been an evil, twisted fucker. 359 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,811 I thought that I would show up to put her on edge. 360 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:32,162 # What was that sound ringing around your brain? 361 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,800 # Today was just a blur 362 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,963 # You've got a head like a ghost train 363 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,000 # You're the outcast 364 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,120 # You're the underclass 365 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,520 # But you don't care 366 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,523 # Because you're living fast # 367 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:56,163 At the end, there was just loads of feedback and a smattering of applause. 368 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,760 I really do believe some things are meant to fucking be. 369 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,080 I was standing there with my kid sister, Susan. 370 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:05,600 She immediately went, "You should sign these," 371 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,760 and I'm like, "Let's see the second song." 372 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:09,520 And it's like, "I'm signing these!" 373 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,807 And the third song, "I'm definitely signing these!" 374 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,961 And I, sort of like, went up to Noel and I said, 375 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:16,920 "I'm Alan McGee. Do you want a record deal?" 376 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,160 And I said, "Who with?" 377 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,289 And he went, "Creation Records," and I kind of recognised him. 378 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:22,401 And that was it! 379 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,802 I don't remember anybody high-fiving in the back of the van 380 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,560 thinking, "Hurray, this is it!" 381 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,400 I remember going back to Manchester 382 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,880 and getting in to where I was living, you know, 383 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,530 at, what, 6:00 in the morning. 384 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,242 And my then missus, Louise, was getting ready to go to work. 385 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,240 And I said, 386 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,120 "Creation Records have offered us a record deal," 387 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,640 and she started crying. 388 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,042 She knew then that, you know, that was going to be the end of us. 389 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,480 I remember the day he came back and told me he had the record deal. 390 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,560 And of course I thought, "Oh, this is great." 391 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,520 I never really thought it would go the way it did though. 392 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,810 Liam says, "All I want, Mum, is to earn a bit of money," he says, 393 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,840 "and get myself some new clothes." 394 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,285 And then it went haywire. 395 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,040 Mum was an angel, still is. 396 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:31,886 Not impressed by all this rock 'n roll business, and rightly so. 397 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,520 You know, when I think of those times, do you know what I mean, 398 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,080 she kind of brought us up on her own, really. 399 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,000 And three lads, particularly one of them being Liam, 400 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,080 it was very tricky. 401 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,401 I mean, she gave it all up for us, you know what I mean? 402 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,120 I wanted to make her proud. 403 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,000 I wanted to get her to stop from doing, like, three fucking jobs 404 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,765 and put her feet up, you know what I mean, and have nice things. 405 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,083 I hated it when I came over here first. 406 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:00,040 It was a big shock, I'm telling you, to come to a big city like Manchester. 407 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,720 Oh, I must have cried for about six months. 408 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,690 It was after the New Year, I think it was 1963. 409 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,843 I went to the carousel and met him there. 410 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,080 Tommy Gallagher. 411 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,160 We got married after about nine or ten months. 412 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:14,240 And that was it! 413 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:15,685 He was lovely when I met him, like. 414 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,440 Paul arrived ten months after I was married. 415 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,966 Then Noel arrived a year after that again. 416 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,000 We were dressed identical. 417 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,040 She used to knit our clothes. 418 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:31,360 So you can imagine, you've got no choice. You couldn't say, "I don't like them, Mum," 419 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,523 because she's just spent four years knitting you a jumper. 420 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,680 Liam arrived five-and-a-half years after, which was great. 421 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,240 Well, that was the best time with the kids. 422 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:45,720 I don't know, I think there was always that bit of jealousy with Liam and Noel. 423 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,760 I idolised Paul and Noel because there were only the two of them, 424 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,440 and Noel was absolutely beautiful when he was a baby, 425 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,360 and then, of course, Liam comes along, takes the limelight off you. 426 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:56,680 He probably thought, "Urgh!" 427 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,570 But you could tell the disagreements that were there with them. 428 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,520 I was glad they were together in a band. 429 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,444 I would not have wanted Liam in a band without Noel. 430 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,887 But it all happened too quick, 431 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,525 just too quick altogether. 432 00:25:11,420 --> 00:25:14,049 Good evening, Great Britain! 433 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,485 Hello! 434 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,290 Oasis, are you down there? 435 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,960 - We certainly are. - Do you fancy having a bit of a chat? 436 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,040 Go on then. 437 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:25,280 "Go on then." There's a story about you lot getting signed to Creation. 438 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:27,360 Alan McGee saw you in a club in Glasgow. Is that right? 439 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,920 Don't believe the hype. 440 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,120 No, he did, yeah. 441 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,520 There was like seven people there, I think, and he was two of them. 442 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:33,600 Right. 443 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,200 And he signed us there and then, on the spot. 444 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,280 Was he drunk? 445 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:39,440 He actually thinks we're the greatest band in the fucking world. 446 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,047 He's phoned me up, about fucking 5:00 in the morning, 447 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:44,200 going, "You know, man, 448 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,807 "we're going to annihilate the fucking world, man!" 449 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,000 McGee wanted Bring It On Down to be the first single 450 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,040 and I was fine with that, I love that song. 451 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:55,320 They're just... It's punk. 452 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,560 "You're the outcast, you're the underclass. 453 00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,560 "You don't care, but you're living fast." 454 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:00,800 I just loved it. 455 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,440 I can't say why Bring It On Down was chosen, 456 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,600 but it wasn't coming together. 457 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,887 I don't know what the fuck was wrong with it, like. 458 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,960 I mean, it would become apparent why that session didn't work. 459 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:16,887 It's because our drummer at the time wasn't the most consistent 460 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:21,400 from one fucking bar to the next, never mind one day to the next. 461 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,080 And that's his big moment, that, a fucking riff. 462 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,162 "Just fucking do it in time, son." 463 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,240 Fucking hell, we're up against it here. 464 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,600 We'd not recorded anything. 465 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,160 Why I chose to write a new song 466 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,200 as opposed to record any of the others off of Definitely Maybe 467 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,691 is still a little bit of a mystery. 468 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,400 Noel's got the riff, but that's all he's got, 469 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,640 so they're just kind of knocking this little thing, 470 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,680 which all bands do, you know, a little riff. 471 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,200 Someone had sent out for Chinese, or fish and chips or something. 472 00:26:58,280 --> 00:26:59,600 Or Chinese fish and chips? 473 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:00,886 I went in the back room 474 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,080 and, as bizarre as it sounds, wrote Supersonic 475 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:09,007 in about however long it takes six other guys to eat a Chinese meal. 476 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:12,600 Then he came back in the room with us. 477 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,001 He said, "Look, I've just written another song." 478 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:21,360 And we nailed it and mixed it that night. 479 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,640 Rapid, because that's what we'd been doing every night in the Boardwalk, you know, 480 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,245 and it sounded massive. 481 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,325 Give it up for Oasis, making their TV debut with Supersonic. 482 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:37,360 # I need to be myself 483 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,364 # I can't be no one else 484 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,080 # I'm feeling supersonic 485 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,560 # Give me gin and tonic 486 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,120 # You can have it all 487 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,851 # But how much do you want it? 488 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:53,760 # You make me laugh... 489 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,680 We'd done gigs before that and there were people coming along 490 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,000 because they'd read about us in the press. 491 00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,969 But nobody knew any of the songs. 492 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,602 On the day that Supersonic came out, 493 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,320 bang, the crowd were right there, 494 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,880 and I remember people singing the lyrics to Supersonic. 495 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,840 You know, they're singing your words back that you've nonsensically wrote down 496 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,570 at fucking 3:00 in the morning. 497 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:17,120 # You need to find a way for what you want to say 498 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,885 # But before tomorrow 499 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,569 # 'Cause my friend said he'd take you home 500 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:29,283 # He sits in a corner all alone 501 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:34,080 # He lives under a waterfall 502 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,120 # Nobody can see him 503 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,160 # Nobody can ever hear him call... # 504 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,481 We'd play a town, we'd go off and do the next, do the next, 505 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,570 and then come back to that one you did a few weeks before and do it again. 506 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,489 Trouble seemed to find us at any given point. 507 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,520 We're barred from a full chain of hotels 508 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,841 and honestly, no one would take us anywhere. 509 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,440 I do remember one hotel, the whole bedroom went out of the window, 510 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,600 mattress, pillows, everything. 511 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,045 If it moves, fling it. 512 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:02,681 Poof. 513 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,920 I could never understand it, you know, hotel rooms being smashed up. 514 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,720 That's like hard work. 515 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,200 You'd get a sweat on. 516 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:10,920 What do you do? Go to bed at 10:00 every night? 517 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,800 I don't think so, you know what I mean? You only get it once. 518 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,880 You're going to live it to the full. 519 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,405 Have it! And we did! 520 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,640 You can't ask a 21-year-old lad to be professional, it's like... 521 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,485 It's like, "I don't even understand that word, what are you on about?" 522 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,240 You're feeling Supersonic? Go to bed at 9:30! 523 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,480 "Give me gin and tonic"? Get my head down at about 10:30. 524 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,562 Fuck off, mate, you know what I mean? 525 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,960 There was something very different about this band. 526 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:52,000 It just had a devilish, belligerent, filthy little sound to it. 527 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,084 Coyle could really mix sound in little clubs. 528 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,160 He was really good at making it sound fucking epic. 529 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:02,200 Noel, I didn't understand what "Feeling Supersonic" meant, 530 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,600 but I'm with you, whatever it is, I'd die for you right now. 531 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,524 That's how I felt about Oasis. 532 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:09,880 Thank you very much. 533 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,720 Did you get your friends working for you then, 534 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,000 so you can tour around in a big group? 535 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:14,525 No, it's just so we can exploit them. 536 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,840 Thing is, if we didn't have them working for us when we're away, 537 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:18,920 they'd be burgling our houses. 538 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,160 So it's best to have them on the road with us. 539 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,760 You're being hyped as the best band around at the moment. 540 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:24,841 Is all the hype true? 541 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,600 - Yeah. - It is? Good. 542 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:31,160 The best band about today on the planet. 543 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:32,241 It's a fact. 544 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:39,605 # I'd shake along with me... 545 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,600 We're in a band, we're into football, we're into taking drugs, and meeting women 546 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:45,800 and all the rest of it, right? 547 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,560 We won't deny anything that's been written about us. 548 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,600 Why should we? They want to write about it, fine. 549 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:50,720 We're happy with that. 550 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,400 Our music will stand the test of time. That is a fact. 551 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:53,880 Right, all this media hype 552 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,122 and all this thing about us being this, that, and the other, right, 553 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:57,960 will be dead in a year's time. 554 00:30:58,040 --> 00:30:59,200 Everyone will have forgotten about it. 555 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,487 The records that we make will be in the shops forever. 556 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,731 # Shake along with me # 557 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:26,845 It was a wild tour. 558 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:32,880 At one point, we were going to Amsterdam to support this band from Wigan, The Verve. 