Liam Gallagher On Playing Live With Coldplay's Chris Martin

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Liam Gallagher has spoken about when he joined members of Coldplay to perform Oasis' ‘Live Forever’ at the One Love Manchester charity concert earlier this year.

Liam said that he was “fucking glad he did it”, and that he and Martin were “cool” now.

He told the NME “That was all right, man,” said Gallagher. “We were booked to do a gig in Germany. We were supposed to be on about seven. [Partner and manager] Debbie was going ‘you’ll never guess who keeps fucking emailing me’. I’m like, ‘who? It’s not fucking Noel is it? Tell him to fuck off’. ‘No, fucking Chris Martin’. I’m like ‘what the fuck does he want?’ ‘I dunno what he wants, he just wants to have a word with you’. I’m like ‘does he want a fucking scrap? I’m not in the fucking mood right now, man’.”

Gallagher continued: “Anyway, so then we get on Skype, and he says ‘the Manchester thing, are you up for doing it?’ I think he wanted to do like, ‘Imagine’, and I’m like ‘look, I’m not doing ‘Imagine’, it ain’t happening’. He went ‘oh go on, it’ll be great’. I was like ‘I’m sure it fucking will be great. I’m fucking great and you’re fucking great, but it ain’t happening’. So he goes, ‘oh, would you do an Oasis tune?’ and I said ‘yeah, of course, man’. So then it was ‘Live Forever’.”

Live Updates: Liam Gallagher In Belfast

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I will add all updates and videos here during the set.


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Setlist confirmed by @AChambers10

Rock N Roll Star
Morning Glory
Greedy Soul
Wall of Glass
For What it's Worth
Bold
Paper  Crown
Some Might Say
Slide Away
I'm Outta Time
Come Back to Me
You Better Run
Cigarettes & Alcohol
Be Here Now
Supersonic
I've All I Need
Live Forever


Videos.

Rock 'N' Roll Star https://twitter.com/BelfastLive/status/925111488615976960
Wall Of Glass https://twitter.com/BelfastLive/status/925114653604241408
Greedy Soul https://twitter.com/Lynn_Doyle/status/925115790617178112
For What It's Worth https://twitter.com/BelfastLive/status/925116423176966149
Some Might Say https://twitter.com/BelfastLive/status/925119359198072832
Slide Away https://twitter.com/jmpfe/status/925121849343782912
Cigarettes & Alcohol https://twitter.com/BelfastLive/status/925124092025622533


Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

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What about ye Belfast as you were LG x

Liam Gallagher To Play An Exclusive Tiny Gig Next Week For Absolute Radio

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Liam Gallagher has announced he will play a tiny exclusive gig next Tuesday in London for Absolute Radio listeners.

Listen every day to the station for your chance to be there!

Review And Pictures: Liam Gallagher In Dublin

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Click here, here and here for reviews and pictures of Liam Gallagher at the Samhain Festival in Dublin, Ireland yesterday.

Noel Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

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'Scouting For Girls' Roy Stride Wants to Write A Song For Liam Gallagher

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Roy Stride from 'Scouting For Girls' has said he wants to write a song for Liam Gallagher.

He has been an ardent fan of Gallagher since his Oasis days and it would be a dream come true to write lyrics for him.

He said "I would love to write Liam a song, he was one of my childhood heroes, he was one of the reasons I wanted to be in a band as a kid. I loved Oasis, I went to one of their shows when I was 14 and they were touring 'Definitely Maybe', I was at Knebworth, I was at Earl's Court Exhibition Centre.

"The first time I ever busked I did a terrible version of 'Half The World Away'. I was obsessed with all the bands of that generation but especially Oasis," said Stride.

Another On This Day In Oasis History...

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The video below is from October 30th 1994, when Oasis appeared on MTV 120 Minutes in New York, USA.

On This Day In Oasis History...

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Wonderwall is a song by English rock band Oasis, written by the band's guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher. Released as the third single from (What's the Story) Morning Glory? on October 30th 1995.

Wonderwall peaked at number two in the UK Singles Charts and proved to be their American breakthrough, reaching number eight on the Hot 100 and giving them their only top-ten hit in the US thus far.

Wonderwall is perhaps their most popular song, despite the fact that British TV stars Robson & Jerome's "I Believe"/"Up on the Roof" kept it out of the top slot. Wonderwall continues to have enduring popularity in Oasis's canon; as of 2008, it was 76th in the UK's list of best-selling singles, and has now sold over a million copies in single and download sales in the UK, where it went platinum.

The song is included on Oasis's compilation album Stop the Clocks.

Background

The song takes its name from the 1968 album Wonderwall Music by George Harrison, at the time still a member of the Beatles.[3] Harrison's album was in fact a soundtrack to the film Wonderwall, but the film has remained unknown by the general public. The original title of the track was "Wishing Stone".

It is often claimed that "Wonderwall" was written for Gallagher's then-girlfriend, Meg Mathews. Noel married Mathews in 1997, but the couple divorced four years later. Gallagher now claims that the song was not about Mathews at all, but he felt he had to go along with the rumour, saying "The meaning of that song was taken away from me by the media who jumped on it. How do you tell your Mrs it's not about her once she's read it is? It's a song about an imaginary friend who's gonna come and save you from yourself."

Recording

The song was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales, during a two-week recording of the 'Morning Glory' album in May 1995. According to producer Owen Morris, the song was completed in 6-8 hours.

Morris claimed that Gallagher had presented an alternative arrangement of the song "which had some extra complicated pre-bridge bits that didn't have singing or melody - but just had some chord changes - which seemed completely unnecessary", the night before it was recorded. This idea was quickly shelved.

