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Kev Nixon

OPINION - Oasis and the myth of the working class musician

Noel and Liam Gallagher: you can’t doubt their working class credentials but these are now vanishingly rare (PA Archive) - (PA Archive)

“There’s room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill. If you want to be like the folks on the hill.”

These are the words of John Lennon, a man so worshipped by Liam Gallagher that not only is the latter’s son named Lennon, his solo records sound like outtakes from Magical Mystery Tour. John and Liam undoubtedly have things in common, but growing up in a working-class environment isn’t one of them.

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