559 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,008 Our first international gig. 560 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,400 So this guy picked us up in a van, and he's going to be our roadie. 561 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:39,606 Jason Rhodes. 562 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,920 Marcus got in touch and said, "Right, do you want to go to Amsterdam?" 563 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,640 I went, "Yeah!" 564 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,080 Up your bum! 565 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,286 I said to him, "All right, nice to meet you. 566 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,080 "Fucking forget that. Did they give you a float?" 567 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,800 And he said, "No, no, no, that's for petrol." 568 00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:59,120 I said, "Never mind petrol." 569 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,800 And we took the float off him and then spent about an hour 570 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,480 driving around Manchester getting drugs. 571 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,360 And then set off. 572 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:06,600 Get on the ferry. 573 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,971 I don't know how we get on the ferry because we're pissed, but we get on this ferry. 574 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,520 As fate would have it, there's a load of West Ham fans 575 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,880 on this overnight ferry, it's got a casino on it and a fucking night club. 576 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,200 The Thursday night ferry to "The 'Dam." 577 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,520 Who goes to Amsterdam on a ferry for the weekend? 578 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,640 What kind of clientele? 579 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:28,851 The drink of choice for a few hours was champagne and Jack Daniels slammers. 580 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:35,127 The next thing is that sporadic fighting is breaking out all round us really. 581 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:40,960 Liam is very excited by the prospects of a lot of chaos going on 582 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,680 and he goes and joins in. 583 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,280 Yeah, it was fucking mayhem, man, I loved it. 584 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,640 You can see him running through the windows along the deck. 585 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:49,720 He's having a great time. 586 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,000 He looks like he's in a school playground chasing leaves. 587 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,080 Liam at one point said they'd ran through a casino 588 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,640 and he flung all the roulette shit off the table as he was running past. 589 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,688 Then there was a fight broke out 590 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,286 and all I remember was it was a bit "Benny Hill." 591 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:10,240 The next time I see him, he's still running, but he's got policemen running after him. 592 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,240 Someone's punched someone, someone's kicked someone. 593 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,920 Someone's got nicked, then we're handcuffed 594 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,200 and sent down to the bottom of the boat, we get locked up. 595 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,960 Woke up the next day and I spoke to the Customs and I said, 596 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,360 "Look, you know, I'm kind of missing four people. 597 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:23,600 "Do you know where they are?" 598 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,960 We were heading back, we didn't have any money, 599 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,760 couldn't phone anyone, couldn't do nothing. 600 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,411 I can remember getting to the hotel and having to ring Marcus and Alan 601 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:35,040 and they're going, "You fucking what? You what?" 602 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,885 And he says, "You've fucking blown it, you've blown it." 603 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,920 But that was punk rock, man! I just went, "Fuck them!" 604 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,765 I never listened to a word those clowns said anyway, you know what I mean? 605 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,400 I called McGee, and I'll never forget this and this is another reason why I love McGee, 606 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,200 I said, "Are you sitting down? I've got some news. 607 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:50,960 "Everybody's been arrested." 608 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,849 The only word he said was, "Brilliant." 609 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,740 A hell of a start that, isn't it? That's a great first day at work. Love it! 610 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,520 Oasis were deported from Holland last week 611 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,120 after they were involved in a drunken brawl on a cross-Channel ferry. 612 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,760 The Creation act were forced to cancel... 613 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,360 I thought it was game. That's how I want my rock 'n roll stars to act. 614 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,360 Stick up for themselves, get in a bit of shenanigans and that's it. 615 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:14,840 We lived to fight another day. 616 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,570 To me, it felt right. 617 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:18,840 The thing about getting thrown off ferries, 618 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,686 blah, blah, blah, getting deported is summat that I'm not proud about. 619 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:23,800 Well, I am. 620 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,645 Right, well, if you're proud about getting thrown off ferries, 621 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,800 then why don't you go and support West Ham and get the fuck out of my band? 622 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,480 These lot think it's rock 'n roll to get thrown off a ferry. 623 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:33,920 - No I don't - To get... Shut up! 624 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,480 These lot think it's rock 'n roll to get... 625 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,080 Shut the fuck up, man! 626 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,762 These lot think... 627 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,442 Am I going to have to say this part or are you going to shut up? 628 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,480 - Is this my question? - This is your question. 629 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:54,120 No, I ain't a hooligan. I'm not a hooligan. Right? 630 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,440 Obviously, once you get that reputation, 631 00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,040 there's always someone who's going to go, "Well, I'll show him." 632 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,011 If it'd never been in the paper, having a ruck, that probably wouldn't have happened. 633 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:21,960 There was a full section of the tour, it was just going off every night. 634 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,280 I felt that people were turning up to cause trouble. 635 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,044 It was getting me down, if I'm being honest. 636 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:28,841 Fucking dick! 637 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,720 We were getting a reputation as these bad boys of rock 'n roll. 638 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,560 "That's all fucking great, but can we talk about the music first?" 639 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,840 I think any band worth their salt, it's not about just the music. 640 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,920 If you haven't got that kind of behaviour and you've just got great tunes, 641 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,840 then you're fucking pretty boring, as far as I'm concerned. 642 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:01,960 It's about both. 643 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,805 When both come together, you'll have greatness. 644 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,120 We showed their video a good couple of months ago. 645 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,240 They've wasted no time in releasing a new single, Shakermaker, 646 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:15,960 Noel and Liam from Oasis. 647 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,281 Thanks for interrupting your hectic schedule. 648 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,688 What's it like being brothers in a band? 649 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,044 He's speechless. Look at that. 650 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,520 It's all right. I think it's all right, me. I think it's very, very funny. 651 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,760 I mean, if you row, what sort of things do you row about? 652 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,240 Everything. Everything. We don't even have to row. 653 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,560 All we got to do is look at each other in a certain kind of way 654 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,880 and we row without even opening our mouth. 655 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,440 We're just going, "Grrr" inside our heads, you know what I mean? 656 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,520 I hate the term "sibling rivalry," but that's effectively what it is. 657 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,320 I know my brother better than anybody else. 658 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,165 Liam's like a dog, and I'm like a cat. 659 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,360 Cats are very independent creatures. 660 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,840 They don't give a fuck, right bastards. 661 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,160 Dogs are just fucking, "Play with me, play with me. 662 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:05,000 "Please fucking throw that ball for me." 663 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,720 Because they fucking need some company. 664 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,361 It's as basic as that, can't change the way that you are. 665 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:26,000 I'm a cat, okay? That's just what I am. 666 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,686 I've accepted it. I'm a bit of a bastard. 667 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,610 What can I say, you know? I'm a bit of a cunt. 668 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,840 They are two brothers, grew up together, 669 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,240 one's one way, one's the other. 670 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,080 Noel has a lot of buttons. 671 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,731 Liam has a lot of fingers. It's that simple, really. 672 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,600 It's about a power struggle, is what it is. 673 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,880 It's about me being in charge 674 00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,920 and everybody directing everything towards me, 675 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,240 and Liam being pissed off about it. 676 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,561 That's basically what starts it all. 677 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,000 I think it all stems down to when he bought a stereo years ago 678 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,003 when we shared a room. 679 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,040 I think one night I've come in pissed, 680 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:17,045 and I couldn't find the light switch, so I pissed all over his fucking new stereo. 681 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,760 I think it basically boils down to that. He's held that grudge. 682 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,410 You let go of them grudges, brother! 683 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,364 Democracy never works in a band. 684 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,400 It's been proven a million times. 685 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:29,600 And the trouble you had with Oasis is 686 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,889 you had two people vying for the Prime Minister job. 687 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,960 That tension, that antagonism, it drove that band, 688 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,442 and it killed that band, is what it did. 689 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,602 No lifting of the arms. 690 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:45,760 He got a better stance than me. 691 00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,642 He's a dick! Official! 692 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,842 Yeah, but, anyway. Right? 693 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,320 It's all about what's inside the fucking tin of beans that counts, 694 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,560 not what the fucking wrapper is, or how much it costs, 695 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,920 or who you buy it off, or what till you get it from. 696 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,960 Or even whether it's your Spar, your Kwiksave, or your fucking Sainsbury's. 697 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,240 Man, it's about what's inside the tin of beans, man. 698 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,000 And, like, if it's right, it's right. 699 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,760 If this ever goes on, like, a video, for the kids, right, 700 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,040 I would apologise, but I'm not going to! Because he's a prick! 701 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,690 Check it out! 702 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,470 One-two, one-two, one. One... Two? 703 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,720 When people go, "Oh, what's the best thing about Oasis?" 704 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,000 It's just getting that chance to record our album 705 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:40,600 because we knew we weren't going to fuck it up. 706 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:41,681 We were ripping, man! 707 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:45,280 So, we'd been to Monnow Valley. 708 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,567 We recorded what we thought was a great album. 709 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:52,249 Everybody else surrounding the band kept chanting this mantra, 710 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,120 "Oh, it doesn't sound like they do live, it doesn't sound like they do live." 711 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,965 I was like, "Well, who does it fucking sound like, Spandau Ballet?" 712 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,725 # Is it my imagination 713 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:16,284 # Or have I finally found something worth living for? 714 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,291 I said to Noel Gallagher, "It's not good enough." 715 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,171 I knew what Oasis should sound like 'cause I'd seen it live 716 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,049 and I just knew the performances were wrong. 717 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,520 At one point, he was so frustrated by the whole thing, 718 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,321 he went, "Look, why don't we just put it out and we'll get it right in the second album?" 719 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,450 And I went, "You'll never get to the second album." 720 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,080 # 'Cause when it comes on top 721 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,562 # You got to make it happen 722 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,651 It was not happening. The pressure was definitely on. 723 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,046 I phoned up Marcus one Saturday morning. 724 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,800 I'd be interested to know why they took that risk, 725 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:09,720 just putting me in charge of that. 726 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,920 No track record whatsoever. 727 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,765 The thinking is, "Who does the live sound?" 728 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,565 "Mark does. So let's go do it live." 729 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,485 Time for plan B on Definitely Maybe. 730 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,040 And thank God for that, you know, because we all knew that Coyle understood us. 731 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,010 He always made us sound how we should sound. 732 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:34,080 We hit upon this system in the Sawmills, everything was crowded around the drum kit. 733 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,440 We'd just do three takes of each song and then move on. 734 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:38,560 I would have thought that 735 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:42,486 that album was recorded in three days, maximum. 736 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:49,287 But, I started mixing and it didn't really sound very good. 737 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,287 I think at that stage, I'd took it as far as I could. 738 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,680 I do remember taking a cassette, the final mix we did with Mark, 739 00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,000 to McGee's flat 740 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,240 and sensing that he was completely underwhelmed by it. 741 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,607 And me thinking, "Oh, fuck it, I give up!" 742 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,450 Marcus announces that he's going to get Owen Morris to do a mix on spec. 743 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,920 Marcus got me in because I don't think he knew anybody else. 744 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,162 So I was very lucky to be in the right place. 745 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,680 And I'm thinking, "What has he done? You know, I don't get it." 746 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,491 He did one mix and it was just outrageous. 