Oasis Reunion Tour

The music world was shocked with news of the sudden announcement of an Oasis reunion tour beginning in the summer of 2025. Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher ended their feud and made the surprise announcement that rocked Oasis fans the world over. It will mark the first time the brothers will have played together since 2009, after which 15 years of an antagonistic and bitter relationship followed. The tour will start in July 2025 with stadium concerts in England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. A subsequent world tour will follow in 2026. Because of such popular demand, it is likely that many more dates will be added to their initial summer 2025 tour in the British Isles.

Noel and Liam Gallagher, Manchester natives of Irish immigrant parents, have buried the hatchet. Thirty years ago Oasis' chart-topping 1994 album Definitely Maybe turned the Gallagher brothers into stars and launched the new "Britpop" era. The band cemented its legacy with massive hits such as "Wonderwall", "Don't Look Back in Anger", and "Champagne Supernova". Over the 30 years, Oasis has sold more than 75 million records worldwide.

Liam Gallagher is the band's lead singer while Noel is the guitarist/songwriter and sometimes singer.

Noel Gallagher was the feature of an article titled Noel Gallagher of Oasis Rocks On in the Celebrity Corner section of the Stuttering Foundation magazine a few years ago, and the response from its publication in the magazine and subsequent online publication was astounding. People who stutter from all over the globe contacted the Stuttering Foundation with a sense of pride that Noel Gallagher is a person who stutters. His heartfelt statements about his past stuttering and years of intensive speech therapy put a human face on the speech problem.

On the morning of the reunion announcement, both Gallagher brothers simultaneously tweeted, "The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned." They also tweeted, "The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be television."

The stuttering community is grateful that Noel Gallagher has never been silent about his stuttering.

Posted Sept. 5, 2024

Photo credit: Simon Emmett

CELEBRITY FOCUS

King George

In November 2010, worldwide movie audiences were presented with a most interesting and unusual movie release with The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth as King George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as his wife Elizabeth.

Unfortunately, history may have forgotten the courageous and inspiring story of Prince Albert who stuttered badly and never dreamed that he would ever be king when his older brother, King Edward VIII, abruptly abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.

Darren Sproles

Darren Sproles, a former player for The Philadelphia Eagles, the New Orleans Saints and the San Diego Chargers, made history in 2007 when he became the first player in NFL history to return a kickoff and a punt for his first two NFL touchdowns in the same game. In 2021, he was selected to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Bill Withers

While Bill Withers has long been on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter, many people probably didn’t realize he stuttered. He passed away on March 30, 2020.

Born in 1938 in Slab Fork, W.V., Withers was the youngest of six children. When his father died when Withers was small, he was raised by his mother and grandmother, both of whom worked as domestics.

Jack Paar

While Jack Paar is among the most prominent of the entertainers on the Stuttering Foundation’s list of Famous People Who Stutter, he deserves special recognition as he was among the first to openly address his stuttering in public. As host of The Tonight Show from 1957-1962, he spoke of his difficulties as a stuttering child and teenager, giving hope to young people.

Emily Blunt

Actress Emily Blunt struggled with stuttering early in her life. A teacher encouraged her to act in a school play at age 12 despite her stuttering.

Blunt’s name is prominently featured on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter.