Liam Gallagher and John Squire look back on writing The Seahorses’ ‘Love Me And Leave Me’: “We were obviously battered”

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Liam Gallagher and John Squire have looked back at their first time working together, when they co-wrote The Seahorses’ song ‘Love Me And Leave Me’.The topic arose during a recent interview with NME, where the former Oasis frontman and ex-Stone Roses guitarist opened up about the response to their collaborative self-titled album and UK and European shows.In the discussion, the duo were asked about how they collaborated once before – during the first phase of Gallagher’s rock’n’roll career and in the second stage of Squire’s.Taking place back in 1997, both of them took songwriting credit for the song ‘Love Me And Leave Me’, which was shared by Squire as part of his short-lived post-Roses band The Seahorses, and released as part of their first and only album ‘Do It Yourself’.“I don’t even remember doing it,” Liam said when asked about the song, which sparked hopes of a future collaboration between them both. “I just remember John being round our house just fucking about.

We were obviously… battered”.He also recalled how they worked on the song after going out partying, and brought friends over to Gallagher’s home – which actually belonged to his partner at the time, Patsy Kensit.

At the time, the actor was in the process of divorcing Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr, and Gallagher recalled the latter being shocked by the number of people in his home the next morning.“There’s all these long-haired people coming out of your house in cagoules… He was thinking, ‘Who are these fucking long-haired fuckers coming out the house?’ It was us!” he remembered.The ex-Oasis star also discussed the song’s memorable opening lines: “Don’t believe in Jesus / Don’t believe in Jah”, explaining that he “was talking shite about Jesus and Jah and.