Oasis: Supersonic Page #8

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# I want to talk tonight

# Until the morning light

# About how you saved my life

# You and me see how we are #

I kind of sat in this girl's flat,

probably doing too many f***ing drugs

and being a bit f***ing mad.

Unbeknown to me, they'd found out,

"This is where we think he is."

If I close my eyes now,

I can't even picture the girl.

I can't remember her name,

it's a bit of a blur.

You meet them people in America,

you don't meet them

anywhere else in the world.

They take you under their wing, you know.

They're spiritual people is what they are.

She was one of them.

She was saying, "What, you're going to leave?

"And what are you going to do?"

And I guess at that point I'm thinking,

"Actually, that's a very good point.

"What am I going to do?"

I can't sing. I wasn't a singer then.

I'm not a front man.

I just needed a bit of time out, I guess.

I may have been trying

to teach somebody a lesson.

I failed miserably.

I think we'd heard about a couple of days

that, "Yes, he's coming back."

It means the band is staying together

rather than going home

and signing on the dole.

And obviously,

by the time he's about to turn up,

everyone's f***ing shitting it,

because, you know,

because he can put on a stern face.

You know, he can unsettle you.

The new era started

when he walked back into that hotel

and everything was different after that.

And we all had to be different

because if you're not with him,

you're going home.

I'd written these new songs.

Someone had booked a recording session.

Like this was Oasis'

f***ing cure for everything.

"Let's go in the studio."

Talk Tonight,

well, that's one moody f***ing song, that.

It shows that delicate side to him...

...that you just don't really see.

He doesn't show these emotions, Noel.

He never did.

Apart from when you stick him

behind the glass with a microphone,

and then he can let this emotion loose

that he's got

and suddenly you can see "Noel."

You kind of see, almost,

a little boy or summat, you know.

Something very, very innocent and very pure.

They're my favourite moments.

It's like a door opens

and a bit of light comes in,

and then the door's shut again, you know,

and he's calling you a twat.

# Some might say

that sunshine follows thunder... #

In those days, I would write every day

because I was f***ing so driven.

I recognised that I was in a moment

and everything that I wrote felt great.

There's a strange melancholy

to Some Might Say

considering I knew

it was going to be number one

before I even sat and wrote it.

I f***ing knew it.

What is going on in this room now?

You can walk next door to Boyzone,

yeah, go in there.

They'll be like, "Hey, f***, oh, Jesus...

"We've got to get this f***ing thing

together now, because it's not in time.

"It's not in time,

just f***ing me and you going like, 'Huh!"'

You go in there and you hear,

"Hey, do that, hey!"

You come in this room and it's like,

you know, it's the funny farm.

And that's what it's all about, it's like,

"Do what you friggin' want."

If you want to go like that, do it,

because it don't mean nothing.

If you want to go... Do that.

If you want to go...

"Hey, f*** man." Like, "Hey, f***," right?

You can do that.

But if you want to just do this...

...what I'm doing here now,

just do it, because it's like...

This is an advert for not taking drugs.

This is an advert? It's an advert?

This is an advert for not getting

into chemical abuse, big time.

No, no, hey, hey, hey!

People who know,

know that I have not been a f***ing...

I've never been an abuser.

I've never been an abuser, I've been a user.

I've never been an abuser, man.

Nothing to do with drugs.

It's to do with the air,

the air, man, and music.

And that is it, that is it,

and I'm ranting now, come on!

You know what I mean? It's right.

That's it. That's it.

Giving a performance of their brand-new song.

It's the best song around.

It is Some Might Say!

# Some might say that

sunshine follows thunder

# Go and tell it to the man

who cannot shine #

Yeah, and that was Tony's last gig.

Yeah, I'd probably made up my mind

knowing that Champagne Supernova

was coming up

and Don't Look Back In Anger, and Wonderwall,

that he wasn't going to be

able to play those songs.

It had become apparent

recording Definitely Maybe.

We spent a lot of time f***ing about

trying to get the drums right.

And it was never right.

When we were doing Some Might Say and stuff,

Noel was like, to me,

"That's the f***ing last time

he's ever in the f***ing studio."

I was going to Tony, "Tony, you've got to get

your sh*t together, Tony.

"Or bye, Tony."

Drummers are really smelly,

useless, talentless losers, man.

I mean, fancy having a job

where you bang things all day.

I thought orangutans do that, don't they?

Gorillas and monkeys and that.

They just bang things, like bang dustbin lids

on their heads and all that.

Well, that's what they do, isn't it?

And drummers just do it

and get paid loads of money for it.

F***ing sack them all.

Drum machines, I say, man.

I'm telling you,

can't wait to say I'm in a dance band.

Press the button, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk."

Doesn't answer back, don't have to feed it.

Don't have to pay no money,

don't have to buy it any drugs.

Don't have to get it any women,

don't have to do nothing.

Put it on a flight,

"F*** it, in the back of the truck,"

and never have to speak to it again.

As it went through that American tour,

it got really nasty with Tony,

and you'd have to feel for the boy.

I'd hold my hands up and say,

I gave him a terrible time as well.

And I shared a room with him.

Tony would just pour it out, you know.

"F***ing hell, Bonehead, do you know?

"People are getting at me,

and people are doing this?"

It was hard for me

to be the guy in the middle.

Maybe I talked to Noel, talked to Liam,

"Look, go easy on the guy, man."

I was quite a reserved guy.

I think people might have looked

at that as some kind of weakness,

but no, I didn't want to be the leader.

I'll sit back here and do my drums.

You know, like, when a pack of feral dogs

exclude one puppy,

it became like that, I think.

Our Kid, I just think, made his mind up,

you know what I mean,

and just didn't fancy him.

"He's not going to be

able to do these next songs."

Or "I don't want him to do it,"

you know what I mean?

Yeah, I mean, I'm gutted for him,

but it is what it is, man.

I had an argument with Noel.

He said something,

and I finally went, "F*** you, mate."

You know what I mean, "F*** off."

I told him in no uncertain words

what I thought of him.

I kind of regret that a touch.

We might have had words.

It's quite likely, I don't know.

Whatever he says is probably true.

I wouldn't deny it at all.

I was at home and Marcus phoned.

He says, "Are you sat down?

"Listen, I've got some bad news for you.

The band want you out."

I was shell-shocked.

Still, to this day, it's with me.

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