Liam Gallagher is worried a song on his new album is going to get him cancelled because it’s about Moscow.
The former Oasis star’s tune, Moscow Rules features on his third solo LP, C’Mon, You Know out May 27, and was penned before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Understandably Liam is a bit concerned it might look like he supports Russia.
The rocker explained: “It’s nothing to do with ‘Moscow is cool, or it rules’, it’s not pro Moscow, you know what I mean.
“The timing is a bit sh*tty, but when people hear it they’ll realise it is what it is and it’s nothing to do with that.”
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Liam can’t re-record the tune or change the lyrics because the album was finished before the war started, and everything has already been pressed at manufacturing.
He added: “If people really kick up a storm about it and they don’t want it then just don’t f***ing listen to it, you know what I mean, simple as that, it’s only music, if it really upsets people then I guess we can bin it off, it’s not a problem.”
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Moscow Rules was written with another famous rocker – Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig.
Liam told 94.5 The Buzz: “Andrew Wyatt, the guy that I write the songs with, he said, ‘Listen, I’ve got this tune that the guy out of Vampire Weekend wrote which is called Moscow Rules’.
“Now this is way before all this stuff that is happening, so I go, ‘Oh, this sounds a bit strange, a bit odd let’s have a listen.’
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“So we played it and I thought, ‘It’s pretty out there man,’ so we cracked on with it and then a couple of months later Ezra popped up and I’d never met him before, nice lad, so that’s how that happened.”
At least it won’t be huge in Russia as hardly any new Western music is available over there.
Following orders from Vladimir Putin, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 2022.
Prior to the invasion, Putin, who sees Ukraine as historically part of Russia, announced in a televised address that a ‘special military operation’ would take place.
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