Liam Gallagher’s fiancée Debbie’s ‘strict negotiating’ and ‘love for Liam’s mum’ led to Oasis reunion
OASIS Live 25 promises to be one of the biggest comebacks in British history – and Liam Gallagher’s fiancée is to thank.
According to reports, Debbie Gwyther, who has been with the Live Forever singer for the past decade, used negotiating skills ‘worthy of the United Nations’ to get the project off the ground.
This included getting Liam to talk to his brother and Oasis bandmate, Noel, with whom he has a publicly long-held fraught relationship.
Debbie is now Liam’s manager as well as his partner.
Sources told MailOnline: “You need to be a hell of a strong character to have any sort of hold over him.
“Loads of people have tried and failed, but he loves her and knows how much of a positive difference she has made to his life.
“She doesn’t take any s**t.”
According to the insiders, Debbie has been working on getting the project off the ground for years, dealing with international promoters and Noel’s team on Liam’s behalf to make it work.
The reunion of the two warring brothers – whose backstage fights ultimately led to Noel quitting Oasis in 2009 – is said to also have been spurred on by her love for their mum, Peggy.
“She’s said for years she thinks they should try to patch things up – and she loves Liam’s family, especially his mum, Peggy, and wanted them to smooth things over for her, too,” the source added.
“It’s hard to imagine this ever having happened without her. She should work for the UN with those skills.”
Noel and Liam announced this week that their long-held rivalry – for now, at least – has been cleared, with a 17-date tour set to go ahead next year.
Tickets went on general sale on Saturday, but caused such high demand there was a hundred-thousand strong queue just to get onto Ticketmaster – let alone buy the tickets themselves.
Up to seven million fans attempted to buy access to the gigs.
Site glitches also kicked fans out the line, believing them to be bots, and surge pricing sent £150 tickets to over £350 – much to the fury of fans who waited hours to buy them.
The entire tour sold out in hours, with the belief more dates could soon be put in place to keep up with demand.
In the meantime, touts are cashing in on the sought-after events – upping prices to over £6,000 minutes after the shows went on sale.
However, Oasis have promised to crack down on touters, saying they will cancel any tickets that are purchased off alternative sites.
Oasis - The Gallagher Feud Timeline
Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher have a long history of ongoing fights - both physical and verbal - here's the full history of the band and what they've said to each other.
1991 – Liam Gallagher forms Oasis with Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll, later asking Noel to join.
1993 – The band sign to Creation Records and start work on their debut album.
August 1994 – Oasis shoot to fame with their debut album, Definitely Maybe, with tracks including Rock n Roll Star, Live Forever and Supersonic. It’s one of the fastest selling debuts ever for a British band.
September 1994 – Noel temporarily leaves the band’s tour after Liam smacks him in the face with a tambourine on stage in Los Angeles.
1995 – The band release their second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? which features Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Champagne Supernova.
1996 – Liam is forced to sit out a leg of tour shows due to laryngitis, but causes chaos when he was filmed heckling his brother from a balcony while a taping of MTV Unplugged.
2000 – Noel quits the band temporarily for a second time when, while partying in Barcelona, Liam riles Noel by questioning if his daughter, Anais, is actually his. The pair get into a fist fight.
2005 – Noel tells Q Magazine that he’s ‘never forgiven’ Liam for his comments about Anais and he’s ‘never apologised. He tells the mag: “He’s my brother. I hope he’s reading this and realises that. He’s my brother but he’s at arm’s length until he apologises for what he’s done.”
2009 – Noel admits in an interview with Q that he ‘doesn’t like Liam’, branding him “rude, arrogant, intimidating, and lazy”. “He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet,” he added. “He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”
Liam later retaliates and tells NME: “It takes more than blood to be my brother. He doesn’t like me and I don’t like him.”
August 23, 2009 – Oasis pull out of a headline slot at V Festival in the UK due to Liam having laryngitis.
August 28, 2009 – Ahead of the Rock en Seine festival, Noel and Liam get into another fight, during which time Liam breaks one of Noel’s guitars after “waving it like an axe” according to Noel.
August 28, 2009 – Noel quits the band for the third and final time, saying in a statement: “It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”
2010 – Oasis win ‘best album of the last 30 years’ at the Brit Awards for (What’s the Story) Morning Glory. Liam picks up the gong, and thanks everyone except Noel. He later says this was misinterpreted as a dig.
2011 – Liam tries to sue Noel after he claims in the interview they cancelled their V Festival performance due to Liam being hungover. Liam disputed it said the comment “questioned my professionalism”. He later apologised and the lawsuit was dropped.
2011 – Noel admits regrets at quitting before the Paris gig, telling Absolute Radio and admits if he did “we may never have split up.”
2011 – 2014 – Liam and the other bandmates continue under new name, Beady Eye, while Noel forms new band, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
2015 – After years of jabs online, especially through media and Twitter, Liam teases he’s buried the hatchet with Noel by sharing an All Areas pass from a High Flying Birds gig. However, the fight would recommence two months later after Noel publicly dismissed suggestion Oasis would reunite for Glastonbury 2016.
2017 – Liam performs at Manchester’s One Love concert after the bombing at Ariana Grande’s show, with Don’t Look Back In Anger becoming a unifying anthem for the incident. He then slams Noel for not attending. Noel later tells Sunday Times: “Young music fan were slaughtered, and he, twice, takes it somewhere to be about him. He needs to see somebody.”
2018 – Liam suggests a reunion for the 2018 World Cup on Twitter, writing: “let’s get the big O back together and stop f***ing about the drinks are on me”. When it fell on deaf ears, he added: “I’ll take that as a NO then.”
2019 – Noel speaks out after Liam sends ‘threatening messages’ to Anais after a comment made about then wife Sara McDonald. Liam later apologises publicly to Anais.
2020 – Liam urges Noel to reunite for a one-off charity gig.