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The highly anticipated Oasis reunion tour kicks off tonight (July 4) in Cardiff before heading off around the UK, the United States, South Korea, Japan, Australia and South America.
But something very unique, and if you understand the world of Liam Gallagher, very out of the ordinary took place during the recording of the 1995 album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? which involved a farm and a combine harvester.
After falling down a 15 year hiatus into the wilderness of broken down relationships, rifts, spats, solo tours, successful albums, not so successful albums, the iconic brothers have now called a truce and decided to bring Oasis back to life; quite arguably one of the divisive but yet greatest rock bands in modern history.
It has been a very long time coming for admiring fans who were there the first time around, and those not quite old enough to remember some of the greatest nights of their lives when attending Knebworth or Maine Road in 1996.
Oasis have been a force of nature since the 1990s, when they took the world by storm in releasing their 1994 album Definitely Maybe, a masterplan of genius to those who love the band.
Rockfield Studio, a recording facility near Monmouth in the Wye Valley which has graced the likes of Queen and Coldplay, was turned into a recording studio from a dairy farm by brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward.
In a recording for the documentary Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm, Liam and Paul Arthurs, known as Bonehead, opened up about how they once drove a combine harvester to spy on fellow Mancunian band The Stone Roses at the countryside studio.
Liam said: "We went to have a f****** little snoop.
"It was a case of, ‘right, what the f*** are they up to?'
"As they had not been doing anything for three years.
"I am on about a proper combine harvester — ones you have got to get a ladder up to and it is miles up.
"Off we f****** go, crawling down the road with the big f****** lights on.
"It looked bonkers.
"We drove it in, turned the lights off and rolled out like something out of The Professionals.
"We could hear some f****** bassline and drums.
"We left the combine harvester.
"We got caught, we went in and had a little chat with Ian Brown (lead singer of the Stone Roses).
"We might have had a s***** and that and then we f****** f***** off.
"The next night they came over on a tractor and did the same.
"And then we were in bed.
"Proper rock 'n' roll."
The legendary rock band is no longer looking back in anger, but the greatest question of all is how long will it last?
