OASIS - GALLAGHER ESCAPED LIFE OF CRIME

GALLAGHER ESCAPED LIFE OF CRIME

OASIS star NOEL GALLAGHER credits the band's success with helping him escape a life of crime - because he would have become a thief if his musical ambitions had failed. The guitarist, who was brought up in the poverty-stricken Manchester, England, suburb of Burnage, eked out a living as a construction worker before teaming up with his younger brother Liam in 1991 to form the band that would eventually become Oasis.
The rockers landed a record deal in 1993 and shot to fame a year later with the release of their debut album Definitely Maybe.
And Gallagher admits that it would have been easy for him to slip into stealing and drug-dealing if he had stayed in his home town.
He tells Total Guitar magazine, "All the lads on the council estate I grew up with, apart from the ones that have settled down and have kids, they’re all still drug-dealing, going out being f***ing idiots.
“So, let’s put it this way, there’s one less criminal in Burnage because I picked up the guitar. There’s one less shoplifter in Manchester.”