{"id":382301,"date":"2026-01-21T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382301\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:04:09","slug":"zak-starkey-says-noel-and-liam-gallagher-never-even-argued-once-while-he-was-in-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382301\/","title":{"rendered":"Zak Starkey says Noel and Liam Gallagher “never even argued once” while he was in Oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Oasis<\/a> drummer Zak Starkey has revealed that Noel<\/a> and Liam Gallagher<\/a> \u201cnever even argued once\u201d during his time in the band.<\/p>\n

Read More: Zak Starkey on being sacked from The Who, dreams of playing with Oasis, and advice for Barry Keoghan playing Ringo Starr<\/a><\/p>\n

Starkey, who was The Who\u2019s long term drummer until last year<\/a>, performed with the band from 2004-2008.<\/p>\n

The Gallagher brothers\u2019 reputation for bust ups and fall outs over the years was well documented.<\/p>\n

During Starkey\u2019s time with the band Liam stormed offstage mid-way through \u2018Champagne Supernova\u2019 during the Heineken Jammin\u2019 Festival in Italy, in June 2005. Liam and Noel were also seen having having cross words in the band\u2019s 2007 documentary Lord Don\u2019t Slow Me Down during the \u2018Don\u2019t Believe The Truth\u2019 world tour.<\/p>\n

Despite that, Starkey said they never argued in his company. \u201cI played with them for five years, and all we did was laugh. They never even argued once. Not one time,\u201d he told the New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe toured for 140 shows. We made two great records. We rehearsed. We hung out all the time. Never one. Never one cross word in five years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He also said that the band \u201cnever complained about anything, ever\u201d and they were always on time for every gig, adding: \u201cAnd they\u2019re never late. If it says on the sheet 5:30, at 10 [minutes] past 5:00, they were there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starkey had left the band before the bust up that led to their split in Paris in 2009<\/a>, with Chris Sharrock taking up drumming duties.<\/p>\n

Starkey was left disappointed when he wasn\u2019t invited to rejoin Oasis<\/a> for their reunion tour last year, with Jay Waronker stepping in on stick duties instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He told NME at the time<\/a>: \u201cNoel called me on my birthday to tell me I wasn\u2019t in [Oasis]. He didn\u2019t know it was my birthday though! I would like to be in it, because they\u2019re my favourite group of my generation. The thing about groups that you love \u2013 like The Who or Oasis \u2013 is that it\u2019s not a job. It\u2019s about protecting music so that no c**t does it wrong, because for so many people it\u2019s a job and they don\u2019t really care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starkey went on: \u201cWhen it\u2019s your favourite band, you pick up the phone and you\u2019re like, \u2018Fucking hell!\u2019 It\u2019s completely different to everything else. I fucking love Oasis. I always did. I always had this thing with Liam for years from the mid-90s where I\u2019d go, \u2018Alright Daffers? Still the greatest rock\u2019n\u2019roll singer in the world?\u2019 and he\u2019d go, \u2018Alright Zakky Wakky, still the greatest rock\u2019n\u2019roll drummer in the world?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThis went on for years until I was in [the band]. I couldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also reiterated that they he never saw them argue adding: \u201cWe went to America and we fucking destroyed it. Those boys never argued, they didn\u2019t want to ruin it. We were just having a laugh and it was great rock\u2019n\u2019roll.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Noel recently reflected on\u00a0Oasis\u2018 historic reunion run, and fuelled rumours of new music with the admission that he was \u201cback at work\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Oasis drummer Zak Starkey has revealed that Noel and Liam Gallagher \u201cnever even argued once\u201d during his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3582,96,128,3584,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-382301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-britpop","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-rock","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}