I hitchhiked from Middlesbrough to Nottingham to watch them and I had 50p in my pocket..they fed me and sorted me a band t shirt out..then end of the night I had beers with them in there tour mini bus as they headed back to Liverpool they didn’t want me hitchhiking home early hrs so they took me back to Liverpool showed me where some Beatles once lived,gave me a show around there studio then Chris gave me his bed in his flat and went to his mams house round the corner …he forgot he put me up for the night..he rang his house fone at 2pm…telling me to pick the fone up on the answer machine…then he dropped me off at train station and payed my fare back to Middlesbrough…true story mate..I’ve seen em since all over the country for years..they’ve always been open arms..top top lads…I now play drums to a good standard …i write choons play guitar..harmonica..they’re 1 of me many influences..they got me into wanting to play and write music from the start
What a lovely modest bloke. Me n my brother - same age gap - started our band Big White Stairs end of 80s early 90s and finished in 97 after many managers, self releases, everyone telling us we were the next big thing. When it combusted it left some permanent scars for a few members. Today I play in 2 bands, teach and play more than I ever did when it was all about impressing a n r guys or trying to 2nd guess the next 'thing'. The music is always there even when the success isnt. Got to say that real people tunes just have special something.
I’ve just listened to your song ‘Think It Over’ on here mate, it’s a decent tune! It’s a shame it never fully worked out but at least you’re enjoying and playing again now!
Great interview..An eye opener..I saw The Real People in the early / mid 90s at The Borderline , off Charing Cross Road (Long gone now) and their sound was awesome ..
Great interview! You asked some really good questions! Love hearing Chris talk, seems like a genuine guy, can't wait to see the Realies later in the year. When he's talking about Noel, you can see he's trying hard not to come across as bitter or angry. He wants to be reasonable about it. But fact is, he is absolutely within his rights to be bitter and angry. I didn't know Noel's solicitor was sending them multiple letters denying the plagiarism. I really feel for them. Noel treated them terribly for no good reason. No one would have judged Noel if he'd credited people - including his own brother. The fact that Noel promised to give credit for Columbia makes me wonder if someone was advising him against crediting?
Thank you and that’s what I wanted from this episode, for Chris, Tony and The Real people to get the credit they deserve! I think it hurts Chris more because they helped Noel and Oasis in the early days and they when they didn’t have to and they were all good mates
Great interview mate. Massive respect to the Reelies, they were there at the beginning and definitely deserve more credit with Oasis. Re Noel - his plagiarism is well documented over the years but if it was that easy as just copying other people everyone would be doing it. Noel is a genius songwriter no doubt about that. When it comes to business though, Noel is absolutely cut throat & always has been, so it doesn’t surprise his ongoing attitude with the Reelies
“History is written by the victors” is a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill, but the Real People were the ones who wrote “The Truth”. It’s good that the truth is finally coming out about the Oasis saga.
I remember the debut in ‘91 and thought they had some tunes, mahn. When I heard Oasis I thought “That sounds like Real People!”. Shit show from Noel there.
The Griffiths and their melodies are just pure magic. What gems they have churned out over the years. As big as Oasis was worldwide, I'll tell you why Oasis never made it in America. Because Americans want to see some level of higher instrumental mastery. Songs alone just don't cut it here. And this is coming from someone who loves Noel's songwriting. Window Pane and that one solo mop the floor with every single Oasis solo. Everyone rips off the Griffiths. Listen to Hold On then listen to Skyfall. Ripping off is a form of flattery I suppose.
Great interview. Chris is modest. If you want to hear how he felt about Oasis ripping them off, listen to "What's on the Outside", which is a briliiant album. The Real People should have been as big as Oasis. At the end of the day, the Real People are better people and better musicians. Doesn't make sense.