747 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,000 We did a session. That's where I met Liam. 748 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,640 And I told him he sounded like John Lennon 749 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:47,080 and he was like, "You got it!" at, like, 1:00 in the afternoon. 750 00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,322 Liam, lead vocal, rock 'n roll star. 751 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:55,846 # I live my life in the city and there's no easy way out 752 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,681 # The day's moving just too fast for me... # 753 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,360 Noel was like, "That sounds great. That'll do." 754 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,488 And they let me do exactly what I wanted. 755 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,720 And there was this new box and you could make things twice as loud 756 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,680 without going into digital distortion on your CD. 757 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,084 It was in every fucking jukebox in the country, twice as loud. It was funny as fuck, man. 758 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,080 It's just a pity that Definitely Maybe came out 759 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,360 and then we didn't see Alan for a couple of years. 760 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:25,840 I took too many drugs. 761 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,040 More and more and more, that's what we were all about, 762 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,407 and eventually it was too much. 763 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,760 It's just that's what happens, isn't it? When you play with fire, mate. 764 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,491 Some people can last the pace, some people can't. 765 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,410 Do you know what? I don't regret any of that shit. 766 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:40,920 That's just life. 767 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,880 We didn't know it then, but he was the last of a dying breed. 768 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:47,200 He's up there with the most important people In my life, you know what I mean, 769 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:48,770 that's made a fucking real difference. 770 00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,604 Twelve songs that are about being alive and having a good time. 771 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,120 About being happy. About enjoying yourself. 772 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,920 And then about being sad, you know what I mean? 773 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,400 But knowing that it can get better. 774 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:03,641 About everything. Just life. 775 00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:28,600 Their debut album is already being hailed as a classic of our time. 776 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,320 A year ago, they were playing to empty venues. 777 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,400 Last night, they embarked on their first UK sell-out tour. 778 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,960 One of the biggest British bands since the Beatles. 779 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,120 There isn't a band like Oasis. 780 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,600 They're trying to get the youth culture out of raves, taking drugs and stuff, 781 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,047 and back into the gigs, where they belong. 782 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,640 And they're really good, and Liam Gallagher is just gorgeous 783 00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:50,484 and I'll have his children! 784 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,000 Our first single came out in England four months ago. 785 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,120 It went into the charts at number 32. 786 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,000 Everyone said an indie band can't do that. 787 00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,640 Well, the album's gone out and it's gone in straight at number one 788 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:04,160 above Pavarotti, above Prince, even above Elvis. 789 00:45:04,240 --> 00:45:06,925 The fastest-selling debut album of all time in England, 790 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,485 and quite deservedly so. 791 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,760 - Here's Rock 'n Roll Star. Here they are! - # That to me was just a day in bed 792 00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:15,400 # I'm gonna take my car and drive real far 793 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,529 # You're not concerned about the way we are 794 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,963 # In my mind my dreams are real 795 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,805 # Now you're concerned about the way I feel 796 00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:30,331 # Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star 797 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:36,328 # Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star 798 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,529 # It's just rock 'n roll 799 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,327 # It's just rock 'n roll 800 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,569 # It's just rock 'n roll # 801 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,408 Thank you very much. 802 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,480 So next thing you know, we were going to Japan. 803 00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:17,600 What do you expect? 804 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,760 I've never been to Japan, so you think, "All right, I'm prepared," you know. 805 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:25,240 No. Nothing ever on this planet was going to prepare me. 806 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,209 Japan! Japan! 807 00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,803 We arrived in Japan and there were, fucking, like, 1,000 girls at the airport. 808 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,040 People waiting for us and shouting my name! 809 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,560 "Liam, Liam! Noel! Guigs! Tony!" 810 00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,160 It was just, like, "Fuck off! This is Japan? 811 00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:40,520 "But they know my name?" 812 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,680 "Yeah, of course they do!" It got me and I loved it. 813 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,728 I loved every last minute of it. 814 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,000 Fucking hell, they followed us everywhere, 815 00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,920 outside hotels, in the fucking foyer, 816 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,402 outside your room, in your fucking room, everywhere you went. 817 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:56,960 It was like mania, you know what I mean? 818 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:58,804 It was like what we'd always read about. 819 00:47:01,500 --> 00:47:04,967 First time in Japan. First time on a jumbo plane. 820 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,841 It was just mental, you know what I mean? Just mad! 821 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,284 Just, you're all off your heads, and it's mad. 822 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:14,925 And it's top! I love youse all. 823 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,290 I absolutely loved Japan. 824 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:18,521 It was fucking mayhem. 825 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,040 Guigs wasn't too keen on it, he was like, 826 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:22,680 "Oh, I don't know what they're fussing about." 827 00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,570 And I'm like, "Me, you fucking lunatic! That's what they're fussing about!" 828 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:28,886 Where's the toilet? 829 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,280 # Is it my imagination 830 00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:48,491 # Or have I finally found something worth living for? 831 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:59,765 # I was looking for some action 832 00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:05,361 # But all I found was cigarettes and alcohol... 833 00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:10,801 That might have been the one time in my life where I thought, "Fucking hell! Wow! 834 00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:12,200 "How has it landed here? 835 00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,200 "Why are all these people who don't speak English 836 00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:15,360 "obsessed with it already 837 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,249 "before we even fucking plugged in and played?" 838 00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:22,240 # To spend your days in the sunshine 839 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,360 # You might as well do the white line 840 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,480 # 'Cause when it comes on top 841 00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:32,640 # You got to make it happen 842 00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:35,200 # You got to make it happen # 843 00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:44,284 I was writing for a "Nancy Boys" magazine as far as they were concerned. 844 00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:46,962 I knew that I was ten years older than them. 845 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,080 I was female, and it was all blokes. 846 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:51,920 I was a mum, and I just thought, 847 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,240 "Right. I'm going to stay up later than you, I'm going to drink more than you, 848 00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,160 "I'm going to behave more badly than you," 849 00:48:57,240 --> 00:48:59,641 because I wasn't going to get this story otherwise. 850 00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:05,480 The first night in Japan, we'd all been out 851 00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,560 and it had been about 3:00 in the morning. 852 00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:11,880 My head had just hit the pillow, and the phone rang. 853 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:12,961 "Who's calling me?" 854 00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,840 I picked up the phone and it was Liam. 855 00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:17,480 "Get down here now!" 856 00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,640 So I walked down the corridor back into their room 857 00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:26,040 and Liam said to me, and honestly, it was like he was shimmering, 858 00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:30,720 he just said to me, "Do you believe in God? Do you think there's a God?" 859 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,800 And, I sort of looked at him and I said, 860 00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,320 "How did we get on to this one?" 861 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,240 And he said, "Because I don't believe there's a God, 862 00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:40,920 "because if there was a God, all that wouldn't have happened." 863 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,960 And I said, "What wouldn't have happened?" 864 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,320 I didn't know what he was on about. 865 00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,847 There was all this pent-up simmering rage. 866 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,520 I was definitely angry with life and that, I guess, you know. 867 00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,764 You know, I mean, shit with my dad and just life in general. 868 00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,200 I was an angry young man, 869 00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:05,920 so singing them songs sort of released all my shit onto other people, 870 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:07,604 but in a good way, you know what I mean? 871 00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,566 My dad, he used to knock my mum about. 872 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,685 There were many times when, like, it got like that. 873 00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,688 He never touched me, I don't know why he didn't. 874 00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,200 You know, sometimes he'd fucking, he'd want the craic 875 00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,123 instead of having to witness it. 876 00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,080 He used to kill Noel. 877 00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,766 Noel was the one that got it the most. 878 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,760 I remember Noel once saying, "If you don't get out of here, Mum, and leave him," 879 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:35,560 he says, "I'm going to kill him." 880 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,689 And I thought, "Oh, Jesus. You can't be doing time for the likes of him." 881 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,040 Yeah, my dad used to beat the living daylights out of me. 882 00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:48,000 I've never felt compelled to either talk about it or write about it. 883 00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:50,162 I know that I think it's no one else's business. 884 00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:55,560 You can't let that kind of thing affect you in any way 885 00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,406 because then you're carrying that weight all the way through life. 886 00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,120 He always thought, "You'd never leave him because you had nowhere to go to." 887 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,283 "You'll never leave me." I said, "Won't I? Try it." 888 00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,604 One night, we got the courage to get out 889 00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,046 and I left him a knife and a fork and a spoon, 890 00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:16,880 and I think I left him too much. 891 00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,009 He never once come after us, wouldn't dare. 892 00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,367 It was a sense of "See you later, we're free!" 893 00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,927 It definitely affected them, because they got very bitter. 894 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:30,360 I wouldn't say I was scarred, 895 00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,330 but everybody's childhood makes them what they are. 896 00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:38,207 You can't think about it too deeply because it would fucking drive you mad. 897 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,720 I think it benefitted me in the way that it made me withdraw into my own world 898 00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,804 and from that came the learning to play the guitar. 899 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:53,162 I guess, in some way, my old fella beat the talent into me. 900 00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,520 On Live 105, Oasis. 901 00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:04,601 Supersonic, yeah? 902 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,640 The contrast of getting on a plane and coming from Japan, 903 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,240 where the mania was like, fucking, "Blam!" 904 00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:23,760 Then getting to America, where nobody had heard of us, 905 00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:25,240 that didn't freak me out. 906 00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,483 I was ready to start again, you know what I mean? 907 00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,160 But I also knew 908 00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:33,449 that you won't get anywhere on attitude in the States. 909 00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:34,641 You've got be able to play. 910 00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:38,920 I went over there with definitely a fucking chip on my shoulder, 911 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,560 but a good chip, you know what I mean? 912 00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,720 It was like, "Look, we're going to fucking have youse and if you like us, great, 913 00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:45,245 "if you don't, I don't give a shit." 914 00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:47,560 American Customs then asked a question 915 00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,529 that would fucking blow Liam's mind, you know what I mean? 916 00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:51,800 Right, who've we got here then? 917 00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:53,800 He's a singer. 918 00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:55,480 "What's the purpose of your visit?" 919 00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,120 "You what?" "Not a fucking visit. 920 00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,009 "I'm not visiting, mate, I'm a fucking rock star. 921 00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:01,920 "I'm here to steal your soul." 922 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,480 "Okay, you can follow me now, sir. You're coming this way." 923 00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,840 There's always pressure that's on the bands to break America as well, 924 00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:17,160 you know, but breaking America quite often breaks the fucking band 925 00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:21,760 because they're that concerned about it and it's that vast. Fuck me, man. 926 00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:23,680 You have a good time and all that, but I'll tell you what, 927 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,840 when you get home, your carpet don't look the same. 928 00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,971 And we've got the two Gallagher brothers from the band Oasis. 929 00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,840 And you're playing at the Whisky tonight. Is it sold out, do you know? 930 00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,040 Of course it's sold out. 931 00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:35,320 Okay, and what have you been doing? 932 00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,080 We've just been doing loads of interviews, and gigs. 933 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,080 Working. Melissa's been making us work dead hard. 934 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:40,200 She's on top. 935 00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,480 I think what they said was there were some interviews 936 00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:44,720 and hanging out and doing work and stuff. 