Liam Gallagher: 'I Had Nothing To Do With New Beady Album Title'

Manchester rocker Liam Gallagher has confessed that he didn’t really want to call the new Beady Eye album ‘BE’ - but was pretty much forced to buy the heads of the band’s label.

Liam isn’t particularly a fan of the new album’s title, and had another name in mind - ‘Universal Gleam’. But, after being outnumbered by label heads (and the rest of the band!) he was given no choice but to go ahead with ‘BE’.

He told NME:

“[The title] is nothing to do with me. I wanted to call it 'Universal Gleam'. But at [their label] Columbia, a lot of people got their knickers in a twist, putting out a record called 'Universal Gleam' when we're not on [the label] Universal. So yeah, it's 'BE'. 'BE'. 'BE' who you are. 'BE' whatever you fucking want to be. 'BE'. Fucking bumble-'BE'. I find that a bit more hippy-ish than fucking 'Universal Gleam'.”

The magazine then asked what the idea behind ‘Universal Gleam’ was - to which he replied:

“'Universal Gleam' was when John [Lennon] and George [Harrison] met up with [Beatles publicist] Derek Taylor when Brian Epstein died. They went to meet him and he just said that they had a universal gleam about them. I wanted to call it that, but other people were going, 'No no no', so I went, 'Look, call it what you fucking want’.”

Beady Eye release their sophomore record on June 10th this summer, and have lined-up a trio of gigs the same month where you can catch them performing their new material - as well as fan favourites from their first. If you want Beady Eye tickets, check the dates and links below.

Beady Eye UK Tour Dates are as follows

Wed June 19th 2013 - The Ritz, Manchester
Thu June 20th 2013 - Camden Centre, London
Sat June 22nd 2013 - O2 ABC, Glasgow

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