English Script Request

Even though Liam and Noel always knew they were going to be the biggest band, I didn't think it would go so fast.

We were very good at puffing up to the outside world. We seemed like the perfect family, but inside we wasn't.

??? leaving. Like, it was great. ?? was so good. It was like the first time in say 10 years we were actually good. We were like that.

Noel, ??? We were always ?? anyway, but first memory memory was 1969 with Niel Armstrong landing on the moon, and we were perched on this big table ?? looking at these little black and white figures.

"That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."

You couldn't really say me and Liam had a relationship as a kid because when I was 14 he was only 7. When I was 7 he was 0. You know, the age gap really materializes when you're a kid, but me and Noel were like ?? we were close.

Even though Liam and Noel always knew they were going to be the biggest band, I didn't think it would go so fast.

We were very good at puffing up to the outside world. We seemed like the perfect family, but inside we wasn't.

??? leaving. Like, it was great. ?? was so good. It was like the first time in say 10 years we were actually good. We were like that.

Noel, ??? We were always ?? anyway, but first memory memory was 1969 with Niel Armstrong landing on the moon, and we were perched on this big table ?? looking at these little black and white figures.

"That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."

You couldn't really say me and Liam had a relationship as a kid because when I was 14 he was only 7. When I was 7 he was 0. You know, the age gap really materializes when you're a kid, but me and Noel were like ?? we were close.

Noel and Paul mostly done things together. And Liam was always tagging along with them. I always ?? getting into... I think they wanted rid of him as he was growing up. Of course they always made sure he was in there with them. Everything they were doing he wanted to do ??. When Liam was a baby and I wanted to go out and shop they told Paul to... I'm push them down as far as the library and tell Paul to look after them there til I come back from the shop. But as Paul got older he ?? and said to me, "Well he's your son, your baby. You look after him. You had him."

When you're growing up, you know what I mean, I think you... the eldest gets more pressure on him. You... cuz you're-- you're the oldest. You know what I mean? Then... um, the second one, Noel like, if I like messed up or whatever which I did do, I mean he wouldn't like follow me. He-- He'd see what I've done but correct it. And then the other one, Liam, he'd look up to Noel.

*note---this is British English and I am an American so there is some slang and terminology that I don't understand, and sometimes it's just their accents that are hard to understand.

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Mom-He was always the one ??? mostly with me.
Paul-He was spoiled, that's a bit (about?) right.
Mom-No, you were all spoiled, really.
Paul-No, he was spoiled way more.
Mom-Well, Liam might have gotten a little bit more, yeah.
Brother-He was in a leather jacket when he was 7.

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Brother-He used to come in at nine in the morning, come in, sign in, quarter past nine (he came) straight out, because my mum was a dinner lady there so he'd have to come back around 12, produce dinner, eat his dinner, out again, and then my mum would ask him what he had for dinner and he would explain in great detail what he did for his lessons and what he had for dinner, and all this. Then this girl rang and she said "Mrs. Gallagher, we need to see you. Noel's not been in for three months. Very good at lying that boy!

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Mom- Noel didn't want to do a thing at all at school. He was a daydreamer, Noel would just sit there and dream his...
Paul-"Wanna be a spaceman?"

(music) "I haven't seen your face round since I was a kid. You're bringing back those memories of the things that we did. You're hanging round and climbing trees, pretending to fly.Do you want to be a spaceman and live in the sky?"

Even though Liam and Noel always knew they were going to be the biggest band, I didn't think it would go so fast.

We were very good at puffing up to the outside world. We seemed like the perfect family, but inside we wasn't.

I was down London earlier this week and I went out with Liam and, like, it was great. It was so good man. It was like the first time in say 10 years we were actually good. We were like that.

Noel, first memory we were always brothers anyway, but first memory memory was 1969 with Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, and we were perched on this big table in our front living room looking at these little black and white figures.

"That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."

You couldn't really say me and Liam had a relationship as a kid because when I was 14 he was only 7. When I was 7 he was 0. You know, the age gap really materializes when you're a kid, but me and Noel were like that, we were close.