937 00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,440 - You're right. - I'll be the translator here. 938 00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:49,680 Diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle 939 00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:50,966 Anything else? 940 00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,600 Someone had discovered the joys of crystal meth, 941 00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,480 which is effectively like ninja speed. 942 00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,400 It's not even fun, you know what I mean? It's a fucking horrible drug. 943 00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:01,720 I don't know who fucking got it, 944 00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,485 but it was there and we all thought it was coke. 945 00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:09,280 And we were doing big fucking lines of it and it just fucking kept us up for days. 946 00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:10,840 Everybody had a dig at it. 947 00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:13,840 The only problem with that is that you couldn't get to sleep. 948 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:14,920 You couldn't sleep. 949 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:18,880 Right, I don't mind having a dig at anything as long as, you know, 950 00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:21,725 about 10:30 at night, I have a cup of tea and go to bed. 951 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,200 The Whisky a Go Go on Sunset Strip, fucking hell, 952 00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,567 it's the most famous club in LA. 953 00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:28,841 We get to the sound check, 954 00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:31,482 everybody's been up all night and looked like it. 955 00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:36,285 All right, LA, Whisky a Go Go. This is the spot. 956 00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:38,320 The best band in Britain. 957 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,585 I say they're the best band in the universe. 958 00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:45,302 None other than Oasis! 959 00:54:45,720 --> 00:54:46,881 All right, Oasis! 960 00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:48,607 And there you have it. 961 00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,847 This one's called Rock 'n Roll Star. 962 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:15,840 # I live my life in the city and there's no easy way out... 963 00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:17,040 Everyone was appalling. 964 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,800 Every member of the crew, every member of the fucking band 965 00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:21,120 because of crystal meth. 966 00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,680 Phil Smith, our roadie, 967 00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:28,920 who was responsible for putting the set lists out, 968 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,685 for some reason, my set list was different to everybody else's. 969 00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,724 # You're not concerned about the way we are... 970 00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,720 They were all playing different songs at the same time. 971 00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:40,802 "Whoa! What's going on here?" 972 00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,320 # Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star... 973 00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:47,961 It was a shambles, man. It was an absolute fucking shambles. 974 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,970 # Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll... # 975 00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,323 Do it again for you, you know? 976 00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,400 The whole thing just fell apart. 977 00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:00,960 I've never seen it with this band before. 978 00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:02,360 All right, Rock 'n Roll Star. 979 00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:03,441 Again. 980 00:56:07,240 --> 00:56:09,560 I think there were a lot of tension on stage, 981 00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:11,449 a lot of gesturing between Noel and Liam. 982 00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:13,480 Well, more from Liam to Noel. 983 00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:15,800 And then the tambourine came flying. 984 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:16,920 I think he said summat 985 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,400 and I fucking launched the tambourine at him or summat. 986 00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:22,400 Not like the Bruce Lee throwing-star or a fucking lightsabre, 987 00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:23,480 it was a tambourine. 988 00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:26,000 But when it hit me on the shoulder it went, "Tshhh!" 989 00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:27,411 Out of time, I might add. 990 00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,406 It was lucky I didn't fucking launch a monitor at him or summat, or a fucking drummer. 991 00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:33,641 What? 992 00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,960 I could see Liam was going behind one of the amps throughout the gig, man, 993 00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,880 and he was just snorting lines of crystal meth on stage. 994 00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:43,610 "That's going to go tits up, isn't it?" 995 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:55,400 It was a bit of a catastrophe. 996 00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:57,164 Yeah. I was in a fury. 997 00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,040 I left a little bit of me on that stage that night. 998 00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:04,408 After that night, it was more "me and them" as opposed to "us". 999 00:57:05,720 --> 00:57:10,040 I remember going back to the hotel and saying to Maggie, our tour manager, 1000 00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:11,720 I think I took the float off her. 1001 00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:13,564 Noel was quite upset about it. 1002 00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,080 He said, "Can you give me money?" And I said, "Well, what do you want?" 1003 00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:17,800 He goes, "Well, enough money to go back home." 1004 00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,850 So I just gave him, like, $700. That's all I had, I said, you know. 1005 00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:23,408 He said, "Can I have my passport?" So I gave him his passport. 1006 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,240 But I remember ringing up Marcus saying, "He's going to leave," 1007 00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:27,800 and he was like, "No, no, no, he'll be fine, be fine. 1008 00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:29,400 "He's going to sleep it off, it'll be fine, be fine." 1009 00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,642 I was like, "Oh, no, I don't think so!" 1010 00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:35,200 I don't know what I was thinking. 1011 00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,806 Maybe I thought it was the end, I really don't know. 1012 00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:40,240 He takes the money and runs. 1013 00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,200 I remember some fucking soppy note coming through the door, saying, like, 1014 00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,400 "How can we go on like brothers?" 1015 00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:47,360 It was like, "Fuck right off!" 1016 00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:48,480 So that got rolled up 1017 00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,904 and then another line of crystal meth went up the old fucking tubular bells. 1018 00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,640 So, I woke up in the morning and I found a note underneath my door 1019 00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,162 and I opened it up, and I knew it. He said, "I'm leaving." "Bollocks!" 1020 00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,121 He's gone missing. Nobody knows where he is. 1021 00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:05,680 There's our songwriter gone. 1022 00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,206 "Shit! I think it's really over, isn't it?" 1023 00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:10,600 I came up with this idea. 1024 00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:15,080 I got his bill and then I traced all the last numbers he rang. 1025 00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:16,920 And then I noticed there was one number "415," 1026 00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,040 and I thought, "Ah, San Francisco." 1027 00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,600 We've just been to San Francisco 1028 00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:24,720 and I knew that he had some little fling over there. 1029 00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:26,760 Marcus said, "I'm going to ring the number." 1030 00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,920 So he gets her on the phone and he says, "You know, we're not saying anything, 1031 00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,040 "but obviously, legally, he's a missing person, you know. 1032 00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,000 "We're going to have to have to get the police involved." 1033 00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:36,651 And the minute he hung up the phone, I said, "He's there." 1034 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,960 Let me see if I can get my story straight here. 1035 00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:44,611 I met this girl at an Oasis gig. 1036 00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,600 I must have phoned her and said, "It's fucked up here." 1037 00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,320 And I got on a plane and flew off to San Francisco. 1038 00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:52,800 I don't know what the fuck I thought I was doing. 1039 00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,400 I was just going to, like, disappear, you know. 1040 00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:57,680 It was quite a traumatic time. 1041 00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:02,000 But Talk Tonight was written about those few days 1042 00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:04,526 and out of that came that great song. 1043 00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:06,320 So it was meant to be. 1044 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:07,561 It was meant to be. 1045 00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:09,960 # Sleeping on a plane 1046 00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:12,880 # You know you can't complain 1047 00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:18,280 # You took your last chance once again 1048 00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:24,970 # I landed, stranded 1049 00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:28,641 # Hardly even knew your name 1050 00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:34,568 # I want to talk tonight 1051 00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:40,601 # Until the morning light 1052 00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:46,251 # About how you saved my life 1053 00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:51,607 # You and me see how we are # 1054 00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,920 I kind of sat in this girl's flat, probably doing too many fucking drugs 1055 00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:58,411 and being a bit fucking mad. 1056 00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:03,246 Unbeknown to me, they'd found out, "This is where we think he is." 1057 01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,120 If I close my eyes now, I can't even picture the girl. 1058 01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,090 I can't remember her name, it's a bit of a blur. 1059 01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:12,960 You meet them people in America, 1060 01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,200 you don't meet them anywhere else in the world. 1061 01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,960 They take you under their wing, you know. 1062 01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:21,120 They're spiritual people is what they are. 1063 01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:22,531 She was one of them. 1064 01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:26,440 She was saying, "What, you're going to leave? 1065 01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:27,520 "And what are you going to do?" 1066 01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:30,440 And I guess at that point I'm thinking, "Actually, that's a very good point. 1067 01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:33,330 "What am I going to do?" I can't sing. I wasn't a singer then. 1068 01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:35,280 I'm not a front man. 1069 01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,200 I just needed a bit of time out, I guess. 1070 01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:41,280 I may have been trying to teach somebody a lesson. 1071 01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:43,408 I failed miserably. 1072 01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:47,680 I think we'd heard about a couple of days that, "Yes, he's coming back." 1073 01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:49,400 It means the band is staying together 1074 01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:51,448 rather than going home and signing on the dole. 1075 01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:54,080 And obviously, by the time he's about to turn up, 1076 01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:56,600 everyone's fucking shitting it, because, you know, 1077 01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:59,604 because he can put on a stern face. 1078 01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:01,324 You know, he can unsettle you. 1079 01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:07,569 The new era started when he walked back into that hotel 1080 01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:10,360 and everything was different after that. 1081 01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:12,400 And we all had to be different 1082 01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:14,562 because if you're not with him, you're going home. 1083 01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:17,400 I'd written these new songs. 1084 01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,482 Someone had booked a recording session. 1085 01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:22,160 Like this was Oasis' fucking cure for everything. 1086 01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:23,880 "Let's go in the studio." 1087 01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:28,400 Talk Tonight, well, that's one moody fucking song, that. 1088 01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:33,160 It shows that delicate side to him... 1089 01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:35,960 ...that you just don't really see. 1090 01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:39,520 He doesn't show these emotions, Noel. He never did. 1091 01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:44,240 Apart from when you stick him behind the glass with a microphone, 1092 01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:47,800 and then he can let this emotion loose that he's got 1093 01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,531 and suddenly you can see "Noel." 1094 01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:56,925 You kind of see, almost, a little boy or summat, you know. 1095 01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:00,681 Something very, very innocent and very pure. 1096 01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:04,920 They're my favourite moments. 1097 01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,800 It's like a door opens and a bit of light comes in, 1098 01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:12,282 and then the door's shut again, you know, and he's calling you a twat. 1099 01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:24,730 # Some might say that sunshine follows thunder... # 1100 01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:28,760 In those days, I would write every day because I was fucking so driven. 1101 01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:33,926 I recognised that I was in a moment and everything that I wrote felt great. 1102 01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:40,680 There's a strange melancholy to Some Might Say 1103 01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:42,640 considering I knew it was going to be number one 1104 01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:44,240 before I even sat and wrote it. 1105 01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:45,401 I fucking knew it. 1106 01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:48,490 What is going on in this room now? 1107 01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:50,440 You can walk next door to Boyzone, yeah, go in there. 1108 01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:53,490 They'll be like, "Hey, fuck, oh, Jesus... 1109 01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:57,920 "We've got to get this fucking thing together now, because it's not in time. 1110 01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:01,447 "It's not in time, just fucking me and you going like, 'Huh!"' 1111 01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:04,880 You go in there and you hear, "Hey, do that, hey!" 1112 01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:08,040 You come in this room and it's like, you know, it's the funny farm. 1113 01:03:08,220 --> 01:03:09,840 And that's what it's all about, it's like, 1114 01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:13,040 "Do what you friggin' want." If you want to go like that, do it, 1115 01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:15,480 because it don't mean nothing. If you want to go... Do that. 1116 01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:19,600 If you want to go... "Hey, fuck man." Like, "Hey, fuck," right? 1117 01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:20,720 You can do that. 1118 01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:22,720 But if you want to just do this... 1119 01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:25,121 ...what I'm doing here now, just do it, because it's like... 1120 01:03:25,240 --> 01:03:28,200 This is an advert for not taking drugs. 1121 01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:29,960 This is an advert? It's an advert? 1122 01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:32,320 This is an advert for not getting into chemical abuse, big time. 1123 01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:34,040 No, no, hey, hey, hey! 1124 01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:37,280 People who know, know that I have not been a fucking... 1125 01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:38,520 I've never been an abuser. 1126 01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:41,600 I've never been an abuser, I've been a user. 1127 01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:45,200 I've never been an abuser, man. Nothing to do with drugs. 