‘He’s hilarious to hang out with’: behind the scenes of the new Liam Gallagher film
Manchester film director Charlie Lightening on capturing Liam’s lesser-known sensitive side
By Susan Griffin - May 24, 2019
The new documentary Liam Gallagher: As It Was doesn’t shy away from the tumultuous times experienced by the Oasis frontman during the last decade.
From the final fallout with Noel in Paris in 2009, to Liam’s new group Beady Eye disbanding and his decision to forge a solo career, director Charlie Lightening has been there every step of the way, including the homecoming gig in 2017, shortly after the Manchester bombing, and the One Love Manchester concert that followed.
The Mancunian filmmaker, who’s worked with the likes of Jamiroquai and Kylie Minogue, and is currently filming Paul McCartney on tour, talks about capturing Liam’s lesser-known sensitive side, filming memorable moments in the city and how mum Peggy, who still lives in Burnage, keeps Liam grounded.
How did the film come about?
I knew Liam through Oasis and then I went to meet Beady Eye to talk about doing a video and it just sort of begun there. It’s not like we set out to do a film, it’s just what happened, with the end of Beady Eye and the implosion of everything and then there was four years of him not really doing anything, but we saw a lot of each other and hung out as friends. And then Supersonic [the 2015 Oasis documentary] happened and people had interest in him again. We then followed him going on to make the album and at that point you’re thinking, ‘This could be a really amazing film’. We’ve been through a real journey together.
It’s not your typical music documentary is it?
It’s so much more universal than that. This is a human story documentary. The thing is with Liam Gallagher, even if you haven’t heard of Oasis or aren’t a fan, you know who Liam Gallagher is and you’ve got an opinion about him. I think that would make this film engaging to anybody. Even if you don’t like him, you should watch this, just to see what he’s really like. It’s just a human story about a guy who has been though all this madness and come out the other side of it and he’s still here.
Do you think people will be surprised to see a softer side to him?
That’s what he’s like. It’s not like you’re turning to manufacture that. He’s hilarious to hang out with. He’s a joker and there’s a real sensitive, caring side to him. He’s just real and I guess that’s his mum Peggy’s side of him. He’s not showbiz at all, he hates that side of it all. Like his mum says, ‘Liam’s always been Liam’ and I think a lot the aggro maybe came from a side that, like anybody, if you think someone’s trying to attack you or get something on you, you get your back up. He’s been very honest with regards to how it is and what it is. You get a bit older; life goes on. It’s just part of the journey, isn’t it?
Can you tell us a little about filming in Peggy’s house with Liam?
Peggy’s just lovely. You can see the dynamic of it all, how Peggy’s properly looked after them and has been there for them. It’s the same house in Burnage she’s lived in for years. They’ve tried to buy her bigger houses and for her to move out the area but she’s like, ‘Why do I want to move? These are all my friends and the people I know.’ And I think that realness is what grounds the brothers.
Was it important to get Liam’s thoughts on Noel, and how things stand between them?
We couldn’t have done the film without any of that stuff in there, but it’s not done in a tabloid way. It could have been done very differently. It could have been less sensitive. I say to him when we’re in his old room at Peggy’s, ‘It’s a bit of a shame you’re not speaking to him’ and he’s like, ‘It is but it’s not the Waltons’. It’s their thing to sort out and that’s way more important than Oasis getting back together.
What was it like to film Liam’s homecoming gig at the Ritz Manchester?
That was the first concert in Manchester after the bomb had gone off, so the atmosphere was just intensified a hundred-fold. All the energy and atmosphere was just insane. There was this sense of defiance. Liam said, ‘I want to have 22 candles on stage for the people who died and I’m going to come out for the encore and sing Live Forever but do it acapella and sing it with the audience’. It was amazing, but we couldn’t show it in the film because Noel wouldn’t allow us to use any of the music. And then Liam doing it at the One Love charity concert in June, we weren’t allowed to show it.
Did it bother you that you couldn’t use Oasis music?
You’re thinking, ‘Oh s**t, is that going to affect the film?’ but that’s the thing, there’s no Oasis music in the whole of the film, not one track, which seems crazy if you’re making a documentary about Liam Gallagher, but I don’t think you miss it. Or even notice. And that’s the edit team doing a cracking job of putting it together and making it filmic.
What was Liam’s take on the final edit?