Noel and Paul mostly done things together. And Liam was always tagging along with them. Always the mischievous one getting into... I think they wanted rid of him as he was growing up. Of course they always made sure he was in there with them. Everything they were doing he wanted to do as well. When Liam was a baby and I wanted to go out and shop they told Paul to... I'd push them down as far as the library and tell Paul to look after them there til I come back from the shops. But as Paul got older he used to turn round and say to me, "Well he's your son, your baby. You look after him. You had him."

When you're growing up, you know what I mean, I think you... the eldest gets more pressure on him. You... cuz you're-- you're the oldest. You know what I mean? Then... um, the second one, Noel like, if I like messed up or whatever which I did do, I mean he wouldn't like follow me. He-- He'd see what I've done but correct it. And then the other one, Liam, he'd look up to Noel.

Mam- Liam was always the one that was sort of mostly with me.

Paul- He was spoilt, let's have it right.

Mam- No, you were all spoiled, really, Liam might have got a little bit more than er..

Paul- No, he was spoiled way more.He was in a leather jacket when he was 7 you know what I mean,I had to do with a plastic one.

Mam- but then again Noel was spoiled until Liam come along.Noel was mammy's blue eyed boy like you always say.

Paul- Still is.

Mam- Noel, this is in primary school and one of his teachers says, Noel would be going in the gate and Noel would just give him a look as much as to say well I'm here but just don't bother talking to me because I'm not going to do anything.

Brother- He used to come in at nine in the morning, come in, sign in, quarter past nine (he came) straight out, because my mam was a dinner lady here then so he'd have to come back half 12, in for his dinner, eat his dinner, out again, and then my mam would ask him what he had for dinner and he would explain in great detail what he did for his lessons and what he had for dinner, and all this. Then the school rang and says "Mrs. Gallagher, we need to see you. Noel's not been in for three months. Very good at lying that boy!

Mam- Noel didn't want to do a thing at all at school. He was a daydreamer, Noel would just sit there and dream his...

Paul- "Wanna be a spaceman?"

(music) "I haven't seen your face round since I was a kid. You're bringing back those memories of the things that we did. You're hanging round and climbing trees, pretending to fly.Do you want to be a spaceman and live in the sky?"

We had no girls when we were--We didn't like know we [were?] a five-year experiment
Then when Liam come, brought girls in [unintelligible] bit of a [unintelligible] know what I mean?

Liam always [unintelligible] trouble in school; he was always mischievous. [scholastically?]
The only way they could pay Liam back was to stop her from doin' sports. Stopped her from doin' football and never did leave her do anything 'cept for regular football. Then he made sure he was in [the football club?].

We had no girls when we were ... me and like Noel, were a five-year experiment.
Then when Liam come, brought girls in, which I thought was a bit of a downy and that, know what I mean?

Liam always claims the trouble at school; he was always mischievous, and he was the type that actively... and he said, the only way they could pay Liam back was to stop her from doin’ sports. If they stopped her from doin’ football and never did leave her do anything ’cept from [regular?] football. Then he made sure he was in there - the football club.

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We had no girls when we were ... me and like Noel, we were a five-year experiment.
Then when Liam come, brought girls in, which I thought was a bit of a downer, you know what I mean?

Liam always creates the trouble at school; he was always mischievous, and he was a bit hyperactive, Liam. And it's... the only way they could pay Liam back was to stop him from doing sports. If they stopped him from doing football then that was it, Liam'd do anything except from write, for football. Then he made sure he was in there, at football practice.

If you've got the skill and you, like, don't want to go home, d'you know what I mean. Well it was the violence and it was anything but we never actually ran away because we knew our mam would get it, so we sort of stayed there, and bit our lip, and begged her to divorce me dad, which she did, in the end. It took her twenty years, like, but, she got there.

We left school with nothing. Not one qualification between us. But we could read and write. And we had... I think the most powerful thing in the world is not knowledge, it's common sense.

(music) Maybe I just want to fly, want to live I don't want to die, maybe I just want to breath, maybe I just don't believe. Maybe you're the same as me, we see things they'll never see. You and I are gonna live forever. I said maybe, I don't really wanna know, you got engrossed, cos I...

- Noel always loved clothes ever since... when he become [sic] a teenager, he always loved to dress up.

