I believe that it is the music of our time that will be remembered long after
we are gone, and it is bands like Oasis that led the revolution which took
place recently. Oasis, headed by brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher was
the first band after The Beatles to lash out against what had become the
normal way a band should be, and that is why they will be known for years
to come as the band who changed rock music.
Noel Gallagher was born on May 29, 1967 in Manchester, he was the
second son of Thomas and Margaret Gallagher. Thomas, Tommy to the
boys at the pub, was a construction worker. He and his wife, known to her
pals as Peggy, resided in the working-class Manchester suburb called
Burnage with their first boy, Paul.
"God was playing a joke when He made me," Noel Gallagher once said.
"You know, 'Let's make this guy a writer and a guitar player, but let's make
him write with his left hand but play with his right, and let's have him born
in the middle of May and give him a Christmas name like Noel. Little did
Noel know that when he grew up he was to become the frontman of one of
the most influential rock bands in music history at a time when music was
the most influential form of speech on the planet.
Little Liam arrived in the Gallagher household five years later, on
September 21, 1972. He and Noel were forced to share a bedroom,
something that always bothered Noel to no end, seeing how Paul, just a
year-and-a-half older than him, had his own room. But Liam and Noel
made the best of it, and the bedroom saw the beginnings of the somewhat
loving, often heated relationship between the brothers. The boys kept a
running record of their childhood by scrawling on their wall, later
described by Tommy as their "wonderwall", later to become the title of
one of their biggest selling singles. Bits of songs, poems, favourite bands,
football teams and the like were all immortalised on their bedroom wall. In
addition to the...