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Travis singer brought rock hardman Liam Gallagher to tears with backstage performance in Aberdeen

Liam Gallagher was reduced to floods of tears by Travis singer Fran Healy in Aberdeen
Liam Gallagher was reduced to floods of tears by Travis singer Fran Healy in Aberdeen

Travis lead singer Fran Healy has revealed how he once reduced Oasis hardman Liam Gallagher to floods of tears with an impromptu backstage performance in Aberdeen.

Travis were supporting the legendary Manchester act – fronted by Liam and his brother Noel – on a tour of Europe and the USA in 1997 when Liam revealed a softer side of himself.

Mr Healy was reminiscing about his previous visits to the north-east when he visited the area to officially reopen Aberdeen Music Hall on Saturday.

He recounted details of his eye-opening experience with the Roll With It and Some Might Say singer at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre during the tour in the late 1990s.

Mr Healy said: “We have always had a great time when we come to the city, and I think part of that may be because we have been coming here since before anyone knew us.

“We have played the university here, we have played The Lemon Tree and we played as support for Oasis during a tour in 1997.

“I actually made Liam Gallagher cry in Aberdeen, he is quite a sensitive soul.”

Mr Healy described his trepidation as the fearsome Oasis singer requested that he come to his dressing room and perform a solo piece.

He said: “Liam made me come into his dressing room and sing a song, so I performed a song of ours called Luv.

“I was very nervous, so I had my head down, and when I looked up at the end of it he had tears streaming down his face.

“This was backstage at the AECC, he is a lovely guy and not what people think of him.”

Mr Healy will perform tracks from Travis’s breakthrough album, The Man Who, across the UK this month culminating in a show at the Hydro in Glasgow.