Noel and Liam | Radio legend Steve Lamacq on the most chaotic interview of his career | 4

British Scandal

Wondery

Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In 1997, Steve Lamacq thought he was interviewing Noel Gallagher live on Radio 1. So he was delighted when Liam turned up too. He knew the brothers could be unpredictable, but he didn’t know that this interview would go down in Oasis history. Their alcohol-fulled, expletive-filled argument was both radio gold and every presenter’s nightmare. Steve takes Alice Levine and Matt Forde inside that day. Plus he tells us who really won the Battle of Britpop and weighs in on the band’s future.

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0:00.0	From Wonder, I'm Matt Ford. And I'm Alice Levine. And this is British scandal. So Alice, we've made it through the talent, the emotions, the creative choice of language,
0:32.2	and occasional physical violence of the Gallagher
0:34.0	brothers how are you feeling now that we're on the other side? What a bunch of
0:38.1	pride aptitude and pent up emotions we had there. Let's just say I will not be singing
0:43.0	Wonder Wall quite the same way at the top of my lungs at weddings anymore.
0:46.2	Now I know the backstory it's just so much deeper than that.
0:49.3	Yes and it's a fact that still today 99% of weddings will feature an oasis song.
0:54.8	Is that based on, is that based on historical research?
0:58.9	My wedding alone delivers that statistic.
1:02.1	No that's not,, that's 99% of your wedding was Oasis songs. That's different.
1:07.0	The brother's relationship may not have stood the test of time, but their music has.
1:11.0	I'm joking, of course course I wasn't invited.
1:13.0	The bit that I think is easy to forget when talking about Oasis is that their music was written in a context
1:19.5	and that was Britain in the 90s.
1:21.5	Yes it was the greatest time ever and it's the reason why today
1:24.2	we're speaking to a man that has met Oasis numerous times and knows more about
1:27.9	Britpop than almost anyone. He's a six music presenter, a music journalist and a
1:32.1	former radio one DJ Steve Lamac.
1:35.0	Alice you were at the BBC for a while, do you know him?
1:37.0	Do I know him?
1:38.0	Have I eaten crisps next to him at Glastonbury?
1:41.0	So no, I don't know him, but I have eaten crisps next to him at Glastonbury. now I don't know him but I have eaten crisps next to
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