LIAM GALLAGHER is forming his own supergroup – and they will record an album for Christmas.

The OASIS frontman will team up with the former STONE ROSES’ guitarist JOHN SQUIRE and the late BEATLE GEORGE HARRISON’s son DHANI. The trio hope to start recording tracks later this year and are now looking for other big names to step forward and join them. Liam, whose first single with Oasis was Supersonic, will take lead vocals, with Dhani and John on guitars. This will be the wildman’s pet project outside Oasis and he has already had lengthy telephone conversations and meetings in North London with the other two.

A pal of the star told me: “Liam is an ambitious lad and thinks the music scene needs an injection of something exciting. He knows Dhani and John and has huge respect for their talents. “They have discussed getting together for a one-off album and are now interested in getting other big names involved. “In the summer they will properly sit down and start writing some tracks together with a view to getting something out for Christmas.” Fellow Manc John is an old pal of Liam’s and is credited with being the creative genius behind The Stone Roses. But his success after the band split up in 1994 has been patchy.

John released an average album called Do It Yourself with his new band THE SEA HORSES — an anagram of “he hates Roses” — and has had two solo albums since of limited success. Dhani performed The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps when his dad was posthumously entered into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in New York in March this year.

Liam spent the early part of 2004 holed up with brother NOEL, GEM ARCHER and ANDY BELL in studios in Cornwall recording their sixth album. But as Oasis are going through a rough patch it is unlikely to be ready before the end of the year. Liam is now on a break in London.


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