Liam Gallagher has spoken out after being told he needs a double hip replacement following his arthritis diagnosis.
The former Oasis frontman and outspoken Manc – who was diagnosed with arthritis in 2019, two years after being diagnosed with a voice-affecting thyroid condition known as Hashimoto’s disease – has revealed in a recent interview that he is in agony every day.
He said that he has even been forced to stop running, and use herbal tablets and Deep Heat in order to rest and fall asleep at night.
Front the June 2022 cover of MoJo magazine, Gallagher told the publication in an exclusive interview: “My hips are f**ed, I’ve got arthritis bad… I went to get it checked out and my bones are mashed up.
“The lady was going, ‘Oh, you might need a hip operation, a replacement.'”
Explaining how bad condition can get sometimes, Gallagher continued: “When the weather’s cold, my hips are like snap, crackle and pop. I need warmth. I can’t sleep at night for the pain. Tossing and turning.
“So I’m on herbal sleeping tablets and they’ve saved my life. One of them, seven hours out, no pain, nothing.”
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Despite this diagnosis and being in constant pain however, Gallagher went on to say that he was not comfortable having the operation he has been told he needs, and it’s all due to the “stigma” around hip replacements.
The surgery Gallagher has been told he could have would include replacing the damaged hip joint with a prosthetic impact, followed by a six-week recovery period, but the singer said he would rather use a wheelchair and live with the pain than have an operation.
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Liam Gallagher said he’d “rather be in pain” than have a double hip replacement / Credit: Wikimedia Commons
He explained: “I think I’d rather just be in pain. Which is ridiculous, obviously. I know that. Just get them fixed.
“But it’s the stigma, saying you’ve had your hips replaced. What’s next?”
Gallagher rounded out the interview discussing the future and giving his thoughts on death, adding: “But we’re all going to die, aren’t we? Or are we already dead? I’m not afraid of death, whatever it is. Why should you be? It’s going to happen anyway.
“I’m going to just keep doing what I do until I die. Or I’m reborn and turn into a wasp. Or a butterfly. Or turn into a packet of Scampi f***ing Fries.”
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Huge queues form in Manchester as Molly-Mae Hague hands out free coffees and cookies
Daisy Jackson
Hundreds of people have flocked into Manchester city centre for a chance to meet super-influencer Molly-Mae Hague in the flesh.
The 25-year-old former Love Island star is hosting a pop-up for her fashion brand Maebe.
And after briefly promoting it on her Instagram stories to her 8.5m followers, the crowds have formed fast.
Molly-Mae herself is in Manchester handing out free coffees and cookies to celebrate International Women’s Day.
The Maebe coffee truck and pop-up structure are in Lincoln Square, just past the Town Hall.
Fans of the star (who are, yes, mostly female) have been queueing for several hours ahead of the pop-up opening at 10am.
Many have been posing for selfies and chatting to a beaming Molly-Mae after collecting their free treats.
There are also film crews in attendance, who it’s believed are filming for the second instalment of her upcoming documentary, Molly-Mae: Behind It All.
She launched her brand Maebe last September, pitched as offering accessible luxury fashion.
Previous Maebe pop-ups have only taken place in London, despite Molly-Mae living in the north west.
The queues are still raging in Manchester for the pop-up, if anyone was planing to head down.
The 1975 set to release live album of ‘Still… At Their Very Best’ Manchester show at AO Arena
Danny Jones
The 1975 are releasing a live album version of 2024’s ‘Still… At Their Very Best’ tour show at the AO Arena in Manchester.
As someone who was there in the flesh, trust us, it’s a performance worth reliving.
With the Wilmslow-formed Manc adoptees looking like they might be gearing up for another album cycle, not to mention being named as one of the headliners on the 2025 Glastonbury lineup, it seems as though they break from the spotlight is coming to an end.
It’s been two years and a half years since they dropped their last album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language, but they’ve been touring around the world pretty much ever since and now they’ve decided to press one of their concert highlights onto vinyl.
As you can see, perhaps the most striking thing about the upcoming live LP is the artwork for it. Although we can’t put our finger on exactly where it is, the imagery looks to be taken from a housing estate somewhere nearby.
To be honest, it wouldn’t matter whether it was in Greater Manchester or somewhere in their home county of Cheshire, for that matter: there’s just undeniably familiar and undeniably Northern-looking about the whole thing.
How on Earth they’ve managed to look something so normal and mundane somehow poetic and interesting we’ll never know, all we can guarantee is that the recordings pulled for this latest release are guaranteed to be brilliant.
Following the first world tour of their critically acclaimed fifth record, we waxed lyrical over the performance and after witnessing the evolution of that admittedly barmy live set all over again just over a year later, we went so far as to dub them among “some of the best performers on the planet”.
The only dilemma we have is deciding which one we prefer more: January 2023 or February 2024. Having said that, one did include a very special surprise guest…
We’re standing by that claim we made above, by the way; maybe it’s because of just how good that Manchester energy was and exactly why The 1975 boys have decided not just to document it but immortalise that particular gig as a live album.
Not only was it their de facto homecoming gig following a gargantuan world tour, but as it was the second iteration of that first ‘At Their Very Best’ show, the chances were it was always going to get better and more refined.
The setlist included the typical title track opening, ‘Looking For Somebody To Love’, ‘Happiness’, ‘Part Of The Band’ and ‘Oh Caroline’; ‘Robbers’, ‘Fallingforyou’, ‘Somebody Else’, ‘Chocolate’, ‘I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)’, ‘People’ and many more.
You can find the full tracklist and pre-order The 1975 ‘Still… At Their Very Best live album, taken directly from the AO Arena performance in Manchester, right HERE.
The cover for The 1975 Manchester live album and the moments it captures. (Credit: Dirty Hit/Audio North)
Emily Sergeant -
20th April 2022 