Noel had two big things going for him....his brother a swaggering ball of charisma and ....he's a bit of a horrible c**t. He's always used people to get to the next step and not let anything hold his career back
Great interview mate with a talented and proper down to earth guy. I still love the debut self titled album by The Real People. Full of class songs from start to finish. No wonder he's pissed of with the credit issue with Columbia, Rockin' Chair and espescially 'Don't Go Away'. These are 3 of my favorite Oasis performances, especially Rockin' Chair and Don't Go Away. I never knew about the 'Don't Go Away' song credit issue before watching this. How f**king unfair is that?? Total joke. It shines a whole new light on Noel Gallagher for me. Noel has always come across as a sarcastic and 'take with a pinch of salt' kind of guy since he entered the music world to the masses with Oasis. But i always thought his arrogance in music was justified after writing so many great songs himself. Then i hear this interview with and it really pissed me off to hear how Chris got f**cked over. ......tbh, I've never been impressed by Noel's High Flying Birds since Oasis split up anyway and we all know how Liam's voice is nothing like it was. So I'm more than happy to be going to see The Real People in Birmingham in October. Life can be a bitch for sure and as an Oasis and Real People fan myself, its such a shame that things ended up like this.
I think Definitely Maybe was their best album but Morning Glory and Be Here Now are both brilliant albums. What they learnt with The Real People in those early days they’ll have remembered and stuck with after Definitely Maybe
so why didnt they write an album as good as def maybe then? where was they went noel wrote live forever , a song they recorded months after noel wrote it ? where were they when he wrote talk tonight, sad song , listen up, its good to be free champagne supernova , cast no shadow, hey now, gas panic , roll it over , shock of the lighting, i agree def maybe and those early besides was noels best era but thats common with most bands and tony played a big part in that sound ..the real people recorded some tunes with them and helped them out in ways but if you think they "had a big hand in def maybe" you're deluded , i love tonys drumming but his book is full of waffle and hes clearly bitter (and understandably so) towards noel so hes exaggerating their input ... the real people were a bog standard indie by numbers band , hence why they never got big or played knebworth so 30 years later they are trying to take credit for things they never done .. sad really
@@TheDreamer1980 If Noel is so good after Definitely Maybe then why didn’t he credit Chris and The Real People to begin with? Then we wouldn’t be having this chat. I love Noel as much as the next person, however - Noel is an egomaniac. And selling millions of records means nothing - Black Lice sold millions of copies of “Agadoo”! And Noel only rates the first album - he’s said that many times, google that. And not everybody’s first album is their best - are you tripping? And trust me on this one - Noel’s Knighthood is coming, and he wants it as well.
@@edwardmulholland7912 nah mate , if you didn't leave such a ridiculous comment we wouldn't be having this conversation .. noel might be an egomaniac but he owes them nothing and all the stuff you listed is lovely but it doesnt change the fact def maybe was noels .. so if a architect designs a house , gets his hands dirty building it , builds it up to the roof , puts in all the carpets , then someone else paints the front door they deserve credit ? the real people painted the front door , they deserve nothing .. your clearly jealous of a legend like noel .. next
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@@BehindTheCurtainPodcast- yeah they really did it justice with the right spirit...their own tunes are truly brilliant. when they do their album it will be up there as one of the best debuts EVER!!! they deffo have IT!
Noel Gallagher. A thief in his younger days and a thief in his professional days. The list of songs he stole is staggering and a chancerr if ever there was one that was right place right time
If it was that easy you should done it? They have all ripped off songs over the years the Beatles were ripping American music off till they wrote rubber soul. The stones and zeppelin American blues the who the same I could go on. Noel is a magpie takes things from people and alot time makes they Great his own. He has insane talent for writing tunes
@@michaelmulhall5007 never said it was easy and I said I’m a fan of his, I know he can write good songs but I’m saying he has stole a lot from other people over the years
He certainly was and is a thief but he's written way too many incredible songs of his own accord to say he's chancer. You're kinda implying he has no talent as well, and that's simply not true. He's just a talented guy who is both lazy and arrogant and that combination means he doesn't care if he steals things.
@michaelmulhall5007 he's a horrible, narcissistic self absorbed little gitt. He wrote a bunch of good songs in the 90s and that was it . The people he fkd over to get his own way is disgraceful. Ask Tony mccarroll , the real people and even his own brother, who he flung on the scrap heap. There's a reason he's playing 6th 7th on the bill at 2bit festivals nowadays. The guy couldn't hold a light to the paul weller's of this world in terms of solo material.
