When asked about his long-standing feud with Phil Collins during a new conversation with the Times’ Saturday Review, Noel Gallagher revealed a past memory where Collins’ children once threatened his brother, Liam, assuming that he was Noel.
His initial words about the dispute were:
“He kept the Jam off No 1 with ‘You Can’t Hurry Love.’ I thought, ‘Once I get there, I’m not going to let him get away with that.'”
The former Oasis star then talked about the incident between Liam and Collins’ children, along with his ongoing hate towards the Genesis singer:
“The best thing about the Phil Collins thing is that Liam got accosted by his children one day because they thought he was me. They had a pop at him, saying, ‘Why are you always having a f*cking go at our dad?’ When I heard about it, I thought, ‘I really hope someone filmed it.’ Anyway, f*ck Liam. And f*ck Phil Collins and all.”
The feud between Noel and Phil Collins started in the early 1990s when the former expressed his dissatisfaction with the type of music the latter had been doing with the following statement:
“We’re gonna get rid of Phil Collins and Sting – junk food music, McDonald’s music – we’ve got to get in the charts and stamp them out. I want the severed head of Phil Collins in my fridge by the end of this decade. And if I haven’t, I’ll be a failure.”
After that attack, Gallagher also called Collins ‘antichrist’ in several interviews, leading the veteran musician to fire back by referring to Noel as ‘rude‘ for constantly taking a jab at him. In later years, neither side offered an olive branch to the other.