He liked it, luckily! Anytime you show a film about somebody’s life to somebody, you’re apprehensive because of how they will see themselves. It’s like someone taking a picture of you and showing it to you, you always have an opinion on it. But it’s not sensationalised, not tabloid, it is what it is and he’s real and true in it and I’m not trying to dish the dirt on anything. You’re just trying to tell the story how it is.
Has Liam said what he hopes people will take from the film?
I don’t think he’s arsed! Do you know what I mean? He’s Liam Gallagher. He’s sort of not bothered really. And I think you can see that about his personality in the film. It’s not like he’s not bothered in a negative way, but he’s not done it to make people like him better. I’ll tell you the truth, I’ve not had long conversations with him about the film. It’s just like ‘yeah, cool’. He’s been making his album and that’s what’s more important to him. He’s a musician, he’s not a film star and he’s going back out on tour soon.
Are you feeling nervous ahead of the release?
Yes and no but we’re not being contrived or trying to better something. Everything in there is just honest. It’s someone holding their hands up and saying, ‘This is me; this is what I’m like’ and you can’t knock anybody for that. If you watch it on 6th June, Liam’s going to do a live performance at the end of the film, which will be beamed into cinemas, which is going to be a real event.
Do you consider it a love letter to Manchester?
Yeah, I love Manchester and I’m proud of where I come from. Growing up here, that was the thing that was mega about Oasis, they were just lads having it, and when I moved down to London to go to college, it gave you a certain swagger. When we were filming the opening drone shot for As It Was, I’ve never seen Manchester look more like a Hollywood skyline. I was just like, ‘Wow, look at that’. I hold this city very dearly, like Liam does. It’s where you’re from, it’s who you are. I think if you’re Mancunian, it’s in you, isn’t it?
Liam Gallagher: As It Was is released on Thursday 6th June.
2019.05.23
“The new album sounds mega”: filmmaker Charlie Lightening on his Liam Gallagher documentary ‘As It Was’
Ahead of Liam Gallagher’s premiere of As It Was on 6 June, GQ caught up exclusively with the man who has been Liam’s shadow and witness for the past ten years, director Charlie Lightening
BY JONATHAN HEAF
Monday 20 May 2019
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As he was, as he is, as I found him. I was right there in the fug of spring 2017, writing a cover story for British GQ, when Liam Gallagher’s once tainted, often fully loaded star began to rise once more, and spectacularly so; his songs and his senses kicked into shape by a hunger to reclaim rock’n’roll’s iron crown from all the charlatans and usurpers. Having weathered the break-up of his “other” band (Beady Eye), the break-up of his marriage to Nicole Appleton and witnessed his fantasy life – as he’d know it since he was 19 years old – pretty much vapourised, Gallagher was being given one more moon shot to live as his ego had always intended: as Britain’s most loved (and lauded) rock’n’roll star. It was a joy to witness.
I was lucky enough to go on the road with Gallagher over the course of two months that summer. I interviewed him numerous times in posh (ish) brasseries, in dressing rooms (Dublin and Glasgow) and then back in London once again. Rude? Complex? Arrogant? Not as I found him. In fact, he only once had a bit of a strop – backstage in Glasgow, the reason for which I’m still in the dark about. Generally, I found him a gift of an interviewee: candid, warm, engaged, extremely funny and, actually, entirely as you found him on any given day. Ask anyone who has worked with Liam and they’ll tell you: he wears his heart, and his sulks, on his sleeve. Liam Gallagher doesn’t want you around? He’ll kick you off the tour bus, before you can say, "sausages". Liam Gallagher finds you somewhat amusing, honest and altogether unthreatening? He’ll put his arm around you, pull you a pint and whisper Beatles lyrics into your ear. He’s a man who knows his place in the world and knows yours in his too.
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It was while on tour, however, that I met a man called Charlie Lightening. He’d been with Liam since 2009, or thereabouts, and he was always busy filming and photographing on-stage and off-stage antics. He mentioned to me at some point he’d like to make a feature-length documentary about Liam’s comeback, although he didn’t seem to have a plan nor much hope it would actually get made. Well, guess what? It did. And, brother, what a documentary. It picks up at the collapse of everything Liam’s ever known (Oasis) and finishes with Liam as he is now: basking in humble yet triumphant redemption. If Supersonic was a look back at a generation before it begrudgingly grew up, As It Was is a documentary about where that generation is today, and that includes Liam himself.