On noels plagiarism only Neil innes could be bothered to sue for pinching how to be an idiot (Monty python linked tune). I think somebody must have told him there was a chance of winning before he took creation/Sony on. Like me noel must've heard it on the TV and radio as a child and the earworm was embedded
Yeah mate, from what I’ve heard/read before it was meant to be on the album Morning Glory but it got dropped to a b side because Stevie Wonder wanted a cut of royalties
I hitchhiked from Middlesbrough to Nottingham to watch them and I had 50p in my pocket..they fed me and sorted me a band t shirt out..then end of the night I had beers with them in there tour mini bus as they headed back to Liverpool they didn’t want me hitchhiking home early hrs so they took me back to Liverpool showed me where some Beatles once lived,gave me a show around there studio then Chris gave me his bed in his flat and went to his mams house round the corner …he forgot he put me up for the night..he rang his house fone at 2pm…telling me to pick the fone up on the answer machine…then he dropped me off at train station and payed my fare back to Middlesbrough…true story mate..I’ve seen em since all over the country for years..they’ve always been open arms..top top lads…I now play drums to a good standard …i write choons play guitar..harmonica..they’re 1 of me many influences..they got me into wanting to play and write music from the start
That’s a class story mate!
Great interview mate, big eye opener about oasis! Chris seems a really nice bloke
Thank you Tom! I’m hoping from this episode that Chris and Tony get more recognition for their hand in helping Oasis
What a lovely modest bloke. Me n my brother - same age gap - started our band Big White Stairs end of 80s early 90s and finished in 97 after many managers, self releases, everyone telling us we were the next big thing. When it combusted it left some permanent scars for a few members. Today I play in 2 bands, teach and play more than I ever did when it was all about impressing a n r guys or trying to 2nd guess the next 'thing'. The music is always there even when the success isnt. Got to say that real people tunes just have special something.
I’ve just listened to your song ‘Think It Over’ on here mate, it’s a decent tune! It’s a shame it never fully worked out but at least you’re enjoying and playing again now!
wow LOVED Big White Stairs. wish you had more records out!!!
Brilliant interview. Fingers crossed for a new album this year🤞
Thank you! A new album would be brilliant!
Brilliant band and top lads as well..always go to the gigs and it’s always mint
Exactly mate, they’re class
Great interview..An eye opener..I saw The Real People in the early / mid 90s at The Borderline , off Charing Cross Road (Long gone now) and their sound was awesome ..
I bet that was a great gig! They’re a brilliant band, very underrated
Great interview - good to see the younguns still interested in classic music
Thank you! Can’t beat great music mate!
Outstanding band the real people
Great listening to Chris, what a legend.
Great interview! You asked some really good questions! Love hearing Chris talk, seems like a genuine guy, can't wait to see the Realies later in the year. When he's talking about Noel, you can see he's trying hard not to come across as bitter or angry. He wants to be reasonable about it. But fact is, he is absolutely within his rights to be bitter and angry. I didn't know Noel's solicitor was sending them multiple letters denying the plagiarism. I really feel for them. Noel treated them terribly for no good reason. No one would have judged Noel if he'd credited people - including his own brother. The fact that Noel promised to give credit for Columbia makes me wonder if someone was advising him against crediting?
Thank you and that’s what I wanted from this episode, for Chris, Tony and The Real people to get the credit they deserve! I think it hurts Chris more because they helped Noel and Oasis in the early days and they when they didn’t have to and they were all good mates
Great interview thanks guys respect
Nice one, cheers!
Met Chris & his Brother yrs ago in a pub in liverpool they were Performing..... 2 top lads 😊😊😊
Chris was brilliant, Tony seems sound too!
Liam was singing the rap off Columbia do you remember it Chris something about Norris green it’s epic ?
great interview, great channel....just discovered it....keep it up.👍
Thank you Paul, massively appreciated 🙌
surprised some of the other vids are low views, people will catch up don't worry....
Great interview 👍
Thank you Mark!
Great interview with some new interesting insights and a great guest. I’d love to have a pint with Chris
Thank you mate, he’s a great fella Chris with brilliant and interesting stories
Great interview mate. Massive respect to the Reelies, they were there at the beginning and definitely deserve more credit with Oasis. Re Noel - his plagiarism is well documented over the years but if it was that easy as just copying other people everyone would be doing it. Noel is a genius songwriter no doubt about that. When it comes to business though, Noel is absolutely cut throat & always has been, so it doesn’t surprise his ongoing attitude with the Reelies
Thank you mate and yeah I agree with everything you’ve said there
“History is written by the victors” is a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill, but the Real People were the ones who wrote “The Truth”.
