Oasis
We know siblings fight a lot, but come on. It seems that Liam Gallagher and his brother Noel have been fighting since the day they formed a band. In 1994 Liam assaulted Noel with a tambourine. In 1995 they forced their drummer to quit. In 1999 two more band members left, forcing the Gallagher brothers to hold a press conference to announce that Oasis hadn’t disbanded. While touring in 2000, Liam insulted Noel’s wife, causing Noel to quit the tour. In 2002 Liam lost two teeth and kicked a police officer in a barroom brawl. In 2004 another drummer quit. In August 2009 the brothers got into a fight before a concert, forcing their tour manager to cancel the show. Two hours later, Noel posted a message on Oasis’ website announcing “with some sadness and great relief” that he had quit the band for good. “I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer,” he wrote. And that was that. Now all the brothers have to worry about are family reunions.
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The Dorsey Brothers
Sometimes big bands just aren’t big enough. In May 1935, during a performance at the Glen Island Casino in New York, Tommy Dorsey walked off the bandstand after an argument with his brother Jimmy about the tempo of a song. The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, which, with a changing roster of impressive musicians, had recorded hits like Cole Porter’s “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love)” since the late ’20s, thus morphed into the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra.
Tommy, a trombonist, led his own band — which eventually included a young Frank Sinatra — and became known as “The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing.” Jimmy, who played sax and clarinet, was a highly successful bandleader too, until the music scene shifted mid-century. In 1953, more than three decades after they’d formed their first group together as teenagers and just a few years before they died, the siblings reunited as the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, featuring Jimmy Dorsey. They’d already appeared together onscreen, playing themselves in the 1947 fictionalized biopic The Fabulous Dorseys.
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