Showing posts with label Liam Gallagher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liam Gallagher. Show all posts
Liam Gallagher
On September 26th 2017, Liam Gallagher appeared on the first episode of the new series of Later… With Jools Holland.
Blast From The Past: Liam Gallagher
On September 26th 2017, Liam Gallagher appeared on the first episode of the new series of Later… With Jools Holland.
Watch him perform a number of tracks from 'As You Were' below.
Liam Gallagher
On September 22nd 2017 Liam Gallagher played at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany.
Blast From The Past: Liam Gallagher
On September 22nd 2017 Liam Gallagher played at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany.
Watch pro footage of the full set below.
Liam Gallagher
On September 21st 2019 Liam Gallagher played an intimate homecoming gig at the O₂ Ritz in Manchester for Radio X.
Blast From The Past: Liam Gallagher
On September 21st 2019 Liam Gallagher played an intimate homecoming gig at the O₂ Ritz in Manchester for Radio X.
Watch the set in full below.
Liam Gallagher
On September 20th 2019 Liam Gallagher released his second solo album 'Why Me? Why Not.'.
Blast From The Past: Liam Gallagher
On September 20th 2019 Liam Gallagher released his second solo album 'Why Me? Why Not.'.
As You Were
Liam Albums
Liam Gallagher
As You Were
01: Wall Of Glass
02: Bold
03: Greedy Soul
04: Paper Crown
05: For What It's Worth
06: When I'm In Need
07: You Better Run
08: I Get By
09: Chinatown
10: Come Back to Me
11: Universal Gleam
12: I've All I Need
Deluxe edition bonus tracks
13: Doesn't Have To Be That Way
14: All My People/All Mankind
15: I Never Wanna Be Like You
Japanese edition bonus tracks
16: For What It's Worth (live at Air Studios)
17: Greedy Soul (live at Air Studios)
18: Paper Crown (live at Air Studios)
Release Date: October 6th 2017
Highest UK Chart Position: Number 1
Musicians
Liam Gallagher – lead vocals (all tracks), acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 3, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Greg Kurstin – bass, drums, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, percussion, mellotron, piano, organ, tanpura (tracks 1, 4, 10, 13)
Dan Grech-Marguerat – programming (tracks 2, 3, 5–8, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Davey Badiuk – programming (tracks 2, 3, 11, 12, 14)
Mike Moore – electric guitar (tracks 2, 3, 5–8, 11–13, 15), bass (track 5)
Dan McDougall – drums, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards (tracks 2–9, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Martin Slattery – keyboards, saxophone (tracks 2, 3, 5–7, 11, 12, 14)
Ben Edwards – trumpet (tracks 3, 6–8, 11)
Mark Brown – saxophone (tracks 3, 6–8, 11)
Mike Kearsey – trombone (tracks 3, 6–8, 11)
Sally Herbert – violin, string arrangement (tracks 2, 5, 6, 11, 14), brass arrangement (tracks 3, 6–8, 11)
Ian Burdge – cello (tracks 2, 5, 6, 11, 14)
Rachel Robson – viola (tracks 5, 6, 11, 14)
Tom Pigott Smith – violin (tracks 6, 11, 14)
Andrew Wyatt – acoustic guitar (track 4), drum programming, piano, bass, synth, additional guitar, production (track 9), backing vocals (track 1)
Drew McConnell – bass (track 8)
Jay Mehler – acoustic guitar, electric guitar (track 8)
Christian Madden – keyboards (track 8)
Michael Tighe – acoustic guitar (track 9)
Bridget Sarai – backing vocals (track 1)
Vicky Akintola – backing vocals (2, 3, 6, 7, 11)
Production
Greg Kurstin – production, engineering (tracks 1, 4, 10, 13), mixing (track 10)
Dan Grech-Marguerat – production, engineering (tracks 2, 3, 5–8, 11, 12, 14, 15), mixing (track 15)
Andrew Wyatt – production (track 9)
Iain Archer – original song production (tracks 2, 6)
Dan McDougall – original demo production (track 15)
Alex Pasco – engineering (tracks 1, 4, 10, 13)
Julian Burg – engineering (tracks 1, 4, 10, 13)
Ben Mclusky – engineering (track 9), engineering assistance (tracks 2, 3, 5–7, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Joseph Rogers – engineering (track 9)
Joe Rodgers – engineering (track 15)
Joel Davies – engineering assistance (tracks 2, 3, 5–8, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Charles Haydon Hicks – engineering assistance (tracks 2, 3, 5–8, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Matt Mysko – engineering assistance (track 8)
Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing (tracks 1–9, 11–14)
Richard Woodcraft – brass section recording (track 11)
Julian Simmons – brass section recording (track 11)
Brian Lucey – mastering (all tracks)
John Lennon- In Spirit (all tracks)
Design
Liam Gallagher – art direction, design
Hedi Slimane – cover shot, photography
Richard Welland – art direction, design
Pixie Higson – photography commissioning
As You Were is the debut solo studio album from Liam Gallagher. It was released on October 6th 2017 by Warner Bros. Records. A critical and commercial success, the album debuted at number one in the UK, outselling the rest of the top 1ten of the UK Albums Chart combined and achieving gold certification in its first week.
