Liam Gallagher Has Newfound Respect for Blur's Damon Albarn

The world must of turned upside down. Yesterday, after years of disharmony, Van Halen played their first live show with frontman David Lee Roth on stage. And now, Oasis lead singer Liam Gallagher says he actually likes Blur's Damon Albarn. The two bands had been at each others throats for a decade, but now it seems that they are seem to have taken the song "Give Peace a chance" to heart.

"I don't mind Blur," Gallagher told Mojo Magazine. "I'm over it [the rivalry]. It was a laugh man, that's what you do when you're young."

He added: "When I see Damon Albarn, I buzz off him. If I was still caught up in it now I'd be a right wanker."

Earlier in the year Liam's older brother, who once said publicly he wanted Blur's Damon Albarn and Alex James to "Catch AIDS and die", even offered an olive branch to Alburn saying:

"You know Damon, bless him, I've got a lot of respect for him. This never comes across in interviews, but I really do mean it," Noel said. "Because I'm indifferent to Damon, he thinks that I think he's a cunt. Our Liam will talk to him. I won't because he's just another singer in a band to me, but I don't think he's a cunt. Good luck to him."

Hardly pleasantries but much better than hoping he would catch AIDS.

Both aging Britpop bands are in the studio working on new albums. Now if they tour together that could be a sign of the apocalypses.