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Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher have a long history of constant feuding – both physical and verbal. Here’s the full history of the band and what they’ve said to each other.
1991 – Liam Gallagher forms Oasis with Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll and later asks Noel to join them.
1993 – The band signs with Creation Records and begins work on their debut album.
August 1994 – Oasis shot to fame with their debut album Definitely Maybe, featuring songs like Rock n Roll Star, Live Forever and Supersonic. It was one of the fastest-selling debut albums ever for a British band.
September 1994 – Noel temporarily leaves the band’s tour after Liam hits him in the face with a tambourine on stage in Los Angeles.
1995 – The band releases their second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, featuring Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back in Anger and Champagne Supernova.
1996 – Liam is forced to miss part of his tour due to laryngitis, but he causes chaos when he is filmed booing his brother from a balcony during the taping of MTV Unplugged.
2000 – Noel temporarily leaves the band for a second time when, at a party in Barcelona, Liam angers Noel by asking if his daughter, Anais, is really his. The pair get into a fistfight.
2005 – Noel tells Q Magazine that he has ‘never forgiven’ Liam for his comments about Anais and that he has ‘never apologised’. He tells the magazine: “He’s my brother. I hope he reads this and realises that. He’s my brother but he’s keeping his distance until he apologises for what he’s done.”
2009 – Noel admits in an interview with Q that he “doesn’t like Liam,” calling him “rude, arrogant, intimidating and lazy.” “He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet,” he added. “He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”
Liam later hits back, telling NME: “It takes more than blood to be my brother. He doesn’t like me and I don’t like him.”
August 23, 2009 – Oasis have pulled out of a headlining performance at the UK’s V Festival due to Liam suffering from laryngitis.
August 28, 2009 – Just before the Rock en Seine festival, Noel and Liam get into another fight. According to Noel, Liam breaks one of Noel’s guitars after “swinging it like an axe”.
August 28, 2009 – Noel is leaving the band for the third and final time, saying in a statement: “It is with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I am leaving Oasis tonight. I simply couldn’t work with Liam another day.”
2010 – Oasis wins ‘Best Album of the Last 30 Years’ at the Brit Awards for (What’s the Story) Morning Glory. Liam takes the gong and thanks everyone except Noel. He later says this was misinterpreted as a dig.
2011 – Liam is attempting to sue Noel after he claims in the interview that they cancelled their V Festival appearance because Liam was hungover. Liam denied this, saying the comment “called my professionalism into question”. He later apologised and the lawsuit was dropped.
2011 – Noel admits he regrets leaving before the Paris gig, telling Absolute Radio, admitting that if he had, “we might never have broken up.”
2011 – 2014 – Liam and the other band members continue under the new name Beady Eye, while Noel forms a new band: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
2015 – After years of online jabbing, mainly via the media and Twitter, Liam teases that he has buried the hatchet with Noel by sharing an All Areas pass from a High Flying Birds gig. However, the fight would resume two months later after Noel publicly rejected the suggestion that Oasis would reunite for Glastonbury 2016.
2017 – Liam performs at the One Love concert in Manchester following the bombing at Ariana Grande’s show, with Don’t Look Back In Anger becoming a unifying anthem for the incident. He then criticises Noel for not coming. Noel later tells the Sunday Times: “Young music fans have been slaughtered and he’s taking it twice to a place where it’s all about him. He’s got to see someone.”
2018 – Liam suggested a reunion for the 2018 World Cup on Twitter, writing: “Let’s get the big O back together and stop f***ing about the drinks are on me”. When it fell on deaf ears, he added: “Then I’ll take that as a NO.”
2019 – Noel speaks out after Liam sends Anais ‘threatening messages’ following a comment about his then-wife Sara McDonald. Liam later publicly apologises to Anais.
2020 – Liam urges Noel to get together for a one-off charity performance.