Remember: just like many of the fans, Gallagher has been through his midlife crisis and come out a better man. A little shaken, sure, but sharper and even a touch more reflective. This is that extraordinary true story.
It’s utterly cathartic viewing, often with deeply tender moments, not least by highlighting the very real love Gallagher has for his children and his saviour, his partner and manager Debbie Gwyther. Of course, Noel Gallagher is both present and not present; the shadow his absence casts is long. Still, for eternal “will they, won’t they” optimists worldwide, the film ends, if not with an olive branch from Liam to Noel, then an acknowledgment that there is unfinished business between the two brothers. If that business is to punch one another on the nose, or kiss one another on the cheek, well, your guess is as good as anyone’s. Ahead of the film’s premiere on 6 June, GQ Hype caught up exclusively with the man who has been Liam’s shadow and witness for the past ten years, director Charlie Lightening. Whatever you do, don't call it another comeback; this is more like a confessional.
How’s Cannes treating you?
I’m here now sitting in my hotel room looking out at the sea. It’s mega, man. There’s no premiere here for the film, it’s really just a screening. Liam isn’t here; we’re saving all that for London next week. We’re here to talk about how the film is going to go out globally, I think, get a few people to see it, talk to a few others, see how people are feeling. But we’re leading out of the UK because, well, it’s the hometown and makes so much sense and there’s such a hunger for it.
I saw you in London last week to go through our select for this Hype cover and you told me you were staggered this film ever got made. What did you mean?
I guess I meant with a project such as this; it's been so long putting it together. Getting it off the ground in the first place is always surprising, getting into it and then finishing. It's ten years in the making really. I started filming Liam straight after Oasis ended. Cos I knew him in Oasis – I did a little bit with them at the very end in 2009 – and because of my relationship with Paul McCartney, Liam asked me to do a bit of stuff for Beady Eye. And at that point, doing some behind-the-scenes stuff, some music videos, you don't realise that you're filming stuff for a film.
‘Noel can be easier to get to know straight away, while Liam can be a bit more guarded’
How did you get involved with Oasis in the first place?
It was Kasabian really. They were the band that I sort of started with. Ronnie Wood was the first artist I started working with funnily enough, and that led to doing stuff with Kylie Minogue… Anyway, I was told there was this band, and that the band got hold of their record this weekend and that they were going to throw a party on some farm they owned and would I like to record it. And that was Kasabian. And as they got bigger, I, off the back of that, started working with JK [from Jamiroquai] and then that got my work noticed by McCartney.
And how did you meet Noel and Liam?
Well, Kasabian supported Oasis in America, and I was making a film about the making of Kasabian's second record and Noel and Liam came to the studio to listen to their album. And that's when I first met them and that night ended up with me. Serge and Tom around the breakfast bar in Liam's kitchen. Liam actually playing me songs that he had and that he'd written and that hadn't made the Oasis record. And at the time, and I'm not just saying this because of hindsight, I thought, “Wow, there's something about these songs.” And then Beady Eye happened and I just sort of went with him on the journey, you know...
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What was your first impression of Liam?
Well, I grew up in Manchester also, and I remember seeing “Live Forever” and thinking, as everyone did, "Who the hell is this? What the hell is this?" I was a bit young for the Stone Roses, and that side of Manchester and Oasis came just at the right time for me, with the right vibe. They were just these lads in Sprayway jackets, parkas, and they were just cool. The attitude was just electrifying. There was Definitely Maybe and that set out their stall, and going back now it's clear to hear how ground-breaking that record was. But I remember (What's the Story) Morning Glory? – well, everyone had a copy of that – and it united not just my mates, but my generation through music and through a band. That was the first time that had happened for me and it was powerful.
Did Liam intimidate you at first?
God, yeah. I mean, you've met him, you know what he can be like. But Noel can be easier to get to know straight away, while Liam can be a bit more guarded. I remember I was going into the O2 to watch The Verve with my mate and we’re standing outside in the foyer bit about to go in and my phone rings and it’s Tom from Kasabian. “Charlie, what are you doing?” I told him I was going to see The Verve in, like, one minute… He goes, “Listen, we’re in Abbey Road with Oasis and they are playing us the new record. Get down here now.” Next thing I know I hear the phone fumble and I hear another voice saying, “Who’s that?” It’s Liam. “It’s Charlie,” I tell him. “Charlie who?” “Charlie Lightening.” “Charlie Lightening?” It was the beginning of getting to know him. And then Noel gets on the phone and he says, “Charlie, get on this, there’s a track called ‘Shock Of The Lightening’. Get down here, mate.” So that was it: I hung up the phone and legged it to Abbey Road.
