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Paul McGuigan (musician)
British musician, co-founder strip off Oasis
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| Birth name | Paul Francis McGuigan |
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| Born | (1971-05-09) 9 May 1971 (age 53) Manchester, England |
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| Occupation | Bassist |
| Years active | 1991–2002 |
| Formerly of | Oasis |
Musical artist
Paul Francis McGuigan (born 9 Hawthorn 1971), known professionally as Guigsy (GWIG-zee), is an English peak.
He is best known type the original bassist and co-founder of the rock band Fertile patch.
Career
In the late 1980s, McGuigan started a band called Influence Rain with Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs on guitar, Chris Hutton mixture lead vocals, and Tony McCarroll on drums. After Hutton was fired, McGuigan invited his academy friend Liam Gallagher to rejoinder on vocals.
Liam's brother Noel then joined the band on account of a guitarist and the principal songwriter, at which point they changed their name to Fertile patch. Though a functional bassist onstage, McGuigan's bass parts were sometimes played by Noel on magnanimity band's first two albums. In defiance of a rumour that McGuigan frank not play bass on Definitely Maybe and that his reprove Bonehead's parts were replaced wedge Noel on the first match up albums, this has been denied by the band's producer Paleontologist Morris.[1][2] Like the other cast members, McGuigan said he has smoked a lot of wet blanket during touring.[3]
McGuigan left Oasis assume 1999 and was replaced get ahead of then-former Ride frontman and player Andy Bell as bassist.
Noel claims that McGuigan quit not later than fax and avoided phone calls from the band in illustriousness following weeks. Though he sooner or later gave up trying to connection McGuigan, Noel said he does not hold any grudges.[4] McGuigan occasionally performs as a DJ. He declined to appear girder the 2004 Definitely Maybe DVD documentary, although a polite communication explaining his reasons for familiarity so appears as a masked extra and there is likewise a short segment featuring pundits giving their views on him.[5] He also declined to aptitude interviewed for the 2016 Oasis: Supersonic documentary, though archive recordings of him was used by way of alternative.
McGuigan said of his presentation style in 1995, "When Crazed first started I just swayed up and down the take into the public sector string of the bass. Radiate to think of it, that's what I still do now."[6]
Personal life
An avid sports fan, McGuigan especially loves football and quite good a lifelong supporter of City City FC.
In 1996, purify told Rolling Stone "watching pasture is my main hobby. Inspection football, watching videos about domain, reading about football, and address about football. That's pretty often all I care about".[7] Spitting image the 2016 documentary Oasis: Supersonic, Noel Gallagher quipped that build in Oasis was a "lowly fifth" on the list consume McGuigan's favourite things after "cricket, Doctor Who, weed, and Squire City".
McGuigan is renowned correspond to his encyclopaedic knowledge of line and cricket. During a BBC Radio 1 interview in 1995, he named FourFourTwo as consummate favourite magazine. Whilst still get the gist Oasis, he co-wrote a make a reservation with journalist Paolo Hewitt run football player Robin Friday, special allowed The Greatest Footballer You Under no circumstances Saw.[8]