“The lack of support and understanding from my management and band mates has left me with no other option than to get me cape and seek pastures new.”
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Liam Gallagher
William John Paul Gallagher is an English singer and songwriter who is the lead singer and co-founder of the rock band Oasis. Gallagher fronted Beady Eye, an offshoot of Oasis, between 2009 and 2014, before starting a solo career in 2017. One of the most recognisable figures in British rock music, he is noted for his distinctive vocal style and outspoken personality.
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entertainment · English singer-songwriter (born 1972) · singer · songwriter · singer-songwriter · guitarist · composer · musician · also Liam Gallagher, Gallagher
Born 21 September 1972 · Q216708
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Liam Gallagher performs in July 2017 in New York City
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2026· 15 entries
“s other whiff of controversy came courtesy of Yoko Ono, who drew an unflattering comparison between John Lennon”
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“Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don”
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Robb Report: This Historic $6.4 Million English Country House Has Hosted Liam Gallagher and Queen Mary
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Published video “COME ON I'M SHINING LIKE A DIAMOND IN THE DARK #liamgallagher #shorts”.
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Published video “LIVE FOREVER 2018 #liamgallagher #oasis”.
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Published video “ALL MY PEOPLE RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW #liamgallagher #oasis”.
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Published video “#liamgallagher #oasis”.
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Published video “#liamgallagher #shorts”.
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Published video “TAKE ME DOWN THROUGH THE STREETS OF CHINATOWN Nine years. #liamgallagher #shorts”.
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Published video “C’MON YOU KNOW Four years #liamgallagher #shorts”.
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Published video “#oasis #liamgallagher”.
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Published video “30 YEARS OF CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA #oasis #liamgallagher”.
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: Guitar ‘smashed up’ by Liam Gallagher on night Oasis split up goes to auction
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The Guardian: I’ve started strutting like Liam Gallagher – and the power is great indeed | Adrian Chiles
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Released album “Definitely Maybe 30 Years: 2024-06-07: London, UK”.
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2024· 5 entries
Released album “Utilita Arena Cardiff: Definitely Maybe 30 Years – 3 June 2024”.
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Released album “Liam Gallagher John Squire”.
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Released album “Liam Gallagher - Definitely Maybe 30th Tour at Cardiff”.
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Gallagher collaborated with ex-Stone Roses guitarist John Squire on the album Liam Gallagher & John Squire, which was released on 1 March 2024; the album was preceded by the singles "Just Another Rainbow" and "Mars to Li
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Liam reserved a seat for Noel at every gig
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “Knebworth 22”.
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2022· 4 entries
Released album “Down by the River Thames”.
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Released album “C′mon You Know”.
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Released ep “Diamond In The Dark”.
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And became his fourth solo album to debut at number one on the UK Albums Chart
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2021· 1 entry
“mon You Know, on 27 May 2022. Gallagher performed at Knebworth Park on 3 and 4 June 2022, nearly 26 years after he performed there with Oasis. On 11 October, Gallagher announced that he would also perform at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester on 1 June and Hampden Park in Glasgow on 26 June 2022. On 20 January 2022, Gallagher announced that the first single to be released from C”
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2020· 3 entries
Released album “MTV Unplugged”.
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Released ep “Acoustic Sessions”.
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“s Heaton Park on 12 June 2020 and TRNSMT Festival on 11 July 2020. 2020–2024: C”
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2019· 9 entries
Released album “Why Ritz ? Why Not.”.
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Released album “Why Me? Why Not.”.
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Awarded MTV Europe Music Award for Global Icon (2019).
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Received the MTV Europe Music Award for "Rock Icon"
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That he had begun to suffer from arthritis of the hips and that doctors had advised him to jog less
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Revealed that he never learned how to drive or swim
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In a BBC documentary about his life, Gallagher praised each of the four mothers of his children for raising the children to be "good people"
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In 2019, in a BBC documentary about his life, Gallagher praised each of the four mothers of his children for raising the children to be "good people".
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Called As It Was, following his life after Beady Eye and his life leading up to his solo debut album As You Were
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2018· 3 entries
Released album “2018-02-12 RadioX Rooftop, London”.
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Gallagher did not meet Molly until May 2018, after which he expressed hope that he would have a continued presence in her life.
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The album was certified platinum with over 300,000 units sold in the UK
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2017· 6 entries
Released album “2017-11-02: BBC Radio Theatre, London, UK”.
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Released album “As You Were”.
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Was announced in November 2016, with other festival appearances for summer 2017 later confirmed
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Gallagher started his solo career with the release of his debut solo album, As You Were (2017), which proved to be a critical and commercial success
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Has been represented by his Australian-born nephew Daniel Nicholas
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Gallagher admitted that had it not been for pop singer Madonna, he would have never entered the music industry
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2016· 1 entry
It was announced in March 2017 that the album was to be titled As You Were
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2014· 1 entry
Gallagher designed a Parka-wearing Paddington Bear statue, one of fifty located around London prior to the release of the film Paddington, which was auctioned to raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention of
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2010· 1 entry
Rolling Stone commented that "the album is a triumph, full of bluster, bravado, and surprising tenderness" and that it "capped a true golden age for Britpop"
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2009· 1 entry
Prior to the group's break, Noel called Liam "rude, arrogant, intimidating, and lazy", describing him as "the angriest man you'll ever meet
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2006· 2 entries
Gallagher allegedly had a drunken brawl with footballer Paul Gascoigne at the Groucho Club in London, which ended with him setting off a fire extinguisher in Gascoigne's face
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And NME hailed it as the greatest album of all time that same year
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2005· 1 entry
The Guardian wrote that Liam and Noel Gallagher "worship" Lennon above all others, and a 2017 Rolling Stone profile described Lennon as Gallagher's "hero" and "spiritual fucking guide"
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2002· 1 entry
And featured three more songs written by Liam
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2000· 1 entry
With the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
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1999· 2 entries
After which the Gallagher brothers set up their own label, Big Brother Recordings, for all future Oasis releases
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Gallagher and Kensit's son Lennon was born on 13 September 1999.
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1998· 1 entry
That apparently involved a scone, Gallagher was banned for life from Cathay Pacific Airways; he responded that he would "rather walk"
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1997· 1 entry
Definitely Maybe was named the 14th greatest album of all time in a "Music of the Millennium" poll conducted by HMV
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1995· 1 entry
Gallagher started dating actress Patsy Kensit and they married on 7 April 1997 at Marylebone Town Hall
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1994· 2 entries
Liam frequently changed the words of Noel's songs so that they were offensive to both Americans and Noel
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Gallagher quickly made a public name for himself with his "loutish" behaviour
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1993· 1 entry
Oasis played a four-song set at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, where Alan McGee of Creation Records discovered them and signed them for a six-album deal
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1991· 1 entry
At the Boardwalk in Manchester that Noel, having recently returned from touring internationally as a roadie for Inspiral Carpets, saw them perform
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1972· 1 entry
Born 1972-09-21.
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