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Post by jxing on Oct 7, 2017 21:11:10 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it's a new interview...
Though he did not seem to worry at the time of the Britpop boom in the 90, between champagne and cocaine (a period when the police arrested him on a ferry to Amsterdam, he was kicked out of Abbey Road Studios in the middle of a recording or was absent at an Oasis concert to (go shopping), Liam Gallagher always thought in the long run. Or at least I was always thinking. He takes his habitual pose on the stage: Arms behind his back, motionless, except his lips. "I knew I was going to live forever," he says, after completing 45 intense years.
He ran more than 11 miles through Central Park this morning, but he's still walking around his hotel room in new York. He's wearing a blue sack and a short, as if his body split in two temperatures. "I said to myself, ' When I'm 80 years old I won't be able to dance like Mick Jagger does. '" He puts his hands behind his back, bows to an invisible microphone and says, "All I have to do is stop and stay still." "Jagger has yet to jump!"
Unlike Jagger, Gallagher no longer has a band, and the odds of them coming back, at the moment, are very few. Oasis separated in Paris eight years ago, after a fight between Liam and his brother Noel, the guitarist and composer of the band. Noel's version is that his brother had a violent tantrum that night; Liam says that he was provoked ("he set a trap for me,") "and I fell because I am passionate and I show my Feelings"), that Noel had secretly planned to leave the band for a few months or a few years and that his brother's story of the alleged attack with a guitar is F Also. They no longer speak and Liam says that even his mother got tired of trying to reconcile them. "My mom is tired of this," she says, laughing a little. "She says, ' I don't give a shit anymore." I have 75 bloody years! "Screw them, I've had enough!" She does swimming and takes care of her affairs. "He doesn't care anymore."
Liam is in new York to promote his first solo album: As You Were, which was launched on October 6th. Although Noel, with some exceptions, was the only composer of Oasis, Liam's record is a pleasant surprise: an invigorating, sometimes longing, collection of simple rock tunes (including the excellent simple Wall of Glass) and the reminder that he It will always be one of the great rock Voices. Today, more than ever, it sounds like John Lennon, his hero and "spiritual guide." Gallagher says he thinks he's here. He stopped at the Strawberry Fields memorial for a small communion while exercising this morning and met some fans waiting for him. "I believe he protects me."
Gallagher is proud of his album, though he thinks that recording and playing under his name is "a little embarrassing." Similarly, it gives credit to its cowriters (among which is Greg Kurstin, the collaborator of Adele) and is susceptible to say things like: "I could sing songs for children and it would continue to sound like Oasis". He used to go to a bar while Noel added guitar solos to the last albums of the band, and so he appreciated the speed of Kurstin, which reminded him of the process of the first two LPs of the band. And Gallagher doesn't mind admitting what other artists wouldn't admit: "I'd rather talk about an Oasis album than mine as a soloist," he says. "And I know Noel Gallagher thinks the same thing, because we're better Together." "I'm aware of that and so is he." (Noel, who has an album next to his High Flying birds band, recently told ROLLING STONE that he is not prepared to answer his brother's opinions: "I literally don't have any opinions," he says.)
Liam's happy to get back to work. It spent part of the time after the separation of Oasis with Beady Eye, a band formed by the former members of the band except for Noel, but it diluted around 2013, almost at the same time that their marriage was finished, when it was revealed that it was father of a son D And a woman in new York. He was disoriented, unemployed and without any of the things that had defined his life. He lived adrift and drank a lot of alcohol. "There were No great concerts and I felt like a shadow." I was lost and I thought, ', how will I get out of this? '
Eventually, he moved to a "Nice castle" in Spain, ran again and met Debbie Gwyther, her current girlfriend, who is a constant and appeasing presence in her life. However, in total they were "four fucking years in hell, next to divorce lawyers and all that shit." I've had four years to think well of everything I wanted in my life. I'm not looking for success, I've had enough of that. I've had it all. "I just want to make music again and sing songs."
He is still a partisan by and to defend his idea of rock 'n' roll, which involves opinions on the working class, noisy guitars and a bad behavior Keith Moon style. For me rock 'n' roll is very serious, he says, conserving a particular rage for the band his brother serves as opening: U2 is the worst rock 'n' roll band in the world. When was the last time you did a madness? "They're not a rock 'n' roll band!" He likes hip hop (or "Hip op", as he calls it), but only the old; He's reluctant to rappers "who wear piped pants, like Kanye West and that damn rapper who's a designer, I can't stand it." What about the EDM? "Is that dance music?" Calvin Harris? Fuck that. "That's demon music." He has always loved the catchy pop songs, and he discovered his voice as a teenager and sang choruses like a Madonna's Virgin that sounded on the radio ("I love those choruses").
The British rock post Oasis had many bands of "middle class," he argues. The Gallaghers grew up in Manchester, without a father, and Liam's conscience extends to the terrible fire in London that killed around 80 people, most of them poor. "An apartment building had been burned down days before, a bunch of morons trying to save money," he says, blaming "wealthy people" for putting flammable materials in the building. Don't look back angrily... you should be angry. "It's okay to be angry."
He has calmed down a little since his wildest days, which began before Oasis did. "I'd put pure LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms, cocaine, all sorts of things before I was in front of a microphone," he says. "I'm not a damn coincidence." I'm not Pete Doherty ... I'm a little disciplined. I've never consumed heroin and I haven't really liked cocaine. "We weren't like Stevie nicks."
These days, he says: "I'll have a good time, but without being stupid until six in the morning." A hangover these days is as if you were caught by the damn Taliban. It takes Me three whole days to recover. "That's why I choose the days."
He has mixed feelings about Noel and feels genuinely betrayed by, as he sees it, the transformation of his brother. "He's a damned idiot," he says. "He's an imbecile, he's joined the ruling class." He's one of them. He's like Mr. Prim and proper. "The way he plays Oasis songs is as if someone took away all his fucking essence, because he doesn't want to see people jump up and down like old times." For his part, Liam plays songs from the Oasis catalogue in his solo concerts in the way they were recorded. And no matter how far apart they are, he gets excited about every word his brother wrote.
On a deeper level, he blames Noel for, from his point of view, abandoning him and Oasis. "He wanted to end the band." And he knows that I found out and now he wants me to disappear. Like I never stepped on this planet. But I have news for him: I'm back! You think you're going to end up with my band and retire quietly? Never! "I will let people know until the day I die that he pushed me into the abyss."
At this point, his face reddened and he's walking around the room again. "They tried to treat me like a damn drummer or a hired group," he says. "I'm the fucking face of the band!" "I am the voice of the group for a long time." He smiles and sighs. "No more questions about Noel." "He's going to give Me cardiac arrest."
Even during the most difficult times, Liam never suffered a harmful depression. He is baffled and surprised by the suicides of Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington, just as it happened with Kurt Cobain. "There's old killing John Lennon fellows," he says. "Your life is precious." Life is like a plane: there will always be turbulence along the way. "You must believe you'll reach your final damn destiny and it'll be incredible."
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