The man who introduced the band Oasis is calling for the band to get back together - and he believes Liam and Noel's mum Peggy could be the key to a reunion.

Paul ‘Bigun’ Ashbee says the Gallagher brothers need to heal their long-standing rift and make music again together for the sake of their fans.

And he thinks their mum might be the one to finally convince them.

"I really do think a reunion will happen. I thought it would happen last year and a lot of people say today they'll never get on but they've never got on," he told us.

"It wouldn't take much for them to get together. It would be a Christmas dinner or Peggy saying 'come on boys, for your mum, for the people.'"

He added: "They need to get over themselves and remember where it started. It's the fans that it's all about.

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"Somebody needs to bang their heads together."

Paul has known Liam for 32 years. They met when Liam was 14 and they got chatting while Liam was playing pool at a mate’s house.

He employed him as a car valet and made rock and roll history by introducing the singer to his childhood friend Bonehead, a guitarist with the band The Rain which later became Oasis.

To break the ice at the audition Paul recalls that Bonehead threw the shell of a tarantula at a nervous 17-year-old Liam.

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"Bonehead had a tarantula that had just shed and he threw this thing. He said to him 'so you want to be a band then, but can you f***ing sing?' and he said 'yeah I sing in the shower.'

"He started singing and I thought 'wow'. From that day we were so excited and everything just clicked.

"I knew with Noel's songwriting and poetry it was there. Oasis was meant to be."

Noel, who quit Oasis in 2009 and went on to form Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, joined the band after Liam and they went on to become international stars.

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Paul says the name Oasis came from the Oasis aquarium on Great Clowes Street, Lower Broughton and the word was also on an Inspiral Carpets poster in Liam's bedroom.

Next month football agent Paul will release a tell-all book called Giving it the Bigun, Oasis, Manchester, Football and Me, and he's hoping to hold a book signing in his home city.

"Noel and Liam know about the book," he said.

"When I told Liam he said 'don't be slagging me off' but it's not about that. It's about being positive.

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"Oasis is me, it's part of me, it's who I am."

The book is due out on Thursday November 15 and is now available for pre-sale online from Amazon.