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What was the atmosphere like down there?
Well, because of what he’s been like on the phone, when I got there I didn’t know whether he’d be weird with me or what. Anyway, I walked in and they are midway playing the record. I walk in and Liam goes, “Whoa, whoa, whoa…” Stops it, and he walks up to me, puts his arm around me and goes, “We’ve got to start this again because this fucker hasn’t heard any of it.” And then they play it from the top. And the thing about Oasis is they always do the vocals right at the end, so Liam then preceded to sing the entire record to me, into my ear. So it’s easy to misconstrue a situation with Liam. There is such a welcoming side and such a lovely inner vibe when you get through the bluster. Subsequently I have been lucky enough to meet many of my idols, but there’s something about Liam; he just stays true to himself. There is still no bullshit to him, heart-on-his-sleeve honest.
The film starts at the end of Oasis in Paris in 2009. You were there. What was that like?
It ended and the next day I think the rest of them just decided to keep going. A month after Oasis split they were all over at Gem’s house [guitarist for Oasis and Beady Eye], purely because they wanted something else to do. They didn’t want to sit around licking their wounds. And it happened probably too fast. They had a demo, and then suddenly the label – that was still the Oasis label – hear the demos, said there was an album and then it just snowballed from there really. It wasn’t until really Beady Eye ended, and then came the implosion of the rest of everything, the divorce and so on, that Liam realised it might be the end of it all. Everything stopped. I think with Beady Eye, the press just didn’t want it to work, or want him to work. I love some of those songs and think a lot of what he did in that band was great but there was no chance given. It’s almost like Noel and Liam fought and fought and fought… And then he was just a bit lost. The film explains where he was and how his life was going through difficulties.
‘Debbie’s impact was massive. She saved him in so many ways. He was lost. He didn’t know what to do or how to do it’
There was the divorce from Nicole [Appleton]. The fact Beady Eye wasn’t working. Things were looking bad.
When anything ends, you need some time to reflect. He did not get to do any of that. And also, remember, he was Liam Gallagher in the Nineties, the most famous person in the world at one point. But also in terms of destiny and journeys and all that, you have the good and the bad you need to go through to appreciate what you are and what you have or what you had. He was always told [in Oasis] that, “You’re just the singer.” Even the way they made the records, with the vocal slapped on at the very end. Very controlling. He’s an underrated songwriter. As he says in the film, “I’m a songwriter with not very many songs.” He’s pretty humble about it in fact. The great thing about Liam is that he knows what he doesn’t like. There’s no mincing about. Creatively, even in Beady Eye, Gem and Andy took over the “Noel” role, working more like producers, I guess, and Liam would come in, do his thing and then be off. He was there a lot but he’s not a producer who wants to work on a sound for hours. But on the second Beady Eye album there’s a song called “Evil Eye”, which you probably have never heard as it didn’t make the album but was on a special-edition Japanese bonus track, and it’s brilliant. Very simple, very Beatles, of course, but so melodic. He’s a cracking songwriter, he just needed time to nurture it.
How important was the impact of Debbie Gwyther, now his girlfriend and manager, on Liam’s life both professionally and personally? She’s a force to be reckoned with, no?
Oh, Debbie’s impact was massive. She saved him in so many ways. He was lost. He didn’t know what to do or how to do it. As he say in the film she gives him a kick up the arse, explains that, “Come on, no one died” and tells him to focus again on the music. She supported him through some of the worst. And they just love each other, you know what I mean? It’s all in the film. You see how close their relationship is, how they bring out the best of one another. Again, it feels wonderful that I was able to capture that, as really I was doing his musical comeback, I wasn’t doing a documentary about Liam’s love life, but then Debbie is such a part of that, and now his family, that it shines through – hopefully.
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How was filming him with Liam’s children?
