Oasis: Supersonic Page #6

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and there's no easy way out

# The day's moving just too fast for me... #

Noel was like, "That sounds great.

That'll do."

And they let me do exactly what I wanted.

And there was this new box

and you could make things twice as loud

without going into digital distortion

on your CD.

It was in every f***ing jukebox in the country,

twice as loud. It was funny as f***, man.

It's just a pity

that Definitely Maybe came out

and then we didn't see Alan

for a couple of years.

I took too many drugs.

More and more and more,

that's what we were all about,

and eventually it was too much.

It's just that's what happens, isn't it?

When you play with fire, mate.

Some people can last the pace,

some people can't.

Do you know what?

I don't regret any of that sh*t.

That's just life.

We didn't know it then,

but he was the last of a dying breed.

He's up there with the most important people

In my life, you know what I mean,

that's made a f***ing real difference.

Twelve songs that are about being

alive and having a good time.

About being happy. About enjoying yourself.

And then about being sad,

you know what I mean?

But knowing that it can get better.

About everything. Just life.

Their debut album is already being

hailed as a classic of our time.

A year ago,

they were playing to empty venues.

Last night, they embarked

on their first UK sell-out tour.

One of the biggest British

bands since the Beatles.

There isn't a band like Oasis.

They're trying to get the youth culture

out of raves, taking drugs and stuff,

and back into the gigs, where they belong.

And they're really good,

and Liam Gallagher is just gorgeous

and I'll have his children!

Our first single came out

in England four months ago.

It went into the charts at number 32.

Everyone said an indie band can't do that.

Well, the album's gone out

and it's gone in straight at number one

above Pavarotti, above Prince,

even above Elvis.

The fastest-selling debut album

of all time in England,

and quite deservedly so.

- Here's Rock 'n Roll Star. Here they are!

- # That to me was just a day in bed

# I'm gonna take my car and drive real far

# You're not concerned about the way we are

# In my mind my dreams are real

# Now you're concerned about the way I feel

# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star

# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star

# It's just rock 'n roll

# It's just rock 'n roll

# It's just rock 'n roll #

Thank you very much.

So next thing you know,

we were going to Japan.

What do you expect?

I've never been to Japan, so you think,

"All right, I'm prepared," you know.

No. Nothing ever on this planet

was going to prepare me.

Japan! Japan!

We arrived in Japan and there were,

f***ing, like, 1,000 girls at the airport.

People waiting for us and shouting my name!

"Liam, Liam! Noel! Guigs! Tony!"

It was just, like, "F*** off! This is Japan?

"But they know my name?"

"Yeah, of course they do!"

It got me and I loved it.

I loved every last minute of it.

F***ing hell, they followed us everywhere,

outside hotels, in the f***ing foyer,

outside your room, in your f***ing room,

everywhere you went.

It was like mania, you know what I mean?

It was like what we'd always read about.

First time in Japan.

First time on a jumbo plane.

It was just mental,

you know what I mean? Just mad!

Just, you're all off your heads,

and it's mad.

And it's top! I love youse all.

I absolutely loved Japan.

It was f***ing mayhem.

Guigs wasn't too keen on it, he was like,

"Oh, I don't know

what they're fussing about."

And I'm like, "Me, you f***ing lunatic!

That's what they're fussing about!"

Where's the toilet?

# Is it my imagination

# Or have I finally found

something worth living for?

# I was looking for some action

# But all I found

was cigarettes and alcohol...

That might have been the one time in my life

where I thought, "F***ing hell! Wow!

"How has it landed here?

"Why are all these people

who don't speak English

"obsessed with it already

"before we even f***ing

plugged in and played?"

# To spend your days in the sunshine

# You might as well do the white line

# 'Cause when it comes on top

# You got to make it happen

# You got to make it happen #

I was writing for a "Nancy Boys" magazine

as far as they were concerned.

I knew that I was ten years older than them.

I was female, and it was all blokes.

I was a mum, and I just thought,

"Right. I'm going to stay up later than you,

I'm going to drink more than you,

"I'm going to behave more badly than you,"

because I wasn't going

to get this story otherwise.

The first night in Japan, we'd all been out

and it had been about 3:00 in the morning.

My head had just hit the pillow,

and the phone rang.

"Who's calling me?"

I picked up the phone and it was Liam.

"Get down here now!"

So I walked down the corridor

back into their room

and Liam said to me, and honestly,

it was like he was shimmering,

he just said to me, "Do you believe in God?

Do you think there's a God?"

And, I sort of looked at him and I said,

"How did we get on to this one?"

And he said,

"Because I don't believe there's a God,

"because if there was a God,

all that wouldn't have happened."

And I said, "What wouldn't have happened?"

I didn't know what he was on about.

There was all this pent-up simmering rage.

I was definitely angry with life and that,

I guess, you know.

You know, I mean,

sh*t with my dad and just life in general.

I was an angry young man,

so singing them songs sort of

released all my sh*t onto other people,

but in a good way, you know what I mean?

My dad, he used to knock my mum about.

There were many times when,

like, it got like that.

He never touched me,

I don't know why he didn't.

You know, sometimes he'd f***ing,

he'd want the craic

instead of having to witness it.

He used to kill Noel.

Noel was the one that got it the most.

I remember Noel once saying, "If you don't

get out of here, Mum, and leave him,"

he says, "I'm going to kill him."

And I thought, "Oh, Jesus. You can't

be doing time for the likes of him."

Yeah, my dad used to beat

the living daylights out of me.

I've never felt compelled

to either talk about it or write about it.

I know that I think

it's no one else's business.

You can't let that kind of thing

affect you in any way

because then you're carrying

that weight all the way through life.

He always thought, "You'd never leave him

because you had nowhere to go to."

"You'll never leave me."

I said, "Won't I? Try it."

One night, we got the courage to get out

and I left him a knife

and a fork and a spoon,

and I think I left him too much.

He never once come after us, wouldn't dare.

It was a sense

of "See you later, we're free!"

It definitely affected them,

because they got very bitter.

I wouldn't say I was scarred,

but everybody's childhood

makes them what they are.

You can't think about it too deeply

because it would f***ing drive you mad.

I think it benefitted me in the way

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