Liam Gallagher on deciding to work with John Squire: “The clothes said it all”
nme.comLiam Gallagher has discussed how he decided to collaborate with John Squire, saying that he knew it’d work as “the clothes said it all”.The first taster of the project by the former Oasis frontman and Stone Roses guitarist arrived today (January 5) in the form of the debut single ‘Just Another Rainbow’.The track was officially announced by the two last month after months of hype – including Gallagher describing the upcoming record as “the best record since [The Beatles’] ‘Revolver’”.Now, the former Oasis icon has opened up about how the two began working together, and claimed that he knew they’d get on from the get-go.“I had no doubt that they were going to be fucking cool.
I had no doubt the music said it all. The clothes said it all, the attention to detail,” he told Zane Lowe in a new interview with Apple Music 1. “I knew there was going to be no clowns in that band.
So it was easy. It was all about me, not acting like a c***.”The genesis of the project began when Squire joined Gallagher onstage at Knebworth in 2022 to play on ‘Champagne Supernova’ – just as he did with Oasis in 1996.
He later sent Gallagher three tracks.Songs were put down at Squire’s studio in Macclesfield, before work with producer Greg Kurstin in Los Angeles.
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