I always say that the most important part of my job is knowing when not to film. That’s the skill. And, actually, it’s not even a skill, it’s just being sensitive to other human beings. We caught some great footage of Liam and his two lads, Lennon and Gene, when they met in Brussels and go to Amsterdam. It’s sweet and charming and funny and just really honest and natural. I don’t think anyone has ever really seen Liam like that, you know. There were times, of course, when I would say, “Can I just film for a bit in the dressing room,” and he’d be like, “No, you know what, I can’t be arsed.” And that is totally fair enough. I wouldn’t want a camera all day on me either, following me around. Of course, obviously, we are just mates sometimes and that makes it easier; and some of the nature of great footage is that I was just there on certain special moments because we’re mates and it’s not set up. There’s no rhyme or reason to it and there’s a trust. I think also the fact that I work with Paul McCartney helped. He is a Beatle, after all, and what’s good for a Beatle is good for Liam in some ways.
Is he always the same on camera as off?
Yes, but that is always the way with Liam. There isn’t two of him. If he’s happy he’s happy, if he’s not he’s not, and you’ve seen that in regard to who he is.
The scene with Liam and Noel’s mother, Peggy, is incredible, really intimate and raw.
Well, that’s just brilliant, isn’t it? She’s never moved, never felt the need, so upstairs is the room Liam and Noel used to share, still with the same little gold name plaque “Noel and Liam’s Room” on the outside of the door. Amazing. But that was all Liam’s idea to do that and film that. They have always wanted to buy her another house, but she’s never wanted to move from her friends and so on, so I think they bought her a new gate or something. But I think because of my relationship with Liam, we were able to go in there and get what we did, talk about Noel and the family and so on. I don’t know, but I don’t think it would have worked with anyone else. For me that is the scene of the film. As we’re in their old room, he’s telling stories about how they had nothing to do, smoking fags and listening to Jimi Hendrix. Towards the end of he chat you hear me ask, “So you must miss Noel then, no?” And then he gives a typical Liam answer, which is flippant but with meaning: “It’s not the Waltons.” But to think that’s where those two started it all, in that tiny room in Manchester, as he says, is pretty cosmic.
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Did Noel’s shadow stretch over the film?
No, not really, but there’s still those questions and still that relationship that is there or not there. At the end, the keyboard player, I think, says, “I think Noel overestimates the importance of the music and underestimates the importance of Liam.” And he makes the point that, “I am sure [Liam] can’t do anything without wondering what his brother thinks of it. Everything he leaves out or puts into a show is almost solely done for an audience of one.” The Noel questions are there, of course, but they don’t dominate. As Liam says, “Noel has become a massive c**t. Whereas I’m just still a c**t.”
Was it frustrating that Noel put the stoppers on you using any Oasis songs for the film?
Yes. But that goes back to the thing of getting things made. At first you hear about that stuff and then you move past it. And in some ways it’s the best thing that could have happened. It shows, again, that Liam is his own person and where there’s a will there’s a way.
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I loved the bit in San Francisco, going over the Golden Gate Bridge.
It’s a telling scene. Like he says, Liam, now the age he is, gets up and does these early morning runs – most often round Hampstead Heath, North London. By 9.30am in the morning his day is done. He wakes very early, four or 5am, does his run and then has a coffee. Before long his day is over by 10am. He buzzes off life, Liam. He’s always saying, “Shall we go and do this, shall we go and do that?” And we got up early, really early, and we drove over the bridge so we could run back across it and I did a little chat with him. The sun is just coming up and it was quiet and he was in a great mood. He said, “Any rock star aged 20 worth their salt, if they said they wanted to get up early and run over Golden Gate Bridge – out of the band. Out of the band straight away.”
Is Liam Gallagher hanging up his rock star spurs?
But he’s done all the rock stuff; he does buzz off that stuff now. It was just a lovely moment, and he wondered whether he’d get to see American again, in some ways, and get to tour and play new music, so he was chuffed just to be there. The only difference now being, as he jokes, “I don’t do eight grams before I go on stage, just the two.” What people don’t realise is how much he cares about the show. When his voice is fucked, he’s the one that’s as gutted as the fans. People think in the past he was a bit irresponsible or so on... Not now. He wants that stage and to be in front of that mic. Don’t worry, though, he’s not going anywhere, not a chance. Being a rock’n’roll star is just who he is. He doesn’t know how to do anything else.