- This is Pete Townsend's original Union Jack jacket from the cover of My Generation
- How do you know?
- 'Cos we got it off Roger Daltrey's niece... so there you go, check that out

- We were dressed liked twins until we were 12. It sort of pissed us off

Note: I am Canadian and this is British English, there is slang that is difficult to understand and transcribe.

We both had to wear the identical stripey jumpers and **** pants with sixty five inch flares.
We try not to dress like that anymore.

Noel was a rockabilly once. He thought nothing better than walking around with a donkey jacket with a confederate flag slapped on the back. And one of those stupid hats with a thing on the top and a big pair of boots.

Liam ??? All his clothes are still at my house. He has a wardrobe full of clothes. And packed to the top with his clothes ??? still has to move to London.

Liam: I like to wear like baggy clothes, you know what I mean? I'm not like short.... I like to have em hangin loose man, loose fit ???? pair of trainers.

Interviewer: So what do you think is the worst fashion mistake someone's made? Have you seen someone that is so like uggg and so fashionable and?????really in your head??? everything looks hideous?
Who?
Liam: You.
Interviewer: Oh, you bastard!

I suppose in a way when I go and look at his wardrobe I still think a part of him is still here.

I'm an American, so I'm likely not catching all of the slang

Guy on the right:???

Guy with glasses: ??? "I'm seein' someone at the moment"

song: what have you got to hide? What do you need to prove? You're always telling lies and that's the only truth"

Mom: Liam didn't say he was Bringin' anyone.. I was messin' around upstairs, tryin' to tidy up and next thing I thought it was his father that had come in the front door. I said 'Is that you Paul?' No answer. and of course 'That you Paul?' No answer. And the third time I was gettin' a bit annoyed. 'Is that you Liam??' and he say 'Yeah Mum it's me, Liam. so he says ugh 'come down here, I got somebody to meet ya'

"What about German girls?"

[Almost inaudible]"I'm married, mate."

"???"

[singing]

And so of course I went down, and he says, "Oh, this is ???", so he says she's come to meet you. I said, "Oh, well hello, pleased to meet you," but I couldn't get over it. She was so nice and so ordinary. She just came in and sat there and had her cup of tea, and, she were really nice.

[singing]

"Ah, Liam's about at the moment, innhe[1]? 'Cause he's getting married or sommat[2]? So the press tell me."

"But did you really find about his, um, forthcoming marriage to Patsy through the press, or did you...?"

"I'd 'eard - I'd 'eard a rumour. I got asked a question by someone, some journalist in the street, what did I think about Liam and Patsy, and I said I thought they were a boy and a girl, and er... Then, then when I got to, to er, up to Birmingham where we were rehearsing, he told me he got engaged. Which actually was cool actually because if he'd have told me before he got engaged I'd have had to buy him a present so I didn't have to now and he's not getting one either, so there! Haha."

"Yeah, Meg was lovely as well. Yeah, I get on great with both of them. Um, Meg is the type of girl who would do anything for you."

"They're like the daughters you never had, aren't they?"

"Yeah, they are really. I've got a great relationship with both of them. Which is nice, because, erm, you know, makes it easier for everybody all round. I mean, they can talk to me, and I can talk to them. They're looking for advice, I give it to them, and I know when to keep me mouth shut and say nothing! [laughter]"

"Now is Meg pushing you towards the altar?"

"Haha... She'll be trying over my dead body, let me tell you that. Yeah, the chance of me getting married, No way."

"I'd really like them to, er, I suppose, to get married, settle down and have children, erm -"

"And make you a granny."

"Make me a granny, yeah."

"Liam's room is still there, though I couldn't see the two of them fitting into Liam's room now because they're only little rooms. Liam and Noel used to share a room, but, er, the room is there for whichever one of them comes first."

"I wanna go back home, and everything's cool, just normal again."

"There's no resentment?"

"There is a few dickheads and that who ain't your mates and that, you know what I mean? People who weren't your mates anyway, you just knew 'em. Screw that, [????]. But it's like you say, you know who your mates are, and they're cool. And if they ain't got their arses straight to your face, then they're fucking idiots aren't they. They say it behind your back, they say it behind your back, and there's nought you can do about it is there."

