Oasis: What's The Story?: Life on tour with Liam and Noel Gallagher
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'You can only marvel at Robertson's brilliant audacity as he attacks the on-the-road-off-their-heads genre with giddy aplomb… He is either a genius or an utter madman' – NME
'Robertson's raw portrayal of Liam Gallagher makes every indiscretion you've heard about seem perfectly feasible!' - TIME OUT
Oasis were a band like bands used to be. Hard-drinking and substance abusing. If they liked you, they loved you. If they didn't, you had to be prepared for confrontation.
They were also the most viscerally exciting rock band to emerge from Britain for years.
Iain Robertson is used to tough jobs – after retiring from the Parachute Regiment, he took on jobs guarding George Harrison, Gary Moore and Johnny Rotten. But keeping Oasis on the rails after debut album Definitely Maybe ignited their rise toward global superstardom would be the toughest gig of them all.
Iain was side-by-side with Oasis as their road manager and minder, twenty-four hours a day, eight days a week, as they took on the world and won. No one was closer to the maelstrom. His story is the defining chronicle of life on tour with Oasis.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Britain's music press has christened brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, founders of U.K. sensation Oasis, this generation's Lennon and McCartney. But as with so many behind-the-scenes rock and roll tell-alls, there isn't much here to tell. Robertson, Oasis's former road manager, begins with his years of British military service and work with now faded musical celebs such as Duran Duran as he details how he got "in" with the band. While depicting himself as an upright eyewitness to all the varieties of bad-boy exploits that British editors believe sell the music weeklies, Robertson does nothing to dispel the tabloid reputation of a band regarded by many as no more than another product of British hype. More tour diary than analysis, Oasis: What's the Story? offers no real insight into the band's overwhelming popularity (not nearly so overwhelming on these shores) or artistic process: "Oasis is not in any sense a group. There is no common purpose, philosophy, or aim artistically: they're out there, a band of individuals flying solo." One chapter even offers a stream-of-consciousness recreation of the experience provided by the band ("Lion galahad reached for the naked microphone that shivered unprotected") which may require chemical enhancement to work properly. As a babysitter and chaperone for the incoherent and the famous, a road manager requires a certain fatuous admiration for his charges, and Robertson clearly has the requisite temperament. Publication is scheduled to coincide with the release of Oasis's latest album.
