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Glastonbury headliner rocks out at Oasis gig despite Noel Gallagher beef
Noel and Liam Gallagher famously don't mince their words when giving their opinions on other singers, and they've made some pretty biting comments over the years.
Oasis and Blur – who appeared at Glastonbury Festival this year in a surprise set – were the ultimate 1990s Britpop rivals.
However, this competition sometimes got personal, especially when Noel famously told The Observer, 'I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.'
Noel later retracted his words and apologised.
While Robbie and the Gallagher brothers enjoyed a short-lived friendship back in the day, their relationship soon soured after Noel called him 'the fat dancer from Take That' at the 2000 Brit Awards.
What followed was a 25-year feud.
In 2021, Robbie spoke about how 'unbearable' the feud was.
'Every time I watched TV programmes, there were people being hateful about me. That was just wrong and grotesque. It was unbearable. I just left the country,' Robbie told Talent Takes Practice.
'I remember every single syllable of every single thing they've ever said about me.
'Liam said that I should be hung, Noel said I was 'the fat dancer from Take That',' (not to mention Liam calling him a 'fat f**king idiot' in 2013.
In a 2022 interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, Robbie reflected: 'They were gigantic bullies too, to the whole industry, everybody in it—and I didn't like that.'
Liam admitted he was a 'p**-taker' but said he stopped short of hurting peoples' feelings.
In a 2019 interview, Noel said of the rapper: 'He is one of those guys that goes into rehab and then they sing about it for the next 20 years. 'You did a bit of f***ing coke. You had a drink. Haven't we all'. [Claps hands].
Noel previously called out Eminem, real name Marshall Mathers, and fellow rapper 50 Cent, aka Curtis Jackson, in 2005, telling The Sun: 'I despise hip-hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life.'
And three years before that, Noel said: 'Eminem is a penis. He's just titillation for the middle classes. He's neither funny nor shocking nor outrageous.'
In a 1996 interview, Beatle George Harrison told Q Magazine said Oasis' music 'lacks depth'.
'The singer, Liam, shouts instead of sings,' he said, adding: 'The rest of the band don't need him.'
This must've hurt for the Gallagher brothers, who have long worshipped the Beatles as a core musical inspiration.
While also acknowledging his love for the band and George, Liam soon retaliated in an MTV interview, saying: 'George was always the quiet one, and maybe he should have stayed that way. I love The Beatles, but what the f**k does he know about rock 'n' roll?'
Liam also described him as a 'f***ing nipple'.
'I know all about him and that, but he's a bit of a miserable c**t as far as I'm concerned,' Liam told The Times in 2011 of the country icon.
'I like that tune he did, Lay Lady Lay. People go nuts for him, but he doesn't really do it for me.'
