Phil Collins planning to settle Oasis feud
Phil Collins has revealed he's hoping to finally settle his long-running feud with Oasis stars Noel and Liam Gallagher when they are all brought together for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month.
Phil Collins is hoping to finally settle his long-running feud with Noel and Liam Gallagher in November.
The Genesis star has been at odds with the Oasis brothers since the 1990s when Noel described Phil as "the antichrist of music" and declared he wanted to have the musician's "severed head" in his fridge "by the end of this decade". Now the warring musicians are being brought together as inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month - and Phil is hoping a pre-ceremony lunch will allow him to speak to the Gallaghers and put the bad blood behind them.
He told The Observer newspaper: "There’s a lunch that happens before the ceremony. Just the inductees and a guest. So I will get a chance to be in a small room with them [the Gallagher brothers] ...
"[I've got] nothing against them. The whole thing [feud] has got to comical levels … I’m sure they’ll brush it off, as if nothing happened."
The musician addeed: "I’m soft as a person. Musically, I’m not edgy. I would be everything that Noel and Liam would probably dislike. So, I understand it.
"But it’s got a life of its own now. So, yeah, we’ll see."
Back in 1994 Noel Gallagher previously declared he was planning to "get rid" of both Phil Collins and Sting, saying: "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.
"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."
Several years later in 1997, Noel took another shot at the Genesis star by urging UK voters to back Labour in the 1997 election to ensure Collins would not move back to Britain from his adopted home in Switzerland.
Noel told the Guardian newspaper: "If the Conservatives get in, Phil Collins is threatening to come back and live here. And let's face it, none of us want that."
Collins also hit back at the band, calling them "rude" and "horrible" while his actress daughter Lily Collins is said to have confronted singer Liam Gallagher over the feud when she met him backstage as a teenager at the Live Earth charity concert in 2007.
Lily is believed to have asked Liam: "Why do you hate my dad?" and Liam is said to have replied: "I don’t hate anybody, love."
Noel later opened up about the meeting and claimed Lily got the brothers mixed up.
He told The Times’ Saturday Review: "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****** go at our dad?’ When I heard about it I thought: 'I really hope someone filmed it.'
"Anyway, f*** Liam. And f*** Phil Collins and all."
