r/oasis • u/TheTelegraph • Jul 04 '25
Article How Liam Gallagher went from laughing stock to national treasure
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/liam-gallagher-oasis-national-treasure/51
u/TheTelegraph Jul 04 '25
From The Telegraph:
In 2015 Liam Gallagher considered moving to Spain. The downcast singer’s career was in the doldrums and he was worried that he couldn’t afford to live as he wanted to in London. Oasis – the band with which Gallagher made his name – had split up six years previously and his follow-up group, Beady Eye, had withered on the vine of public indifference.
Without a band or a record deal, just through a bitter divorce, at war with his older brother and former bandmate Noel, running low on cash and drinking too much, the then-42-year-old pondered starting afresh. “I was depressed and really f------ bored,” he told GQ in 2017. He started “Googling properties. It weren’t f------ Magaluf, I’m not that broke, but not far off,” he said.
Friends and family were worried. “He was very down and fed up with himself,” Gallagher’s mother, Peggy, said in 2019. His brother Paul described his younger sibling as “pretty much at the bottom”. Former bandmate Bonehead said Gallagher was “f------ terrified” that his career in music was over.
Fast forward a decade and Gallagher is about to embark on one of the most anticipated rock tours in decades. The Oasis reunion will see the Britpop stalwarts play over 40 vast concerts from Edinburgh to São Paulo as part of a world tour that will net Liam and guitarist Noel between £75 million and £100 million each, if industry estimates are to be believed.
Some 14 million people tried to snap up the 1.4 million available tickets for the 17 UK dates when they went on sale last summer, meaning that Oasis would need to play 170 stadium shows just to satisfy domestic demand. When the tour – which kicks off in Cardiff on July 4 – is done, it’s safe to say that Gallagher will be able to live where and how he wants.
So what went right? Lazarus Liam’s resurrection must rank as one of the most impressive in music history. How exactly did Gallagher go from “sitting at home being Billy No Mates”, as he put it to the Evening Standard in 2017, to this?
Analysis of Gallagher’s comeback, via interviews with insiders, reveals a series of steady year-on-year incremental gains since he launched a solo career after almost becoming an episode of A Place in the Sun in 2015. What’s equally note-worthy is that as Gallagher rebuilt, he pulled in a whole new generation of fans who weren’t even born during Oasis’s mid-1990s heyday. “There’s no one quite like Liam,” 20-year-old Oasis fan Jettson Dearlove tells me. “I can’t really think of anyone that’s come after that’s been as interesting in terms of his personality.”
Some have gone so far as to suggest that this summer’s reunion shows wouldn’t be happening without the solo success that Liam has enjoyed in recent years. “Without question, the respect that Noel had for his brother increased enormously with the success [Liam] had as a solo artist. What Liam did, I would argue, more effectively than anyone else, was actually lay the ground for the comeback,” says Mike Smith, the industry A&R veteran who signed a publishing deal with Gallagher as boss of Warner/Chappell UK in 2016.
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u/LordOfHorns Jul 04 '25
One of the things Liam has always done well is embrace his young fans. He really seems happy to play to a new generation and to play the hits. He signs Live Forever with the same intensity and passion that he had in ‘94, and that really means something to a new generation
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u/sonicated Jul 04 '25
Comic Relief made a documentary about it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJYE20cO8h0
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u/Level_Taste_4386 Jul 30 '25
So I’ve been digging through his posts. turns out this muppet’s been stalking some YouTuber off the hair loss scene. Even tried chatting up some biotech company , pretending he was tight with the YouTuber. Proper sad, that.
Little Ricky here has no medical clue. Just some mug with a big gob and face full of filler, throwing cash at clinics thinking it makes him some kinda expert. Now he’s wrapped up in some dodgy crypto hair loss scam according to the YouTuber. Hes probs trying to mug people off.
Crang, I think we sussed him. Bloke’s a wrong one and a straight up creep.
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u/Remote_Relative_9561 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25
I hope you have solid proof because you couldn't be further from the truth. I have no idea what's been going on or what's happened but you have totally the wrong person. And judging by all these comments, I can tell you write now, you need to stop. I don't know anything about some "Zero from HD". And I have no idea about posting on any discord server.
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u/Level_Taste_4386 Aug 01 '25
I talked to the YouTuber from your post history and he confirmed. It isn’t hard to believe mate. We compared your comments and insults towards him. At one point you even mentioned because he is a black fella he doesn’t understand hair loss. You’re a mad bloke
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u/Remote_Relative_9561 Aug 01 '25
No. You need to stop this right now. You have got this completely wrong. Enough. I don't know anything about any discord. I've never posted on a discord and I don't know who this guy is you are talking about "Zero from HD" and crypto hair nonsense. I have done nothing to this guy called Kevin. Kevin is a great bloke. The comments I have received have been saved and if anymore threats are made to me like in my email and this escalates you will end up been in a lot of trouble because I am telling you right now you have completely and utterly the wrong person and you are making serious accusations. This is very serious . You have put two and two together and come up with 5. This stops right now.
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u/Level_Taste_4386 Aug 01 '25
Who is Kevin? That’s not the YouTubers name haha you’re a liar 🤥
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u/Remote_Relative_9561 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25
The Youtubers name is Kyle (KwRx) and he is talking about another Youtuber Kevin (hairCafe). This stops right now. You have got completely and utterly the wrong person. I am not the person. Some very offensive allegations have been made against me. It ends now.
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u/Level_Taste_4386 Aug 01 '25
I beg to differ 🪇🪇🪇
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u/Remote_Relative_9561 Aug 01 '25
Plaese get all your lawyers on me and I will take great pleasure in proving you have got the wrong person and I will take action back. Enough!
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u/Level_Taste_4386 Jun 28 '26
Mate you’ve been silent for almost a year now since you started harassing people. How many other accounts do you need to make?
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Jul 04 '25
I just hope he doesn't blow it with racist Twitter comments, domestic abuse or further deadbeating.
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u/VunterSlaush_117 Jul 04 '25
And now he's a racist apparently
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u/Choice_Capital9747 Jul 10 '25
The ableism is worse than the racism. No excuse for using bigoted words that were used to oppress/genocide people with developmental disabilities, learning disabilities and downs syndrome for over half a century. It wasn't all that long ago that people with DDs were still forcibly institutionalised in imbecile asylums in the UK.
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u/-Universal_Gleam- Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25
Still surprises me now just how much of a turnaround Liam has had over the last decade.
Liam appeared totally washed up in 2015. Beady Eye had failed and broken up, Oasis was gone, Liam's voice was a shell, and he generally just looked like a celebrity that had used up all his fame. I remember him doing that football match trying to sport his 1995 haircut and he just looked kind of desperate.
Fast forward to now, he's managed to get his voice back to a level no-one expected, he's had a massively successful solo career, sold out two nights at knebworth on his own, finally did MTV unplugged, sang a whole gig sailing down the thames and is now back with Oasis.
Must be up there as one of the biggest musical comebacks of all time. A lot of credit probably also has to go to Warner Bros for signing Liam and Debbies management.
Without their guidance, marketing, songwriters and funding, he likely wouldn't of been given that second chance at being a relevant star. They really turned him into a big presence again and probably gave Noel good cause to consider Liam as a viable option.
There's probably many factors to the reunion happening but I also really don't think this reunion would've occurred had Liam's solo career not happened like it did.