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LIAM GALLAGHER isn’t planning on putting his feet up for long after the biblical success of Oasis’s reunion tour.

I’m told that the motor-mouthed rocker has been offered the chance to make a second record with Stone Roses guitarist John Squire.

The Manchester greats, who were at the funeral of Stone Roses bass player Mani last month, dropped their first collaborative album in March 2024.

They toured with a new band that included Joey Waronker, who ended up on drums for the Oasis reunion tour.

Insiders revealed the pals had discussed the possibility of working on a new record together if Liam could make his schedule align with John’s.

My music mole said: “Liam and John are close friends and speak regularly.

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“John has told Liam that he has a batch of songs ready to record and that he’d love to have him on board.

“Although Oasis is Liam’s priority, he doesn’t want to take a year off making music.

“Since he went solo in 2017, he has released music almost every year. Liam was proud of what he and John created in the studio and is up for a second record if he can find the time to make it work.”

Their self-titled debut album was entirely penned by John, who also played on the Stone Roses’ 1994 record Second Coming.

Despite writing songs in Oasis and as a solo artist, Liam has always maintained he is content to be a singer rather than a songwriter.

He said: “I never tried to write songs to compete with big brother or to get publishing rights.

“Sometimes, you play the guitar at home and something happens.

“You write a little song and that’s it, but I’ve never been into it. I’m not a songwriter.

“I prefer singing songs. I don’t care if I never write another song again, as long as I can sing it that’s all that matters.”

Fans are now eagerly awaiting news of Liam and Noel’s plans for the coming months.

My phone is still blowing up weekly with gossip about what’s coming next, including potential shows at the Etihad in Manchester and massive concerts at Knebworth.

There is also Steven Knight’s amazing film about Noel and Liam’s reunion, which I hope will see the light of day later this year.

Steven and his team filmed the brothers non-stop in rehearsals and on the road.

For us fans, it will be a must-watch for 2026.

BIFFY YOUNG BOOST

AFTER three decades together, Biffy Clyro’s fanbase is bigger than ever among young people.

Frontman Simon Neil said in an exclusive interview: “It’s really encouraging because for a few years – I guess the last ten – guitar music hasn’t seemed as relevant or mainstream.

“But seeing these 15 and 16-year-olds starting bands, picking up instruments and the amount of talent out there, that’s what blows us away.

“We learnt how to play music together and so many of these younger folk are so natural with it, so we feel really privileged to still be in this world and to see so much inspiring stuff coming through.”

They are fans of emerging bands including Gene Gallagher’s gritty group, called Villanelle.

Simon said: “I was speaking to Villanelle the other week and they really love their rock music.

“It was nice to chat to them and realise how much they get it. They are really coming from that American, almost grungy, kind of stuff. So I said I might go and write a tune with them.

“If anyone from a younger generation wants to work, it’s really nice to.

“There’s just so much talent.

“We can learn so much from working with someone younger, and hopefully they learn a little something from working with us.”

Miley hints at Hannah

MILEY CYRUS will mark the 20th anniversary of the role that launched her to stardom – Hannah Montana.

The singer is planning to celebrate the milestone of Disney’s TV show about a teenager who lived a double life as a popstar.

Miley looked chic in a black suit and open shirt as she appeared at the Palm Springs Film Festival over the weekend, along with Paul Mescal and Kate Hudson and said of the plans: “We’re working hard on them.”
She added: “Many new things are coming.

“The next few months will be focused on Avatar until the end of March, when we’ll shift our focus to Hannah Montana.”

On the role that made her the youngest person to be recognised as a Disney Legend in 2024, Miley said: “A lot of my time right now is being spent on how I can honour Hannah.

“Without Hannah, there wouldn’t be this, this me. It’s still crazy to think I started as a character I thought was going to be impossible to shed.”

PISTOLS HOLOGRAM IS VICIOUS FOR GLEN

SEX PISTOLS rocker Glen Matlock doesn’t want the band to ever become holograms – because he’d be ditched for Sid Vicious.

Glen was the original bass player in the punk group and co-wrote ten of the 12 songs on the band’s only official album, Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols.

But he left the band in 1977 to be replaced by Sid. Glen’s bandmate Steve Jones is keen to see the Pistols become holograms, just like the Abba Voyage show, and has told Glen that any AI version would see Sid back in the band.

Glen said: “I’ve had the discussion with Steve and he thinks it’s a good idea.

