No musician is immune to the occasional beef with another musician. Though, we’d have to say George Harrison of The Beatles’s “beef” with the brothers behind Oasis was a little bit one-sided.
Many musicians out there have voiced their distaste for the Manchester, England rock band Oasis. Blur, Radiohead, Mick Jagger, and the actual members of Oasis are a few examples. And not surprisingly, George Harrison also had a few cross words for the band, as well.
In a way, it’s quite sad. Noel and Liam Gallagher have said that Oasis took a lot of inspiration from The Beatles. It was well-known that they were the Gallaghers’ favorite band. Never meet your heroes, kids.
“The music lacks depth,” Harrison said of Oasis’ music back in 1996. “And the singer Liam is a pain, the rest of the band don’t need him.”
It was a pretty shocking jab at the band, particularly Liam. And he didn’t take it sitting down. In an interview with MTV shortly after, Liam went as far as to threaten the former Beatle.
Oasis’ Liam Gallagher Shot Back At George Harrison
“If any of them old farts have got a problem with me, then they should leave their Zimmer frames at home, and I’ll hold them up with a good right hook,” Liam Gallagher said on MTV.
The clapback didn’t end there.
“I still love the Beatles and I still love George Harrison as a songwriter in the Beatles, but as a person, I think he’s a f**king nipple,” Gallagher continued. “And if I ever meet him I’ll f**king tell him. And if you’re watching, nipple!”
Nope, he wasn’t quite done yet.
“So it goes to show, all the time the Beatles and all of that, it so f**king stupid because he’s the silly one, because he reads the press,” Gallagher continued again. “How’s he know I’m silly? I’m not silly. He only reads the press, you know what I mean? So he’s the f**king silly one.”
Paul McCartney also had similarly unpleasant things to say about Oasis.
“They’re derivative and they think too much of themselves,” McCartney once said of the band. “They mean nothing to me.”
Though, it is worth noting that McCartney changed his mind about the “Wonderwall” hitmakers about 20 years later. He even said that Oasis were “fresh” and wrote “good tunes”. Harrison, on the other hand, probably disliked Oasis all the way to the end.
