20 years ago Liam Gallagher lost his teeth in a fight in Munich 20 years ago Liam Gallagher lost his teeth in a fight in Munich

Oasis star Liam Gallagher arrives back in the UK at Heathrow Airport after allegedly assaulting a German police officer during an arrest at a posh Munich hotel.  The rock star could face up to two years in prison...

Picture this: it’s December 2002, you’re a huge Oasis fan. Can’t wait to see your favorite British band live in Germany soon; After all, you have been looking forward to the concert for almost half a year. And then comes the bad news:

European tour cancelled; Singer Liam Gallagher lost his front teeth in a fight in Munich.

Riots in the noble hotel

Oasis stays in Munich in the traditional hotel “Bayrischer Hof”; very chic, very expensive. On the night of the incident, the band was in the hotel nightclub, some drunk, some under the influence of cocaine. It is not 100 percent clear exactly how the fight came about. The NZZ reports that Gallagher banged on the table of Italian tourists, Gallagher himself claiming they threw a glass table at him.

However, the situation escalates. Fists fly, according to Gallagher, “most of the furniture turns to kindling”. The staff just manages to get the brawlers out of the club. However, that doesn’t stop them from continuing to beat them up: now just at the entrance.

It’s enough for the operators, the police are called. This comes in large numbers: 80 agents appear at the event. And that is also necessary, because the band members bang with barrier irons.

When he tries to arrest Gallagher, he kicks a police officer in the chest with full force, The Guardian reports. He himself loses his incisors in the scramble. We don’t know exactly how that happened. But Gallagher has a suspicion: the police knocked him unconscious and then pulled his teeth out with pliers. Or as he put it:

“If I punched you in the mouth, you’d think you had a fat lip, wouldn’t you? I didn’t have a fat lip. I was still whistling while I was working, mate. Here’s what I think happened: it all went wrong after I kicked a cop somewhere in the fucking lobby, I guess, because after that I woke up in the fucking nickname. So I think they hit me on the head in the back of the goddamn van and I think later they just went, “Fuck you, motherfucker.” Because they are completely pulled out perfectly. They said, ‘Oh, when you came up the stairs, you tripped and they hit it.’ But they would be broken, wouldn’t they? You don’t fucking want them to fall out like that. And I woke up in a prison cell, handcuffed, no teeth, but I could still” – he whistles – “and no other marks on me. So I go: they ripped the hell out of them because I did one of their dudes, that’s what happened there.

tour cancelled

The band members involved spend the night in the not-so-noble state hotel «Zelle». The “Wonderwall” musicians are released on bail of only 240,000 euros. Noel Gallagher, Liam’s brother and band manager, who was in his room at the time of the fight, is outraged by the action and calls off the rest of the concerts in Germany. The German judiciary is investigating Liam for physical injury, but drops the case after paying 50,000 euros.

And the teeth? Gallagher can have it remade in London for over 30,000 francs. But even the new smile couldn’t save the band from the slow downward spiral. Subsequent albums were commercially successful, but not on the same level as the successes of the 1990s. In 2009 it was finally over, the band broke up; not least because of the long-running dispute between the Gallagher brothers

Today, Liam Solo is on stage – and he can face his fans with full teeth again.

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Carl Philippe Frank

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