Noel initially wanted to sing this song on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, but he gave his brother Liam Gallagher the choice, and Noel ended up singing "Don't Look Back in Anger".




















Live performances

Noel debuted the song on UK TV, backstage at Glastonbury and broadcast on Channel 4 on June 24, 1995. The song wasn't performed by the band during their headline performance the night before.

In August 2002, Noel changed the arrangement of his live performances of the song to a style admittedly heavily-influenced by Ryan Adams' cover version of the song. This arrangement has continued to his most recent live performances of the song. When the full band performs the song live, with electric guitars, it's still in the original style as presented on the record. During the 2008 tour, however the band have return to performing the song in a semi acoustic form.

A live version of the song, recorded at Wembley Stadium in 2000, is featured on the band's live album Familiar To Millions.

In an interview with Q magazine in August 2008, Liam said that he hates performing the song: "I can't stand that fucking song, every time I have to sing it, I want to gag. Problem is 'Wonderwall' was a big big tune for us and so you go to America and they're like, 'Are you Mr Wonderwall?', and you want to chin someone."

Video

The music video to the song was filmed in the relatively brief period when bassist Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan quit the band due to nervous exhaustion; Scott McLeod came in to replace him.



Cover art

The sleeve artwork was inspired by the paintings of the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, and was shot on Primrose Hill in north London. The hand holding the frame is that of art director Brian Cannon; the woman is Anita Heryet, a Creation Records employee. The original idea was to have Liam in the frame before Noel vetoed that idea whilst the shoot was taking place.

Chart history

It reached No.2 in the UK charts.

In the US it also peaked at #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for an unprecedented ten weeks (this amount was later eclipsed in 1998 by Marcy Playground), and reached #8 on the Hot 100.

Awards and accolades

In 1995, "Wonderwall" came in at number one in the national Australian music poll, the Triple J Hottest 100.

The promo video for "Wonderwall", directed by Nigel Dick, won the Best British Video award at the 1996 BRIT Awards.

In the Grammy Awards of 1997 the band received a nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group and Noel Gallagher picked another nomination for Best Rock Song, winning none.

In 2003, VH1 ranked the song at number 95 in its countdown of the "100 Greatest Songs Of The Past 25 Years."

In May 2005, "Wonderwall" was voted the best British song of all time, in a poll of over 8,500 listeners conducted by Virgin Radio.

The song "Wonderwall" placed 105 of the 3000 top songs of all time on the website acclaimedmusic.net.

In August 2006, "Wonderwall" was named the second-greatest song of all time in a poll conducted by Q Magazine, finishing behind another Oasis song, "Live Forever".

In 2006, U2's guitarist The Edge named "Wonderwall" one of the songs he most wishes he'd written.

In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Wonderwall" at number 27 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.

In December 2007, it came in number 35 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90's countdown.

In early 2007, "Wonderwall"'s drumming, provided by Alan White, was voted 90th best drumming track ever in Modern Drummer magazine.

Video: Liam Gallagher In Dublin

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Below are a number of videos of Liam Gallagher at Samhain Festival in Dublin, yesterday.

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweets

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Yo Dublin top o the afternoon to ya as you were LG x 

That was 1 of the best crowds ever lastnight in Dublin thankyou for your support as you were LG x

Liam Gallagher Rolls Into Belfast

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Liam Gallagher will play at The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland later today.

Setlist: Liam Gallagher In Dublin

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Below is the setlist for Liam Gallagher at Samhain Festival in Dublin, Ireland earlier today.

Rock 'n' Roll Star
Morning Glory
Greedy Soul
Wall Of Glass
Paper Crown
Bold
For What It's Worth
Slide Away
Some Might Say
Come Back To Me
You Better Run You Better Hide
Be Here Now
Cigarettes And Alcohol
Wonderwall

Noel Gallagher Thought His New Album 'Who Bulit The Moon?' Would End Up Getting Scrapped

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Noel Gallagher has said he thought that his new High Flying Birds album with producer David Holmes would never see the light of day, and thought it would end up being scrapped like the planned album with Amorphous Androgynous or Oasis’s abandoned sessions with Death In Vegas.

Speaking to the the current issue of Q he said he only told producer David Holmes this much later.

He said “He was flabbergasted. He said that he never doubted from the first night that the record was going to be the way it was. That’s a proper producer. If you’d asked me that night if I thought I was capable of doing it, I’d have said no. I’ve got to take my hat off to David because he’s seen something in me that probably wasn’t even there.”

'Who Built The Moon? is released on November 24th.

Video: Metallica Cover Oasis' 'Don't Look Back In Anger' In Manchester

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Below is a video of Metallica covering Oasis' 'Don't Look Back In Anger' at the Manchester Arena in Manchester yesterday.

Noel Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

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Watch Liam Gallagher Perform 'For What It's Worth' And 'Wonderwall' On French TV

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Liam Gallagher played two songs on French TV show Taratata that were broadcast yesterday, click here to watch 'For What It's Worth' click here for 'Wonderwall'.

Noel Gallagher Is Happy He Has The Freedom To Make Whatever Music He Wants

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Noel Galagher has told the latest issue Q that he is happy he has the freedom to make whatever music he wants to on a "whim".

He said: "I'm not in a band any more so I don't have to sell it to anyone. I run my own record label, I pay for my records, I promote them, I market them, I do everything myself. If I have a whim, I'm going to do it.

"When you're solo, you can move quicker. Big rock bands are like huge tankers but I'm like a f***ing speedboat."

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

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Dublin top o the morning to ya as you were LG x

Liam Gallagher Rolls Into Dublin

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Liam Gallagher will play at Samhain Festival in Dublin, Ireland later today.
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