Oasis made an epic announcement about their reunion with an emotional video showing Noel and Liam Gallagher. The guitarist Bonehead also appeared in the 90-second video featuring past gigs, and it has been confirmed that he will join the band for their highly anticipated 14-date tour.
Bonehead, real name Paul Arthurs, was part of the original 1991 line-up. The 59-year-old is close with the Gallagher brothers and played on Liam’s Definitely Maybe tour this summer after overcoming tonsil cancer last year. The rest of the original members aren’t professionally touring musicians, it is unlikely that Noel would want them involved.
Tony McCarroll missing Oasis reunion?
The band’s original drummer, Tony McCarroll, is unlikely to reunite due to suffering a heart attack a few years back. Despite this, he has continued to perform on and off over the years. He also released a memoir called “Oasis: The Truth” and appeared in the 2016 documentary “Oasis: Supersonic.”
In 2021, he revealed that he had suffered a heart attack and was in the hospital, where he had a coronary stent fitted. However, he later confirmed to fans that he was “all good.”
McCarroll was Oasis’ original drummer and he was even in the band before Noel Gallagher – when Oasis was called the Rain. The group was founded by Liam Gallagher, along with McCarroll, Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs and Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan.
It has only been confirmed that Liam and Noel will reunite, with no details yet of the musicians who will join them on stage besides Bonehead. The band went through numerous huge changes over the years, with various drummers.
Alan White was Oasis’s longest-serving drummer, playing with the band from 1995 to 2004. He replaced Tony, who was dropped after the release of Definitely Maybe. Tony, who is now 53, played on all the early Oasis hits, including Supersonic, Shakermaker, and Live Forever, as well as on the breakthrough debut album, Definitely Maybe.
However, his time in the band was cut short. His final Oasis performance marked their first number one hit, “Some Might Say,” on Top of the Pops in 1995. The exact reason for his departure from the band is subject to different accounts.
Noel claimed that McCarroll wasn’t good enough to play the hits he was writing for the second album, which included “Don’t Look Back In Anger” and “Wonderwall”. Tony himself claims he was kicked out because he stood up to a bossy and detached Noel one too many times.
Afterward, there was a court case in which Tony tried to sue Oasis for £18m, citing what he felt he was owed for his part of the band’s five-album deal with Creation records. In 1999, it was settled out of court for a six-figure sum.
