UNITED KINGDOM: PAUL GALLAGHER LAUNCHES HIS BOOK 'BROTHERS: FROM CHILDHOOD TO OASIS'

Record ID: 659802

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: PAUL GALLAGHER LAUNCHES HIS BOOK 'BROTHERS: FROM CHILDHOOD TO OASIS'
  • Date: 3rd October 1996
  • Summary: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (OCTOBER 3, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) (** BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) EXTERIOR TOWER RECORDS OASIS BOOK "BROTHERS" ON SALE OASIS BOOK TV PRESENTER TERRY CHRISTIAN AND PAUL GALLAGHER AT TABLE PAUL GALLAGHER POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHERS PAUL GALLAGHER HOLDING UP BOOK PHOTOGRAPHERS PAUL GALLAGHER SIGNING BOOKS FANS QUEUEING TO HAVE COPIES SIGNED PAUL GALLAGHER SAYING EVERYONE ASKS ME THIS QUESTION AND I'VE NEVER GIVEN THE RIGHT ANSWER YET. SO I'LL KEEP ON GIVING NOT RIGHT ANSWERS. I'VE WRITTEN IT BECAUSE I KNEW I HAD A sTORY. I KNEW I HAD THE tITLE IN 1994 AND I DIDN'T HAVE A GHOST WRITER UNTIL 1996, BUT I KNEW I WAS GOING TO DO IT. IT'S A TOP sTORY. I GO RIGHT BACK TO 1943. NO ONE DOES, NOBODY ELSE CAN, NOBODY ELSE WILL. IT WAS A sTORY THAT HAD TO COME OUT SOMETIME SO IT MIGHT AS WELL COME OUT BY ME AS WELL AS ANYBODY ELSE. AND THAT'S BASICALLY WHY I DID IT (ENGLISH) (WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THE MONEY?) PAUL GALLAGHER SAYING WHAT MONEY? THEY WON'T PAY ME. I'M GOING TO SET UP MY OWN BUSINESS, A MANAGEMENT BUSINESS, I MANAGE A BAND. I'VE WRITTEN THIS, I'M WRITING A SCREENPLAY AND IN FEBRUARY NEXT YEAR I'LL START MY OWN LABEL UP, WHATEVER (ENGLISH) (HAVE YOUR BROTHERS READ THE BOOK, WHAT DO THEY THINK OF IT?) PAUL GALLAGHER SAYING THEY HAVEN'T GOT THE LAWYERS ON ME YET SO IT MUST BE ALRIGHT (ENGLISH) CAMERAMAN PAUL GALLAGHER SAYING I DON'T KNOW (IF FATHER HAS READ THE BOOK) BUT HE AIN'T GETTING A FREE COPY SO HE HAD BETTER GET HIS MONEY OUT. HE'LL PROBABLY BE PISSED OFF. HE PROBABLY WANTS TO KILL ME, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. MIGHT SHUT HIM UP ANYWAY (ENGLISH) PAUL GALLAGHER SIGNING BOOK PAUL GALLAGHER SAYING NO HE (LIAM) IS NOT THE FRONT MAN, HE IS THE SOUL. NOEL'S THE HEART, LIAM'S THE SOUL. I MEAN FOR A BODY TO FUNCTION PROPERLY YOU NEED A HEART AND SOUL. NOEL IS THE HEART WITH THE SONGS, HE WRITES THEM. WITHOUT SONGS YOU HAVEN'T GOT A BAND, SO HE IS THE HEART. AND LIAM PUTS IT ACROSS TO THE WORLD (ENGLISH) CAMERMAN PAUL GALLAGHER (ON RUMOURS THE BAND MAY SPLIT) NO CHANCE. NO THEY WON'T SPLIT UP. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. THE PRESS ARE WAITING FOR IT TO HAPPEN AND THEY HAVE A LONG WAIT. THEY WON'T SPLIT UP. IT'S NOT A YOKO ONO SITUATION. PATSY (KENSIT, LIAM'S GIRLFRIEND) IS BLOND, PRETTY NICE LOOKING AND SHE IS AN ACTRESS. YOKO ONO IS SIXTY AND FAIRLY UGLY AND SHE IS JAPANESE. THERE IS NO COMPARISON, IS THERE? FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO PICK ON. YOKO ONO, MY ARSE (ENGLISH) PAUL GALLAGHER AND TERRY CHRISTIAN POSING WITH COPIES OF BOOK
  • Embargoed: 18th October 1996 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON AND KNEBWORTH, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVACUON1VRVR6CIRI2KNH23U2IKW
  • Story Text: "I've written it because I knew I had a story" said Paul Gallagher of his new book "Brothers: From Childhood to Oasis", a harrowing expose of family life in the Gallagher household.

    Older brother of famous pop-stars Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis, Paul Gallagher dismisses claims that he is merely cashing in on their fame.

    "I go back to 1943. Nobody else does, nobody else can, nobody else will. It was a story that had to come out sometime so it might as well come out by me" he said.

    "Brothers" recounts a poignant and painful upbringing under the shadow of a violent and drunken father, Tommy Gallagher.

    In the book the Gallagher's mother, Peggy, reveals a catalogue of brutality at the hands of Tommy. She claims he even threatened to burn down the house with Noel and Paul inside after she fled the violence with baby Liam.

    Asked if his father has read the book, Paul said "I don't know.

    But he ain't getting a free copy so he had better get his money out... It might shut him up anyway".

    Speaking at the book launch at Tower Records Paul laughed off the constant rumours that the band were about the breakup.

    "No chance. It's not going to happen. The press are waiting for it to happen and they have a long wait".

    Paul describes his brothers as the "heart and soul" of Oasis.

    "Noel is the heart, Liam is the soul. For a body to function properly you need a heart and a soul".

    "Brothers", ghost-written by television presenter Terry Christian, goes a long way to explain why the Oasis boys do "look back in anger" at their past.
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