The Oasis frontman reflects on the power of music and nostalgia

This week marks 25 years since the release of Oasis' classic debut album Definitely Maybe.

Commercially, the album was eclipsed by the band's 1995 follow-up (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, but plenty of diehard fans will tell you it's Oasis's finest creative moment.

Anniversaries mustn't mean a great deal to the band's frontman Liam Gallagher, as Tim Shiel found out this week.

"I didn't know [about the anniversary]," Gallagher says. "I'd heard some rumblings about it. It feels like a lifetime ago because so much has happened.

"It feels like a million and 25 years ago."

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Hear Tim's chat with Liam Gallagher here

The opening track on the record is called 'Rock'n'Roll Star'. This self-belief would typify the band's attitude throughout their existence, and still applies to its members today.

"It'd be a bit strange if we called it 'We're A Bunch Of Plumbers'," Gallagher says. "I'm far too fucking good looking to be a plumber."

Great debut albums are especially magical. Gallagher is quick to rattle off a series of classics when asked about his favourite debut records. But there's one that means a lot to the singer.

"The Stone Roses' was the one that had a big impact on me," he says of the legendary Manchester band's 1989 eponymous debut.

"Even to this day when I put it on I just get transported back into a certain time when life was less stressful.

"That's what music's all about. It can ever take you back to these places… When I first heard the Roses album it just seemed like the sun was always shining. And there was always a lager about.

"It seems like these days it's a pretty gloomy world we're living in."

Gallagher acknowledges that people will have their own memories attached to his band's acclaimed debut.

"You can put a certain song on and you instantly just transform back to that time, where you met a girlfriend or boyfriend, or you were with your mates at a match or whatever you're doing," he says. "Music is important."

Other 'classics' from 1994

Obviously Definitely Maybe is not the only record celebrating its silver anniversary this year.

Tim Shiel tells Liam that Definitely Maybe was in some pretty good company with other records released in the same year.

"Well I'll be the judge of that," Gallagher deadpans.

First up was the phenomenon that is Elton Flatley's Lord of the Dance.

"No, I didn't know that [it was 25 years old]. And I couldn't give a shit either," Gallagher spits.

And it wasn't on Gallagher's radar back in the day either.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no."

Then there was Green Day's definitive pop punk classic Dookie.

"Who's this?" Gallagher says when he hears the intro to 'Longview'.

"I'm not having them either. No, no, no. Pretend punks. Nothing worse."

Hear Tim Shiel's chat with Liam Gallagher here.

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