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Oasis fans are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Definitely Maybe ,
It was an immediate critical and commercial success upon release, and was become the fastest-selling UK debut in history at the time. It included the tracks "Rock 'n' Roll Star", "Cigarettes and Alcohol", "Shakermaker", "Live Forever" and "Slide Away".
Almost 15 years to the day since the record's release, on 28 August 2009, Liam and Noel Gallagher had a fight backstage at Rock En Seine festival, with a statement from Noel appearing on the band's website shortly after, announcing he had quit the band.
Since then the brothers' relationship has been tempestuous to say the least, with insults hurled back and forth via interviews, live concerts and on social media over the years.
Click through the gallery below to see some of the best Gallagher brother insults:
Show all 20 1 /20Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps Liam sides with Lewis Capaldi - June 2019 Following a spat between Noel and singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi in which Gallagher branded Capaldi as "Chewbacca", Liam took a picture with the new talent backstage at Glastonbury to get up his brother's nose
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps "Fat man in an anorak" - June 2019 Responding to demands that he play Oasis classics at his solo concerts, Noel wrote in a column in WiredUK that "If they want to hear old Oasis songs, they’re being played by a fat man in an anorak somewhere," referring to Liam's concerts
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps "Never been so embarrassed for another man" - August 2019 Speaking to The Guardian about Liam's recent performance at Glastonbury, Noel said: "I don’t think I’ve ever been so embarrassed for a man in my entire life. He’s pulled off the incredible magic trick of making those Oasis songs sound weedy and thin. And he looked like he was having the worst day of his life, walking around in what looks like a pair of my son’s pyjamas, shouting into a mic about some perceived injustice ... if you can’t sing ’em, don’t play ’em!"
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps "Noel Katie Hopkins Gallagher" - May 2015 To dismiss rumours that Oasis might return, Liam tweeted "I see Noel Katie Hopkins Gallagher is talking out of his slack arse again go and polish your SAXAPHONE Ha ha LGx"
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps "POTATO" - July 2016 Liam called his brother a potato in numerous tweets around this time. The attacks are thought to be in response to remarks made by Noel in an interview with the Toronto Star regarding earlier insulting tweets from Liam: "I guess it was about him staying relevant. If you’re him, what else is there to tweet about? How his spring/summer collections are doing for his clothing firm?"
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps Cricket bat fight - 1995 One night during recording sessions for Oasis' second album What's The Story (Morning Glory), Liam enraged his brother when he brought a group of fans to the recording session. A fight ensued when Liam refused to ask the fans to leave and Noel ended up beating his brother with a cricket bat. Journalist Paolo Hewitt took the bat home and it was later auctioned
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps "Man with a fork in a world of soup" - July 2019 Referring to a joke Noel made about him back in 2009, Liam posted a video on twitter eating soup with a fork. Liam went on to describe Scotland as a beautiful country after Noel had deemed it "third-world"
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps Birthday wishes - May 2017 In the wake of the Manchester terror attack in 2017, Liam thought it might be time to bury the hatchet and publicly wished his brother a happy birthday...
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps "Play your songs for the kids you sad f***" - June 2017 ...only to launch a fresh attack five days later after Noel didn't appear at the benefit concert for victims of the attack, in which he apologised for his brother's absence and called him a "sad f***"
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps "I can play him like a slightly-disused arcade game" - October 2005 Following an incident where Liam stormed off stage during a concert in Italy, Noel claimed in an interview that he no longer argues with his brother about such issues, instead working on his psychology to "play him like a slightly-disused arcade game"
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps "He's the angriest man you'll ever meet" - April 2009 Clearly near the end of his tether, Noel made this claim about Liam in an interview with Q magazine
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps Noel leaves Oasis - August 2009 Noel finally walked out after an argument before a concert in Paris. The rest of the tour was cancelled and Noel issued a statement: "It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps "High Flying Turds" - July 2011 Liam welcomed Noel's new band the High Flying Birds by calling them the "High Flying Turds" and deeming their frontman, his brother, a "S***BAG"
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps 'One of the biggest cocks in the universe' - 2013 “I fucking adore him and I’d do anything for him. But the geezer that’s in this fucking business, he’s one of the biggest cocks in the universe.” - NME, June 2013
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps 'Boring' – 2011 “He’s got good songs. No balls, though. No attitude. Everyone knows what Noel Gallagher can do, and it’s great, but it’s boring. I’ve heard it all before.” - The Telegraph, November 2011
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps 'A f***ing knobhead' – 2008 Noel on Liam: "I read these interviews with him and I don’t know who the guy is who’s in these interviews, he seems really cool, because the guy I’ve been in a band with for the last 18 years is a fucking knobhead." Herald Sun, October 2008
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps 'High Flying Smurfs' – 2012 Liam on Noel's band: 'snore patrol Noel Gallaghers high flying smurfs who said rock n roll is dead' – Twitter 2012
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps 'He's actually frightened of me' – 2005 Noel on Liam: 'He’s actually frightened to death of me. I can read him and I can fucking play him like a slightly disused arcade game. I can make him make decisions that he thinks are his but really they’re mine' – Spin magazine, 2005
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps 'Scary clown' – 2016 'Scary clown buying milk last seen in waitrose Maida Vale call the cops as you were' – Twitter 2016
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Gallagher brother feud: Best insults and scraps 'I'm a c***' Liam on himself: 'It's official I'm a c***' – Twitter 2016
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