Oasis guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs discusses potential band knighthoods
Former Oasis guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs has shared his opinion on whether he and his former bandmates would accept potential knighthoods from the British royal family.
“Probably got a good ring to it, but no, I wouldn’t take it,” Arthurs told Radio X host Toby Tarrant. “Not that I’m anti-royal or anti-this, no, I just wouldn’t do it. Doesn’t even sound right, does it?”
“I wouldn’t have it and I don’t think Liam [Gallagher] would have it,” Arthurs continued. “Bet Noel would, wouldn’t he? He’d have to be with the sirs.”
“Absolutely not Liam wouldn’t take it, no,” Arthurs concluded, although he did admit that placing a “Sir” in front of the former singer’s name did have a nice ring. “Sir Liam Gallagher. It sounds good though, doesn’t it? It sounds good but he wouldn’t have it.”
Arthurs also shared his thoughts on ‘Live Forever’ topping the annual Best of British list released every Easter Bank Holiday over his own ‘Bonhead’s Bank Holiday’.
“I still stand by my thoughts on that,” Arthurs claimed. “It’s a fix, right? I want steward’s enquiry. There must be a sort of version of VAR in radio. It got me, because I love listening to the [Best of British] Top 100 and it got me how many Oasis songs are in it. I genuinely love it. And it was getting to the Top 10 and I thought, ‘You know what? The winner’s gonna be ‘Bonehead’s Bank Holiday’. It really is!’”
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