Liam Gallagher’s new album is his solo ‘What’s The Story (Morning Glory)’, says filmmaker
Andrew Trendell
May 16, 2019 11:19 am BST
"It's gonna blow people away"
The director of Liam Gallagher‘s upcoming new film As It Was has spoken of what to expect from the former Oasis frontman’s “mega” new solo album.
As It Was gives unprecedented on stage and backstage access to tell Gallagher’s story from the demise of Oasis through to the end of his successful headline tour for debut album ‘As You Were‘. The film is set to feature a new song called ‘Once’ from Gallagher’s upcoming second album.
Speaking to NME, As It Was director Charlie Lightening said the track was “the ‘For What It’s Worth’ of the record”, which was sounding “fucking mega” from the select tracks that he has heard.
“It’s a continuation of ‘As You Were’,” Lightening told NME of the new album. “If you look at ‘Definitely Maybe’ and ‘What’s The Story (Morning Glory)?’, one’s the more punkier one and one’s the bigger one, you know what I mean? That’s progression. It’s someone in the prime of it all. People aren’t gonna be disappointed with it. I think it’s gonna blow people away.”
As for what to expect from ‘Once’, Lightening continued: “The lyric is, ‘You only ever get it once.’ It’s about that whole thing of – when I first hear it, it was like you can listen to it and think of the experiences you get in life, you get a second chance but you only get it once. I took it as – you could hear him singing it to Noel, do you know what I mean?”
Lightening also described the album’s upcoming lead single as his “favourite solo song from Liam”.
“I think it’s way better than ‘Wall Of Glass’. It hits you harder. [The album] is a continuation of ‘As You Were’ but it’s just that bit bigger –if you’re doing something for the second time, you’ve got more confidence behind you,” he told NME. “The first single is so catchy – the middle-eight on it is just mega and then it goes into a massive chorus. It’s brilliant.
“It’s the sort of song you put on for stomping the streets – it’s a got a proper stomp to it. You can hear these songs in stadiums. It’s that sort of vibe. And that’s the difference between a ‘Definitely Maybe’ and a ‘Morning Glory’. His voice is mega – it’s Liam.”
Earlier this month, it was announced that As It Was will receive its world premiere at London’s Alexandra Palace on June 6 along with an exclusive performance from the man himself. The film will then hit cinemas on June 7.
According to the synopsis, As It Was “tells the honest and emotional story of how one of the most electrifying rock’n’roll frontmen went from the dizzying heights of his champagne supernova years in Oasis to living on the edge, ostracised and lost in the musical wilderness of booze, notoriety and bitter legal battles.
“Starting again alone, stripped bare and with nowhere to hide, Liam risks everything to make the greatest comeback of all time.”
A new trailer for the film emerged yesterday, showing Liam taking shots at Noel for “breaking up his band” as well as him visiting his mother Peggy Gallagher at the family home.
Gallagher revealed that the recording of his second album was completed in March, which looks set to feature his son Gene. He also said back in December that he’s collaborated with an “an army of songwriters” in LA.
Later, he wrote on Twitter that he has 20 new songs “that will change your lives”.
Meanwhile, Gallagher will grace the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury next month.
2019.05.19
Liam Gallagher: As It Was - See photos from the Oasis legend's documentary
Liam Gallagher: As It Was - See photos from the Oasis legend's documentary
19 May 2019, 15:00 | Updated: 19 May 2019, 15:01
The former Oasis frontman's As It Was doc is set for release next month. Whet your appetite with our best photos from the film.
Liam Gallagher: As It Was is set for release next month.
The film, which is directed by Charlie Lightening and Gavin Fitzgerald and produced by Joel Kennedy and Julian Bird, is set to chart the comeback of the former Oasis frontman's comeback and the making of his debut solo album As You Were.
Watch the official trailer from As It Was above and see some of the best moments from the film so far...
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Liam Gallagher: As it Was will premiere at London's Alexandra Palace on 6 June 2019
As a press release explains: "Liam Gallagher: As It Was tells the honest and emotional story of how one of the most electrifying rock’n’roll frontmen went from the dizzying heights of his champagne supernova years in Oasis to living on the edge, ostracised and lost in the musical wilderness of booze, notoriety and bitter legal battles.
"Starting again alone, stripped bare and with nowhere to hide, Liam risks everything to make the greatest comeback of all time."
Watch Liam Gallagher return to his childhood home in this teaser clip:
2018.05.04
Liam Gallagher Documentary ‘As It Was’ to Screen at Cannes