"It's like Noel said once, it's like he goes in his pub, where he's not been for years, and he walks up to the bar and sees all his mates, so he offers to buy everyone a drink. And they all turn round and go, oh, look at him, flash twat, pop star, you know what I mean? But then if he doesn't offer to buy them a drink, they're all like, ah, look at that tight-arsed pop star with loads of money, so, you can't win. So fuck them."

"I s'pose if I was honest, deep down, I'd have preferred them to stay in Manchester. Erm, I would have liked them to have settled in Manchester, but it's a thing that's not going to happen, so. So long as they're happy, y'know."

"If anybody [??? wants to get out of Manchester city? Maybe?]... I mean it's not, it's not the place - it's made out to all these kids to be the Mecca of the north, the musical centre of the north and I mean, the place is a joke. I wouldn't live there again for all the money in the world."

"I'm thirty, and I ain't married, and the press keep loving having a go saying I'm living at home, but where would you want me to live, in a cardboard box? Y'know what I mean? I'm having a great old time. They can say what they want. It won't affect me. But yeah, I am gonna move out, I am gonna get my own place. Y'know, start living. Very soon."

[Singing]

"Noel, always... Just - imagine there's a ladder, a big ladder up there, out there in the world, and, he won't like me saying this, but he did use quite a few people to step up certain rungs and stuff. And, I could see that from when he was, say, 17, 18. He'd have his mates for playing football and he'd have his mates for playing music, and when he got bored of his mates he'd get other mates, and he just... that progression. And he spirals [???? I don't know if this is correct], he had them, then he wanted something else, he'd move onto other people.... bang, bang, bang.

A correction to previous transcriptions and I've filled in the gaps.
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Paul: We had no girls when we were here, me and like Noel, we were a five year experiment.
Then when Liam come, brought girls in, which I thought was a bit of a downer, you know what I mean?

Peggy: Liam always created trouble at school, he was always mischievous, and he was a bit hyperactive, Liam. And it's... the only way they could pay Liam back was to stop him from doing sports. If they stopped him from doing football then that was it, Liam would do anything except ? football. Then he made sure he was in there, at football practice.

Paul: If you've got the skill and you, like, you don't want to go home, do you know what I mean? Well it was the violence and it was anything but we never actually ran away because we knew our mam would get it, so we sort of stayed there, and bit our lip, and begged her to divorce my dad, which she did, in the end. It took her twenty years, like, but, she got there.
We left school with nothing. Not one qualification between us. But we could read and write. And we had... I think the most powerful thing in the world is not knowledge, it's common sense.

Music: Maybe I just want to fly, want to live I don't want to die, maybe I just want to breath, maybe I just don't believe. Maybe you're the same as me, we see things they'll never see. You and I are gonna live forever. I said maybe, I don't really wanna know, how your garden grows…

Peggy: Noel always loved clothes ever since... when he become a teenager, he always loved to dress up.

Noel: This is Pete Townsend's original Union Jack jacket from the cover of My Generation.


Interviewer: How do you know?


Noel: Because we got it off Roger Daltrey's niece... so there you go, check that out.

Paul: We were dressed liked twins until we were 12. Which sort of pissed us off.
We both had to wear the identical stripey jumpers and combat pants with like sixty five inch flares you know what I mean?
We try not to dress identical now. Noel was a rockabilly once. He thought nothing better than walking around with a donkey jacket with a confederate flag slapped on the back. And one of them stupid hats with a thing on and a big pair of boots.

Peggy: Liam, all his clothes are still at my house. He has a wardrobe full of clothes.

Paul: Seven wardrobes, let’s have it right.

Peggy: And packed to the top with his clothes that he still hasn’t moved to London.

Paul: They don’t fit me so, you know what I mean?

Liam: I like to wear like baggy clothes, you know what I mean? And not like short.... I like to have it hanging loose man, loose fit… put.. tight up top….pair of trainers.

Interviewer: So what do you think is the worst fashion mistake someone's made? Have you seen someone that is so like urgh and so fashionable and it’s really doing your head in and it looks hideous?

Liam:Yeah.

Interviewer: Who?


Liam: You.


Interviewer: Oh, you bastard!

Peggy: I suppose in a way when I go and look at his wardrobe I still think a part of him is still here.