It has since been certified platinum in the UK. It also achieved the highest single-week vinyl sales in twenty years, with 16,000. In part for his work on the album, producer Greg Kurstin also won the 2018 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.
Background
The album was announced in June 2017 with the release of the single Wall Of Glass. Gallagher also revealed that he would launch his first solo tour of the United States and Canada to support the album's release. Once he completed the lyrics, Liam told NME that he cried his eyes out and thought 'I'm back'. The album's title comes from the sign-off Gallagher often used for his Twitter posts.
Gallagher worked with producers Greg Kurstin, Andrew Wyatt and Dan Grech-Marguerat on the album, with Kurstin producing the tracks Wall Of Glass, Paper Crown, Come Back To Me' and Doesn't Have To Be That Way, Wyatt producing 'Chinatown', and Grech-Marguerat producing the remaining tracks.
Critical reception
As You Were received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 71, based on twenty four reviews.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic was highly positive about the record in his four-star review, saying, As You Were doesn't sound retro even though it is, in essence, a throwback to a throwback -- a re-articulation of Liam's '90s obsession with the '60s. That production does Gallagher a favor but so does Kurstin's presence as a co-songwriter, helping to rein in Liam's wandering ear and sharpen his melodies. Ranging from the icy onslaught of Wall Of Glass to the stark swirl of Chinatown this is his best record in nearly a decade, and they add up to an album that illustrates exactly who Liam Gallagher is as an artist. Now in his middle age, he's a richer, nuanced singer than he was during Oasis's heyday, yet he's retained his charisma and, unlike his brother, he favors color and fire in his records, elements that not only enhance this fine collection of songs but make this the best post-Oasis album from either Gallagher to date."
Halina Watts from the Daily Mirror was also very positive towards the record, scoring the album five stars and saying, "As You Were is the legendary rocker at his very best" and that the album was "well worth the wait". She went on to describe Chinatown as a "catchy uplifting poem to the capital" and For What It's Worth and Paper Crown as "fantastic ballads". Watts rounded off the review by saying, "Bring on album two".
Commercial performance
The album was released in numerous formats, from digital versions to vinyl, CD, and a "special box set" that includes a colorized vinyl record, an "exclusive seven-inch, hardback book and an art print by Klaus Voormann, the artist behind the Beatles Revolver album cover. The track listing was revealed by Gallagher with the release of the album's second single Chinatown.
As You Were sold over 103,000 units in its first week in the United Kingdom,
At the time of it's release it was the ninth-fastest selling debut of the decade in the UK. In 2018, the album was certified Platinum with sales of over 300,000 units in the UK. In the United States, it opened at number thirty on the Billboard 200 with 15,000 album-equivalent units, including 14,000 traditional sales.
This marked a successful comeback for Gallagher, as both Beady Eye albums had failed to reach number one in the UK, and their second album had failed to chart at all in the US.
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