It’s good that the truth is finally coming out about the Oasis saga.
As much as I like Oasis and a big fan of theirs, I just feel that The Real People deserve the recognition for what they did
Seems a top lad does Chris. Great interview
Chris is great mate and thank you!
Brilliant young ‘un, top interview.
We need The Realies back up in Jockland. Fucking live for for The Real People🏴💪🍷🤩🤩🤩💚
Thank you! Great band aren’t they!
great band the real people, ive got all three sums albums and they are great too
I remember the debut in ‘91 and thought they had some tunes, mahn. When I heard Oasis I thought “That sounds like Real People!”. Shit show from Noel there.
The Griffiths and their melodies are just pure magic. What gems they have churned out over the years.
As big as Oasis was worldwide, I'll tell you why Oasis never made it in America. Because Americans want to see some level of higher instrumental mastery. Songs alone just don't cut it here. And this is coming from someone who loves Noel's songwriting. Window Pane and that one solo mop the floor with every single Oasis solo.
Everyone rips off the Griffiths. Listen to Hold On then listen to Skyfall. Ripping off is a form of flattery I suppose.
Great interview. Chris is modest. If you want to hear how he felt about Oasis ripping them off, listen to "What's on the Outside", which is a briliiant album. The Real People should have been as big as Oasis. At the end of the day, the Real People are better people and better musicians. Doesn't make sense.
Thank you mate! I’m a big fan of both bands but yeah The Real People should have been huge
Noel had two big things going for him....his brother a swaggering ball of charisma and ....he's a bit of a horrible c**t. He's always used people to get to the next step and not let anything hold his career back
Might try get to Leeds or see in Liverpool on Sundays
Nice one mate!
Another quality interview. 34:43 😂😂
That was funny that 🤣
From the Bootle pubs to support for Simple Minds. Saw them a good few times. top band.
One by one is a great song.
Great interview mate with a talented and proper down to earth guy. I still love the debut self titled album by The Real People. Full of class songs from start to finish. No wonder he's pissed of with the credit issue with Columbia, Rockin' Chair and espescially 'Don't Go Away'. These are 3 of my favorite Oasis performances, especially Rockin' Chair and Don't Go Away. I never knew about the 'Don't Go Away' song credit issue before watching this. How f**king unfair is that?? Total joke. It shines a whole new light on Noel Gallagher for me. Noel has always come across as a sarcastic and 'take with a pinch of salt' kind of guy since he entered the music world to the masses with Oasis. But i always thought his arrogance in music was justified after writing so many great songs himself. Then i hear this interview with and it really pissed me off to hear how Chris got f**cked over. ......tbh, I've never been impressed by Noel's High Flying Birds since Oasis split up anyway and we all know how Liam's voice is nothing like it was. So I'm more than happy to be going to see The Real People in Birmingham in October. Life can be a bitch for sure and as an Oasis and Real People fan myself, its such a shame that things ended up like this.
Thanks mate, he’s a great guy is Chris! That debut album is brilliant, their 1988 mini LP is too!
Feel the Pain is a better song than Don't Go Away.
Which song did Cher cover?
Great channel!
Thank you mate! The song Cher covered is called One By One
I'm dumb and American and needed subtitles hahaha.
I always thought that Chris had a big hand in writing the first Oasis album. Noel never made another album as good as Definitely Maybe - funny that.
I think Definitely Maybe was their best album but Morning Glory and Be Here Now are both brilliant albums. What they learnt with The Real People in those early days they’ll have remembered and stuck with after Definitely Maybe
so why didnt they write an album as good as def maybe then? where was they went noel wrote live forever , a song they recorded months after noel wrote it ? where were they when he wrote talk tonight, sad song , listen up, its good to be free champagne supernova , cast no shadow, hey now, gas panic , roll it over , shock of the lighting, i agree def maybe and those early besides was noels best era but thats common with most bands and tony played a big part in that sound ..the real people recorded some tunes with them and helped them out in ways but if you think they "had a big hand in def maybe" you're deluded , i love tonys drumming but his book is full of waffle and hes clearly bitter (and understandably so) towards noel so hes exaggerating their input ... the real people were a bog standard indie by numbers band , hence why they never got big or played knebworth so 30 years later they are trying to take credit for things they never done .. sad really
@@TheDreamer1980
If Noel is so good after Definitely Maybe then why didn’t he credit Chris and The Real People to begin with? Then we wouldn’t be having this chat. I love Noel as much as the next person, however - Noel is an egomaniac. And selling millions of records means nothing - Black Lice sold millions of copies of “Agadoo”! And Noel only rates the first album - he’s said that many times, google that. And not everybody’s first album is their best - are you tripping?