“And I said, ‘The thing is, Steve, you’ll probably do Sid, won’t you?’. And he said, ‘Well, yeah, that’s true’.”

JENNIFER STANDS UP FOR FANS

JENNIFER LOPEZ is making sure nothing stops fans having a good time at her Las Vegas residency.

J-Lo is in a run of shows at Caesars Palace at The Colosseum, and has put up a sign telling crowds she actively wants them to stand and dance.

Adele famously paused one of her shows at the same venue after staff repeatedly told one fan to sit down during her concert.

The furious star warned them to leave him alone and let him dance, saying the enthusiastic fan had been “bothered all night”.

It seems J-Lo does not want a repeat, with signs reading: “Please be advised that our guests are permitted and encouraged to stand during the performance.”

Good for her.

EX-FUN Lovin’ Criminals frontman Huey Morgan has joined Virgin Radio UK from BBC 6 Music.

He will host weekend mornings from 10am until 2pm, kicking off this Saturday.

The lovely Emma B is also coming to the station alongside Ana Matronic, who takes over Saturday nights from 6pm to 10pm.

MOLOTOV DUO’S LIFE ON TOUR

THE MOLOTOVS have today released their new single, Get A Life.

The track is taken from their upcoming album, Wasted On Youth.

Siblings Matt and Issey Cartlidge dropped the song as they gear up for a massive month of gigs, kicking off at King Tut’s in Glasgow tomorrow.

The rockers, who count Blondie, The Libertines and Iggy Pop among their fans, will then play shows across the UK, including in Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Southampton, Cardiff and London.

The Molotovs are one of the most exciting bands I’ve seen live in yonks.

So if you get a chance to check them out, it’s well worth the price of a ticket.

COLDPLAY £2BN GIGS

COLDPLAY are officially the biggest British earners on the road since the start of the millennium.

Chris Martin and his band have now taken almost £2billion from their tours across the world.

New stats from Pollstar have revealed Coldplay, along with U2, The Rolling Stones, Ed Sheeran and Sir Elton John, have all hit the billion quid mark since 2000 thanks to tours alone.

Taylor Swift is the biggest-ever earner, making £2.33billion from her 575 shows.

Jeff Kelly, from US entertainment firm PRrppd, told me: “Coldplay’s success is astonishing.

“They have barely stopped working over the last 25 years and have grown every year in their appeal to audiences.

“For them to generate almost two billion pounds speaks volumes, especially given that their average ticket price is so reasonable.

“The British Isles is incredibly well represented in that top ten chart, with half the spots.

“The last quarter of a century shows that Brits still serve up incredibly powerful music and connect to fans who want to see them live.”

The Trans-Siberian Railway is a series of train routes in Russia, Mongolia and China that connect remote parts of the world and offer holidaymakers ‘absolutely incomparable landscapes’

The Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia is the longest railway journey, traversing three countries and two continents, taking holidaymakers to some of the world’s most secluded spots. The train links Russia, Mongolia and China on a continuous journey across eight time zones.

The classic Trans-Siberian journey takes seven days, connecting Moscow to Vladivostok over a distance of 9,258km (6,152 miles).

Other routes include the six-day Trans-Manchurian trip from Moscow to Beijing, a five-day journey to Ulan-Bator, and the shortest route, the Trans-Mongolian, which runs from Moscow to Beijing via Mongolia.

Ticket prices range from roughly $120 (£88) for a standard ticket to $1,000 (£740) for first class travel.

Russian Train stated: “As soon as it was built at the beginning of the 19th century, the Trans-Siberian Railway was proclaimed the finest of the diamonds on the crown of the Russian Empire and became famous to the whole world.

“Since then, it has been attracting many travellers striving to see the miracle of engineering and to experience the peculiar way of journey.

“At the same time, the Trans-Siberian regular trains are mostly used by locals for their commuting needs, so it is an excellent way to meet the real people and feel the pure soul of the country.”

The Trans-Siberian Railway presents holidaymakers with “absolutely incomparable landscapes”, making the journey a truly unique adventure.

One traveller reviewed the train trip on Tripadvisor as a “unique, unforgettable journey”, while another described it as a “fascinating experience”.

“My wife and I crossed off our list one of these ‘must-do in our lifetime’ items, which was the Trans Siberian Railway. Time flies on the train, I barely read one book in four days, the rest of the time stared out of the window; Russia by train is fascinating!”

AN unreleased track by rock legends Queen that “no one has ever heard” will be played publicly for the first time today.

