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Liam Gallagher's fiancée Debbie Gwyther is credited with encouraging the Oasis star to 'keep performing' after he went into 'freefall' and nearly quit music
Liam Gallagher 's fiancée Debbie Gwyther has been credited with encouraging the Oasis star to 'keep performing' - ahead of the band's highly-anticipated reunion tour.
Debbie, 40, has been in a relationship with the frontman for 10 years, after they met in 2013 when she worked as his personal assistant after taking a job with his then management company Quest.
After Liam divorced All Saints singer Nicole Appleton in 2014, the two began a relationship, going on to get engaged in 2019, when Liam proposed during a trip to the Amalfi coast in Italy.
The band - which Liam forms with his brother Noel - are back this summer with a series of reunion concerts in the UK and abroad.
And now a new book A Sound So Very Loud reveals how Liam was on the verge of moving to Majorca to retire and quit music until Debbie changed his mind.
The book was written by journalist Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain, with Ted recall ing how he met Liam in a London pub in 2016 just two years after his group Beady Eye disbanded.
Ted writes in the book in an extract shared with The Mirror: 'In the pub, over pints, Liam explained what had been going on for the past two years. He'd spent a while in freefall.'
'He had tumbled out of the bubble to such an extent that for a while, he considered jacking it all in and moving to Majorca, living 'Sexy Beast-style'
'Debbie also firmly reminded him that he was the greatest rock 'n' roll frontman of his generation, he was only 43 and there was lots of mileage left on his engine.'
According to the book, Liam then explained: 'She just told me to stop being a d**khead. She got me out the house, introduced me to new people outside my world, got me doing new things.'
It comes as Oasis brothers Liam and Noel returned to the stage together for the first time since their reunion tour was announced last year.
But rather than being the result of hours of rehearsals ahead of their first show on July 4, the brothers have recreated the look that helped solidify the Britpop movement, with a new campaign for sporting brand Adidas.
A brand new image, posted on Adidas' social media on Thursday, showed the duo dressed in specially designed pieces boasting their band's name, and was captioned: 'The band with three stripes.'
And in a three-minute advert that was broadcast on Channel 4, the 1994 Oasis anthem Live Forever can be heard, and there are scenes reminiscent of the band's early gigs, with fans dressed in new Adidas pieces boasting the band's famous logo.
A tambourine can be heard hitting ice, and Liam's voice says: 'There are days when you are in the zone, you know what I mean?
'You just stand perfectly still while there's all this chaos going on around you. Not feeling the need to join in the madness, just thinking, this is the best feeling in the world. Just absolutely still.'
Viewers then see Liam and Noel heading to the stage to play a gig, and the final shot of the ad features the pair reunited and posing together.
Taking inspiration from the styles that Oasis immortalised in the 90's - the adidas Originals x Oasis Live '25 collection features a co-branded 26-piece range of timeless adidas staples in various colours.
Prior to this campaign, the only images of Liam and Noel had been in a promotional shoot to announce the Oasis tour, sending die-hard fans of the pair into meltdown.
This may be no surprise to some, as insiders previously told the Mail that while Liam, 52, and Noel, 57, publicly buried the hatchet on their 15-year feud last year, they are still spending no time in each other's company.
It was previously reported in April that Liam and Noel landed a 'multi-million-pound deal' with Adidas, having both previously released collections with the brand.
The Oasis Live 25 tour kicks off on 4 July at Cardiff's Principality Stadium before playing sell-out gigs at Manchester's Heaton Park, Wembley Stadium in London, and Edinburgh's Murrayfield stadium.
The pair will then embark on a global tour taking in shows in Japan, Argentina, the United States and Brazil.
Oasis fans had feared they would never see the two brothers in the same room again, after they spectacularly fell out following a backstage fight in Paris in 2009.
Noel said at the time: 'I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.'
However, last August, Liam and Noel reconciled and announced Oasis were reforming for a string of stadium dates in 2025 which will net the brothers an estimated £100m payday.
It will be a much needed boost to Noel's bank balance, after his expensive £20m divorce settlement to ex-wife Sara MacDonald in 2023.
In a statement announcing the tour, Oasis said: 'The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.'
But when tickets went on sale the tour was slammed for using 'dynamic pricing' when tickets went on sale for hundreds of pounds last August.
Fans were furious after waiting up to 15 hours to get to the front of online queues.
Ticketmaster's pricing method was described as 'scandalous' after tickets for the original dates shot up from £148 to £355.
