1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. 2 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 2: The stories about Oasis are insane, and they started riots, 3 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 2: sank rolls, royces and swimming pools, physically attacked police officers, 4 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 2: publicly brawled with each other in rival pop stars. They 5 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 2: committed to a life of hooliganism and hedonism and vandalized, robbed, stole, 6 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 2: and drugged their way around the boredom of youth. Raised 7 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 2: in Manchester, England's Council Estate's public housing, Oasis' band leader 8 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 2: Noel Gallagher and his younger brother Liam were determined to 9 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 2: become the greatest rock and roll band on the planet, 10 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 2: and remarkably, despite or perhaps because of their humble beginnings, 11 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: they were able to achieve that goal. Through it all, 12 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 2: they made great music, anthems, pure pop, instant classics. And 13 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 2: that music you heard at the top of the show 14 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from 15 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 2: my melotron called meloswag Lager MK one. I played you 16 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 2: that loop because I can't afford the rights to everything 17 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 2: I'd do. I'd do it for you by Brian Adams, 18 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 2: And why would I play you that specific slice of 19 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 2: Prince of Thieves Cheese could I afford it because that 20 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 2: was the number one song in America on August eighteenth, 21 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one, and that was the day Oasis took 22 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 2: the stage for the very first time at the Boardwalk 23 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,199 Speaker 2: Club in Manchester and changed the face of English pop 24 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: music forever. On this episode, hooligans and hedonists, swaggy lager 25 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 2: and instant classics, the one hundred percent committed in endlessly 26 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 2: entertaining Gallagher Brothers an Oasis. I'm Jake Brennan and this 27 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 2: is Disgraceland. And there were no screams, just cold chatter, German, 28 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 2: hushed but angry in the background, a random shout here 29 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 2: or there from a prisoner, a detective or uniform barking orders. 30 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 2: But back here, back in the pen, it was mostly quiet, 31 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: And as far as the prisoner was concerned, there was 32 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 2: no concern. He was out, had been out since they 33 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 2: piled him in the back of the cruiser. 34 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 3: He had a coming. He was sauced. 35 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: Handcuffs weren't enough, the night stick, the butt of the gun, 36 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 2: the pound of the clenched fist, whatever it was. Who 37 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 2: really knew it was so chaotic it did. The trick 38 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 2: knocked the drunk raving lunatic out cold. They dragged his 39 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 2: lanky body in through the back, up the stairs, inside 40 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 2: the double doors, and into the first cell they could find. 41 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 2: The last cell on the Munich Police Department block, separated 42 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 2: from the rest of the department. Back here there were screams. 43 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 2: They had a better chance of going unnoticed. The big 44 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 2: cop couldn't wait to get into it. He was the 45 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: one who caught the drunks trainer in his ribs a sharp, 46 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 2: hard kick delivered from the drunk's right foot. It smashed 47 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 2: the bottom of the big CoP's lower right rib and 48 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 2: damned if it wasn't broken. But he'd worked that out later. 49 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 2: For now he'd fight through the pain for payback. And 50 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: they held the drunk down on the floor of the cell, 51 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 2: and the big cop all six feet five inches, all 52 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty pounds. They'd rank him eighteen stone 53 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 2: back in Manchester. He kneeled on the floor above the 54 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 2: drunk's head and put his massive mits on his shoulders, 55 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 2: pressed him into the cement floor, and then with one 56 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 2: hand mitted the crown of the drunk's head, pulling it 57 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 2: back toward him like he was opening a pez the spencer. 58 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 2: The drunk's mouth opened. In the process. The other cop, 59 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 2: the rookie, eager to impress, kneeled down on the drunk's chest. 60 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 2: He took the pliers and into the mouth of the trunk, 61 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: who was still o cold. The rookie cop latched the 62 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 2: pliers onto the drunk's upper front tooth. That wouldn't do, 63 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 2: not enough leverage, so the rookie cop stood up with 64 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 2: one foot on the ground and the other on the 65 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: drunk's shoulder, just to the right of the big CoP's 66 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 2: big men. The rookie then bent over into a bit 67 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: of a runner squad and got the leverage he needed. 68 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 2: He was able to firmly fasten the pliers onto the tooth. 