SING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING

Liam Gallagher knew early on he had the look and the voice to be a rock and roll star

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Everyone has to start somewhere, so Liam Gallagher started like many of the 1980s generation.

But never mind signing along to the charts, Oasis have now had 26 UK Top 40 songs of their own.

"I left school with no qualifications, and the school got me a job in a garden centre, creosoting fences, a Youth Training Scheme thing. I was getting 50 quid a week. I'd finish at 3pm, midday on a Friday, so I'd walk past the school, waving my 50 quid at my mates," recalled Liam in a 2018 interview with The Telegraph.

"Then when I saw the Stone Roses live, I thought I could do that. I've got the look, I've got all the clothes, the haircut's intact, all I've got to do is stand in front of the microphone and open my mouth-easy'.

"Three mates that I knew through playing football had a band called The Rain. I was thinking 'If I can get in there with them, and do my singing, I know for a fact that I can get our kid in.

"Noel was travelling the world as a roadie and writing music with different weirdos in town. But I knew that once he came back off tour, I could say to him 'You know them songs you've got? Well put them through this vessel'. I knew he'd come with me. So basically Oasis stems from me.