On the eve of rehearsals for Oasis’s highly anticipated comeback concert tour this summer, the band have decided to cut one of their early songs from their tracklist.
Hello – the opening track from their breakthrough 1995 album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? – contains lyrics written by disgraced former UK pop star Gary Glitter – and will not be performed at the band’s forthcoming stadium gigs, The Sun newspaper reports.
Hello originally had frontman Liam Gallagher singing “Hello, Hello, it’s good to be back, it’s good to be back” with a melody from Glitter’s original 1973 track Hello, Hello, I’m Back Again playing underneath.
The Sun quotes an Oasis source saying: “The lyrics of the song would obviously have been a good fit for the reunion tour but the band have decided to leave it in the past.
“It would be inappropriate to play it given its connotations to Glitter and his convictions.”
The newspaper asked Oasis for official comment on the decision.
Glitter, in his 1970s heyday one of the UK’s biggest pop stars, was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for abusing three girls between 1975 and 1980. He was previously jailed in Vietnam for similar crimes.
Yesterday, with just weeks to go before the band make their return to the stage after 16 years, it was reported that, in an effort to keep relations sweet between the two previously warring brothers, Noel and Liam Gallagher will be kept apart backstage, with separate green rooms and party spaces for their independent entourages.
The band will kick off in Cardiff on July 4, before other stadium gigs around the UK, then onto the US and Australia later in the year.
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