69 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 2: The rookie gripped the pliers with two hands like he 70 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 2: was holding a rope in a tugue of war. The 71 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 2: big cop looked up at him, his eyes wide and angry. Excited, 72 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 2: he nodded to the rookie, who, in one powerful pull, 73 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 2: yanked the plyers downward, ripping out clean the drunk's upper 74 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 2: front tooth. Vengeance was exhilarating and near complete. One more 75 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 2: tooth to go, moaned a bit, and the big cop 76 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 2: quickly knocked him back into La La Land with a 77 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 2: swift smack, and they weren't done. 78 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 3: One tooth wasn't enough, not. 79 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 2: For the shit this little twatt had stirred. Eighty cops 80 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 2: called in to quell as bullshit during lunchtime. 81 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 3: No less, the. 82 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 2: Rookie got his pliers around the drunk's other front tooth. 83 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 3: Again. 84 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 2: The big cop bared down on the drunk shoulder, while 85 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 2: holding back his head, gave the rookie the nod and 86 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 2: once more a quick, forceful pull, and the second top 87 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 2: tooth was gone as well, ripped clean out, and they 88 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 2: were done. Both cops were satisfied, and the drunk. The 89 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 2: singer in one of the biggest bands in the world 90 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 2: at the time, Liam Gallagher of Oasis, was still passed out, obliterated, 91 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 2: wasted and now toothless and lying prone on the floor 92 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 2: of a Munich jail cell. A couple hours earlier, Liam 93 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 2: was born at the table in the bear rischer Hof Hotel, 94 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 2: drinking another in an endless stream of midday pint. Before 95 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 2: the gig that night, he was thinking about Mike Summerby 96 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 2: fucking legend. Summer be brought home multiple trophies from Manchester 97 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 2: City's football club, The Sky blues way before Liam's time, regardless, 98 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 2: a legend and a fan of Oasis as he fucking 99 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 2: ate right should have been, just like everyone else with 100 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 2: ties to Manchester. 101 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 3: Or with ties to anywhere. 102 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,679 Speaker 2: Really, Oasis were the greatest band on the planet, tops 103 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 2: the kids, the critics, other bands. They were all mad 104 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 2: for it. So why wouldn't Mike summer Be Be as well. Supposedly, Noel, 105 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 2: William's older brother and bandmate and by all means the 106 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 2: leader of Oasis, remembered seeing summer Be play, but not Liam. 107 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 3: He was too young. But he did get to know 108 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 3: summer Be a little bit. 109 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 2: It was that time, back in ninety five or ninety six, 110 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 2: at the height of Oasis mania, when the band had 111 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 2: dinner with summer Bee and some other ex city players. 112 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 2: Summer Bee was dead, funny and apropos of whom what 113 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 2: the fuck? He turned to Liam, Noel and the rest 114 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 2: of the assembled dinner party and blurted out, you know, lads, 115 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 2: I can't do it anymore. Someone asked, can't do what anymore? 116 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:01,160 Speaker 4: Mike? 117 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 2: Mike then deadpanned, drink five bottles of wine and shag 118 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 2: all night. Liam thought that was funny, not because it 119 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 2: was easy to see how that was true, how a 120 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 2: man who'd lived through his prime some thirty years earlier 121 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 2: was finding it hard to live the rock and roll 122 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 2: star lifestyle in his mid fifties. 123 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 3: But that it was. 124 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 2: Funny that Mike would give up, give up the thrill 125 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 2: of it. 126 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 3: Wasn't that what it was all about? 127 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 2: Going for it, fucking committed to live the life the 128 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,119 Speaker 2: way it was supposed to be, lived, fast, hard, without 129 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 2: two fucks given, leaving it all on the pitch and 130 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 2: a mad dash toward glory. 131 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 3: Wasn't that the ultimate goal? Fuck? Yes, it was so. 132 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 2: Swap the wine for lagger and five pints and an 133 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 2: all night shag sounded right for Liam gallaghery even now 134 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 2: in two thousand and two, a half decade removed his 135 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 2: band's meteoric rise in subsequent White Hot fame. At the 136 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 2: table in the Barshiar Haff Hotel restaurant on that afternoon 137 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 2: in Munich, some of these comments seemed a lifetime removed, 138 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: but they were top of mind when the argument started 139 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 2: over what Liam couldn't remember. It was amongst friends, bandmate's 140 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 2: crew at their table. It got heated. Everyone was drunk 141 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 2: and this was not out of the norm. Someone shoved 142 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 2: someone else. Someone lost their balance on their chair and 143 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 2: fell into the table of Italians sitting next to them. 144 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: Someone shouted, someone else shouted. Then came the insult, sharp, loud, hysterical, 145 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 2: No doubt, the Italians couldn't take a joke. Their birds 146 