Oasis split in 2009 but it didn’t stop the musicians from embarking on separate careers
Noel Gallagher
Noel, now 56, was the last to join the group in 1993, with Liam originally asking him to manage them, which he refused.
It was Noel who walked away from the remaining members of the band in 2009, following a spat with Liam at Rock en Seine festival in Paris.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds are enjoying enormous success, releasing their fourth album in June 2023.
Noel shares a daughter Anais, 24, with Meg Mathews and sons Donovan, 17, and Sonny, 14, with Sara MacDonald.
Liam Gallagher
Liam topped the album charts just last month, with a collaboration with John Squire, and has also enjoyed solo No. 1 albums
He has also won plaudits for his solo efforts since Oasis was wound up, including 2017 album As You Were.
Liam’s solo career took off following the demise of the post-Oasis outfit, Beady Eye.
The singer, who blames brother Noel for calling time on the band after a bust-up in 2009, said that if Noel sent him a “box of choccies”, he would forgive him.
He is happily married to wife Debbie Gwyther, after several high profile divorces from All Saints singer Nicole Appleton, who he shares son Gene, 22, and Patsy Kensit, who he shares son Lennon, 24.
He also has a daughter Molly Moorish, 26, from a previous relationship with Lisa Moorish.
Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan
Guigsy was the group’s bassist from 1991 to 1999, although he briefly quit the group in 1995 due to exhaustion, and was replaced on bass for the video accompanying Oasis’ hit Wonderwall.
Guigsy was notoriously quiet member of the group, once described as a “calming influence” on the Gallaghers – besides an occasion in 1994 when he and Liam were locked in a cell on a ferry travelling to Amsterdam for getting into a bust-up on board, before being deported back to the UK from Holland.
n 1999, Guigsy quit the group along with Bonehead, to spend more time with his family after his wife Ruth gave birth to their first son Patrick while he was on the Be Here Now tour.
Now living quietly with his family outside London, he occasionally DJs.
But he stays out of the limelight and declined to participate in the 2004 Definitely Maybe DVD, or the 2016 Supersonic documentary.
Tony McCarroll
Just a year after Definitely Maybe’s release, drummer Tony left the group in a bitter breakup while they recorded What’s the Story Morning Glory?
Noel reportedly said: “I like Tony as a geezer but he wouldn’t have been able to drum the new songs.”
Tony attempted to sue Oasis for £18m, but in 1999 it was settled out of court for a six-figure sum. Tony said he “got drunk for three whole years” as the court case dragged on.
In 2019, McCarroll went to a party for the Oasis documentary “Supersonic,” where he had a fond reunion with Liam.
In 2021, he suffered a heart attack and praised the NHS for helping him recover.
In 2022, he got married to wife Sue, who he lives in Manchester with, and works as a guest speaker, presenter and podcaster.
Paul Arthurs aka Bonehead
In April 2022, Bonehead was diagnosed with tonsil cancer but announced months later that it had “gone” after a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
He quit Oasis in 1999 following a spat with Noel, and to spend more time with his family.
His two children, Lucy, 28, and Jude, 25, were just four and one when he walked away.
Bonehead was replaced by Gem Archer, and went on to perform with Liam in Beady Eye during the 2010s.
