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LIAM GALLAGHER
HEART OF GLASS
0190295793708
A – A
Wall Of Glass
B – Etched Side
Limited to 1000 copies. (2nd pressing. Issued 7th July 2017)
Unlike boxing, rock and roll is not renowned for great comebacks. A few
missteps and then it’s usually farewell, have a good life, who are you
again? Occasionally, though, a true heavy musical champ loses a bout
only to re-emerge even stronger later. David Bowie, for example, went
through a long fallow period before his renaissance. Paul Weller had a
rocky few years before finding his feet as a solo artist. Now we can add
a third era-defining voice to that list of champions who returned to
reclaim their belt: Liam Gallagher.
After Beady Eye officially split in 2014, Liam found himself “out of the
bubble” of being in an organised rock group with all the appropriate
management apparatus for the first time in twenty years. He fell hard.
Suddenly just a regular geezer (“just a regular absolute legend” he
clarifies), he had to consider what he was going to do. For a while, he
toyed with the idea of moving to Majorca and living “Sexy Beast-style”
around the pool in the sun. He had a few holidays. He went for lots of
jogs. He had a few pints. And he got divorced. And when all that was
done he took a long look at himself in the mirror and remembered who he
is and what he does. He’s Liam Gallagher, son of Peggy Gallagher, of
Burnage, Manchester, the best singer and frontman of his generation. So
he decided to start singing some songs again. Majorca could wait.
Playing around in his own idiosyncratic style on a guitar at home in
London, he surprised himself by writing a song. “I am definitely not a
professional at it,” he says, modestly. “It’s proper Frankenstein
tackle. But I suppose everyone has their ways. Even Paul McCartney
didn’t just sit down and write Hey Jude straight away.”
The song that he wrote was a heavy dollop of soul-rock called Bold and
strong enough to get him signed to Warner Bros. There was something
there alright. Eventually, he had a whole batch of songs written which
he demoed with a multi-instrumentalist called Dan McDougall in London
before he started to meet producers and co-writers. “Warner Bros said to
me, ‘Are you up for a bit of co-writing? I was, like, ‘never done that
before. Why not?’” He flew out to LA, met a few, but really hit it off
with Greg Kurstin. “Greg Kurstin played me a few ideas, we had a chat,
swapped some ideas, sorted it out and before you know we had some more
songs. I’m as surprised as anyone that it worked, but the songs we did
are top.”
These songs include Liam’s incredible first single as a solo artist,
Wall Of Glass. If you had to make an equation of all the elements that
made the early Oasis singles so apocalyptically good - i.e, huge waves
of guitar hooks + melody you can’t shake for…ever + thunderous rhythm +
LIAM GALLAGHER’S VOICE delivering an unbelievably catchy chorus - then
Wall Of Glass fits in the lineage perfectly. It’s hard to recall a time
he’s sung better - it’s like hearing him for the first time again, the
same yearning menace that claimed a million hearts by the end of
Supersonic’s first chorus. His voice is definitely on point.
“Yeah, well,” he almost agrees. “I’m a good singer, man! Nine out of ten
times I nail it. In a studio, without a doubt. Never done a shit vocal
there.”
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