Liam Gallagher, hammered rock: the concert in Milan

It all started with a hammer blow. «Yes, until I was 14 I was always out at play ball, I wasn’t very taken with it music». It’s strange that to tell it is Liam Gallagher, someone who has written pages of history in the musical universe. “I was smoking a cigarette with some friends, some guys came from another school, with caps, and one of them gave me a blow to the head with a hammer», he revealed to The Guardian. «I ended up in the hospital and when I woke up something had changed. The songs of Madonna that my girlfriend at the time wore, like Like a Virgin, they began to like me. I began to listen to music differently: whoever hit me, I’d like to thank him. If it wasn’t for him, I would still be unemployed».

The queue to thank this stranger, actually, it would be pretty long. Considering that a few years after the episode ‘detector‘, Liam founded together with his brother Noel one of the most influential and successful groups in the history of the Britpop movement: Oasis. Who with their music halfway between seventies rock and rock and roll have bewitched millions of fans: to be precise 2.6 million were those who asked for a ticket to the historic show dthe Knebworth Parks (August 1996, 250,000 spectators), one of the largest open-air concerts ever held in England. Seven albums, many records and as many quarrels: the band finally broke up in 2009, pushing Liam towards the solo career, after a parenthesis with i Beady Eye.

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“Oasis were great, Beady Eye were great but they came always compared to Oasis. I knew that, if I formed another band, this one Damn comparison game it would go on forever, and I’m not a know-it-all very different things», he told Rolling Stone. «So I said: “ok, now try to compare Liam with Liam”». And it was a success: in 2017 it comes out As You Werethen in 2019 it arrives Why Me? Why Notfinally in 2022 here C’Mon You Knowall climbed at the top to the UK Album Sales Chart. «How is my voice a 50 years old? The main issue is that of course I drink, smoke and get involved, unlike other rock stars,” he recently told a Sky.

Soul rowdybetween excesses and provocations. Total icon, with its unmistakable scratchy stamp and his characteristic posebent forward with hands joined behind his back, wrapped in the inseparable parkas. Many stories, only one way: «As far as I’m concerned, rock is the only thing that matters. It’s like the recipe for one of those dishes that mom makes for you. Something that is handed down from generation to generation and that it will never die, because it’s good,” stressed the star of Manchesterwhich on July 1st will be on the stage of I-Days Coca-Cola, in Milan. “All I want to do right now in my life is playsing my songs, make concerts and go on vacation with my family.

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