7 Liam Gallagher As You Were

WARNER BROS 2017, £4 You say: “A great comeback full of Liam’s thoughts.” James Atkin, Twitter Even while Beady Eye was failing commercially, it was Noel who advised, with a winner’s smirking disinterest, that his younger brother should go solo, with “his name in lights” – an obvious reference to late-’60s Elvis. The parallel wouldn’t be irrelevant when Liam ultimately did so two years later. With the push of a major label behind him, a raft of elite-class songwriters helped sculpt material that essentially celebrated Liamness. Thus, while Noel’s solo records sought routes away from Oasis-style rabble-rousing, As

You Were simply gloried in it (Wall Of Glass; Greedy Soul), while also, on For What It’s Worth, mining the singer’s troubled private life with winning vulnerability.