SHE'S THE ONE THAT SAVED LIAM

Fiancee Debbie helped persuade singer to keep rolling with it on reunion tour

- BY TOM BRYANT

TO BORROW a catchphrase from Liam Gallagher, we are all about to witness a comeback of biblical proportions.

In exactly two weeks, the Gallagher brothers will take to the stage for the first night of the Oasis reunion.

More than 1.4 million tickets have been sold across 17 UK and Ireland dates for the tour, 16 years after the Britpop favourites' acrimonious split with two dates at Croke Park in Dublin on August 16 and 17.

But according to a new book, the reunion might not be happening at all if it wasn't for Liam's fiancee, Debbie Gwyther.

In Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain's new Oasis book, A Sound So Very Loud, the former recalls meeting Liam in a London pub in 2016, two years after his group Beady Eye disbanded.

FREEFALL

And he says we have Debbie to thank for persuading Liam to keep performing. Ted says: "In the pub, over pints, Liam explained what had been going on for the past two years.

"Since he'd dispensed with the intricate management scaffolding that keeps rock megastars afloat, he'd spent a while in freefall."

Ted says that just like the gangster played by Ray Winstone in the 2000 movie Sexy Beast, Liam also considered retiring abroad.

He explains: "He had tumbled out of the bubble to such an extent that for a while, he considered jacking it all in and moving to Majorca, living 'Sexy Beast-style'.