Oasis reportedly axe ‘Hello’ from tour setlist due to Gary Glitter lyric
Oasis have reportedly axed their hit tune ‘Hello’ from their upcoming reunion tour setlist due to a lyric which references convicted paedophile Gary Glitter.
The opener to the band’s iconic 1995 album What’s the Story (Morning Glory) will now not form part of the setlist as Noel and Liam Gallagher take to stages across the UK and Ireland this summer for the first time in some 16 years.
The Sun reported on May 3rd that ‘Hello’ had been cut due to the lyric at the end of the song where Liam Gallagher sings “Hello, hello, it’s good to be back, it’s good to be back,” taken from Glitter’s 1973 hit ‘Hello, Hello, I’m Back Again’. In the Oasis tune, the melody of the original also plays faintly underneath the main track.
Oasis themselves have not yet responded to the claims, but sources for the newspaper understand that the song has been axed because Glitter and his writing partner Mike Leadner are credited on the track.
Disgraced singer Glitter was found by police in 1997 to be in possession of more than 4,000 child sex abuse images. Subsequently, he was also charged with a 16-year prison sentence in 2015 for abusing three girls between 1975 and 1980.
Ahead of the hotly anticipated reunion shows, Liam Gallagher has denied claims that he and Noel will be kept separate from each other backstage at the gigs, as in response to reports of different after parties being set up for the brothers, he said on X: “After party’s are for wankers. I’m getting straight off after the gigs get my beauty sleep this level of sexiness doesn’t happen by staying up talking bollox to bellends.”
The Oasis reunion tour will kick off at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on July 4th.
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