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Noel: Not making it big in America is all Liam’s fault

By | Published on Tuesday 29 November 2011

Oasis

Noel and Liam Gallagher’s ongoing squabbling may now be primarily the business of the two brothers’ respective legal teams, but that doesn’t stop one or the other engaging is some more informal bitching.

Noel G has blamed his brother for the fact Oasis never quite cracked America in the way they had hoped they would, honing in on a crucial 1996 tour which was cancelled when Liam withdrew at the very last minute because his then girlfriend Patsy Kensit wanted to go house hunting.

The incident is included in Noel’s recent countersuit against Liam’s defamation litigation, which the latter launched against the former in relation to claims made at a press conference. But Noel has also told the story to the New York Times.

He says: “As I’m getting on the plane [to the US for the 1996 tour] he’s getting off because his wife [actually, then still girlfriend] called, saying: ‘We need to buy a house’. What they were doing for the previous three months is anybody’s guess. Probably picking gnats out of each other’s hair like monkeys”.

He continues: “The first gig was a 16,000 seat arena, and the singer’s not turned up. That killed us stone dead in America. This is rock n roll. Would Johnny Rotten have gotten a house on the eve of an American tour? Keith Richards? John Lennon? You either want it or you don’t, and I blame him for us never becoming as big in America as we were in England”.



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