Lewis continued: "On one side of the door your life’s amazing, on the other side it changes just like that." You can be walking down the road, you’ve just left your family at home and everything’s hunky dory, then when you go back home they’re gone." The phrase ‘one strike’ is about how your life can just change in one instant. And as a friend I was just inspired to write about it. "And with one strike/Īll Saints bandmate and chief songwriter Shaznay Lewis told i-D magazine: "It’s about conversations I was having with Nic at the time when she was going through personal things in her life. The track charted the traumatic breakdown of Gallagher and Appleton's marriage and even pinpointed the moment she found out about the news. In 2016 All Saints reunited and released One Strike as their comeback single. His marriage to Nicole Appleton broke down after it emerged he'd had fathered a secret love child after a fling with journalist Liza Ghorbani, and the pair divorced in April 2014. Liam Gallagher's two-minute and eight second love song might last forever in the musical canon, but the relationship it was inspired by certainly didn't. READ MORE: Oasis split! The full story of the Gallagher brothers' feud "He's only got one tune and that's it, and he's not playing the f****** tune." He added: "The ironic thing about that song is that he doesn't even f****** play it now, work that one out, the Ballad of the Mighty I singer mused. "Then we took all the instruments off it and it became this acoustic thing that I think is perfect." We did a demo of it and it was more like Love Me Do by The Beatles, It's got a mouth organ on it and it sounds like The Beatles. Years later Noel has doubled down on his praise of the track, calling it "perfect".Īs reported by BANG Showbiz, speaking of the ballad, Noel told Matt Morgan: "I thought Songbird by Liam was great. Watch the clip here, which is taken from their Lock The Box interview from their Stop The Clocks boxset: 'Do you think it drags on a bit?' It's two minutes and one second long! What f***ing crazy drugs are you on?" Noel revealed in the interview: "I even have to push to get it into the set because he won't have it. "It took three minutes and I think I wrote all the words pretty much there and then." Didn't do it to present Noel, I just wrote it. I went out one day sat under a tree, had a bit of a biblical moment and that was it. "I was in France in this massive f***ing mansion, doing our album. Liam's estranged brother Noel has always liked to joke about the length of the track, but speaking in a throwback interview he said: "It's one of our best tunes. Songbird is a firm favourite among Oasis fans, peaking at No.3 on the UK singles chart. READ MORE: What's the story behind Live Forever by Oasis? What was the reception to Songbird? Talk of better days that have yet to come/ Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton were married from 2008-2014. To this day, the lyrics are some of the most vulnerable that Gallagher has ever penned, conjuring Appleton as a winged muse who offers up a love he'd "never felt" before.
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