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 2: were clearly offended. Their lads peeved with cheesemo gassing their engines, 147 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 2: they pounced. Liam's squad went full hooligan in retaliation, instant melee, fists, kicks, 148 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 2: glasses being thrown, glasses being dodged, waiters dropping trays, waitresses 149 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 2: shrieking back into the kitchen. Liam watched it all unfold 150 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 2: and slow motion before him. This was how the great 151 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 2: Ones saw him out on the pitch, and the fury 152 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,199 Speaker 2: of the match's final moments. When the pressure was most intense, 153 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 2: It all slowed down for them, for summer Bee, for 154 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,719 Speaker 2: column Bell, for all the greats. When the game got 155 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 2: most intense, their determination, their focus brought everything around them 156 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 2: down about eleven notches, while other opponents trudged through molasses, 157 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 2: powerless to stop them. The committed ones, the greats, men 158 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 2: like him, like Liam Gallagher, thrived, easily, spotted their route, 159 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 2: saw their angles, knew how to we through defenses and 160 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 2: went to take their shot. Amidst the melee, Liam sat 161 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 2: in his chair, watching bodies flail above. He felt two 162 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 2: hands grab his shoulders and pull him up and back 163 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 2: quickly out of his seat. There in front of him, 164 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 2: falling from the sky from the balcony of the restaurant. 165 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 2: Directly above him, a glass table came crashing down onto 166 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 2: the very same glass table he was just sitting at. 167 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 2: Liam held focus on the chaos in front of him. 168 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 2: There in the middle of the dining room, one of 169 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 2: the many cops who quickly descended upon the scene was 170 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 2: holding down one of William's bandmates, trying to handcuff him, 171 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 2: struggling despite his mammossize to keep down the wiring musician. 172 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 2: Between the struggle and Liam was a sea of hooligan chaos, 173 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 2: overturned tables, broken glass, food, tossed chairs, felt bodies, scrambling staff. 174 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 2: Liam took off from the clutches of his own security, 175 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 2: who rescued him from the following table, and broke away 176 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 2: through the hotel restaurant. 177 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 3: There goes Gallagher on the breakaway, away from the tussle, 178 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 3: getting away from the defender. He's got a way to go, 179 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 3: but he's nicked himself apart. With great skill excellent control. 180 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 2: He avoids a defender from his left, another from his right. 181 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 3: We're seeing what he's really made up here, ladies and gentlemen. 182 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: He's got his sights on the goal, the big lad 183 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: the big cop kneeling over his mate. Here comes Gallagher 184 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: with the boot, an absolute crack out of the back 185 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: of the net, straight into the copper's room. 186 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 2: Sending him flailing about, making way for Gallagher's goal. 187 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 3: On classic counter attack. 188 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 2: After Liam kicked the cop square in the rib cage, 189 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 2: sending him reeling, another cop knocked Liam unconscious just after 190 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 2: he'd completed his violent summer of the imitation. When he 191 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 2: awoke hours later in that Munich cell, handcuffed with his 192 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 2: two upper front teeth missing, the cops told him he 193 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 2: lost them when he tripped up the steps to the station. 194 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 2: But Liam was no dummy, despite what the British tabloid said. 195 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 2: He could tell the teeth were pulled clean out, not 196 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 2: smashed in, as they would have been had he fallen 197 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 2: on c men. As the police were trying to convince 198 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 2: him was the case. Fucking Munich, Liam had seen Marathon Man. 199 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 2: He knew what was up. The cops, of course denied it, 200 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 2: and who cared anyway, really. Liam Gallagher, Alan White, the 201 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 2: band's drummer, and their tour DJ, Phil Smith, were all arrested, 202 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 2: and justifiably so. They were indeed responsible for that melee 203 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 2: back at the hotel, and the result meant that their 204 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 2: show in Munich that night had to be canceled and 205 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 2: Liam's brother Noel absent from the fracas that day. With 206 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 2: a brother out of jail and under the dentist, Gun 207 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 2: was left the coolest gents to stew to do what 208 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 2: came natural to him, to pick up his guitar and 209 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 2: put melodies to chord progressions like he'd always done, Big 210 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 2: anthemic melodies, the kind of galvanized football stadiums, the kind 211 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 2: of rocked ecstasy field dance clubs, the kind that dominated charts, 212 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 2: the kind that rocketed him and his brother out of 213 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 2: poverty and into rock startup, The kind that would give 214 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 2: one a sense of invincibility, The