Getting Him To Join

oasis’ discography (1994-2008) | [insp]

We all talk about Liam looks like Ophelia at I'm outta time mv but can we please talk about how compatible it is by chance or on purpose. Like not with just it's on last album in oasis and one before Liam wrote Guess God thinks I'm Abel which has lines like "I guess there is still time" like yeah he had a little more time but it ended but also like Ophelia just fits the situation. Getting lost because of love someone who play with you like saying they love you then hate you, a lose from family drives you insane. Also the way Ophelia dies is just accepting drowning even when she could go and I kinda think thats how Beady eye end would be without Debbie to be honest. Also aside from that I just really love the colors they had in colored version it's just beautiful and one of the biggest reasons Liam look like Ophelia at there because they have a really similar color palette

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They love each other, really. I’m absolutely convinced that Liam loves Noel more than anybody else, possibly even himself. As to who Noel loves, I don’t know.

- Source: Owen Morris in The Word on the Street (Eugene Masterson, Mainstream Publishing, 1996)

LIAM&NOEL during CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA 11.03.1997 | Lille, France

Liam Gallagher, finsbury park 2002

Why I think that Liam’s voice was permanently damaged during the Be Here Now tour and how that happened

Why was Liam so anxious that he would become useless during the time of Oasis' third album, and why was his mentality so shattered? The instrument that a vocalist possesses is his own voice, and other members who use instruments that exist physically can repair and replace them with other instruments if they break, but that's not the case with voices.

And Oasis was not run in a way that respected that. This is the recorded performance schedule from 1993 to 1998 Australia/New Zealand tour, and after that, it continued with 7 performances in South America before finally ending the third album tour. And when they weren't performing - during the gap period, the album was recorded, and even during the tour, B-side recordings were done here and there.

They worked Liam’s voice to death with such a tough schedule that didn't give him a single moment to rest his voice. When Liam thought that his throat would get damaged if he continued performing like that, he had no choice but to get off the stage and get criticized by the band, the press and the fans. He even had to worry that someone else would take his place if he couldn't perform.

The recording of the third album was particularly tough, and songs like Fade In/Out pushed Liam to his limits, and it is said that after recording the song, Liam was unable to sing for a week. And the song was on the set list 64 times out of the 81 shows of the third album tour.

He continued performing with a tight schedule, and was diagnosed with nodules in his neck by a doctor on December 4, 1997, the second day of the Dublin performance (so Noel performed on the second and third days). The doctor said he had to take a break from performing for a few weeks, but it was impossible because there were so many performances left^^ After taking a two-day break and getting a steroid prescription, he performed until the end of March 1998.

They had a lot of year-end performances planned for the Christmas, but the doctor said the singer has a problem with his throat and he has to rest for a few weeks. Of course, if they adjusted the performance schedule, it would have costed money, but the singer's voice would’ve been damaged if they didn’t. If they knew how irreplaceable his voice was, theywouldn't have done it that way.

Did you know that the third album cycle was the only time they didn’t have a large outdoor/stadium concert since their debut album? They already did Knebworth for their second album and played a stadium for their fourth album, so if they had replaced it with a large-scale concert for their third album, wouldn't they have been able to reduce the number of concerts? But they didn't.

The number of shows Liam had to perform without resting after being diagnosed with nodules. It went downhill from there, Liam’s voice never fully recovered after this

(Translation @/dstrbnc text on Twitter)