Presenter: Liam Gallagher of Oasis looks set to be working with Italian designer Gianni Versace, as one of his future models. You may remember in July of this year Liam jumped up on the catwalk at Gianni Versace's menswear show. And his catwalk moves obviously impressed the Italian designer.

Peggy: Noel always brought his girlfriends home. You always met every one. Liam was one for the ladies and all but Paul didn't bring his girlfriends home, but the other two did, always brought their, the ladies home.'

Interviewer: What about German girls?'

Bonehead: I’m married me.

Liam: I’m alright me, I'm seeing someone at the moment

Music.

Peggy: Liam didn't say he was bringing her and I was upstairs, messing round upstairs, trying to tidy up but the next thing I thought it was Paul that had come in the front door. I said 'Is that you Paul?' No answer. And of course 'That you Paul?' No answer. And the third time I was getting a bit annoyed. 'Is that you Liam?' so he says 'Yeah mam it's me, Liam. So he says ‘Come down here, I’ve got somebody to meet you.’
And so of course I went down, and he says, ‘Oh, this is Patsy,’ so he says ‘She's come to meet you.’ I said, "Oh, well hello, pleased to meet you," but I couldn't get over it. She was so nice and so ordinary. She just came in and sat there and had her cup of tea, and, she were really nice.

Music.

Noel: ”Liam's the man at the moment, isn’t he? ‘Because he's getting married or something? So the press tell me."

Interviewer: ”But did you really find out about his, forthcoming marriage to Patsy through the press, or did you...?"

Noel:"I'd heard, I'd heard a rumour. I got asked a question by someone, some journalist in the street, what did I think about Liam and Patsy, and I said I thought they were a boy and a girl, and er... Then, then when I got to, to er, up to Birmingham where we were rehearsing, he told me he got engaged. Which actually was cool actually because if he'd have told me before he got engaged I'd have had to buy him a present so I didn't have to now and he's not getting one either, so there! Haha."

Peggy: ”Yeah, Meg was lovely as well. Yeah, I get on great with both of them. Meg is the type of girl who would do anything for you."

Paul: ”They're like the daughters you never had, aren't they?"

Peggy: ”Yeah, they are really. I've got a great relationship with both of them. Which is nice, because, you know, makes it easier for everybody all round. I mean, they can talk to me, and I can talk to them. They're looking for advice, I give it to them, and I know when to keep me mouth shut and say nothing! “

Interviewer: ”Now is Meg pushing you towards the altar?"

Noel: ”Haha... She'll be trying over my dead body, let me tell you that. Yeah, the chance of me getting married, No way."

Peggy: ”I’d really like them to, er, I suppose, to get married, settle down and have children.”

Paul: ”And make you a granny."

Peggy: ”Make me a granny, yeah."

Peggy: Liam’s room is still there. I couldn’t see the two of them fitting into Liam’s room now because it’s only a little room. So Liam and Noel used to share a room. But er, the room is there for whichever of them comes first.

Liam: When I go back home and that everything’s cool and just normal again.

Interviewer: There’s no resentment?

Liam: There is a few dickheads and that, who ain’t your mates and that, you know what I mean? People who weren’t your mates anyway you just knew them, it’s gonna be that, it’s like you say, you know who your mates are, and they’re cool, and if they ain’t got the arse to say it to your face, then they’re fucking idiots aren’t they? They say it behind your back, they say it behind your back, there’s nothing you can do about it is there?

Bonehead: it’s like Noel said once he goes in this pub that he’s not been in for years, and he walks up to the bar and he sees all his mates and he offers to buy everyone a drink, and they all turn round and go oh look at him the flash twat popstar, you know what I mean? But then if he doesn’t offer to buy them a drink, they’re all like that, look at that tight-arsed popstar with loads of money, so, you can’t win so fuck them.

Peggy: I suppose if I was honest, deep down I would have preferred them to stay in Manchester. I would have liked them to have settled in Manchester, but its a thing that’s, so, not going to happen, so long as they’re happy, you know.

Noel: If anybody in that city had the money they’d get out, they’d leave. It’s not the place…
It’s made out to all the kids to be the mecca of the north, the musical centre of the north, the place is a joke, you know. I wouldn’t live there again for all the money in the world.