Guitarist Sir Brian May, 78, will broadcast Not For Sale (Polar Bear) on radio station Planet Rock.

It was originally recorded during the sessions for the band’s 1974 album, Queen II, but did not make the final cut.

This remastered version will feature in the 2026 re­release of the album.

While a “bootleg” version of the song by May’s pre-Queen band Smile may already have circulated, he says “no one” has heard this version.

It will be played during Sir Brian’s Planet Rock Christmas Special at 6pm — featuring his favourite seasonal tracks.

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He said: “It’s a song that goes back a very long way, but to my knowledge no one has ever heard this version.

“It’s a work in progress and will appear on the forthcoming rebuild of the Queen II album.

“But I’m sneaking this into my Planet Rock special because I’m fascinated to know what people think about it.”     

Formed in the 1970s, Queen was made up of guitarist Sir Brian, drummer Roger Taylor, late frontman Freddie Mercury and bassist John Deacon.

The group has since had six UK number one singles and 10 UK number one albums with some of their best known songs including Bohemian Rhapsody, Killer Queen, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and We Are The Champions.

Journalist and author Lou Cannon, who was widely considered the nation’s leading authority on the life and career of President Reagan, died Friday in a Santa Barbara hospice. He was 92.

His death was caused by complications from a stroke, his son Carl M. Cannon told the Washington Post, where his father served for years as a White House correspondent.

The elder Cannon covered Reagan’s two-term presidency in the 1980s, but his relationship with the enigmatic Republican leader went back to the 1960s, when Reagan moved from acting to politics.

Cannon interviewed Reagan more than 50 times and wrote five books about him, but still struggled to understand what made Reagan who he was.

“The more I wrote,” Cannon told the Reno Gazette-Journal in 2001, “the more I felt I didn’t know.”

Cannon was born in New York City and raised in Reno, Nev., where he attended the University of Nevada in Reno and later San Francisco State College.

After service in the U.S. Army, he became a reporter covering Reagan’s first years as governor of California for the San Jose Mercury News. In 1972, Cannon began working for the Washington Post as a political reporter.

Cannon recalled first encountering Reagan in 1965 while assigned to cover a lunch event for reporters and lobbyists and being surprised by Reagan’s command of the room when he spoke.

Reagan was beginning his campaign for governor by proving he could answer questions and “was not just an actor reading a script.” At the time, the word actor was “a synonym for airhead. Well, Reagan was no airhead,” Cannon said in a 2008 interview at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.

To Cannon’s surprise, the reporters and lobbyists mobbed Reagan after the event was over to get his autograph. Cannon introduced himself.

“I remember those steely eyes of his. I thought he had this great face, but his eyes are tough,” Cannon said. “His eyes are really something.”

On the phone later, Cannon’s editor asked him what he thought of Reagan. He replied, “I don’t know anything, but if I were running this thing, why would anybody want to run against somebody that everybody knows and everybody likes? Why would you want him to be your opponent?

“I predicted that Reagan was going to be president, but I didn’t have any idea he was going to be governor,” Cannon said. “I was just so struck by the fact that he impacted on people as, not like he was a politician, but like he was this celebrity, force of nature that people wanted to rub up against. It was like seeing Kennedy again. They wanted the aura, the sun.”

In 1966, Reagan was elected governor by a margin of nearly 1 million votes and Cannon found himself “writing about Ronald Reagan every day.”

Reagan’s political opponents in California and Washington consistently underestimated him, assuming the former actor could be easily beaten at the ballot box, Cannon said. Reagan ran for president unsuccessfully twice, but had the will to keep trying until he won — twice.

“Reagan was tough, and he was determined, and you couldn’t talk him out of doing what he wanted to do,” Cannon said. “Nancy couldn’t talk him out of what he wanted to do, for god’s sakes. And certainly no advisor could or no other candidate. Ronald Reagan wanted to be president of the United States.”

Cannon’s first book on the president, “Reagan,” was published in 1982. In 1991 he published “President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime,” which is regarded as a comprehensive biography of the 40th president.

Cannon also authored a book about the LAPD and the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, in addition to chronicling a range of tales over the years, including the federal bust of a 1970s heroin kingpin in Las Vegas.

Mr. Cannon’s first marriage, to Virginia Oprian, who helped him research his early books, ended in divorce. In 1985, he wed Mary Shinkwin, the Washington Post said. In addition to his wife, he is survived by three children.