Tony McCarroll
| Tony McCarroll | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Anthony McCarroll |
| Born |
4 June 1971 Levenshulme, Manchester, England |
| Genres | Rock, Britpop, alternative rock |
| Instruments | Drums |
| Years active | 1991–1995 |
| Associated acts | Oasis, The Rain |
Anthony "Tony" McCarroll (born 4 June 1971) is an English drummer and one of the founder members of the English rock band Oasis, as their drummer from 1991 to April 1995. He played the drums on their debut album, Definitely Maybe, and on "Some Might Say", Oasis' first number-one single, from the album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, before he left the band.
Anthony McCarroll was born to Irish parents on 4 June 1971 in Levenshulme, Manchester, where he grew up. He has family in Ireland and spent a couple of years living there when he was younger due to his father's work. McCarroll got his first drum kit when he was six years old.
McCarroll had met Paul McGuigan while playing for the local football team at a young age. Together with McGuigan's friend Bonehead, they formed a band called The Rain and hired Chris Hutton as their singer, but he was sacked and replaced by Liam Gallagher not so long after, whom McCarroll had also known through childhood.
When Liam's brother Noel joined, the band changed their name to Oasis. McCarroll has stated in his book that he was closely involved in the creation of several of Oasis's songs, including Supersonic, despite Noel being given sole credit as songwriter.
Noel and McCarroll got on during childhood, but as Oasis gradually became famous, the relationship between the two faltered. Noel had repeatedly and publicly slammed McCarroll's drumming ability and said it wasn't good enough for a number one single.
The tension soon grew greatly between him and Noel: McCarroll had been angered by the "£1,000 incident", as the band called it, which occurred after Creation advanced them that sum to purchase new equipment and having already spent £600 of his own money on drums, McCarroll found that Noel refused to spend any of the cash on drum skins and instead bought a new guitar. Furthermore, he felt that Gallagher was intimidated by him and for his part, Gallagher made his feelings clear with his favoured trick of appearing to forget McCarroll's name during interviews. McCarroll was reportedly informed he was no longer in the band via a phone call by Marcus Russell at his mother's house, not from Noel or a band member, in 1995 after rumours of a punch-up with Liam, but McCarroll has since denied this and his last job with the band was their first performance of "Some Might Say" (the last Oasis song he played on) on Top of the Pops, on 22 May 1995.
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