And trust me on this one - Noel’s Knighthood is coming, and he wants it as well.
@@edwardmulholland7912 nah mate , if you didn't leave such a ridiculous comment we wouldn't be having this conversation .. noel might be an egomaniac but he owes them nothing and all the stuff you listed is lovely but it doesnt change the fact def maybe was noels .. so if a architect designs a house , gets his hands dirty building it , builds it up to the roof , puts in all the carpets , then someone else paints the front door they deserve credit ? the real people painted the front door , they deserve nothing .. your clearly jealous of a legend like noel .. next
@@TheDreamer1980
You’re hilarious! Is that the best you reply with? lol. Get back in your box “mate’
Glad to see The Real People giving love and support still to new and up coming bands...
Get to the O2 and see the BEST thing to happen to music in YEARS.... The Kowloons!!
This band ARE the FUTURE!!!!!
www.youtube.com/@thekowloons
I’ll check them out mate 👍
@@BehindTheCurtainPodcast- if your not blown away by them i'll be amazed!!!! let me know...
They’re great mate! I’ve heard their Fishing Net cover before, which is brilliant!
@@BehindTheCurtainPodcast- yeah they really did it justice with the right spirit...their own tunes are truly brilliant. when they do their album it will be up there as one of the best debuts EVER!!! they deffo have IT!
Marsh Lane leisure gigs where boss also North Park great times 😎
I think Chris means supersonic not columbia that they were doing a jam on
Gentleman
Good band The Real People. Chris basically taught Liam how to sing! If only they’d had better haircuts they might have been a lot bigger.
They’re class mate, should have been a lot bigger! Yeah he did have a bit of an influence on Liam’s voice as well
Noel Gallagher. A thief in his younger days and a thief in his professional days. The list of songs he stole is staggering and a chancerr if ever there was one that was right place right time
I am a fan of Noel’s but I think it is fair to say he has ripped off a lot of songs
If it was that easy you should done it? They have all ripped off songs over the years the Beatles were ripping American music off till they wrote rubber soul. The stones and zeppelin American blues the who the same I could go on. Noel is a magpie takes things from people and alot time makes they Great his own. He has insane talent for writing tunes
@@michaelmulhall5007 never said it was easy and I said I’m a fan of his, I know he can write good songs but I’m saying he has stole a lot from other people over the years
He certainly was and is a thief but he's written way too many incredible songs of his own accord to say he's chancer. You're kinda implying he has no talent as well, and that's simply not true. He's just a talented guy who is both lazy and arrogant and that combination means he doesn't care if he steals things.
@michaelmulhall5007 he's a horrible, narcissistic self absorbed little gitt. He wrote a bunch of good songs in the 90s and that was it . The people he fkd over to get his own way is disgraceful. Ask Tony mccarroll , the real people and even his own brother, who he flung on the scrap heap. There's a reason he's playing 6th 7th on the bill at 2bit festivals nowadays. The guy couldn't hold a light to the paul weller's of this world in terms of solo material.
Yes noel !!!!!!!! Chief !!
Erhh roll with it wasn't no 1 it got to no 2 , some might say was there first number one which you didn't write 😂
Yeah, I made a mistake there
On noels plagiarism only Neil innes could be bothered to sue for pinching how to be an idiot (Monty python linked tune). I think somebody must have told him there was a chance of winning before he took creation/Sony on. Like me noel must've heard it on the TV and radio as a child and the earworm was embedded
I know Coca Cola sued him for half a million because he ripped off ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing’ from one of their adverts for Shakermaker
Didn’t stevie wonder get a credit for step out as wonders song uptight,everything’s alright was an “influence”
Yeah mate, from what I’ve heard/read before it was meant to be on the album Morning Glory but it got dropped to a b side because Stevie Wonder wanted a cut of royalties