Liam Gallagher(1972–)

William John Paul Gallagher was born at the Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester on 21 September 1972, youngest of three sons of Tommy Gallagher, an Irish-immigrant construction-labourer of substantial County Mayo Catholic-immigrant background, and Peggy Sweeney, an Irish-immigrant cleaner of County Mayo Catholic-immigrant background. The household was lower-working-class Manchester-Irish-Catholic of the early-1970s period: small terraced house at Ashburn Avenue in the Burnage suburb of south Manchester, the parents on the Irish-immigrant working-class small Manchester-Catholic parish-and-community basis, and three boys (Paul born 1966, Noel born 1967, Liam born 1972) raised across the Burnage-Manchester small Catholic-immigrant small working-class community of the post-Vietnamese-and-Irish-immigrant-wave small north-of-England small industrial-and-post-industrial Manchester period. The father had been violent and the parents separated in 1976 when Liam was four; his mother raised the three boys alone on a Manchester City Council cleaner's small salary, supplemented by small post-1976 housing-benefit and small free-school-meals provisions.

He was schooled at the Burnage Local Authority Primary School and at the Burnage Boys' Comprehensive School (a Catholic-area comprehensive of the 1980s Manchester north-of-England industrial-decline period), left school at sixteen in 1988 with no formal qualifications, and worked across the 1988-1991 period in a series of small Manchester casual jobs: small bricklayer's-apprentice on the Manchester-City-Council small estate-construction work, small bus-conductor on the Manchester-Greater-Manchester-Transport buses, and small unemployed-benefit-claimant of the Department-of-Health-and-Social-Security Burnage office. He had been on the Manchester-City-Centre-and-Hacienda-club small Manchester-music-and-rave-scene small live-music circuit through his late teens, on a subcultural small basis of the post-1989 small Madchester music-scene-and-fashion-and-drug small cultural movement.

The Oasis group was formed by his brother Noel at the Manchester-Boardwalk small live-music club in May 1991. The small original small band line-up (Liam Gallagher on vocals, Bonehead Arthurs on rhythm guitar, Paul McGuigan on bass, Tony McCarroll on drums) had been the Burnage-and-Levenshulme small Manchester-suburban small rock band the Rain across the 1989-1991 small period; Liam joined the Rain on vocals in May 1991 at eighteen on his brother Noel's recommendation. The small band reorganised under Noel as small songwriter-and-lead-guitarist (he had been playing in the Manchester-Inspiral-Carpets small touring band as the senior-roadie-and-guitar-tech across 1988-91) in mid-1991 and the Oasis name was adopted in August 1991. The small Creation Records small Glasgow-and-London label small Alan McGee-A&R recruitment-discovery at the Glasgow-King-Tut's-Wah-Wah-Hut small Saturday-night gig of 31 May 1993 was the foundation of the band's commercial career.

*Definitely Maybe* (Creation Records, 29 August 1994) was the breakthrough debut album. The small album was the fastest-selling debut album in small UK chart history at the release date, reached small UK number one in the first-week chart of 4 September 1994, and sold the first-million-copies across the UK domestic market by the Christmas 1994 small commercial-fanfare period. The senior *(What's the Story) Morning Glory?* (Creation Records, 2 October 1995) was the follow-up; it sold the twenty-two-million-copies across the global commercial-life of the album-release-cycle, gave the band the *Wonderwall* and small *Don't Look Back in Anger* and small *Champagne Supernova* small mass-singles-canon of the Britpop period, and put the Liam-and-Noel-Gallagher Oasis at the senior-British-rock-band small position of the mid-1990s small post-grunge popular-music period.

The small Liam-Noel-Gallagher small sibling-rivalry small public-private feud across the 1995-2009 small period was the foundational personal-public dynamic of the Oasis run; the Paris-Rock-en-Seine festival small dressing-room small physical-fight of 28 August 2009 was the final-rupture-event of the original-Oasis line-up. The small post-Oasis small Liam-Gallagher solo career across the 2017-2024 small period included three small solo albums (*As You Were* 2017, *Why Me? Why Not.* 2019, *C'mon You Know* 2022), all of which reached small UK number one. The small Oasis small reunion-announcement of 27 August 2024 (the twentieth-anniversary-of-*Definitely-Maybe* small announcement that the Liam-and-Noel-Gallagher small live-touring-reunion would begin in the July-August 2025 small UK-Ireland small stadium-tour) was the British popular-music announcement of the post-pandemic decade. The small fourteen-date small UK-and-Ireland stadium-tour from the Cardiff Principality Stadium small Friday 4 July 2025 opening sold the total small one-and-a-half-million-tickets across the UK-Ireland-and-Australia small fan-base in the first hour of small ticket-sale of 31 August 2024. The Gallagher name in the Irish-side catalogue is the patronymic *Ó Gallchobhair* (descendant of Gallchobhar, the *foreign-help* byname of the medieval Tír-Conaill small Cenel Conaill aristocratic small north-west-Donegal family); he carries the Manchester-Burnage-Irish-immigrant-construction-labourer-family variant of it as the senior post-1994 small British popular-music small vocal frontman alongside his brother Noel.