kind of melodies that 215 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 2: live forever, the kind of songs he committed to writing 216 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: back in Manchester's Council Flats just a few short years ago. 217 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,679 Speaker 2: There were rules you could drink and do all the 218 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 2: drugs you wanted, but if you couldn't handle your shit 219 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 2: on stage, you were out of the band. You could 220 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 2: pick up with whichever bird you fancied, but if she 221 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 2: prevented you from getting to rehearsal or to the gig, 222 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 2: then she was out, And if you were going to 223 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 2: get all arsed about it, you'd be out too. You 224 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 2: could play an Oasis and play Oasis songs, but you 225 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 2: could not write them. That was nole's job alone, and 226 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 2: if that didn't suit you, then you could fuck off 227 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 2: back to your mom's couch. You could work whatever job 228 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 2: you wanted, rob whatever house or shop you wanted, sign 229 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 2: on to the dole if you had to. There's no 230 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 2: shame in that. But come time for band practice, you 231 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 2: were either there six nights a week or you were out. 232 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 2: Fuck off back to digging ditches full time. This wasn't 233 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 2: a hobby. It was a band. Not only a band, 234 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 2: a commitment to being the biggest, greatest fucking rock and 235 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 2: roll band of all time, as good as the greats, 236 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 2: bigger and better than their local heroes. The Stone Roses 237 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 2: equals to the Jam heirs to Johnny Marris Smith's ascendants 238 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 2: to take their seats ahead of the who at the 239 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 2: table of John Paul Ringo and that nipple George do 240 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 2: what Noel said, show up and give a fuck when 241 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 2: it came to music and nothing else, and his songs 242 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 2: would take care of the rest. Nole's commitment to his 243 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 2: band was absolute, and so too with his bandmates, and 244 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 2: that included his arrogant cunt of her brother Liam Dickhead. 245 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 2: Nole's vision for his band wasn't so much planned as 246 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 2: it was felt. It was inne and it'd stemmed back 247 00:13:58,080 --> 00:13:59,479 Speaker 2: to his days in Manchester. 248 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 3: As a youth. 249 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 2: Four years old with his dad at Maine Road Soccer Stadium, 250 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 2: the Hallow Ground, where Manchester City's sky blues hovered above 251 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 2: the drudgery of working class Manchester, England. Noel Gallagher sat 252 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 2: amongst two thousand other kids stashed away in the stands 253 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 2: by their fathers who fucked off to the stadium's bars. 254 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 2: And it was here that one of the cornerstones of 255 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 2: Noel Gallagher's songwriting was cemented by the rockous sound of 256 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 2: man City's goal celebrations, thunderous rolls of noise from the 257 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 2: bounce of stadium attendees. Poe going out of their seats 258 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 2: and erupting into song whenever City found the back of 259 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 2: the net, a full throated community wide chorus of the 260 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 2: working class, united in their support of and commitment to 261 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 2: their club, warring their team's chance. 262 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 3: Boys in Blue were really. 263 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 2: Not here nineteen sixty two and the show stopper Blue Moon, 264 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 2: and not in the lame ass, rogers and heart style 265 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 2: that Elvis Presley popularized with his falsetto. 266 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 3: At Maine Road. 267 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 2: Blue Moon was shouted staccato style, a sort of pre 268 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 2: p gang vocal being hammered out by thirty five thousand strong. 269 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 2: It was simple, easy to latch onto. Anthemic, fucking epic. 270 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 2: Noel Gallagher would never forget it, nor would he forget 271 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 2: the house music anthems pummeling keyed up ecstasy crowds at 272 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 2: Manchester's Pacienda Club in the late eighties and early nineties 273 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 2: when he came of age Voodoo Ray by a guy 274 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 2: called Gerald, You Got the Love by the source with 275 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 2: candy station bangers, and just as influential as anything he'd 276 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 2: heard from the Manchester music scene prior to the house 277 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 2: music explosion, an earlier scene that led naturally to Manchester 278 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 2: House and appealed to Nol in no small part due 279 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 2: to the disaffected cool of the Stone Roses with their 280 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 2: anthem I want to be adored, and the infectious melodies 281 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 2: of the Laws with their earworm hit. There she goes, 282 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 2: together with the usual UK classic rock curriculum that every 283 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 2: young aspirational rock and roll songwriter finds their way to 284 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 2: the Beatles, the Stones, the Who the King said, for 285 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 2: Noel in particular, deeper into the sounds of Manchester in London, 286 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 2: via the Smiths and the Jam respectively. These anthemic influences 287 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 2: clashed inside of him with the pub sing alongs that 288 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 2: were his Irish Catholic family's lineage. Anthems were his birthright. 