In "Oasis, the revenge of the rednecks", Nico Prat and Benjamin Durand look back on the incredible journey of Liam and Noël Gallagher, born in a working-class district of Manchester, despised by the political power, and who reached the rank of myth of music with Oasis.
"Oasis, the revenge of the rednecks".
This is the title of a book that comes out today.
And it is not pejorative.
Because the Gallagher brothers have always claimed their belonging to the working class, they who grew up in a modest environment.
We laughed at their not chic enough accent when they first started out.
Today, of course, the wheel has turned well, since they have been successful for twenty years with Oasis, dissolved in 2009 after an argument between the two brothers.
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"They grew up with political power that told them 'You don't matter'"
"The life of the Gallagher brothers, it should never have been what it was," said Nico Prat, co-author of the book, with Benjamin Durand.
"It's the life of two petty criminals in a rather poor Manchester, at least proletarian. And it has encouraged them to become icons for people like them."
And in the book, Nico Prat recalls that Noël and Liam Gallagher grew up on the liberal politics of Margaret Thatcher, and that their group, born at the end of his era, sings the hope of a youth until then disenchanted, in search of his freedom.
"They grew up with a political power which, over the course of the decisions, told them 'You do not count'", recalls the author.
60 million albums sold
"They themselves say: 'we were taken for rednecks and look where we got, the rednecks of yesterday. These not very handsome, not very friendly people that you don't even look at in the street. Finally, a few years. later, you line up to buy their record, "continues Nico Prat.
These rednecks, as he says, born in the suburbs of Manchester, to a violent worker father and a courageous mother who escapes from it, have despite everything sold 60 million albums in the world.