Now, it’s an even fight, with a delicious added frisson of speculation, relentlessly piqued by Gallagher Jr on Twitter, about the chances of an Oasis reunion.
When Liam began trading under his own name, with help from high-end co-writers, the tables turned. Initially, it appeared that Noel held all the cards, as the songwriter extraordinaire breezily cast off his shackles to embrace disco beats and Laurel Canyon vibes, while Liam’s neo-Oasis efforts with Beady Eye rather unjustly foundered.
Successive albums lacked creative movement and, increasingly, zip.įor fans, the bust-up in Paris which finally terminated Oasis in August ’09 has brought the inescapable benefit that each makes livelier, more interesting music alone. For the next couple of albums, Noel drew on a stockpile of anthems composed pre-fame, but the problems started thereafter, when he felt increasingly straitjacketed by the imperative to write for stadiums. After much in-studio huffing, puffing and pugilism, 1994’s Oasis debut, Definitely Maybe, delivered a confident amalgam of those two influences, and almost single-handedly reinstated home-grown rock in the British pop charts. What they shared while growing up in suburban Burnage, south Manchester, was a passion for two rock idols, The Beatles and the Sex Pistols. ‘‘Sometimes being a brother,” American children’s author Marc Brown famously wrote, “is even better than being a superhero.” Sibling rivalry has certainly driven the Gallagher brothers to extraordinary heights, both together within the uneasy alliance of Oasis, and thereafter in their solo capacities since the band split in 2009.
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