{"id":2448074,"date":"2019-08-28T04:18:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T10:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=877551"},"modified":"2019-08-28T04:18:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T10:18:36","slug":"watch-liam-gallagher-face-his-past-in-one-of-us-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-liam-gallagher-face-his-past-in-one-of-us-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Liam Gallagher Face His Past in \u2018One of Us\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/cropped-rs-favicon.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Nostalgia is at the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/liam-gallagher\/\" id=\"auto-tag_liam-gallagher\" data-tag=\"liam-gallagher\">Liam Gallagher<\/a>\u2019s new video for his single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/liam-gallagher-one-of-us-872559\/\">\u201cOne of Us.\u201d<\/a> The concept for the black and white clip was written by Stephen Knight, creator of <em>Peaky Blinders<\/em>, while the show\u2019s season five director Anthony Byrne stepped into the director\u2019s chair.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Gallagher can be seen walking through a sweeping field in the English countryside, where he comes across an array of childhood photographs at the top of a hill. The singer appears at several ages throughout the clip, finding himself seated beside his teenage self, then his childhood self. The end of the video brings Gallagher into an empty warehouse, where he seems to reconcile with his past.<\/p>\n<p>The song, co-written with Andrew Wyatt, features Liam\u2019s son Gene Gallagher on bongos and Yeah Yeah Yeahs\u2019 Nick Zinner on guitar. It references <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/oasis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oasis\" data-tag=\"oasis\">Oasis<\/a>\u2019 classic song \u201cLive Forever\u201d and Gallagher has said the track is about connection. \u201c\u2018One of Us\u2019 is about family, friendship and a sense of belonging,\u201d Gallagher said in a statement when the song originally dropped. \u201cI love the groove and the gospel outro. It reminds me of The Sweet Inspirations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of Us\u201d will appear on Gallagher\u2019s upcoming second solo album, <em>Why Me? Why<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Not.<\/em>, which is out September 20th via Warner Records. The album is a collaboration with Wyatt and Greg Kurstin, who both worked on Gallagher\u2019s last effort&nbsp;<em>As You Were<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-first-trailer-liam-gallagher-as-it-was-documentary-817570\/\">documentary film&nbsp;<em>AS IT WAS<\/em><\/a>, directed by Gavin Fitzgerald and Charlie Lightening, will be released in the U.S. to coincide with the album in September. The musician will also open for The Who on several October dates of their North American tour, with the stops running from October 9th in San Francisco through October 24th in Hollywood, before heading out on a European headlining run.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/liam-gallagher-one-of-us-video-877551\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nostalgia is at the center of Liam Gallagher\u2019s new video for his single \u201cOne of Us.\u201d The concept for the black and white clip was written by Stephen Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, while the show\u2019s season five director Anthony Byrne stepped into the director\u2019s chair. In the video, Gallagher can be seen walking through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 22:23:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}