Paul: I’m 30, I ain’t married, and the press just keep love having a go saying I’m living at home, but where would they want me to live, in a cardboard box, you know what I mean? I’m having a great old time, they can say what they want, it won’t affect me. I am going to move out and get my own place, and you know, start living very soon.

Noel, always, just imagine there's a ladder, a big ladder up there, out there in the world, and, he won't like me saying this, but he did use quite a few people to step up certain rungs and stuff. And I could see that from when he was, say, 17, 18. He'd have his mates for playing football then he'd have his mates for music, and when he got bored of his mates he'd get other mates, he just, that progression. The Inspirals, he had them, then he got, done something else, then he’d have other people, it’s bang, bang, bang.

Music.

Clint Boon: I first met Noel through other members of the Inspirals, he became friendly with Martin & Craig in particular, the rhythm section, and, he started coming to gigs as a fan, he was a big fan of the Inspirals, even though he wouldn’t admit it now, would you Noel? But basically, yeah, we lost our singer very early on in our career, after the first single Stephen Holt left the band, and Noel expressed an interest in auditioning to be the new singer, which he did, he came and auditioned at the… I think it was at the end of 88, then I think a couple of nights after we auditioned Tom and Tom got the gig.

To me, the main reason Noel didn’t get the job of singing was because the style didn’t suit, we all liked him and wanted him to be part of it, so from that moment on we employed him. What was Noel like as a roadie? You would never see him sweating. You would never see him wearing a baseball cap. You would never see him with a bunch of keys hanging on his belt. I find it hard to look at him as just a roadie, because he wasn’t, he was more than that, you know, he was more like a cosmic advisor. And supplier of things.

Noel was shady and he was a scally, he was a proper you know, whatever the definition of scally is, I’m sure Noel fitted it. But just instantly loveable and instantly respectable, you know what I mean? You couldn’t help respect somebody like that, even though he was selling you a stolen mountain bike.

Music: Roll With It.

21:50

Paul: Here we are at Sifter's Records in Manchester. Afternoon Peter.

Peter Howard: Hello, Paul.

How you doing?

Peter Howard: Not so bad.

Paul: Sifter's is a place that me and our Liam used to come all the time. There was a time when, um, when I was on the dole and you used to, you used to give me stuff often, didn't you? You used to come in and give me a bag of stuff, free of charge. The song Shaker Maker come from here. Mr Sifter sold me songs when I was just 16. And he stops at traffic lights but only when they’re green.

Song: Shaker Maker

I'm buying the best of Booker T and the MGs. Superfly the movie soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield.

Peggy: My favourite one is Don't Look Back in Anger. There's just something in the words of it. It's like Noah always said, he got that little bit, what is it?

Paul: Stand beside the fireplace.

Peggy: Take that look from off your face and he reckons I always made them do that when they were little.

Song: Don’t Look Back in Anger.

Peggy: I’m really proud of er, proud of them all really. But erm, I can't really describe it to be quite honest with you.

Paul: I don’t resent them one bit. I'm very, very proud of them and I think they, they set out four years ago to be the best band in the world and they've done what they set out to do. Now, how many other people in any walk of life can say, you know you have a dream, say I'm gonna be this, I'm gonna be that, I'm gonna run this business my way, how many people actually achieve it? Not very many.

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The End.

INTERVIEWER: I think, it was, you were like eleven or twelve when you wrote your first song or something, is that?...

NOEL GALLAGHER: Yeah

INTERVIEWER: Did you get like, were people encouraging you saying, "Hey that's good you should do more of this..."

GALLAGHER: No, people were laughing.

INTERVIEWER: Really?

GALLAGHER: Going pfft, what are you doing? I wanna be a songwriter. Just like pfft! Heh! You wanna be a songwriter? Why can't you be a drug dealer like the rest of us? I dunno.

-We went down to his flat and he sat on the bed playing his guitar and he rocked, man, he rocked. He's a good guitarist.

