this article is quite funny, it basically says that because of liam, the shoe industry has changed and he has ruined a company.. this is just a part of the article because it was too long.


28 of November 2004
It was all Liam Gallagher's fault. Until Oasis crashed on to the music scene 10 years ago, the company behind Dr Martens was enjoying an apparently endless rise in sales.

The industrial boot with the yellow stitching had become a fashion icon - adopted by wave after wave of youth cults, from skinheads and punks to Britpop. The money rolled in to R Griggs, the family firm that owns the rights to the brand. Max Griggs and his son Stephen thought this would never stop and splashed out on creating their own football club, Rushden & Diamonds.

The Oasis front man had other ideas. Gallagher swapped his DMs for retro Adidas trainers and hundreds of thousands of fans followed. The impact was initially hard to see as Griggs pushed ahead with expansion in America, its biggest market. But sales have crashed from £235m to £90m since 1999. With five factories and a loss-making football club, R Griggs was heading for insolvency. In three years, the company lost more than £100m, with a £62m loss in 2003.


lol!! ;D