Former boxer Ricky Hatton reckons that the Gallagher brothers need to put their differences behind them and get the Oasis reunion on track - if only for their mum Peggy. The Stockport-born slugger says that the boys could ‘make history’ if they got back together, and it would be bigger than the Stone Roses’ famous comeback in 2012.
“I think they should go out and make history,” the Hitman told Gambling Zone. “The music would be amazing with the songs they’ve got, the crowds would be huge, and everyone would love to hear a new album from them, you know that I mean?
“It would be massive. It would be the biggest comeback in music history. More importantly, I think Noel and Liam’s mum would enjoy it. She would love to see her boys getting back together, working together and being mates again. That would be a lovely thing.”
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He went on: “You’d have to say that it’s a certainty that they will get back together – the reunion has got to happen. Think about how big they are… when you think about the Stone Roses and their comeback, that was brilliant and this would be even bigger.
“The music that they would produce. The atmosphere they would produce. People say that they’ve fallen out, Noel and Liam, but I tell everyone that they never liked each other when they were together (laughs). They were always at it when they were together, so what’s the difference?”
Hatton and the Gallagher brothers have been friends for many years. They even walked into the ring with the fighter holding his belts prior to his 2008 bout with Paulie Malignaggi in Las Vegas.
Whether Hatton is on the money with his talk of a reunion being a ‘certainty’ is open to debate, however. There’s been no love lost between the feuding brothers in recent months.
Liam branded Noel a ‘sad little dwarf’ in a tirade on Twitter last October, after Noel blocked plans for Liam to use Oasis songs in the documentary Knebworth 22, about Liam’s shows at Knebworth last year.
Liam has also been sniping at Noel rather more recently too, slating him for a cover Noel and his band the High Flying Birds did of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart on Radio 2 last week. He called the version ‘p**s poor and damn rite blasphemous’.
Noel spoke to the Manchester Evening News on subjects from Liam and AI to manufactured pop recently. You can read the interview here.
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