11 Things I Learned About Liam Gallagher After Watching the New Oasis Documentary

Supersonic, the documentary about the late, great Britpop band Oasis has finally been released, and it was killer. I’m a huge Oasis fan, so I didn’t think there was anything new you could tell me about Noel, Liam, and the boys, but I was wrong! So much of it was totally fresh to me.

1. Heretofore intensely private, Liam Gallagher mentions that he has four children: John (b. 1998), Lennon (b.2000), Cold Turkey (b. 2005), and Whatever Gets You Thru the Night (b. 2010).

2. Instead of a dog or cat, Liam’s got a Pete Best. Liam notes that his Pete Best is great around kids, loves to fetch a ball, and sleeps in a little house in the backyard. “Who’s a good boy?” Liam rhetorically asks Pete Best in the film as he scratches his belly.

3. Before deciding on the name Oasis, the band considered naming themselves “The Beatles,” which is a play on the Crickets, Buddy Holly’s backing group, but with “beat” instead of “beet” for some musically-flavored wordplay.

4. For three months in 1997, Liam was married to a New York conceptual artist named Yoko Ono.

5. Liam spends three to four hours every day posting on Reddit under the screen name “TheRealSeanLennon.”

6. Liam finally admits that yes, he wears those iconic, horned-rimmed glasses because he wanted to look like Nicole Kidman in Practical Magic.

7. It took Oasis just three months to write and record the songs for Be Here Now and another six months to decide on a title. Band relationships were strained due to Liam’s insistence on naming the album either Unfinished Music №1: Two Virgins or Ringo the Fourth.

8. He lives in a yellow submarine.

9. He still sleeps on the bunk beds he and Noel Gallagher slept on until they were 29.

10. In one memorable scene of the documentary, Liam plays “Wonderwall” backward, revealing a hidden message. One can clearly hear Liam say, “I buried Paul. OMG, do you get it? Do you see what I did there?”

11. The documentary’s director asks him a question about Beady Eye and he says, “who?”