289 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 2: He could lay claim to them as justifiably as John 290 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 2: or Paul or mar or' weller. And with the hardness 291 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 2: afforded those who came up in the crime and violence 292 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 2: of Manchester's council estates, who was going to deny him? 293 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 3: Nobody, that's who. 294 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 2: By the time Noel Gallagher picked up a guitar with 295 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 2: a serious mind to write his own songs, he had 296 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 2: organically amassed an arsenal of songwriting influences, and it showed 297 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 2: from the first batch of songs that he would write 298 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 2: and that would wind up on Oasis' first demo, his 299 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 2: younger brother Liam's band that he would join as the 300 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 2: final member and foremost leader of the group. There were 301 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 2: multiple songs that would go on to become anthems Columbia 302 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 2: with its infectious lyric I can't tell you the way 303 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 2: I feel because the way I feel is so damn 304 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 2: new to me. 305 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 3: And of course rock and Roll Star. I lived my. 306 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 2: Life in the city and there's no easy way out. 307 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 2: It was a shotgun blast of a track, an instant 308 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 2: anthem that would cement the Oasis demo as a classic 309 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 2: and lead to their signing with Creation Records. Rock and 310 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 2: Roll Star would eventually kick off the band's debut album, 311 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 2: Definitely Maybe, an album that would announce the arrival of 312 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 2: the Gallagher brothers with absolute authority and absolute chaos. 313 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:30,439 Speaker 3: We'll be right back after this word word word. 314 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 2: Owen Mars, the mix engineer, sat in the recording studio 315 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 2: waiting to meet the brothers Gallagher. It was either the 316 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 2: second or third engineer brought in a mix Definitely Maybe, Oasis' 317 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 2: debut album for Creation Records. Owen wasn't sure about this meeting. 318 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 2: What he was sure of was that if Oasis didn't 319 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 2: get this right, there would likely be no Oasis. The 320 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,399 Speaker 2: mix was underwhelming, there was no snarl, no bite, and 321 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 2: the energy was fucked overthought, overproduced or was that a 322 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,439 Speaker 2: notorious man Cunian attitude that Owen had heard so much about. 323 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 2: The Word from Oasis management was that Owen could do 324 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 2: whatever he wanted, literally anything he wanted to do to 325 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 2: save the album. His first order of business was to 326 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 2: re record Liam's vocals. That meant he needed to meet 327 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 2: the volatile young singer first, so he was anxious. The 328 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 2: control room door burst open and Liam Gallagher stormed inside, 329 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 2: with his brother Noel behind him. 330 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 3: On time, ready to work. 331 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 2: Liam Gallagher walks dick first, his groin thrust out ahead 332 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 2: of the rest of his body, his long, gangly arms 333 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 2: swayed behind him. His body is perpetually leaning backward. 334 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 3: When he's moving. 335 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 2: It's as if he's clearly going somewhere, but also as 336 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 2: if he could care less if he ever arrives. His 337 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 2: dick gets into the room before the rest of them does. 338 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 2: And you notice you also notice that when he's standing 339 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 2: still or not walking. I should say because He's never 340 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 2: really standing still. He's always moving at least a little 341 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:00,479 Speaker 2: bit a short pace in place, his head bobbing around, 342 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 2: his eyes, sizing everyone and everything around him up. 343 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:04,360 Speaker 3: But I digress. 344 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 2: When Liam Gallagher is standing and talking to someone, he 345 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 2: always appears as though he's about to haul off and 346 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 2: punch whoever he's talking to, his square in the face. 347 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 2: His pretty looks aside. Liam Gallagher is a tightly wound 348 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 2: ball of kinetic energy set to unfurl in violence at 349 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 2: any moment. Owen Mars picked up on the vibe. Immediately 350 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 2: off stage, Liam Gallagher appeared to be exactly as he 351 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 2: was on stage, a raving lunatic of a front man classic. 