1128 01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:48,440 It's to do with the air, the air, man, and music. 1129 01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:51,600 And that is it, that is it, and I'm ranting now, come on! 1130 01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:52,841 You know what I mean? It's right. 1131 01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:54,411 That's it. That's it. 1132 01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:56,240 Giving a performance of their brand-new song. 1133 01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:59,642 It's the best song around. It is Some Might Say! 1134 01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:19,930 # Some might say that sunshine follows thunder 1135 01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:28,482 # Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine # 1136 01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:32,808 Yeah, and that was Tony's last gig. 1137 01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:35,560 Yeah, I'd probably made up my mind 1138 01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:37,680 knowing that Champagne Supernova was coming up 1139 01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:40,720 and Don't Look Back In Anger, and Wonderwall, 1140 01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:43,883 that he wasn't going to be able to play those songs. 1141 01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:49,280 It had become apparent recording Definitely Maybe. 1142 01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:53,400 We spent a lot of time fucking about trying to get the drums right. 1143 01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:54,561 And it was never right. 1144 01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:57,524 When we were doing Some Might Say and stuff, 1145 01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:58,920 Noel was like, to me, 1146 01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:01,720 "That's the fucking last time he's ever in the fucking studio." 1147 01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,640 I was going to Tony, "Tony, you've got to get your shit together, Tony. 1148 01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:06,131 "Or bye, Tony." 1149 01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:10,247 Drummers are really smelly, useless, talentless losers, man. 1150 01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:13,080 I mean, fancy having a job where you bang things all day. 1151 01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:15,160 I thought orangutans do that, don't they? 1152 01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:16,640 Gorillas and monkeys and that. 1153 01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:20,410 They just bang things, like bang dustbin lids on their heads and all that. 1154 01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:21,920 Well, that's what they do, isn't it? 1155 01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:23,800 And drummers just do it and get paid loads of money for it. 1156 01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:26,008 Fucking sack them all. Drum machines, I say, man. 1157 01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:28,080 I'm telling you, can't wait to say I'm in a dance band. 1158 01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:30,840 Press the button, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk." Doesn't answer back, don't have to feed it. 1159 01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:32,640 Don't have to pay no money, don't have to buy it any drugs. 1160 01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:34,360 Don't have to get it any women, don't have to do nothing. 1161 01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:36,000 Put it on a flight, "Fuck it, in the back of the truck," 1162 01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:37,827 and never have to speak to it again. 1163 01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:42,520 As it went through that American tour, it got really nasty with Tony, 1164 01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:44,760 and you'd have to feel for the boy. 1165 01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:48,562 I'd hold my hands up and say, I gave him a terrible time as well. 1166 01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:52,000 And I shared a room with him. 1167 01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:53,200 Tony would just pour it out, you know. 1168 01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:54,560 "Fucking hell, Bonehead, do you know? 1169 01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:57,040 "People are getting at me, and people are doing this?" 1170 01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:59,407 It was hard for me to be the guy in the middle. 1171 01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:03,368 Maybe I talked to Noel, talked to Liam, "Look, go easy on the guy, man." 1172 01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:06,560 I was quite a reserved guy. 1173 01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:09,400 I think people might have looked at that as some kind of weakness, 1174 01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:12,960 but no, I didn't want to be the leader. 1175 01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:14,804 I'll sit back here and do my drums. 1176 01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:19,000 You know, like, when a pack of feral dogs exclude one puppy, 1177 01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:20,320 it became like that, I think. 1178 01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:24,400 Our Kid, I just think, made his mind up, you know what I mean, 1179 01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:25,800 and just didn't fancy him. 1180 01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:27,680 "He's not going to be able to do these next songs." 1181 01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:30,206 Or "I don't want him to do it," you know what I mean? 1182 01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:34,123 Yeah, I mean, I'm gutted for him, but it is what it is, man. 1183 01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:36,680 I had an argument with Noel. 1184 01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:38,880 He said something, and I finally went, "Fuck you, mate." 1185 01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:40,640 You know what I mean, "Fuck off." 1186 01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:43,520 I told him in no uncertain words what I thought of him. 1187 01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:45,045 I kind of regret that a touch. 1188 01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:50,080 We might have had words. It's quite likely, I don't know. 1189 01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:54,324 Whatever he says is probably true. I wouldn't deny it at all. 1190 01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:57,800 I was at home and Marcus phoned. 1191 01:06:57,880 --> 01:06:59,640 He says, "Are you sat down? 1192 01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:03,720 "Listen, I've got some bad news for you. The band want you out." 1193 01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,040 I was shell-shocked. 1194 01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:08,440 Still, to this day, it's with me. 1195 01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:10,841 I think about it every day, believe it or not. 1196 01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:13,600 Hard for him, you know, poor old Tony, 1197 01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:17,321 but all of a sudden it's like, "Shit! We need another drummer." 1198 01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:20,571 Paul Weller's drummer had a brother called Alan. 1199 01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:22,960 And I was going, "Right, cool, I'm arsed, what does he look like?" 1200 01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:24,041 "Smegly little mod." 1201 01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:25,970 "Cool. Let's get him down here." 1202 01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:29,800 And I'd never met this guy before. 1203 01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:32,480 He starts talking about the drums 1204 01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:36,167 and I'm like, "I'm fucking not interested in how you can play. 1205 01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:38,961 "As long as you look the part, you'll do. 1206 01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:41,920 "By the way, you're doing Top of The Pops on Wednesday." 1207 01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:43,161 And that was his first thing. 1208 01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:46,560 # Some might say 1209 01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:50,122 # We will find a brighter day 1210 01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,040 # Some might say 1211 01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:58,920 # We will find a brighter day 1212 01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:04,680 # Yeah, 'cause I've been standing at the station 1213 01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:08,003 # In need of education in the rain 1214 01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:13,520 # You made no preparation 1215 01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:16,763 # For my reputation once again 1216 01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:20,604 # Some might say 1217 01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:22,526 # Some might say # 1218 01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:26,360 Morning Glory was incredibly quick and easy. 1219 01:08:26,440 --> 01:08:29,880 Rockfield, the posh studio, fucking Queen and all that. 1220 01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:32,360 Fucking Bohemian Rhapsody and all that. 1221 01:08:32,440 --> 01:08:35,840 Don't film me, Tim. Seriously. 1222 01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:37,280 Film him, Tim, film him. 1223 01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:38,520 He's giving birth? 1224 01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:39,931 I'm fucking knackered. 1225 01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:41,531 Right, play this track, man. 1226 01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:44,445 This is the nerve centre, the bridge as we call this. 1227 01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:45,561 Full steam ahead! 1228 01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:49,040 Oh, I don't know where a fucking light is. I don't know where anything is at the moment. 1229 01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:51,240 But you know where the top is, don't you? 1230 01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:53,004 Because that's where we're going, Morris. 1231 01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:56,531 - The topmost of the most popper most. - That's us. 1232 01:08:57,480 --> 01:08:59,960 Noel had the songs and the arrangements 1233 01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:03,240 and he was totally in control of the band, 1234 01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:07,480 so that first week of Morning Glory, we were doing a song a day. 1235 01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:10,160 Finished. Extraordinary. 1236 01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:11,526 He is like God, isn't he? 1237 01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:22,400 I knew the songs were a lot more richer than Definitely Maybe. 1238 01:09:22,480 --> 01:09:24,608 I knew they had, like, definitely gone up a notch. 1239 01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:32,600 I loved Owen, mental Welshman. 1240 01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:33,960 He was always setting fire to shit 1241 01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:37,160 and things were always blowing up because he had it too loud. 1242 01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:41,768 No rule book, with his big, mad laugh, going, "Yeah, let's fucking have it!" 1243 01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:44,487 They were the best times I ever had recording. 1244 01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:46,644 It's gorgeous and sexy, and... 1245 01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:52,841 Have your priorities right. 1246 01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:58,400 Liam was extraordinary. 1247 01:09:58,480 --> 01:10:02,080 And they had this freaky thing where Noel would play the song once 1248 01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:04,560 on an acoustic guitar in the control room, to Liam, 1249 01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:07,405 give him the words and he'd fucking sing it. 1250 01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:09,640 Noel would listen to it once 1251 01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:12,280 to check Liam's got the phrasing for the entire song 1252 01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:14,124 that he's only just heard the once. 1253 01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:17,040 Noel would go, "Nice one, Liam," 1254 01:10:17,120 --> 01:10:20,120 and there was always football on when Oasis were recording. 1255 01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:21,200 Noel would fuck off, 1256 01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:22,805 Liam would just bang another four tracks down. 1257 01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:25,680 This would be, like, 1:00 in the afternoon. 1258 01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:27,728 Cup of tea, lead vocal, done. 1259 01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:29,840 I was like, "What the fuck?" 1260 01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:32,287 You know, he's only heard the song once. 1261 01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:35,400 Five songs, five days, man. Fucking amazing! 1262 01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:39,000 # Slowly walking down the hall 1263 01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:42,240 # Faster than a cannonball 1264 01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:46,760 # Where were you while we were getting high? 1265 01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:50,160 # Someday you will find me 1266 01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:54,320 # Caught beneath the landslide 1267 01:10:54,400 --> 01:10:59,560 # In a champagne supernova in the sky 1268 01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,960 # Someday you will find me 1269 01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:07,200 # Caught beneath the landslide 1270 01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:10,640 # In a champagne supernova 1271 01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:13,680 # A champagne supernova 1272 01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:16,640 # Because people believe 1273 01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:22,568 # That they're going to get away for the summer 1274 01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:29,960 # But you and I, we live and die 1275 01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:32,200 # The world's still spinning round 1276 01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:36,330 # We don't know why 1277 01:11:36,440 --> 01:11:40,604 # Why, why, why, why # 1278 01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:45,041 No, we don't need that last one. 1279 01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:47,881 Yeah! 1280 01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:53,800 This is soaking the boats here. 1281 01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:55,720 The boats are the Blues. 1282 01:11:55,800 --> 01:12:00,442 Come on, the Blues! 1283 01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:03,808 Come on, the Pool! 1284 01:12:04,440 --> 01:12:06,124 It's the fucking curse of United! 1285 01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:08,866 Come on! 1286 01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:25,369 Come on, you baldy twat! 1287 01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:30,400 Fucking, hey! 1288 01:12:30,480 --> 01:12:31,760 Come on! 1289 01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:34,129 Dalglish! 1290 01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:37,521 Dalglish! 1291 01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:39,801 Come on then! 1292 01:12:43,320 --> 01:12:45,600 Good times, man. I loved it in that place, 1293 01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:47,760 but it's not fucking prison, is it, you know what I mean? 1294 01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:49,720 If I'm not needed today, 1295 01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:53,200 I'm hardly going to sit and fucking watch you play guitar, you know what I mean, like? 1296 01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:54,640 I'm fucking going to the pub. 1297 01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:56,200 But it did cause arguments. 1298 01:12:56,280 --> 01:12:57,964 Nearly. That's that then, lad. 1299 01:12:58,640 --> 01:12:59,640 So it'd always be like that. 1300 01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:02,769 "Right, he's doing his guitars, he'll be in there all fucking day, won't he? 1301 01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:04,360 "We can go to the fucking pub." 1302 01:13:04,440 --> 01:13:05,520 And he'd come out, and he'd be like, 1303 01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:07,602 "All right, guys, what does everyone think... Where is everyone?" 1304 01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:10,081 Where is everyone gone? 1305 01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:14,162 Yeah, I was a sucker for the pub, man. 1306 01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,168 You go in there one day, and you meet the local fucking drug dealer. 1307 01:13:18,480 --> 01:13:20,767 Yeah, I probably did bring a few people back one night. 1308 01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:24,811 Probably a bad move, because Noel was still working in the studio. 1309 01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:27,600 No, I shouldn't have brought them back, 1310 01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:29,680 but I thought we were a rock 'n roll band, you know what I mean? 1311 01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:31,760 I thought anything goes in Oasis, you know what I mean? 1312 01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:34,047 Obviously, the other people had rules, you know what I mean? 1313 01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:36,481 Fuck the rules, man. 1314 01:13:38,440 --> 01:13:43,880 # Sing a sad song in a lonely place 1315 01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:46,600 # Try to put a word in for me... 1316 01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:49,880 As I recall, Liam was going pretty fucking mad. 1317 01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:53,440 Somebody let a fire extinguisher off in the farmhouse. 1318 01:13:53,520 --> 01:13:56,760 I think maybe one of my guitars got damaged, and I blamed him. 1319 01:13:56,840 --> 01:14:00,000 It just exploded into a big fucking bunch of chaos 1320 01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:02,160 like you've never seen, man. 1321 01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:04,040 I ended up having a proper fight with Liam. 1322 01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:06,885 I mean, it might have been the biggest fight we ever had. 1323 01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:10,925 I remember smashing his head in with a cricket bat, yeah. 1324 01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:14,120 # What we don't touch we cannot feel... 1325 01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:16,320 The whole studio got smashed to pieces. 