And as we were travelling around the world at the time…” (Gallagher, quoted in NME) Not stolen! Poems by travellers, by people who travelled the world. ‘When you go in those bookshops at airports they have these little books, like “The Tiny Book Of Wisdom”, and there was a book of travellers’ quotes, and most of the lines are adapted, that’s adapted, from one of them. But, yeah, a good way to open the album.” (Gallagher, quoted in NME) And of course, the drumming’s not much cop. If I had my way again I’d rerecord it ‘cos it sounds really thin to me and I’d don’t like the guitar sounds. Haha! So we went along with that for ages!” It’s just like, wow, they’re bonding on record’. It wasn’t about that, but ‘cos he was singing the verses and I was singing the choruses people were like: ‘Oh God man, the two brothers are, like, sharing their love for each other, even though they hate each other.
When the record came out everyone was going, ‘It’s a song about Liam’, and that I was saying that we need each other, we believe in one another – which was total fucking bullshit. I think he was drunk or something, but he couldn’t get the high notes. ‘Liam couldn’t sing the chorus for some reason. But I suppose I was just being a stubborn cunt, ‘cos he’s from the record company and I’m from the band and if he wanted it then I was gonna do the opposite.” I’m going, ‘Well, I think Some Might Say is a better song’, and he’s going, ‘Well, I think Acquiesce is’. And I’m thinking, ‘Fucking hell – it sounds shit!’ So we had this argument. He went into this big rant about it and sang it down the phone, really badly. And I’m going, ‘Fucking not now mate, I’ve got a really bad head, not now’. We went back to America, and I got a call from McGee, seven in the morning, and he’s going (adopts not wholly authentic Glaswegian accent), ‘Och Noel, I’ve just heard Acquiesce, it’s got to be a single’. We went to the studio and I made the lyrics up on the spot, really. “But by the time I’d got there I’d worked out the arrangement. I got to the chorus and I was progressively getting louder and by the time we’d been sitting in this tunnel for about 40 minutes people were starting to go: ‘Tut! Do you mind?! We’re getting bored here, can you stop playing?'” Maybe about another five people on the train. These are the days before we were travelling first class, of course! I remember it being pretty late at night, and I was sat in the smoking section. I had my guitar with me, and I just picked it up and started strumming away on the train. And the train stopped, I think it might have been in the Severn Tunnel, leaf on the track or something. ‘I was on the train travelling up to meet the rest of the band (at Loco Studios in Wales), ‘cos I was the only one living in Lodon at the time.
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