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ENGLISH BAND Oasis created massively popular and influential rock music, a supersonic brand of guitar-heavy Brit-pop. Their debut album, 1994’s Definitely Maybe, made the Gallagher brothers overnight stars: Older brother Noel wrote the songs, and frontman Liam—the ultimate bad boy—delivered them in classic rock star fashion.
But it was the siblings’ famously combative relationship that eventually did Oasis in. Noel quit in 2009. Liam and the rest of the band went on as Beady Eye until 2014, after which Liam took a boozy sabbatical. He describes a typical day in 2015 as going to the pub for lunch and, before you know it, “it’s fucking 2 in the morning.” Once that was out of his system, he began writing songs for a first solo album, As You Were, to be released October 6. Of his new backing band, he says pointedly, “We’re having a good time. I don’t miss anything. I don’t miss yesterday, and I don’t miss tomorrow.”