Oasis fans may as well get over the thought of a reunion – their founder Alan McGee believes it isn’t going to happen.
Or if it does, it won’t be for a very long time.
McGee, 54, said: “Liam and Noel are the happiest I’ve seen them in years so for that reason I can’t see a reunion happening.”
The Creation Records boss, who discovered the warring brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, went on to make them one of the biggest bands in the world.
Their first studio album Definitely Maybe, released in 1994, sold eight million copies. A year later, their second record (What’s The Story) Morning Glory shifted 22 million worldwide.
There’s been much speculation these are mere tactics to incite the biggest shock for when a reunion finally does happen.
Alan says this isn’t the case: “No. It’s as real as it gets. When they say something they mean it.”
Although he wouldn’t rule it out happening over the next 20 years, adding: “I saw The Who a few years ago at the Royal Albert Hall and they were every bit as good as when I saw them in 1972. That taught me something about comebacks.
“And who knows what goes on in the heads of the Gallaghers?”
The brothers were tearing strips off each other 20 years ago – in 1995, their former biographer Paolo Hewitt said: “The group are in a permanent state of splitting and reforming.”
Okay, so they have split? Of course they have. Will they reform? Of course. Definitely. Maybe…
Fancy some live footage? Here is Oasis in concert, Manchester, 2005…
