That’s why Tony McCarroll was fired by Oasis
The former drummer of Oasis Tony McCarroll He revealed, in an interview granted to the British newspaper The Sun, the causes of his dismissal from the band. The musician was one of the band’s founders in 1991 and played in the group’s debut album “Defintely Maybe” (Read the review here) and in individuals “Whatever” And “Some Might Say” Before his abandonment in 1995. He was fired from the band who then cited in court to obtain copyright.
The band’s former drummer, as reported by the NME, repeatedly argued with
Noel Gallagher
as documented in his book
“Oasis the Truth: My Life
AS Oasis’s Drummer Tony McCarroll “
. In his cause, McCarroll eventually accepted an extrajudicial agreement of 550,000 pounds and renounced any claim regarding future Royalties.
This is stated by
Tony McCarroll
“There was an accident in Paris. I was next to Noel’s hotel room, which I didn’t know. I quarreled with a girl I was with and the next day we were making the soundcheck. I had just finished my piece, he turned around and, in front of everyone, he said to me: ‘friend, if you keep me wake up again, you will be fired'”.
McCarroll continued saying: “Probably I made the most stupid thing I’ve ever done in my life, I faced him by telling him: ‘You won’t tell me anymore in that way, fuck’. Just a few weeks later I received the Benservito”.
However it was not regretting how things went: “What kind of man would I have been if I hadn’t done it? Everyone was threatened every day, but it was only overwhelming. I never saw it as a serious thing like losing the place in the band”.
Since he was fired, he has never talked about Noel again, but now he thinks that times could be ripe to do it. “I would sit down to drink a cup of tea, a rich tea, with Noel, and I would say: ‘What the fuck did it happen, friend?’
The former drummer of
Oasis
He also said he saw the band on their reunion tour –
who kicked off Cardiff on 4 July
– admitting that it was “fantastic”.
