Liam Gallagher on the music he would run away from: “You can quote me on that”
Liam Gallagher has never been a man short of fearlessness whenever he got in front of a microphone. At any gig, it was him against the world every single time he sang, and that meant trying his best to hone his craft, even if it meant having a few people who saw him as a subpar singer. While Liam could also be absolutely ruthless when tearing through some of the biggest stars in the world, he had a special amount of disdain for the kind of artists that made him run away from their music.
Because, really, there are a lot of moments where Liam could at least entertain someone’s music for a little while. Even if the nasty feuds between Oasis and Blur were the stuff of legend back in the day, Liam could always be level-headed in retrospect, even calling them a guilty pleasure and saying that he loved the song ‘Beetlebum’ in recent years.
Then again, that was less about the music and more about their positions in the music world. Blur had been the eclectic art-rockers compared to Oasis’s form of stadium rock, and when looking at their anthems in the grand context of Britpop, it’s no question that Noel Gallagher had written the kind of tunes that turned the band into superstars for a damn good reason, like ‘Live Forever’ and ‘Wonderwall’.
However, as the band slowly rose through the ranks, they also gained some big-name celebrities as fans. Despite receiving a great deal of praise from people like Pete Townshend and Paul Weller during their 1990s heyday, it all started to go a little bit south once Robbie Williams started mingling with them shortly after his famous appearance at Glastonbury without Take That.
Liam had kept things professional at the time, but by the time Williams started picking fights with him in public, he wasn’t ready to forgive and forget. While Noel could be even more cutthroat when he got in front of a microphone, Liam knew to hit Williams where it hurt by going after his music.
Despite Noel claiming that he secretly wished he had written a song like ‘Angels’, Liam said that any of Williams’s classics would have been enough for him to walk out of any room it’s blasting out of, saying, “I’m going to be a right hard bastard now and say anything by f*****g fat-arsed Williams. You can quote me on that! No f*****g way! But if they played it, I’d f*****g run off. I’d rather walk. I’d rather be in the f*****g trailer.”
Even if neither superstar has seen eye-to-eye on many things throughout their careers, Liam has managed to reach some sort of peace with Williams in recent years. While it used to be him taking potshots at anything and everything that Williams had done, he was more than willing to bury the hatchet when he heard that his family was suffering from health problems, even posting on social media that he hoped all was well.
For all of the nastiness that Liam can put on in the public eye, this kind of warmness is what people often forget about when looking at the legacy of Oasis. The frontman might not have much time for songs like ‘Millennium’ whenever it comes up on shuffle, but he’s more than happy to forgive and forget if it’s for the right reasons.
