As You Were

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Aided by some cannily recruited collaborators (Greg Kurstin, Andrew Wyatt), this debut solo album gives us the Liam Gallagher we want: impassioned and piloting rock ‘n’ roll high on attitude and skyscraping choruses. I hibernate and sing while gathering my wings“ from the song “I’ve All I Need” references when Liam went to meet Yoko Ono in America, she had a big banner in her kitchen with an inscription that read “While I’ve been hibernating, I’ve been gathering my wings. Liam and Noel supposedly haven't spoken in the 10 years since that backstage fight killed off a superband and a brotherhood. The biggest surprise is that Liam offers an apparently heartfelt apology for injuries he has inflicted on his brother on the grandiose, yet touching, For What It’s Worth, proclaiming, “I know in time we’ll put this behind.

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Now in his middle age, he's a richer, nuanced singer than he was during Oasis's heyday, yet he's retained his charisma and, unlike his brother, he favors color and fire in his records, elements that not only enhance this fine collection of songs but make this the best post-Oasis album from either Gallagher to date. And the dynamic could have way been better, voice is really nice on this edition, but drums could be more present like the cd. On 1st October 2021, Liam announced that he would be releasing a third solo album, titled 'C'mon You Know', which was released on 27th May 2022, and performed at Knebworth Park on 3rd and 4th June 2022, nearly 26 years after he performed there with Oasis.Aside from “Wall of Glass,” As You Were never convinces you of its reason to exist, and there’s little more purpose to be found in the lyrics. Their first album, ‘Definitely Maybe’ (1994), was, at the time, the fastest-selling debut album in British chart history. There are two standout aspects of the release, “Paper Crown” and “For What It’s Worth” [which shares a title and nod to the Buffalo Springfield song] where both come off ebbed and floating in hypnotic liquid swirls of psychedelic Beatle-ish visions, complete with ever evolving string arrangements that rapture and spin while holding a mirror to times gone by as well as visions to come.

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But they deserted in their droves: comparing Beady Eye’s sales figures to those of even the least successful Oasis album, 90% of them jumped ship. Paper Crown” sounds like Cast, “Come Back to Me” like Radiohead, “Universal Gleam” uncannily like nemeses Blur’s “ Tender”—an identity crisis if ever there was one.Joining together with four charities - Shelter, Centre Point, Inner City Helping Homeless and Aberdeen Cyrenians - fans were able to donate coats at points around the UK whilst Liam was on his headline tour, and were then up for the chance to win tickets to a corresponding tour date and meet Liam. Gallagher also revealed that he would launch his first solo tour of the United States and Canada to support the album's release. Although the film features very little music, we do get enough concert clips to recognize Liam's stage presence; however, it's the camera time in the studio that is most fascinating - and leaves us feeling a bit short-changed. According to Liam, the remaining members of Oasis – guitarist Gem Archer, bassist Andy Bell and drummer Chris Sharrock – went back to their hotel in Paris and decided to carry on under the name Beady Eye.

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However, before the opening credits roll, we hear Liam spewing enough f-words to make any teenager blush.He remains very direct, with an intense attack on each lyric, but there is real melodiousness in his movement over chord changes, a lovely smoothness in the way his voice stretches into long, drawn out fluctuations, and a new tenderness in his very sweet falsetto. They had to change the rules when Ed Sheeran's "Divide" album took up almost the entire top 20 singles. While they do offer up an unflinching look at the talented singer of suspect character, we come away with the feeling that the entire project was designed to reunite Liam and his brother Noel. Years of internecine fighting and sibling rivalry all came to head when Liam is reported have attacked Noel backstage at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris on 28th August 2009. She went on to describe "Chinatown" as a "catchy uplifting poem to the capital" and "For What It's Worth" and "Paper Crown" as "fantastic ballads".

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Liam claims that years go by and he’s been trying to get it into a song that he was having trouble feeling comfortable with, and then it happened on “I’ve All I Need. Despite Noel Gallagher’s vice-like grip on Oasis’ creative process, he eventually relented and let others have a go. In the United States, it opened at number 30 on the Billboard 200 with 15,000 album-equivalent units, including 14,000 traditional sales.

Liam Gallagher's As You Were charges in at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart and sets new vinyl record". The assumption is that we are to be reminded of what a prig Liam was, and the reputation he earned as being a bad boy of rock. Why Not’ (2019), saw him reunite with the same songwriting team and went straight to Number 1 in the album chart, outselling the rest of the Top 10 combined.