I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

When Liam was 10 Peggy took the boys and moved away from Tommy. Oasis returned in 2000 with Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. The relationship between the two was put under further strain because of Doherty's heavy heroin habit and his visits to Moorish under the influence of the drug.

Although his elder brother Noel Gallagher wrote the majority of Oasis's songs Liam has penned the singles "Songbird" and "I'm Outta Time" along with a string of album tracks and B-sides. [not in citation given] He remains one of the most recognisable figures in modern British music. He was formerly the frontman of Oasis and is currently of the band Beady Eye.