The Early 1970s: Let the Feud Begin
The Gallagher brothers have admitted that they’ve been at each other’s throats pretty much since Liam was born. Noel (born in 1967) and Liam (in 1972) can be put in the “typical sibling rivalry” category (which its a subsection of “egos”), but these brothers have taken it to a whole other level.
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Noel and Liam have an older brother, too, named Paul. The brothers were born in Manchester to Irish Catholic parents. The boys didn’t have an ideal childhood, far from it, actually. If anything, it was, sadly, quite cliché. They were often beaten by their father, who was an alcoholic, but Liam didn’t get it as badly as his older brothers. As a result, Noel grew isolated, and Liam called him “the weirdo in the family.”