352 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 2: Liam skipped any introductions. He got right to the matter, 353 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 2: pointing his finger at Owen and proclaiming immediately that your 354 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 2: Phil Spector, and then hitching his thumb toward his chest 355 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 2: and finishing his point with and I'm John Lennon. Noel 356 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 2: spoke up quickly, you are not fucking John Lennon, and 357 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 2: he is not Phil Spector. Now'll just shut the fuck 358 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 2: up and get on with it, And get on with 359 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 2: it they did. Owen Mars stripped down the mix and 360 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 2: Liam Gallagher put in some quick visceral vocal takes, and 361 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 2: the album was well on its way to its proper 362 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 2: mix and deserving its purpose as the vessel nest necessary 363 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,120 Speaker 2: to transport Oasis. 364 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 3: To rock stardom. 365 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 2: But first, before any proper release, there was a gig 366 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 2: to play in Amsterdam. Young rock bands, especially those who 367 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 2: can feel their ascent to becoming rock stars, have one 368 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 2: common enemy, idle time. After they reach rock stardom, idle 369 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 2: time usually results in self destructive behavior, heavy addictive drug use, 370 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 2: deadly car crashes, that sort of thing. But before rockstardom, 371 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 2: idle time for the ascendant rock star results in a 372 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 2: different type of destructive behavior, the kind that is aimed 373 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 2: outward out at the world. Because, after all, every good 374 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 2: young rock band knows that it's them against the world. 375 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 2: They also know, if there are any good and have 376 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 2: any type of sand at all, that at that moment 377 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 2: in time, no matter what stage they're on, no matter 378 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 2: what band they're following, no matter who is in the 379 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 2: audience that night, that they are the greatest fucking rock 380 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 2: and roll band on the planet. And they also know 381 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 2: that no matter what street their walking down or what 382 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 2: room they happen to find themselves in or what bar 383 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 2: they're drinking at that they are fucking rock stars. Any 384 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 2: challenge to either belief or threat to their self perceived 385 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 2: inevitable conclusion world domination is to be met with one 386 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 2: type of reaction, ultra violence. This isn't a strategy, This 387 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 2: isn't thought out, This isn't determined in band meetings after 388 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 2: fucking band rehearsals every third Saturday of the month, when 389 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 2: the missus lets you out of the house to head 390 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 2: down to your old schoolmates garage to bang around Pete 391 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 2: townsend riffs, smashed too many pints of lagger, and ignore 392 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 2: your expanding waistline. These are facts. They are felt innately. 393 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,360 Speaker 2: There is no denying them. Your band is the greatest. 394 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 2: The world will soon know it. It is an inevitability. 395 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 2: Idle time both fuels and affords the ascendant rock star 396 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 2: these beliefs, especially young rock stars as committed as Oasis were, 397 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 2: and even more so when endless pints of lager, Jack 398 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,199 Speaker 2: Daniels and Champagne are involved. And that's exactly what was 399 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,159 Speaker 2: involved as Oasis sets sail to Amsterdam for their first 400 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 2: overseas gig back in nineteen ninety four, and they were 401 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 2: completely sauced before they even arrived at the ferry, having 402 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 2: quickly down two bottles of Jack Daniels on the bus 403 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 2: ride over. Once on the ferry, they hit up the 404 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 2: duty free, stole numerous bottles of champagne and then brazenly 405 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 2: popped them at the bar with that look on their 406 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 2: faces and said, what the. 407 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 3: Fuck are you going to do about it? 408 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 2: Idle time. The ferry was inexplicably packed with Chelsea Football 409 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 2: Club supporters who were sporadically erupting in their team's chance 410 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 2: keep the blue flag flying high. Somehow a fight broke 411 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 2: out amongst the supporters, a fight that in its early 412 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 2: stages at least didn't involve Oasis, but that would change 413 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 2: soon or not. Liam Gallagher, an Oasis Bassis Gwiggsy were 414 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 2: actually heading to their room, wasted, about to get some 415 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 2: rest before arriving in Amsterdam for their gig when all 416 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 2: hell broke loose. It was one of those moments where 417 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 2: everything is one way normal and then in an instant 418 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 2: everything changes to the complete opposite with zero explanation. 419 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 3: There were Chelsea Football supporters. 420 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 2: Screaming, running about every which way, tourists stucking for cover, 421 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 2: scurrying back to their rooms, trying to avoid the melee, 422 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 2: and then a security guard tearing ass straight toward a 423 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,640 Speaker 2: clueless Liam with his trunche and held high above his head, 424 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 2: about to bring it smashing down into Gwiggsy's singer's head. 425 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 3: No way, not in this lifetime. 