Former Oasis guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs has publicly asked former bandmate Liam Gallagher to revive the Britpop heavyweights.
Tweeting during a listening party for the band’s 1995 classic album ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory’, Bonehead said: “We really should get back together. What you saying @liamgallagher.”
We really should get back together. What you saying @liamgallagher
— Paul Arthurs. (@BoneheadsPage) April 4, 2020
The event was one of Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess’ ongoing series of online album listening parties.
As with a playback of ‘Definitely Maybe’ last week, Bonehead was on hand throughout to share untold stories from the album’s creation as he listened back.
Among his tales were that Liam originally dismissed ‘Wonderwall’ as a “shit reggae song” when he first heard it.
Liam came in to listen to the bass and drums when they were recorded, don’t think any of us had heard the song till were in the studio. “I’m not singing that, it sounds like a shit reggae song” it does as well when you strip it to bass and drums.
— Paul Arthurs. (@BoneheadsPage) April 4, 2020
He also revealed that the first time Noel Gallagher played ‘Champagne Supernova’ he was brought to tears. “Noel first played us this on the back lounge of the tour bus in the USA on acoustic. I cried.”
Champagne Supernova. What a song. Liam sings it live now with just his voice and piano and it’s majestic. Noel first played us this on the back lounge of the tour bus in the USA on acoustic. I cried. Again. I’m a cancerean you know.
— Paul Arthurs. (@BoneheadsPage) April 4, 2020
He also recalled an inner-band feud which left Liam with a broken arm, arising during the recording of ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ (for which he “nicked” the piano part from John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’).
“Noel lost the plot and kicked off with Liam, think you all know the story. Studio trashed, baseball bats on heads. Air rifles locked in cupboards to save deaths. Dustbins thrown through the hire car windows. Band split up. new drummer in bits. Think Liam ended up with a broken arm.”
Noel lost the plot and kicked off with Liam, think you all know the story. Studio trashed, baseball bats on heads. Air rifles locked in cupboards to save deaths. Dustbins thrown through the hire car windows. Band split up. new drummer in bits.
— Paul Arthurs. (@BoneheadsPage) April 4, 2020
Think Liam ended up with a broken arm, Brian has a pic of the xray somewhere @MicrodotCreativ those were the days. Noel nicked my hire car keys and made Whitey drive back to London with dustbin stuck through the back window.
— Paul Arthurs. (@BoneheadsPage) April 4, 2020
Of fan-favourite ‘Bonehead’s Bank Holiday’, meanwhile, on which he took lead vocals, Bonehead said that Noel wanted the track to become “our Octopus’s Garden”, in reference to the Ringo Starr-led Beatles track.
Tim Burgess launched his Twitter listening parties with a playback of his band’s debut ‘Some Friendly’, followed by Franz Ferdinand detailing their debut, Blur drummer Dave Rowntree reminiscing over ‘Parklife’ (with interjections from Graham Coxon and Stephen Street) and more.
“It’s multi-dimensional, it can soothe and it can help your mental health and it can take to somewhere else that these days aren’t allowing you to go to. I’ve not seen that many [livestreamed acoustic gigs], it’s not really for me but I’m supportive of it all really,” Burgess told NME.
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