-When he started high school he used to play guitar, messing about. Well he thought he'd go one better and get a violin. I'd walk through the gates (?) "I thought you played the guitar, mate." ? "I play the violin as well." ? Then he thought he'd get called a sissy so he dropped the violin. Two weeks later the guitar went as well and he started to become a hooligan. He just seemed this loud, cheeky git. I didn't think he was a singer, not one bit. ? Not until he comes in one night and went "I've auditioned for a band." And I went "You can't sing." "I know I can't. I can shout. And I'll develop singing and I can do it just as well as anybody else." From now he just worked on it and worked on it and has got one of the best voices in Britain, maybe the world 'cause he puts that much passion into it.

> 'The Word' was the first time I seen him...
>On telly...
>And that record is still a bit special because it's the first time I seen him on television. Supersonic. Yeah, yeah. Oh well I sat there with my box of tissues and cried my eyes out like I usually do...
Very, very strange, yeah, thinking - they're just - they're my two that's on there. I get very emotional any time I see them on now - the telly. I'm getting used to it now.

>The blueprint for what Oasis became, was drawn out by The Inspirals, basically. And what Noel did was just knock off the rough edges of what we'd done i.e, you know, just take away some of the, er, little mistakes we'd made. And you've got a perfect, streamlined, pop success, you know what I mean?

>I didn't pick up tips about how to do things properly. It was more about how not to do things, really, because, erm, I feel the band made a lot of mistakes with management, record companies and all the rest of it. Erm, I used to meet people at their 'dos'. You know, like, record company people and I suppose I quickly learnt that, you know, everyone in the music business is a bit of an arsehole really - apart from people who play the guitar.

>To some extent Noel learnt that it is possible to, not necessarily lead, but be maybe the prime contributor, from the side of the stage.

>I can't actually say that Noel borrowed anything lyrically or musically from The Inspirals. Erm, he definitely was influenced by the spirit that we could get within a pop song, you know, within a 3-minute pop song. He knew all about big choruses that'd, er, get stadiums standing on their feet and putting their arms in the air.

>I love going to, er, the gigs because it's only then it really brings it home to you that they're that big and that famous. Erm, you can listen to their albums but when you go to a gig and there's thousands and thousands of people and every...they're all, you know, our Liam is idolised by millions - and Noel and, you know, the band. That's when it, you know, brings it home to you. That's what I feel more proud of, really. When I see them...
>And you bawl your eyes out...
>And the Main Road gig, I thought that was brilliant because it was like coming back to Manchester...coming home

> For the past three months I've been so busy and, you know, doing the book promotion and the A&R for Creation and, erm, managing a band and, um, trying to get a screenplay sorted and trying to set up my own label. So I've got five things and then I've to my own company as well. So I've been intensely busy but I've found myself catapulted up there, so I've got no advisors if you know what I mean. I'm on my own. So I've got to, like, choose my words before I get slammed. The time that it really hurt in, er, Paris in '94. When I went to Paris to see them and, er...you know, there was a champagne party going on with Sony and stuff and, erm, Noel - he was in a weird mood. And he says - what'd he say? - 'You're never gonna do f-all. You're gonna be in Manchester the rest of your life, You'll never amount to nothing.' And that hurt. I was thinking 'fuck you, dick'...you know what I mean?

>

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Here we are at, um, Sifter's Records in Manchester.

Hello, Paul.

How're you doing?

Not so bad.

Sifter's is a place that me and all them used to come all the time. There was a time when, um, when I was an adult when you used to, you used to give me stuff often, didn't you? You used to come in and give me a bag of stuff, free of charge. This song, (Shaker maker???), comes from here. ??? were songs when I was just 16. And this stuff'd stop the traffic lights when they put it on, they did.

(singing)

I'm buying the best of Booker T and MGs, Superfy the movie soundtrack by (laughter) Curtis Mayfield.

My favorite one is, uh, Don't Look Back in Anger. There's just something in the words of it. And it's like Noah always said, it's got that little bit. Em, that's part of it. (indistinct words from off screen) Take that look from off your face and (looking back?) I always made them do that when they were little and -

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I'm really proud of, uh, proud of them all really. But uh, I can't really describe it to be quite honest with you.

Oh it was in, you bet, I'm very, very proud of him and I think they, they set out four years ago to be the best band in the world and they've done what they set to do. Now, how many other people in any walk of life can say, you know you have a dream, say I'm gonna be this, I'm gonna be that, I'm gonna run this business my way, how many people actually achieve it? Not very many.

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