In the May 1997 issue of Select
 Interview with John Squires of The Seahorses
 and formerly of The Stone Roses

In an interview with John Squires of The Seahorses, and formerly of The Stone Roses: "Knebworth first, anyway. 'It's John Squire!' shouted Liam. 'With Oasis!' It was as if, as strange as it may sound, he couldn't quite believe it." I didn't actually enjoy being there, says John. I had some stomach bug for ten days, straddling the gigs. But they both asked me to do it, and I love the group. I didn't really think about the size of it: I'd no idea of how many people were out there. It was just black.

"Do you feel comfortable with the idea that they're your artistic offspring? From the off, Liam was saying as much in their interviews."

What did he say?

"He said he'd bought 'The Stone Roses' LP four times, purely because he thought he ought to."

They've both said things like that to me, but I think their success is down to their own endeavours. It's nothing to do with mine.

"Oh. One of the Knebworth tracks was hurled into the public domain soon after: the version of Champagne Supernova on the three-track CD that came with initial copies of the There And Then video, wherein Noel's gobsmacked recollection of the Squire contribution ("He was playing all this mad fucking Jimmy Page stuff...I'm thinking, that's another moment in my life") sounds entirely justified. IAm the Walrus, you can only assume, was too chaotic to be released..."

Yeah, smiles John. I got lost on that one a few times. Strange sound onstage. It's just like...Noel. I couldn't hear Bonehead on my side of the stage: I could just hear a bit of Alan and a lot of Noel. None of the orchestra or any of that. Did they play on Champagne Supernova?

"No, replies Select - only to route the conversation towards a Seahorses song entitled 'Love Me And Leave Me', co-written by one Liam Gallagher. Recent whispers have credited him with the song's lyrics..."

He did the melody to the verse actually. It wasn't arranged. I just went round there after the Cup Final last year, round to Patsy's in St John's Wood. He wanted to show me this Epiphone Casino guitar that he'd got. I played a few chords, and I just had the first sentence of the song. I didn't have a melody, so I suggested that he try singing it over this chord progression that I had. It didn't get much further than that: we both got pretty pissed. But it came back to me later on. I wrote the song, and I had to concentrate pretty hard an what he'd sung, cos I remembered really liking it. It sounded special as soon as he did it.

"Are you and Liam quite pally?"

I consider him a friend. We're complete opposites really. But opposites attract, don't they?

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