A YEAR IN THE LIFE...WHAT THE TABLOIDS SAID IN
1996
3 APRIL - Trouble on tour in Europe.
The Daily Mirror reports that "wild man Liam Gallagher rowed with managers, swore at
onlookers and even slagged off his own band in a drunken foul-mouthed outburst". The paper
catalogues Liam's "trial of havoc" in his 200 pound sterling-a-might suite at the Park Hotel in
Grenoble: "A glass lamp lay shattered on the floor, a TV was upside down, a table was
smashed." However, the report also includes comment from the hotel's head porter: "We have a
lot of rock groups staying here. We have had no more trouble with Oasis than we did With
Demis Roussos."
5 AUGUST -
OASIS RANT AT DJ EVANS, reports The Sun. The band were said to be
"fuming after carrot- topped Chris joked that Liam's fiancee Pasty Kensit, 28, was pregnant" and
during their Loch Lonmond gig they "unleashed an astonishing foul-mouthed attack" on him.
Liam's contribution goes: Oi, t***y face. She's not f***ing pregnant, so shut it, you ginger
b*****d. You're f***king getting it. Come back stage and meet me, you f***ing ginger
b*****d." Evens is reported to have left before the end of the show.
27 AUGUST -
A week after pulling out of the band's MTV Unplugged show, apparently
because of a sore throat, Liam walks out of Heathrow airport minutes before the band are due to
leave for Chicago for their US tour. LIAM QUITS, reports The Sun, which also reports that
Liam "insisted he was NOT quitting the band". Liam says he can't go on tour until he has found a
new house: "I am Oasis, I started the F*****g band, I'm mad for it but I have to move house. I
can't go looking for a house in America while I'm trying to perform to silly f*****g yanks."
6 SEPTEMBER -
"America sickened by obscene Liam's spitting rampage." reports The Sun
after Liam's appearance at the MTV awards show. "Oasis wildman Liam Gallagher was branded
a desgrace last night," the paper continues, adding that "pop pundits" are the opinion he has
reined the band's chances of success in the US by "SWEARING and insulting the audience with
lewd lyrics, SPITTING a huge lump of saliva on to the stage, and HURLING an open can of
beer into the crowd." Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Liam comments, "I thought the show was
s**t but that our performance was outstanding."
8 SEPTEMBER -
"Devastated" Cerice Blakeley, 25 tell the News of the World of her DRUG
AND SEX HELL WITH LIAM. "Oasis wildman Liam Gallagher dragged his fiancee on to a
rollercoaster of sex and drugs then dumped her in tears," he paper reports. Cerice met Liam in
1992 and it was love at first sight. The pair moved in together and "their sex was often fuelled by
deadly cocaine". Liam dumped her two years ago.
13 SEPTEMEBER -
BLOWASIS is The Sun's front page headline as it announces that: pop
giants Oasis have snsationally split up after a row between Noel and Liam Gallgher erupted into a
furious fist- fight". The paper reports that "tearful Liam Gallagher ran mum Peggy from the US
before the split and told her: "I've had enough-I can't go on. It's just not working- we all want to
come home oto Manchester. I can't go on and it's a nightmare. We've been fighting a lot.'"
However, it would appear that "tense-looking Peggy" has not in fact spoken to the papaer. She
told reporters, "I have got nothing to say" before hurrying inside her semi.
27 OCTOBER -
PATSY GIVES BOOZY LIAM THE BOOT, reports the News of the World.
The paper claims Liam refused to take Patsy's calls while he was working on the band's new
album at Abbey Road Studios. After trying to get through to him for two hours, she apparently
dictated a note saying: "Thanks a lot for you concern. You can shove MTV up your ****. I hope
you have a great week sh****** birds with your mates and you won't be seeing me again."
7 NOVEMBER -
"A girl fan told yesterday how Oasis superstar Liam Gallagher bit her on the
NOSE at a concert," reports The Sun. Gaynor Simonelli, a 26-year-old nanny, tells the paper
that she met Liam at an Ocean Colour Scene gig at the Hammersmith Palais. "Helunged at me
with this huge open mouth, screamed 'Aaaarghhh' and bet me on the nose and lip. It made my
eyes water. He must have been drinking- or something." Police decided the incident was not
worth pursuing.
10 NOVEMBER -
"Oasis wildman Liam Gallagher's face was contorted with fury as he rained
vicious blows on reporter Sean O'Brien," say the News of the World, whose journalist
confronted the singer with a photo of him with "a raven-haired beauty". Liam apparently
screamed, "I didn't snog no bird, man!" The paper goes on to the seemingly less important matter
of Liam's arrest in Oxford Street hours later on suspicion of possessing cocaine. A "police
source" say, "When officers approached him he had difficulty focusing on them but said, "It's
nothing to do with you. I'm fine. I'm OK.' But they weren't satistied. They thought he might have
been a vagrant."