1326 01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:18,680 There's like loads of little bits in the corner went, "Bzzt." 1327 01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:21,480 Everything just got fucking blitzed. 1328 01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:25,640 I'm not generally an obnoxious person, dude, 1329 01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:28,600 but somebody must've got on my tits, you know what I mean? 1330 01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:29,800 Probably me not giving a fuck 1331 01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:32,406 and him trying to write fucking Bohemian Rhapsody. 1332 01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:34,921 And me sort of just going, "Bollocks! Let's have it!" 1333 01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:40,560 I do remember jumping out of a window, driving off with Whitey. 1334 01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:45,160 Liam appeared out of nowhere and threw a dustbin at the car, 1335 01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:48,560 and we'd only known Alan about two weeks and he was saying, 1336 01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:50,961 "It can't be over, I've only just joined." 1337 01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:55,000 We were like, "No, no, no, no. This is going to happen all the time." 1338 01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:58,200 And he was going, "Fucking hell, mate. What kind of fucking band is this?" 1339 01:14:58,280 --> 01:15:00,328 Go and fucking join The Troggs! 1340 01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:04,680 # We're throwing it all away # 1341 01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:06,360 Yeah, it was terrible. 1342 01:15:06,440 --> 01:15:10,720 It happened, man, but there was no need for the cricket fucking bat around my head, 1343 01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:11,881 you know what I mean? 1344 01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:17,760 Every time there was ever a scene in Oasis, 1345 01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:22,080 when we'd all got back together it was like nothing had ever happened. 1346 01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:23,720 We had a tour booked 1347 01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:26,400 and we were rehearsing in Brixton Academy. 1348 01:15:26,480 --> 01:15:29,400 It was all fine. Me and Guigs got a taxi home. 1349 01:15:29,480 --> 01:15:32,404 The next day, Guigs just doesn't show up. 1350 01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:36,730 Marcus arrives and says, "Guigs wants to leave the band." 1351 01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:40,960 What's happened to Guigs is he's had a bit of a fucking breakdown. 1352 01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:42,760 That's when you kick yourself, you know. 1353 01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:45,240 When you're that blinkered that you couldn't stop 1354 01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:47,641 and notice that your mate wasn't feeling right. 1355 01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:50,600 Any kind of chaos going on around, 1356 01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:52,040 he would have shot down, do you know what I mean? 1357 01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:53,360 Bass players are like that. 1358 01:15:53,440 --> 01:15:55,040 Guigs is a gentle soul, you know what I mean? 1359 01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:57,520 He wasn't like me and Noel, or like Bonehead. 1360 01:15:57,600 --> 01:15:59,920 You know, we were fucking pretty mental. 1361 01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:02,900 He was suffering from nervous exhaustion... 1362 01:16:03,480 --> 01:16:05,520 ...as rock stars always are. 1363 01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:07,200 "My nerves are exhausted." 1364 01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:10,600 Or "My exhaustion is fucking getting me nervous," I don't know. 1365 01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:12,967 I never had it myself. It's a funny thing. 1366 01:16:13,440 --> 01:16:14,760 Maybe he smoked too much weed. 1367 01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:17,560 Maybe he just needed a breather, you know what I mean? 1368 01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:21,600 We weren't the kind of band that was like, "Oh, poor Guigs," or "Poor Liam." 1369 01:16:21,680 --> 01:16:24,640 It was like, "Fuck that cunt! We've got shit to do, man." 1370 01:16:24,720 --> 01:16:25,920 We went for Scott MacLeod 1371 01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:28,970 from a little band that we'd played with in the past called The Ya Ya's. 1372 01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:31,240 What a great job he got, didn't he? 1373 01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:33,163 "Do you fancy being bass player in Oasis?" "Fucking yes!" 1374 01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:38,480 I don't know how long it was before we got on the plane to go to the States, 1375 01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:39,925 but even that was chaos. 1376 01:16:49,480 --> 01:16:52,280 We were on the way to New York to do David Letterman. 1377 01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:54,600 Maggie, our tour manager, God bless that woman, 1378 01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:58,040 we put her through absolute fucking hell, 1379 01:16:58,120 --> 01:16:59,680 she came in kind of half-laughing, going, 1380 01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:01,520 "You're not going to guess what's just happened. 1381 01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:04,285 "Scott's just told me he wants to, like, quit." 1382 01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:06,440 And I remember going to the back lounge and saying to him, 1383 01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:08,120 "Mate, what? What? What?" 1384 01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:12,360 And he said these words, "I'm just missing my bird." 1385 01:17:12,440 --> 01:17:14,960 You know, there's people who are cut out for it and there's people that ain't. 1386 01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:18,000 He might have just gone "You know what, this is not for me." 1387 01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:21,451 It's either that or his bird must have been fit as fuck, you know what I mean? 1388 01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:24,080 I always take things like that. 1389 01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:26,800 I would always laugh my way through it and think, even you know, 1390 01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:29,200 as you're driving into America to do David Letterman, 1391 01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:31,840 and the bass player that's standing in 1392 01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:34,840 for the bass player who's got nervous exhaustion, is saying, 1393 01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:37,681 "I can't handle it any more." You're laughing, going, 1394 01:17:38,040 --> 01:17:41,520 "We must be the biggest bunch of cunts in the world, 1395 01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:45,320 "because our mate is fucking sat at home watching the cricket, 1396 01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:46,880 "he don't want to be in a band with us. 1397 01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:50,282 "This fucking clown here, who's on the dole in England, 1398 01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:52,040 "he don't want to be either! What? 1399 01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:55,283 "I mean, are we like the biggest three cunts in the world?" 1400 01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:57,280 It didn't deter us. 1401 01:17:57,360 --> 01:18:00,040 We got to New York. Bonehead got up. 1402 01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:02,646 "You're playing bass and we do it as a four-piece." 1403 01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:06,200 Our next guests are the most popular rock 'n roll band in Britain today. 1404 01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:08,840 Can you guys prove it, seriously? How would we know? Are you really? 1405 01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,000 Okay, I'll take your word for it, all right, okay, I believe you. 1406 01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:14,120 I'm going to believe you this time, but if there's trouble later 1407 01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:15,240 with the equipment missing... 1408 01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:16,526 All right, just relax. 1409 01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:20,446 # Need a little time to wake up 1410 01:18:21,480 --> 01:18:24,800 # Need a little time to wake up, wake up 1411 01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:28,000 # Need a little time to wake up 1412 01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:31,600 # Need a little time to rest your mind 1413 01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:35,082 # You know you should so I guess that you might as well 1414 01:18:38,240 --> 01:18:41,360 # What's the story, morning glory? 1415 01:18:41,440 --> 01:18:42,566 # Well? # 1416 01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:44,560 Being in the best band 1417 01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:46,880 and the most important band of your generation 1418 01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:49,042 shouldn't be a walk in the park, you know what I mean? 1419 01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:52,440 We come back to England, 1420 01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:54,800 we got these gigs coming up, they're sold out. 1421 01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:57,804 They're going to be monumental. We didn't have a bass player. 1422 01:18:58,560 --> 01:18:59,846 Radio One... 1423 01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:03,000 The biggest ever indoor gig in Britain 1424 01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:07,280 will rock the capital tomorrow night as Oasis roll into London. 1425 01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:10,680 They'll play two blistering sets over the weekend at Earls Court 1426 01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:13,161 in front of nearly 40,000 fans. 1427 01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:14,880 - Hey, Noel? - Hello. 1428 01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:16,166 Rumours of a split, or what? 1429 01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:17,960 A banana split, yeah. 1430 01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:19,440 Yeah, where's the rest of the band tonight then? 1431 01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:20,521 Who cares? 1432 01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:23,411 Marcus was saying "We'll just cancel everything," 1433 01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:26,080 to a chorus of, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! What the fuck? 1434 01:19:26,160 --> 01:19:27,880 "That's not how we run shit." 1435 01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:32,080 If my fucking mum has got to play bass, that gig is happening. 1436 01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:36,720 I think we gave Guigs first refusal, and said, "Are you going to do this gig, or what?" 1437 01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:38,320 I remember just getting a message like, 1438 01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:40,000 "Guigsy is going to come back and do the gig." 1439 01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:41,480 Hallelujah! 1440 01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:43,000 But then there was a part of me thinking, 1441 01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:44,720 "Oh, God, is he going to come on and just collapse?" 1442 01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:45,926 It was pretty hairy. 1443 01:19:46,440 --> 01:19:47,840 We were never fussed about it, it was like, 1444 01:19:47,920 --> 01:19:51,320 "Have a nice fucking rest, did you, you lazy fucker? 1445 01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:53,040 "I didn't even know you'd fucking gone! 1446 01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:56,000 "What, you had a fucking breakdown? Fuck, when did that happen?" 1447 01:19:56,080 --> 01:20:00,040 Look, Oasis wasn't for wimps, so I was glad Guigs came back. 1448 01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:02,280 You know what I mean, he was part of the band, 1449 01:20:02,360 --> 01:20:04,044 but the show must go on. 1450 01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:25,561 Are we going to have it away in here tonight, or what? Come on! 1451 01:20:56,560 --> 01:21:00,400 # I don't know what it is that makes me feel alive 1452 01:21:00,480 --> 01:21:04,480 # I don't know how to wake the things that sleep inside 1453 01:21:04,560 --> 01:21:10,044 # I only want to see the light that shines behind your eyes 1454 01:21:12,480 --> 01:21:16,360 # There are many things that I would like to know 1455 01:21:16,440 --> 01:21:20,280 # And there are many places that I wish to go 1456 01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:26,049 # But everything's depending on the way the wind may blow 1457 01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:35,609 # Because we need each other 1458 01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:39,040 # We believe in one another 1459 01:21:39,120 --> 01:21:42,960 # And I know we're going to uncover 1460 01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:45,281 # What's sleeping in our soul... 1461 01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:49,000 There were days when you were in the zone, you know what I mean, 1462 01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:51,000 where you could just stand perfectly fucking still 1463 01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:53,400 while there's all this chaos going on around you 1464 01:21:53,480 --> 01:21:55,400 and all these kids are just fucking leaping about 1465 01:21:55,480 --> 01:21:58,051 and the sound's like pumping, roaring. 1466 01:21:58,600 --> 01:22:02,600 I'd just be stood completely fucking still like a boxer just thinking, 1467 01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:05,720 "This is the best feeling in the world." 1468 01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:06,801 Pure control. 1469 01:22:09,440 --> 01:22:12,250 Not feeling the need to join the madness. 1470 01:22:13,120 --> 01:22:16,169 Just absolute fucking still. 1471 01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:22,084 # Because we need 1472 01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:25,091 # Because we believe # 1473 01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:38,801 Cheers. 1474 01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:48,207 Liam Gallagher, Sunday, pre-fucking the Liquid Room. 1475 01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:51,401 One word? 1476 01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:54,040 Sausages. What? 1477 01:22:57,720 --> 01:22:59,960 Liam was always cooler than me, I think. 1478 01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:02,360 He had a better walk and clothes looked better on him 1479 01:23:02,440 --> 01:23:04,600 and he was taller, and he had a better haircut. 1480 01:23:04,680 --> 01:23:06,281 And he was funnier. 1481 01:23:07,560 --> 01:23:11,360 Liam clearly would have liked to have had my talent as a songwriter. 1482 01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:22,000 And there's not a day goes by when I don't wish 1483 01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:23,650 I could rock a parka like that man. 1484 01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:33,240 I know Noel thinks I'm doing okay. 1485 01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:36,200 We didn't need to pat each other on the back and go, "Oh, you're great." 1486 01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:38,248 Me and him are like telepathic, you know what I mean? 1487 01:23:39,040 --> 01:23:40,040 Kiss for the camera. 1488 01:23:40,120 --> 01:23:43,120 There was a period where he was the greatest singer in the world, 1489 01:23:43,200 --> 01:23:44,840 added to that, the greatest front man, 1490 01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:47,160 added to that he was a fucking good-looking boy as well. 1491 01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:48,800 They were the magic years, you know. 1492 01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:50,950 The trick is keeping that shit going. 1493 01:23:52,320 --> 01:23:55,840 What's all that about Liam walking off the stage or something? 1494 01:23:55,920 --> 01:23:56,920 What happened there? 1495 01:23:57,000 --> 01:23:58,440 He does it all the time, now. He does it... 1496 01:23:58,520 --> 01:23:59,521 It's part of the show? 1497 01:23:59,960 --> 01:24:01,644 Liam, Liam! 1498 01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:04,320 It never dawned on me to be a singer 1499 01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:06,440 until he started walking off stage in the middle of gigs 1500 01:24:06,520 --> 01:24:08,280 and it's kind of like, "Oh, fucking hell," you know. 1501 01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:11,011 "We've got another 40 minutes left here, someone had better do something." 1502 01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:30,560 I had problems, man, with my throat. Just probably caning it too much. 1503 01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:32,480 Fucking screaming, shouting, I don't know. 1504 01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:36,520 Singing them songs the way I sing them is like being in a boxing match. 1505 01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:38,090 It takes its wear and tear. 1506 01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:42,360 And, of course, what happened, nine times out of ten, 1507 01:24:42,440 --> 01:24:44,160 was I'd take over. 1508 01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:46,000 But the more you'd finish the gigs, 1509 01:24:46,080 --> 01:24:48,162 the more it enabled him to do it, 1510 01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:49,600 and then he'd just do it at the drop of a hat. 1511 01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:51,648 Just give us a minute, right? 1512 01:24:51,760 --> 01:24:53,728 I'm going to have to sing for you, right, sorry. 1513 01:24:56,160 --> 01:24:58,800 I never ever could not be arsed getting on that stage. 1514 01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:01,201 I fucking take massive offence to that. 1515 01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:06,480 That's one of the reasons why I had to start doing vocals, 1516 01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:07,561 you know what I mean? 1517 01:25:07,680 --> 01:25:10,240 And then I thought, "Oh, hang on a minute. This is all right. 1518 01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:13,403 "That girl's staring at me, that's even better." 1519 01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:15,720 Wonderwall, actually you guys have been doing for a while. 1520 01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:17,800 - Noel's been doing it acoustically. - Yeah. 1521 01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:20,000 How did that come about? 1522 01:25:20,080 --> 01:25:23,040 He just decided he wanted to do an acoustic song, which is cool. 1523 01:25:23,120 --> 01:25:25,200 But now when we get back to England we're going to spread it out, 1524 01:25:25,280 --> 01:25:26,560 we're going to do it as a band. 1525 01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:29,320 - Are you still having a good time? - Yeah, I'm rocking, yeah. 1526 01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:31,480 When I'm allowed to do the job, 1527 01:25:31,560 --> 01:25:33,640 that thing's good, yeah, I'm happy. 