Noel Gallagher reveals ‘real reason’ he fell out with brother Liam ahead of huge Oasis reunion tour
NOEL Gallagher has revealed the ‘real reason’ he fell out with his brother Liam.
The brothers have seemingly put their long-running feud aside to head back on the road for a 17-date Oasis reunion tour.
Some fans think that the legendary rock siblings may not have actually buried the hatchet.
Sources previously told The Sun that the formerly warring duo are “a long way off being mates.“
Now, Noel, 57, has spoken out for the first time since the groundbreaking announcement.
A video posted to X – formerly known as Twitter – is credited to Steve Sheward and it shows the rock star out shopping.
In a new clip, a group of four children are being filmed by their father – who seems to be a friend of Noel – in a department store.
However, they didn’t seem to recognise the star and they looked puzzled.
A male voice that came from the person that held the camera said: “This is Noel. This is dad’s legendary band.”
The girl in the group asks: “Wait. Is he getting back with his brother?”, as the camera pans to a smirking Noel.
But one of the young boys gets excited as he then asks the singer why he fell out with Liam, 51, in the first place.
“Why did I fall out with him?”, Noel asks the child back.
He continued: “Because he stole my teddy bear.”
This was seemingly a reference to the Winnie-the-Pooh stuffed toys they were holding and the kids then all erupted with laughter.
One of the kids thought the star was lying as he declared: “That’s fake!”
But Noel continued on with the story adding: “Not lying,” he declared. “He stole it. [In] 1978.”
The kid then stormed off which left Noel laughing in hysterics.
The clip ended with a second shot of Noel outside as he strolled down the street and entertained the group of young fans.
Oasis - The Gallagher Feud Timeline
Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher have a long history of ongoing fights - 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, later asking Noel to join.
1993 – The band sign to Creation Records and start work on their debut album.
August 1994 – Oasis shoot to fame with their debut album, Definitely Maybe, with tracks including Rock n Roll Star, Live Forever and Supersonic. It’s one of the fastest selling debuts ever for a British band.
September 1994 – Noel temporarily leaves the band’s tour after Liam smacks him in the face with a tambourine on stage in Los Angeles.
1995 – The band release their second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? which features Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Champagne Supernova.
1996 – Liam is forced to sit out a leg of tour shows due to laryngitis, but causes chaos when he was filmed heckling his brother from a balcony while a taping of MTV Unplugged.
2000 – Noel quits the band temporarily for a second time when, while partying in Barcelona, Liam riles Noel by questioning if his daughter, Anais, is actually his. The pair get into a fist fight.
2005 – Noel tells Q Magazine that he’s ‘never forgiven’ Liam for his comments about Anais and he’s ‘never apologised. He tells the mag: “He’s my brother. I hope he’s reading this and realises that. He’s my brother but he’s at arm’s length until he apologises for what he’s done.”
2009 – Noel admits in an interview with Q that he ‘doesn’t like Liam’, branding 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 retaliates and tells 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 pull out of a headline slot at V Festival in the UK due to Liam having laryngitis.
August 28, 2009 – Ahead of the Rock en Seine festival, Noel and Liam get into another fight, during which time Liam breaks one of Noel’s guitars after “waving it like an axe” according to Noel.
August 28, 2009 – Noel quits the band for the third and final time, saying in a statement: “It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”
2010 – Oasis win ‘best album of the last 30 years’ at the Brit Awards for (What’s the Story) Morning Glory. Liam picks up the gong, and thanks everyone except Noel. He later says this was misinterpreted as a dig.
2011 – Liam tries to sue Noel after he claims in the interview they cancelled their V Festival performance due to Liam being hungover. Liam disputed it said the comment “questioned my professionalism”. He later apologised and the lawsuit was dropped.
2011 – Noel admits regrets at quitting before the Paris gig, telling Absolute Radio and admits if he did “we may never have split up.”
2011 – 2014 – Liam and the other bandmates continue under new name, Beady Eye, while Noel forms new band, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
2015 – After years of jabs online, especially through media and Twitter, Liam teases he’s buried the hatchet with Noel by sharing an All Areas pass from a High Flying Birds gig. However, the fight would recommence two months later after Noel publicly dismissed suggestion Oasis would reunite for Glastonbury 2016.
2017 – Liam performs at Manchester’s One Love concert after the bombing at Ariana Grande’s show, with Don’t Look Back In Anger becoming a unifying anthem for the incident. He then slams Noel for not attending. Noel later tells Sunday Times: “Young music fan were slaughtered, and he, twice, takes it somewhere to be about him. He needs to see somebody.”
2018 – Liam suggests 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: “I’ll take that as a NO then.”
2019 – Noel speaks out after Liam sends ‘threatening messages’ to Anais after a comment made about then wife Sara McDonald. Liam later apologises publicly to Anais.
2020 – Liam urges Noel to reunite for a one-off charity gig.