GQ: They were playing “Girls & Boys” by Blur in the lobby earlier, you know.

Liam Gallagher: Oh god. I'm not having that tune. That one can fuck off. I'll have “Beetlebum.” “Beetlebum” is a tune. The rest of 'em? I'm not into. That new album that they put out [2013's Magic Whip], there was one on there called “Lonely fuckin"…

“Lonesome Street”?

Yeah. That was good. The rest can fuck off.

Do you like that Damon is still around working? Is it comforting?

Yeah. I'm not too keen on the Gorillaz. When Blur got back together I was glad that it happened. As you get older you think, “Ah remember them? That was a good little spar we had.” It's like boxers, innit. It's like we're two boxers that are still alive. I never really had a big problem with them anyway. That was Noel. They were just fucking posh boys. That bass player [Alex James] fuckin' drinkin' his red wine onstage. Fuck off!

So Noel was the one with the problem—but is friends with Damon now?

Well Noel would do anything for a photograph, won't he? Trying to break the Internet.

How was the Hollywood Bowl for you the other night? You tweeted that the crowd's antics were wild and that they shouldn't shoot their load early before the headliners perform.

Yeah yeah, it's obviously sarcasm.

On Sunday night they didn't sing the chorus to “Wonderwall” back when you invited them to. That bother you?

Nope. Not one fucking bit. Listen—at least there's fuckin' people there. It's a bit like I'm on fuckin' holiday, d'you know what I mean? If you're coming off there and getting depressed ‘cause no one was jumping around, then you've got the wrong fuckin' gig. I'm digging it, man. The pressure's not on me. It's on The Who. I can just get on there, do what I'm doing, and then get the fuck off.

I don't imagine there are too many bands you'd agree to open for?

D'you know what I mean? When The Who ask you if you wanna fuckin' support them, you don't say no. My idea of support is that you don't support a band that are fuckin' worse than you. Unlike some people. If you're gonna support a band, make sure they're fuckin' better than ya.

You ever fancied yourself living the Hollywood lifestyle?

Never. Not for me, no way. It's nice coming here but there's too many rules. I got told off to take my fuckin' hat off the other day in the Beverly Hills Hotel after they fuckin' rinsed me 800 quid for a fuckin' club sandwich which was the size of that fuckin' table. And there was two of them. I only wanted one. I swear to God, it was that high! You know with food when you're fuckin' hungry and they bring loads of it? I bit a little into the middle of it like a fuckin' rabbit and I was fuckin' full up, man. I had a pint and the kids had a burger, then we went to the bar for a cocktail, and the geezer's going, “Can you take your hat off?” I was like, “You didn't want me to take me fuckin' hat off when I was fuckin' forking out 800 quid for a fuckin' burger.’ I ain't taking me fuckin' hat off to sit at the bar. I'm going home.

What hat was it?

[Points to a bucket hat on the sofa] That fuckin' Gucci one over there. It's fuckin' mental.

Not a hat you should have to take off.

Fuckin' exactly. When you wear a hat, you wear a hat, don't ya? It's not an on and off job, is it? You commit, innit. You get fuckin' bedhead and shit. I get it, those were his rules, but fuck it. And nah I couldn't live out here, man. I need all seasons. Plus I don't drive. I guess you can Uber it.