1528 01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:35,722 When I'm not allowed to do the job, I'm not happy. 1529 01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:41,000 He's a great fucking songwriter and always will be, 1530 01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:43,000 but singing's my gig. 1531 01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:44,800 If you're going to start singing the fucking songs 1532 01:25:44,880 --> 01:25:47,724 as well as writing them, what am I doing, making the fucking tea? 1533 01:25:49,080 --> 01:25:50,880 All the coming off, and the "I'm doing this tune." 1534 01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:54,600 I was walking on stage like a fucking yo-yo, you know what I mean, half the time. 1535 01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:57,000 "Here he comes, here he goes, here he comes. 1536 01:25:57,080 --> 01:25:59,720 "Leave it out! You're taking the piss, mate!" 1537 01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:03,600 So therefore there will be a bit of frustration and the wheels might come off tonight. 1538 01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:06,761 I've left once. 1539 01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:08,920 For a long period? 1540 01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:10,920 A couple of weeks. Shouldn't have come back. 1541 01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:12,760 Biggest mistake I ever made was coming back. 1542 01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:14,720 Because Morning Glory would have been my first solo album 1543 01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:16,245 and I'd have had a load of fucking money. 1544 01:26:16,480 --> 01:26:18,720 Yeah, I mean, you know, Our Kid has left on a couple of occasions, 1545 01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:22,680 and been sacked on a couple of occasions actually. But, yeah, I suppose... 1546 01:26:22,760 --> 01:26:25,440 How does that work? Four-fifths of vote sort of thing? 1547 01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:28,171 Oh, no, I just sack him. "You? Out!" 1548 01:26:29,160 --> 01:26:32,840 Noel said in the music papers the other day about 1549 01:26:32,920 --> 01:26:35,446 - "Only a couple more records." - About him leaving the band? 1550 01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:38,440 I think he's got loads and loads of albums left inside him 1551 01:26:38,520 --> 01:26:41,880 and us as a band have got loads and loads of gigs to do 1552 01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:44,400 and things to do, and can make them, you know what I mean? 1553 01:26:44,480 --> 01:26:48,000 I don't feel no way we're splitting up, right. I'm not into that at all. 1554 01:26:48,080 --> 01:26:51,000 But if he feels it, then he feels it, you know what I mean? 1555 01:26:51,080 --> 01:26:53,162 A good slap around the jaw, man, will change his mind. 1556 01:26:55,200 --> 01:26:59,046 This is yet another song with shit lyrics... Wonderwall. 1557 01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:17,080 # Today was going to be the day they were going to throw it back to you 1558 01:27:17,160 --> 01:27:22,080 # By now, you should have somehow realised what you've got to do 1559 01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:28,088 # I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now... 1560 01:27:28,400 --> 01:27:31,880 Morning Glory took on a life of its own after Wonderwall 1561 01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:35,640 and then Don't Look Back In Anger came consecutively as singles. 1562 01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:38,120 Then, it just blew up all over the world. 1563 01:27:38,200 --> 01:27:40,771 # And all the lights that lead the way are blinding 1564 01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:46,600 # There are many things that I would like to say to you 1565 01:27:46,680 --> 01:27:48,011 # But I don't know how 1566 01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:51,004 # I don't know how 1567 01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:55,520 # I said maybe 1568 01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:56,720 # You're going to be the one that saves me 1569 01:27:56,800 --> 01:28:00,080 The songs on that record, they're extraordinary songs, 1570 01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:03,080 and they're not extraordinary songs because of anything that I did. 1571 01:28:03,160 --> 01:28:05,760 I only wrote them, and we only played them. 1572 01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:09,800 It's the millions of people since who fucking sing them back to you to this day 1573 01:28:09,880 --> 01:28:11,644 that have made them extraordinary. 1574 01:28:15,480 --> 01:28:19,690 # Today was going to be the day but they'll never throw it all back to you 1575 01:28:20,880 --> 01:28:25,647 # By now, you should have somehow realised what you're not to do 1576 01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:32,086 # I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now 1577 01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:35,040 There's nothing better than singing them songs, man, to the people. 1578 01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:36,840 Fucking blast their souls. 1579 01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:38,560 And them just going fucking apeshit. 1580 01:28:38,640 --> 01:28:40,768 # And all the roads we have to walk are winding 1581 01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:46,240 # And all the lights that light the way are blinding 1582 01:28:46,800 --> 01:28:50,720 # There are many things that I would like to say to you 1583 01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:53,320 # But I don't know how 1584 01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:55,880 # I don't know how 1585 01:28:55,960 --> 01:28:58,964 # Because maybe 1586 01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:03,844 # You're going to be the one that saves me 1587 01:29:04,320 --> 01:29:11,249 # And after all, you're my Wonderwall 1588 01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:18,440 # I said maybe 1589 01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:27,840 # You're going to be the one that saves me 1590 01:29:27,920 --> 01:29:31,811 # You're going to be the one that saves me # 1591 01:29:41,280 --> 01:29:43,080 Maine Road, and the streets surrounding it 1592 01:29:43,160 --> 01:29:46,209 really are a stone's throw from where I was born. 1593 01:29:46,520 --> 01:29:49,842 That really was a homecoming gig, you know, it was, for all of us. 1594 01:29:53,570 --> 01:29:55,891 Cheers, thank you very much. 1595 01:29:56,200 --> 01:29:58,920 I'm a Man City supporter and have been all my life. 1596 01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:02,721 To be offered to play at a gig like that, it was unbelievable. 1597 01:30:04,040 --> 01:30:08,170 We still felt like a cult band selling out two nights at a stadium. 1598 01:30:10,320 --> 01:30:13,403 From the greatest band in the world to the greatest fans in the world. Good night! 1599 01:30:16,120 --> 01:30:19,440 I remember sitting in a box on my own 1600 01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:22,126 watching the stadium emptying, with the floodlights on, 1601 01:30:22,240 --> 01:30:23,760 trying to appreciate it, 1602 01:30:23,840 --> 01:30:26,002 thinking, "Where does it go from here?" 1603 01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:29,081 But then almost immediately, bang, you're into a party. 1604 01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:32,800 Still to come, it's gone thirteen times platinum, 1605 01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:36,240 it charted a year ago today, is it the greatest album ever written? 1606 01:30:36,320 --> 01:30:39,080 I think it's fair to say that (What's The Story) Morning Glory 1607 01:30:39,160 --> 01:30:41,760 is probably one of the biggest-selling albums of all time. 1608 01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:44,880 Without doubt, the biggest band around in Britain at the moment is Oasis. 1609 01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:47,964 The fastest-selling album of the decade. 1610 01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:50,011 What? Are you asking me if I'm happy? 1611 01:30:50,160 --> 01:30:52,401 Listen, I've got £87 million in the bank. 1612 01:30:52,640 --> 01:30:55,200 I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got three stalkers, 1613 01:30:55,280 --> 01:30:57,680 I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City. 1614 01:30:57,760 --> 01:30:59,800 I'm part of the greatest band in the world. 1615 01:30:59,880 --> 01:31:02,770 Am I happy with that? No I'm not! I want more! 1616 01:31:10,720 --> 01:31:12,840 Well, we've got the Oasis brothers here. 1617 01:31:12,920 --> 01:31:14,320 - What do you think about it tonight? - Boring. 1618 01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:16,080 - I thought we should have won more. - Really? 1619 01:31:16,160 --> 01:31:18,240 Yeah. We should have been voted the Best Rap Artist. 1620 01:31:18,320 --> 01:31:19,960 I thought he should have been voted Best Band 1621 01:31:20,040 --> 01:31:21,769 because he's got seven personalities. 1622 01:31:25,200 --> 01:31:26,240 Oasis. 1623 01:31:26,320 --> 01:31:28,288 - Oasis. - Oasis, Wonderwall. 1624 01:31:32,600 --> 01:31:35,120 What does a Brit Award mean? Fuck all. 1625 01:31:35,200 --> 01:31:38,761 In the grand scheme of things, all that shit was irrelevant. 1626 01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:43,248 Has-beens shouldn't present fucking awards to gonna-bes. 1627 01:31:45,760 --> 01:31:50,560 One of the heads of the Brits said, "This will ruin your career." 1628 01:31:50,640 --> 01:31:52,280 You fucking bell-end! 1629 01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:54,601 If anyone's going to ruin my career, it's going to be me, not you. 1630 01:32:00,160 --> 01:32:02,080 The one voted for by the fans means a lot. 1631 01:32:02,160 --> 01:32:04,322 Anything that's voted for by fans is special. 1632 01:32:04,440 --> 01:32:08,001 Anything that's voted for by idiots, corporate pigs, means nothing to us. 1633 01:32:08,680 --> 01:32:11,120 You know, because really the music, fuck all that. 1634 01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:14,124 Writing songs is difficult. Talking shit is easy. 1635 01:32:15,240 --> 01:32:17,640 When I do an interview, I'm there to be a fucking gob-shite 1636 01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:20,121 and to cause as much fucking trouble as possible. 1637 01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:24,080 As soon as people realise that the majority of people in this country take drugs, 1638 01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:25,969 then, I mean, the better off we'll all be. 1639 01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:28,840 Everybody does it. You do it, you do it, you do it. 1640 01:32:28,920 --> 01:32:31,280 You do it, you do it, you do it and you do it. 1641 01:32:31,360 --> 01:32:34,440 He doesn't do it... Because he's a Buddhist. 1642 01:32:34,520 --> 01:32:37,000 You know, it's like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning. 1643 01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:38,964 ...is as common as having a cup of tea. 1644 01:32:39,680 --> 01:32:41,640 It was immediately condemned by politicians 1645 01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:43,768 with one minister calling him a "spoiled brat". 1646 01:32:44,560 --> 01:32:45,920 The press lapped that shit up 1647 01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:49,840 because no one had ever come along that was even remotely like us. 1648 01:32:49,920 --> 01:32:52,810 We were the biggest band in the country 1649 01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:54,126 and we didn't give a fuck. 1650 01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:56,120 I was asked a question, I gave my opinions 1651 01:32:56,200 --> 01:32:58,089 and there's nothing that them or anyone else can do about it. 1652 01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:01,480 We don't really care what they write about us in the press 1653 01:33:01,560 --> 01:33:03,040 as long as we're on the cover. 1654 01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:04,720 They can write anything they want about us inside, 1655 01:33:04,800 --> 01:33:06,848 but as long as we are on the cover, then it don't matter. 1656 01:33:07,760 --> 01:33:10,480 It'd do your head in sometimes when they were writing shit about you and that 1657 01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:11,960 and fucking outside your house and stuff, 1658 01:33:12,040 --> 01:33:13,849 but that's what I signed up for, you know what I mean? 1659 01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:16,931 Liam? Can we have a quick picture? Liam? 1660 01:33:18,120 --> 01:33:20,360 You know the story, it's in the papers, that's what's going on. 1661 01:33:20,440 --> 01:33:22,240 Second to the singing was being the ultimate, 1662 01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:26,081 number-one fucking rock star in this fucking country and that's what I was. 1663 01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:29,520 I remember going in a pub some days at like 11:00. 1664 01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:31,680 By 12:30, people would be dancing on the tables 1665 01:33:31,760 --> 01:33:33,205 and snorting cocaine, you know what I mean? 1666 01:33:33,320 --> 01:33:35,840 You're like, "Fucking hell, I only went in for a fucking pint and a read of the paper, 1667 01:33:35,920 --> 01:33:38,002 "now fucking all hell's broke loose," you know what I mean? 1668 01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:40,890 It did make life quite difficult, though. 1669 01:33:41,560 --> 01:33:47,120 The day that it steps over into the tabloids and then stays there for years, 1670 01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:50,363 then you've gone to the dark side and then the clock is ticking then. 1671 01:33:52,240 --> 01:33:56,160 It had been billed as one of the most sensational trials in pop music history. 1672 01:33:56,240 --> 01:33:58,760 Tony McCarroll, the drummer sacked by Oasis, 1673 01:33:58,840 --> 01:34:01,280 going to court in search of a multi-million-pound slice 1674 01:34:01,360 --> 01:34:02,930 of the band's annual earnings. 1675 01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:05,400 When shit like that starts out, 1676 01:34:05,480 --> 01:34:08,200 you do start thinking all the fun is taken out of it. 1677 01:34:08,280 --> 01:34:09,600 You start a band with the best intentions 1678 01:34:09,680 --> 01:34:12,570 of just trying to get a big telly and a fit bird... 1679 01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:15,680 And the next thing is is everybody's hovering around you 1680 01:34:15,760 --> 01:34:18,960 with leather man-bags full of shit for you to sign. 1681 01:34:19,040 --> 01:34:20,405 "How did it get to this?" 1682 01:34:22,040 --> 01:34:23,440 And that was the change. 1683 01:34:23,520 --> 01:34:25,720 Your mates are being slowly discarded to the side. 1684 01:34:25,800 --> 01:34:26,847 It's a business now you're in. 1685 01:34:27,840 --> 01:34:30,400 The people behind the scenes were determined to make it a brand. 1686 01:34:30,480 --> 01:34:32,130 It was even hard to get on the guest list some days. 1687 01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:36,760 At this point, the dynamic has changed that much. 1688 01:34:36,840 --> 01:34:39,286 It's now in the hands of the industry. 1689 01:34:40,560 --> 01:34:44,480 And I think the spirit of any band rapidly disappears 1690 01:34:44,560 --> 01:34:46,528 and it's all about the money. 1691 01:34:48,800 --> 01:34:53,480 Here we have Mr Mark Coyle sat looking rather subdued in the corner. 1692 01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:54,560 Fuck off! 1693 01:34:54,640 --> 01:34:56,520 Can you say that a little more graphically? 1694 01:34:56,600 --> 01:34:57,640 Fuck off! 1695 01:34:57,720 --> 01:35:00,880 Thank you, and here we have Liam... 1696 01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:03,200 Always chipper in the morning, this young man. 1697 01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:04,760 Can't get the bastard down. 1698 01:35:04,840 --> 01:35:06,280 We tried several times. 1699 01:35:06,360 --> 01:35:08,120 We've put monkeys on his back, 1700 01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:10,885 a cement mixer once and we still couldn't get the bastard down. 1701 01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:12,331 Look at that kipper! 1702 01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:13,800 When you're in a bubble, 1703 01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:16,040 sometimes you need a bit of guidance, don't you? 1704 01:35:16,120 --> 01:35:19,040 I felt like all the people that were with us at the beginning 1705 01:35:19,120 --> 01:35:20,610 were kind of getting pushed out a bit. 1706 01:35:22,120 --> 01:35:26,080 I think the best times are when everybody's together 1707 01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:27,800 and that gang is out on the road. 1708 01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:30,929 They're the best of times, doing them little gigs. 1709 01:35:31,840 --> 01:35:35,731 It does lose something when, you know, the industry grabs a hold. 1710 01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:41,324 I do recall Mark coming up to me and saying, "I don't think I can do it any more." 1711 01:35:42,080 --> 01:35:45,766 People were regularly coming into the dressing room and going, 1712 01:35:45,880 --> 01:35:47,609 "Fucking hell, that was loud." 1713 01:35:48,480 --> 01:35:52,371 I went to see a doctor with my ears, got ringing ears. 1714 01:35:52,960 --> 01:35:59,366 The doctor says to me, "Stop doing this, because you will go deaf." 1715 01:36:00,280 --> 01:36:04,444 So I left, and that was the end of my live life. 1716 01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:06,770 I'd had enough as well, I think. 1717 01:36:07,360 --> 01:36:10,600 I think he said to me in the past that he thought it had got a bit too big for him. 1718 01:36:10,680 --> 01:36:13,040 I really admire him for that. 1719 01:36:13,120 --> 01:36:15,000 I think it was a bit more than that, I think. 1720 01:36:15,080 --> 01:36:17,321 It was just getting a bit too corporate for him. 1721 01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:21,520 You know, one minute you're fucking hanging with your mates, having a craic, 1722 01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:24,809 but when management come into it, it changes, doesn't it? 1723 01:36:25,840 --> 01:36:28,889 If anybody was a fifth member of that band, it was Mark. 1724 01:36:30,280 --> 01:36:34,080 Yeah, and it made me a little bit sad that he wasn't going to be on tour any more. 1725 01:36:34,160 --> 01:36:37,800 Soon after, Phil Smith quit. 1726 01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:41,200 I still can't work out what was going through his fucking head at the time. 1727 01:36:41,280 --> 01:36:46,200 In the early days, it was the five band, Coyle and Phil, that was it. 1728 01:36:46,280 --> 01:36:50,520 Yeah, it's a shame that he wasn't around, but it's not the end of the fucking world. 1729 01:36:50,600 --> 01:36:52,568 Beginning of a new world, you know what I mean? 1730 01:36:53,320 --> 01:36:56,880 The machine goes on, and the band goes on. 1731 01:36:56,960 --> 01:36:58,610 I am not getting in the way of that. 1732 01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:02,327 Walking away from that, I'll never get over that. 1733 01:37:04,440 --> 01:37:06,249 But it was the right thing to do. 1734 01:37:57,440 --> 01:38:00,760 You can listen to their albums, but when you go to a gig 1735 01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:02,569 and there's thousands and thousands of people, 1736 01:38:03,440 --> 01:38:04,800 that's when it brings it home. 1737 01:38:04,880 --> 01:38:07,531 That's really when I feel most proud of them. 1738 01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:13,360 # Slip inside the eye of your mind 1739 01:38:13,440 --> 01:38:18,048 # Don't you know you might find a better place to play 1740 01:38:20,160 --> 01:38:23,480 # You said that you'd never been 1741 01:38:23,560 --> 01:38:28,521 # But all the things that you've seen are going to fade away 1742 01:38:30,880 --> 01:38:34,089 # Going to start a revolution from my bed 1743 01:38:35,720 --> 01:38:39,088 # 'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head 1744 01:38:40,680 --> 01:38:44,321 # Step outside, summertime's in bloom 1745 01:38:46,320 --> 01:38:50,880 # Stand up beside the fireplace Take that look from off your face 1746 01:38:50,960 --> 01:38:56,888 # 'Cause you ain't ever going to burn my heart out 1747 01:39:01,240 --> 01:39:04,760 # And so Sally can wait 1748 01:39:04,840 --> 01:39:09,528 # She knows it's too late as we're walking on by 1749 01:39:11,600 --> 01:39:15,491 # Her soul slides away 1750 01:39:16,200 --> 01:39:20,842 # But don't look back in anger I heard you say 1751 01:39:22,160 --> 01:39:26,643 I remember those gigs at The Point being, like, wildly emotional. 