426 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 2: Gwiggsy, without thinking twice, hauled off and punched the guards 427 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 2: straight in the face, saving his singer from an unsuspecting 428 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 2: wallet and who knows what. 429 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 3: Kind of damage. 430 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 2: Immediately, a gang of security guards tackled Gwiggsy it began 431 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 2: beating the piss out of him. Liam screwed off as 432 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 2: fast as he could, straight into the man, headfirst into 433 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 2: the brawling Chelsea supporters, throwing fists, kicks, whatever he could 434 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,640 Speaker 2: add to the chaos to lash out to protect himself, to. 435 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 3: Get even for Gwiggsy, who was. 436 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 2: Getting walloped at the moment, and the guards at the 437 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 2: top deck of the ferry wrangled Liam. Soon enough, they 438 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 2: dragged him to the stairs and threw him violently down 439 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 2: to the waiting security on the second floor, who picked 440 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 2: him up, dragged him to another flight of stairs, and 441 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 2: then threw him down again to the first floor, where 442 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 2: he was thrown into the brig with Giggsie or One 443 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 2: of the guards held Liam down on the floor in 444 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 2: the cell while another drew a chalk outline of his body. 445 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 2: They rolled them over face first onto the floor within 446 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,879 Speaker 2: the chalk outline and informed the singer that if he 447 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 2: moved outside of the lines, they pound him with their truncheons, 448 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 2: and there he remained for the next three hours. His 449 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,919 Speaker 2: and his band member's passports were confiscated when they arrived 450 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 2: in Amsterdam. 451 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 3: They were quickly deported. 452 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 2: Needless to say, Oasis First Overseas gig was canceled. Noel Gallagher, 453 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 2: the band's leader, had the unfortunate responsibility of ringing up 454 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 2: their record label boss, Alan McGee of Creation Records and 455 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,640 Speaker 2: telling them about what had happened. Alan, are you sitting down, 456 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 2: I've got some news. Everybody has been arrested. Alan McGhee 457 00:24:46,560 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 2: answered sharply with one word, brilliant. Liam Gallagher was waiting 458 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 2: on the side of the stage to make his appearance. 459 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 2: His brother Noel was already on stage with the rest 460 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 2: of the band. He was bending the opening notes of 461 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 2: Rock and Roll Star out of his Gibson Lust Paul. 462 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 2: The rest of the band was filling in behind him. 463 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 2: The crowd in front of the stage, the small club 464 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 2: outside London that Oasis was headlining, was pitched to lose 465 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,199 Speaker 2: their shit in anticipation for this new notorious band of 466 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 2: popstar hooligans from Manchester. 467 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:35,880 Speaker 3: Waiting in the wings. 468 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 2: Liam Gallagher said to his roady, while nodding toward his 469 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 2: brother on stage, He's good, isn't he fucking great? The 470 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 2: roady replied yeah, Liam said, but not as good as this, 471 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 2: and then sauntered on stage to ravenous applause. The snare 472 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 2: picked the tune up and kicked the band in just 473 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 2: as Liam appeared, and Oasis were off on a tear 474 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,360 Speaker 2: and the crowd were mad for it. As Liam would say, 475 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 2: as Liam would expect tonight. They were rock and roll stars, 476 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 2: fucking a wright, that belief, that self confidence, that commitment 477 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,360 Speaker 2: to the bit, that snarl, that attitude, and those fucking 478 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,119 Speaker 2: songs hits. Prior to the release of their debut album, 479 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,120 Speaker 2: One Music Rag plastered the band across their cover under 480 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 2: the headline never mind the bullocks, here's the sex Beatles. 481 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 2: And they weren't wrong, at least not in the moment. 482 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 2: Everything was in place to make that bold proclamation true. 483 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 2: The bit on the ferry over to the Netherlands and 484 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 2: subsequent press interviews by the Gallagher brothers had the UK 485 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 2: hyped for the release of Oasis' debut album, and you 486 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 2: could hardly blame them with what Noel and Liam were delivering. 