“We’ve become kind of mates”: the musician Liam Gallagher called “the coolest geezer ever”

Liam Gallagher has praised Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown as “the coolest geezer ever”, describing the pair as having become mates. The story presents their connection as an example of working-class musicians earning wide recognition while retaining an identity often dismissed as “lowbrow”.

In a 2008 interview with Rolling Stone, Gallagher said meeting Brown was another way to measure success. He also pointed to the records Oasis had sold and to the pleasure of being approached by fans, arguing that those encounters mattered to him. The article places Oasis and the Stone Roses among Manchester bands whose music reached audiences beyond their working-class roots.