1752 01:39:27,680 --> 01:39:31,082 It was breathtaking, the kind of energy and the vibe in the room. 1753 01:39:32,120 --> 01:39:35,681 # My soul slides away 1754 01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:42,520 # But don't look back in anger 1755 01:39:42,600 --> 01:39:45,410 # Don't look back in anger 1756 01:39:48,320 --> 01:39:49,845 # I heard you say 1757 01:39:55,920 --> 01:39:57,968 # Least not today # 1758 01:40:05,120 --> 01:40:08,720 It's that immigrant thing, isn't it? It's that sense of identity. 1759 01:40:08,800 --> 01:40:13,010 Ireland saw them as their own, and everybody was in such a good mood. 1760 01:40:15,320 --> 01:40:18,847 So we got back to the hotel, right, so there was loads of us in this bar. 1761 01:40:20,360 --> 01:40:21,880 That hotel was fairly public 1762 01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:25,080 because Ireland didn't really have security around rock bands them days. 1763 01:40:25,160 --> 01:40:27,360 Anyone could walk in off the street. 1764 01:40:27,440 --> 01:40:30,120 My dad, we'd seen him skulking around and I thought, 1765 01:40:30,200 --> 01:40:32,043 "What the fuck is this going on?" 1766 01:40:32,480 --> 01:40:34,960 Someone turned round and said, "Your old fella's over there, 1767 01:40:35,040 --> 01:40:38,040 "with a journalist, trying to get summat going." 1768 01:40:38,120 --> 01:40:39,326 And I was about to kill him. 1769 01:40:40,760 --> 01:40:44,720 Oh, that was awful, that. I couldn't believe that that happened 1770 01:40:44,800 --> 01:40:46,370 because it really spoiled their night. 1771 01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:49,520 There was a scene. 1772 01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:51,800 I was trying to take the dignified approach. 1773 01:40:51,880 --> 01:40:54,840 Fuck him, do you know what I mean? He doesn't mean anything to me any more. 1774 01:40:54,920 --> 01:40:56,920 We were better than that. 1775 01:40:57,000 --> 01:40:59,200 Noel was saying to Liam, "Do not react." 1776 01:40:59,280 --> 01:41:00,920 He's at one end, and Noel and Liam are at the other 1777 01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:03,400 and Liam's going, "I'm going to fucking kill him." 1778 01:41:03,480 --> 01:41:05,120 And that's when they locked horns. 1779 01:41:05,200 --> 01:41:07,771 "Don't fucking react. You're not going to react." You know. 1780 01:41:09,680 --> 01:41:13,162 I was fucking steadfastly not going to get involved. 1781 01:41:13,280 --> 01:41:15,362 I did think Liam was a little bit upset. 1782 01:41:16,560 --> 01:41:19,960 To give Noel his due credit, he contained Liam 1783 01:41:20,040 --> 01:41:24,240 because Liam would have gone for him and Noel protected his brother. 1784 01:41:24,320 --> 01:41:25,920 Got him out of there 1785 01:41:26,000 --> 01:41:28,810 because they were obviously looking for, you know, the big fight. 1786 01:41:30,160 --> 01:41:33,004 I probably got calmed down by Our Kid, I think. 1787 01:41:33,240 --> 01:41:34,400 It's just pathetic, you know what I mean? 1788 01:41:34,480 --> 01:41:36,760 In front of the press with your son, you know what I mean? 1789 01:41:36,840 --> 01:41:38,365 It's like, "See you later, mate." 1790 01:41:39,520 --> 01:41:42,760 Round about that time, there was a story every couple of fucking months. 1791 01:41:42,840 --> 01:41:45,840 "Poor old fucking Dad's trying to get in touch with his famous sons, 1792 01:41:45,920 --> 01:41:49,208 "but they don't want anything to do with him," and all that bollocks. 1793 01:41:50,800 --> 01:41:53,406 He had no intentions of making up with them. 1794 01:41:53,520 --> 01:41:54,520 That was his last thought, 1795 01:41:54,600 --> 01:41:57,560 but of course he got paid from the News Of The World. 1796 01:41:57,640 --> 01:42:00,200 And then, of course, it was all over the papers the next day. 1797 01:42:35,440 --> 01:42:38,762 He's always said it was me and the three kids that ruined his life. 1798 01:42:39,400 --> 01:42:42,400 But I would just like him to know that it wasn't us that ruined his life. 1799 01:42:42,480 --> 01:42:44,005 He ruined his own life. 1800 01:42:45,920 --> 01:42:51,320 You know, it was kind of long since over, whatever was going on with my old fella. 1801 01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:53,289 All I care about is the music, you know. 1802 01:42:54,080 --> 01:42:57,280 In the end, none of this will matter. 1803 01:42:57,360 --> 01:43:01,001 When it's all said and done, what will remain is the songs. 1804 01:43:09,360 --> 01:43:10,920 I remember Marcus Russell saying to me, 1805 01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:13,640 "Do we book these big gigs just while we can?" 1806 01:43:13,720 --> 01:43:16,120 Fucking Knebworth, bigger, bigger. 1807 01:43:16,200 --> 01:43:19,480 I imagine a fucking load of money involved. 1808 01:43:19,560 --> 01:43:22,160 "See Owen, it's like a fucking truck going down a hill. 1809 01:43:22,240 --> 01:43:24,480 "It's burning and the wheels are fucking falling off. 1810 01:43:24,560 --> 01:43:26,130 "But everyone's going, 'It's fucking brilliant. ' 1811 01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:28,489 "So I don't know when it's going to end, Owen." 1812 01:43:30,480 --> 01:43:32,560 Somebody suggested that the next thing we should do 1813 01:43:32,640 --> 01:43:34,680 should be these things at Knebworth. 1814 01:43:34,760 --> 01:43:38,048 They didn't really have much significance to me. 1815 01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:40,240 But, you know, somebody's only got to whisper in my ear, 1816 01:43:40,320 --> 01:43:42,360 "Oh, these are the biggest gigs of all time," 1817 01:43:42,440 --> 01:43:43,840 and I guess, well, that's me, yeah. 1818 01:43:43,920 --> 01:43:45,840 "You've just sold it to me, thank you very much." 1819 01:43:45,920 --> 01:43:48,600 The giant stage lies dark and silent. 1820 01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:52,640 Tomorrow, that'll be the focus for 250,000 people. 1821 01:43:52,720 --> 01:43:55,960 Do you know, over 4% of the population applied for tickets for Oasis? 1822 01:43:56,040 --> 01:43:57,963 4% of the population! 1823 01:43:58,160 --> 01:43:59,520 In just over three years, 1824 01:43:59,600 --> 01:44:03,600 Oasis will have gone from being a new signing to one of rock's true giants. 1825 01:44:03,680 --> 01:44:05,440 You know, everyone was taking a big leap of faith, 1826 01:44:05,520 --> 01:44:07,680 that we were going to sell these shows out. 1827 01:44:07,760 --> 01:44:10,960 And the first one went on sale and it sold out in, like, minutes. 1828 01:44:11,040 --> 01:44:14,560 As if by magic, the sun's got his hat on. 1829 01:44:14,640 --> 01:44:15,687 Ha, hey, hey. 1830 01:44:16,600 --> 01:44:21,049 The idea was put to us, we should put another two nights on sale immediately, 1831 01:44:22,880 --> 01:44:27,160 and I think, for the first time ever, we kind of backed away. 1832 01:44:27,240 --> 01:44:29,891 I don't know, maybe we got the sense that it had become too big. 1833 01:44:30,920 --> 01:44:34,481 Then you find out afterwards that we could have done seven nights. 1834 01:44:35,160 --> 01:44:39,120 Can't believe that we only done two nights. Whose fucking great idea was that? 1835 01:44:39,200 --> 01:44:41,328 We should still be there playing right now. 1836 01:44:41,880 --> 01:44:44,451 And finally, it's been called the rock concert of the decade. 1837 01:44:44,640 --> 01:44:47,484 A quarter of a million rock fans at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. 1838 01:44:47,800 --> 01:44:51,009 In a few hours, the hype becomes reality when Oasis take to the stage... 1839 01:44:51,280 --> 01:44:52,884 John, describe the scene for us. 1840 01:44:56,120 --> 01:44:57,770 I do often think, "What was it all about?" 1841 01:44:59,200 --> 01:45:02,443 When we got to Knebworth, we'd only just become rock stars. 1842 01:45:03,520 --> 01:45:06,720 And I said to Coyle and Phil, "You're getting on that helicopter," 1843 01:45:06,800 --> 01:45:10,120 because they were our two oldest mates. 1844 01:45:10,200 --> 01:45:12,168 "Really, you should be there to see it with us. 1845 01:45:12,920 --> 01:45:15,082 "This thing that we're all part of." 1846 01:45:18,080 --> 01:45:22,881 It did feel like the end of something as opposed to the beginning of something. 1847 01:45:23,760 --> 01:45:26,160 I had a sense of that, even at Knebworth, do you know what I mean? 1848 01:45:26,240 --> 01:45:27,844 That it was never going to happen again. 1849 01:45:29,120 --> 01:45:31,240 That it happened in such a short space of time. 1850 01:45:31,320 --> 01:45:35,080 Two-and-a-half years from signing off to walking out on that stage. 1851 01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:36,161 It's just magic. 1852 01:45:37,800 --> 01:45:40,800 We were a band who had the tunes, who were grafters, 1853 01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:43,645 who came from nothing and wanted it all. 1854 01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:47,646 We were the last. We were the greatest. 1855 01:45:48,440 --> 01:45:50,249 Nothing anybody does could be as big as Oasis. 1856 01:46:02,000 --> 01:46:03,320 Never. It would never get repeated. 1857 01:46:03,400 --> 01:46:05,080 Not because we were greater or better than anyone else, 1858 01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:07,640 but just because we didn't actually give a flying fuck. 1859 01:46:07,760 --> 01:46:12,209 We've definitely got a table upstairs with the big boys, whether they like it or not. 1860 01:46:16,640 --> 01:46:21,806 It was the pre-digital age. It was the pre-talent show, reality TV age. 1861 01:46:22,760 --> 01:46:25,000 Things meant more. 1862 01:46:25,080 --> 01:46:29,130 It was just a great time to be alive, never mind a great time to be in Oasis. 1863 01:46:29,840 --> 01:46:34,360 We were about to enter into a celebrity-driven culture 1864 01:46:34,440 --> 01:46:38,520 and I've always thought that it was the last, great gathering 1865 01:46:38,600 --> 01:46:42,640 of the people before the birth of the Internet. 1866 01:46:42,720 --> 01:46:45,963 It's no coincidence that things like that don't happen any more. 1867 01:46:47,600 --> 01:46:48,960 Twenty years ago, 1868 01:46:49,040 --> 01:46:53,682 the biggest musical phenomenon was a band that came from a council estate. 1869 01:46:55,040 --> 01:46:59,480 I just think in the times in which we live, it would be unrepeatable. 1870 01:46:59,560 --> 01:47:01,280 We should be worried about that 1871 01:47:01,360 --> 01:47:04,682 because where's it going to be 20 years from now? 1872 01:47:22,640 --> 01:47:26,160 I just wanted it all, fucking there and then, you know what I mean? 1873 01:47:26,240 --> 01:47:29,881 I just wanted it all to happen in one big "fuck-off" explosion of madness. 1874 01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:33,721 I loved every minute of it. 1875 01:47:36,960 --> 01:47:39,804 It meant the be-all and end-all, man. Life or death. 1876 01:47:43,480 --> 01:47:44,920 And I wouldn't change anything. 1877 01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:47,401 I'd do it all again in a fucking heartbeat. 1878 01:48:12,440 --> 01:48:16,200 This is history! 1879 01:48:16,280 --> 01:48:19,329 Right here, right now, this is history! 1880 01:48:19,480 --> 01:48:22,131 I thought this was Knebworth, what are you on about? 1881 01:48:24,560 --> 01:48:26,722 That was my life. That band was my life. 1882 01:48:27,320 --> 01:48:31,560 So it went above and beyond anything I ever imagined. 1883 01:48:31,640 --> 01:48:33,520 That was the pinnacle for me. 1884 01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:35,967 It was like, "What the fuck do you do from there?" 1885 01:48:39,880 --> 01:48:41,609 Champagne Supernova. 1886 01:48:48,680 --> 01:48:51,240 # How many special people change? 1887 01:48:51,320 --> 01:48:54,080 # How many lives are living strange? 1888 01:48:54,160 --> 01:48:58,006 # Where were you while we were getting high? 1889 01:48:59,840 --> 01:49:02,200 # Slowly walking down the hall 1890 01:49:02,280 --> 01:49:04,920 # Faster than a cannonball 1891 01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:08,840 # Where were you while we were getting high? 1892 01:49:08,920 --> 01:49:11,446 # Someday you will find me 1893 01:49:11,800 --> 01:49:15,400 # Caught beneath the landslide 1894 01:49:15,480 --> 01:49:19,451 # In a champagne supernova in the sky 1895 01:49:19,960 --> 01:49:22,560 # Someday you will find me 1896 01:49:22,640 --> 01:49:26,120 # Caught beneath the landslide 1897 01:49:26,200 --> 01:49:29,040 # In a champagne supernova 1898 01:49:29,120 --> 01:49:32,249 # A champagne supernova in the sky 1899 01:49:42,520 --> 01:49:45,200 # Wake up the dawn and ask her why 1900 01:49:45,280 --> 01:49:47,920 # A dreamer dreams she never dies 1901 01:49:48,000 --> 01:49:51,129 # Wipe that tear away now from your eye 1902 01:49:53,480 --> 01:49:55,800 # Slowly walking down the hall 1903 01:49:55,880 --> 01:49:58,201 # Faster than a cannonball 1904 01:49:58,600 --> 01:50:02,400 # Where were you while we were getting high? 1905 01:50:02,480 --> 01:50:08,640 # Someday you will find me caught beneath the landslide 1906 01:50:08,720 --> 01:50:12,920 # In a champagne supernova in the sky 1907 01:50:13,000 --> 01:50:18,723 # Someday you will find me caught beneath the landslide 1908 01:50:19,360 --> 01:50:21,840 # In a champagne supernova 1909 01:50:21,920 --> 01:50:24,560 # A champagne supernova 1910 01:50:24,640 --> 01:50:30,727 # 'Cause people believe that they're going to get away for the summer 1911 01:50:35,200 --> 01:50:37,680 # But you and I, we live and die 1912 01:50:37,920 --> 01:50:39,480 # The world's still spinning round 1913 01:50:39,560 --> 01:50:42,530 # We don't know why 1914 01:50:43,200 --> 01:50:46,249 # Why, why, why, why... 1915 01:50:59,840 --> 01:51:02,400 It felt fucking Biblical, man. 1916 01:51:02,480 --> 01:51:05,480 It was a miracle that we even got there. 1917 01:51:05,560 --> 01:51:08,450 It was everything and more than I asked for. 1918 01:51:09,360 --> 01:51:12,040 Yeah, we felt untouchable, man. 1919 01:51:12,120 --> 01:51:13,610 Supersonic even. 1920 01:51:17,800 --> 01:51:20,360 People make the mistake of thinking 1921 01:51:20,440 --> 01:51:23,360 that the people on the stage here are defining something. 1922 01:51:23,440 --> 01:51:25,080 What if no one turns up? 1923 01:51:25,160 --> 01:51:27,360 We can all sit here and suck each other's ball bags 1924 01:51:27,440 --> 01:51:30,240 about 2. 6 million people applying for tickets, 1925 01:51:30,320 --> 01:51:34,000 but you know what's great about that... Is the 2. 6 million people 1926 01:51:34,080 --> 01:51:38,321 not anything that we did. And the people were with us. 1927 01:51:52,640 --> 01:51:54,722 # How many special people change? 1928 01:51:55,360 --> 01:51:57,960 # How many lives are living strange? 1929 01:51:58,040 --> 01:52:00,566 # Where were you while we were getting high? 1930 01:52:01,840 --> 01:52:03,888 # We were getting high # 1931 01:52:08,440 --> 01:52:11,720 My attitude then was, "More, give me more, give me more." 1932 01:52:11,800 --> 01:52:14,800 Now, looking back, I honestly think we should have just went, 1933 01:52:14,880 --> 01:52:17,042 "Thank you, every one of youse, for getting us here. 1934 01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:20,563 "We were Oasis, and good night," and walked off. 1935 01:52:21,440 --> 01:52:22,840 We should have... 1936 01:52:22,920 --> 01:52:25,571 We should have disappeared into a puff of smoke. 1937 01:52:26,880 --> 01:52:29,120 But, you know, it was my idea to keep going 1938 01:52:29,200 --> 01:52:31,760 because I keep on fishing for it, do you know what I mean? 1939 01:52:31,840 --> 01:52:33,171 I'm an addict! 1940 01:52:34,120 --> 01:52:37,329 That's what shit kickers do, they ride it until the wheels come off. 1941 01:52:39,040 --> 01:52:41,080 Just because you can't get any bigger or any higher 1942 01:52:41,160 --> 01:52:44,600 doesn't mean to say you can't keep doing it, you know what I mean? 1943 01:52:44,680 --> 01:52:47,126 Just because you kissed the sky, give it a fucking love-bite. 1944 01:52:53,520 --> 01:52:56,046 When you're on stage, who are you playing to? 1945 01:52:57,680 --> 01:52:59,680 On stage, when he turns to me, and I turn to him 1946 01:52:59,760 --> 01:53:02,320 and, like, we just both look at each other, 1947 01:53:02,400 --> 01:53:05,449 everything just clicks, and, it just like, transcends music. 1948 01:53:06,480 --> 01:53:09,370 And it's only me and him that will ever get this... 1949 01:53:10,840 --> 01:53:12,649 And that's what it's about for us. 1950 01:53:13,960 --> 01:53:16,640 Sometimes, I do look back and I think, "Well, 1951 01:53:16,720 --> 01:53:19,880 "I wish it had gone a different way," but it hasn't. 1952 01:53:19,960 --> 01:53:23,080 It's caused a lot of problems with them two, 1953 01:53:23,160 --> 01:53:26,289 but it's their life, so you have to just let them get on with it. 1954 01:53:27,520 --> 01:53:28,760 I get where she's coming from 1955 01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:31,760 because obviously me and Our Kid ain't got a relationship any more, 1956 01:53:31,840 --> 01:53:33,680 but who's to say if we'd have been a pair of fishmongers, 1957 01:53:33,760 --> 01:53:37,242 we'd have still slapped at each other with a bit of trout every now and again. 1958 01:53:37,360 --> 01:53:38,640 I guess it's like a fight. 1959 01:53:38,720 --> 01:53:41,160 We were kind of like a fucking Mike Tyson band, you know what I mean? 1960 01:53:41,240 --> 01:53:44,920 We just come in fucking blazing, knocking everyone out. 1961 01:53:45,000 --> 01:53:49,480 We were never going to do ten rounds and it was never going to get to that point. 1962 01:53:49,560 --> 01:53:51,800 At the end of the day, I weigh it up and I go, 1963 01:53:51,880 --> 01:53:56,760 "Right, did the good times outweigh the bad times? Fucking 100%!" 1964 01:53:56,840 --> 01:53:57,921 I'm happy with that. 1965 01:53:59,120 --> 01:54:03,160 You couldn't say that anybody that was ever in Oasis, 1966 01:54:03,240 --> 01:54:06,320 me included, was the best in the world at anything. 1967 01:54:06,400 --> 01:54:09,200 But when it all came together, 1968 01:54:09,280 --> 01:54:13,729 we made people feel something that was indefinable. 1969 01:54:14,640 --> 01:54:16,800 We're still the same band that was playing at the Boardwalk. 1970 01:54:16,880 --> 01:54:19,240 We virtually are wearing the same clothes. 1971 01:54:19,320 --> 01:54:25,000 All that's happened is that it's caught fire and all these people have got on board. 1972 01:54:25,080 --> 01:54:29,608 But people will never, ever, ever forget the way that you made them feel. 1973 01:54:31,520 --> 01:54:34,680 There's a chemistry between the band and the audience. 1974 01:54:34,760 --> 01:54:37,880 There's something magnetic drawing the two to each other. 1975 01:54:37,960 --> 01:54:41,280 The love, and the vibe, and the passion and the rage 1976 01:54:41,360 --> 01:54:43,408 and the joy that come in from the crowd. 1977 01:54:44,080 --> 01:54:45,969 If anything, that's what Oasis was. 1978 01:54:49,640 --> 01:54:51,880 # And then dance if you want to dance 1979 01:54:51,960 --> 01:54:53,640 # Please, brother, take a chance 1980 01:54:53,720 --> 01:54:55,200 # You know they're going to go 1981 01:54:55,280 --> 01:54:57,040 # Which way they want to go 1982 01:54:57,120 --> 01:55:03,000 # All we know is that we don't 1983 01:55:03,080 --> 01:55:04,920 # Know how it's going to be 1984 01:55:05,000 --> 01:55:06,600 # Please, brother, let it be 1985 01:55:06,680 --> 01:55:08,160 # Life on the other hand 1986 01:55:08,240 --> 01:55:11,680 # Won't make you understand 1987 01:55:11,760 --> 01:55:17,961 # We're all part of a master plan # 1988 01:55:18,305 --> 01:55:24,401 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from OpenSubtitles.org