487 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 2: They were unvarnished, highly comical, highly entertaining quote machines and 488 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,400 Speaker 2: unlike anything the UK press or record buying public had 489 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 2: seen since well the Sex Pistols or the Beatles. During 490 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 2: their first televised interview, Noel, in dark sunglasses to mass 491 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 2: the effects of the ecstasy he was on, was at 492 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 2: how is being famous affected your friends? No, I haven't 493 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 2: seen my mates in about six months, apart from the 494 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 2: ones that work for us. The interviewer pressed, do you 495 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 2: get your friends to work for you so you can 496 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 2: tour around in a big group? No replied, If we 497 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 2: didn't have them working for us, they'd be burgling our houses, 498 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 2: so it's best to have them with us. Soon after, 499 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 2: both respected UK music mags Enemy and Melody Maker made Oasis' 500 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 2: second single, shaker Maker, their respective Singles of the Week. 501 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 2: Melody Maker doubled down, claiming the single was one of 502 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 2: the one hundred greatest songs ever written, and the hype 503 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 2: machine was winding up. The band's third single, Lived Forever, 504 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,199 Speaker 2: cracked the UK Top ten, and by the time the 505 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 2: full length debut Definitely Maybe, was released on August twenty nine, 506 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,679 Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four, all of the hype, all of the 507 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 2: hard work, and the careful seating of singles by Creation 508 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 2: Records led to Oasis' first record entering the charts at 509 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 2: number one. Quickly, very quickly, it became the fastest selling 510 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 2: debut album of all time the UK. Now it was 511 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 2: time for the band to double down. They'd arrived as 512 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 2: they knew they would, and why the fuck not. They 513 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 2: had the commitment. Now it was time for the world 514 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 2: to commit to them as they had committed to being 515 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 2: the greatest rock stars on the planet. Time to work 516 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 2: and time to celebrate. With every day came a new obligation, 517 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 2: appressor or a televised performance or a show, and always 518 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,919 Speaker 2: a party, and then an after party, and usually an 519 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 2: after after party, and of course, to make it all go, drugs, 520 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 2: ecstasy as always weed because it was weed, and cocaine 521 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 2: because they weren't fucking students they were from Manchester. With 522 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 2: Definitely Maybe selling like mad and, with their live shows 523 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 2: selling out in the UK, Paris and elsewhere in Europe, 524 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 2: the United States awaited to be conquered. First off Los Angeles, 525 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 2: the famous Whiskey of Go Go on Sunset Strip. The 526 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 2: band landed at Lax and were quickly wrangled aside at customs. 527 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 2: The customs agent asked Liam Gallagher, what's the purpose of 528 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 2: your visit? Liam responded, in all honesty, to become a 529 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 2: fucking rock star. I'm here to steal your soul. And 530 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 2: then it was off to the hotel, where they were 531 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 2: agreed by awaiting scenesters, fans, groupies, new friends, and of 532 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 2: course opportunistic drug dealers. At the ensuing party, someone laid 533 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 2: the lines out big fat white rails the band, all 534 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 2: of them and the crew dove in head first, idle 535 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 2: time be damned, and to their surprise, the cocaine they 536 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 2: just snorted was not cocaine at all. It was the 537 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 2: more powerful ninja speed crystal meth. And the band were 538 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 2: shocked but undeterred, and they dug in for more and 539 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 2: more and then more, and they did in sleep, and 540 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 2: neither did the crew. They stayed up for days before 541 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 2: their debut show at the Whiskey, a debut that had 542 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 2: the brass from their American record label, Epic Records, all 543 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 2: in attendance, as well as influential members of the American 544 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 2: music press and of course hip fans, Stateside, readers of 545 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 2: Enemy and Melody Maker in on what was about to 546 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 2: go down. One of the best kept secrets in the 547 00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 2: music industry was about to no longer be a seat. 548 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 2: Oasis were poised to become the first great UK band 549 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 2: to cross over into the American mainstream since Sex Pistols 550 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 2: had almost twenty years earlier. And then Showtime, Wired from 551 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 2: the Meth, Wired from No Sleep, Liam was so rattled 552 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 2: by the drug he had to set up rails of 553 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 2: it behind the amps to hit in between songs to 554 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 2: keep them going. Noel was the only one who had 555 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 2: gotten wise to what they were ingesting and what effects 556 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 2: the drug might have on their music. It was also 557 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 2: wise to the immense pressure this gig, their American debut carried. 558 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 2: It was make or break. Then the band walked on 559 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 2: stage to a totally hyped audience. The crowd was with 560 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 2: them of the jump. If this was any indication of 561 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 2: things to come on their first tour that America was 562 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 2: firmly in the band's reach. The squawk of feedback signaled 563 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 2: with energy, the start of something thrilling and new, something 564 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 2: sexy and world changing, and then Oasis turned in the 565 00:30:54,920 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 2: worst performance of their career. 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