He’s the lesser-known Gallagher brother who won’t see a penny of the millions heading for Liam and Noel from the Oasis reunion tour.

Unlike his famous siblings, London-based DJ and photographer Paul, who can sing but decidedly leaves that to his brothers, craves a simple existence, preferring to be ‘invisible’ from media attention. 

While Liam and Noel spat for 15 years in a bitter feud, Paul remained a constant for both while enjoying a close relationship with Liam, and is rumoured to be the best man at his upcoming wedding.

However, Paul’s decision to stay out of the Oasis limelight has perhaps cost him the biggest paycheque of his lifetime, with his younger brothers set to bank £50million from their reunion tour.

But unlike his rockstar brothers, Paul appears entirely satisfied with his reality, ‘I live a regular life, I live amongst the lower middle classes,’ he declared with pride in an interview with RGM Music. 

Britain rejoiced at the Oasis reunion that will see Noel and Liam pocket £50million each, but their older brother, Paul Gallagher (seen in 1996) won’t see a penny

Paul played the role of a dutiful older brother from the get-go, long before Liam, 51, and Noel, 57, found fame as some of the highest-regarded Britpop stars, with him giving Noel his first guitar aged seven, albeit a hand me down from his possessions.

Talking in Liam’s 2019 documentary, As It Was, their mother, Peggy, who worked as a housekeeper, recalled that Paul would treat his younger siblings to ‘trainers’ and ‘cigarettes’ after working shifts completing manual labour.

‘Paul would give you the money to go to the shops for cigarettes and buy your trainers and everything, he was very good to you both.’ It was a sentiment that Liam then reiterated, adding: ‘Yeah, he’s a good lad Paul’.

Despite the now-DJ once fending for his brothers, he by no means adopted a parental role that many older siblings often slip into, with him frequently finding himself at the butt of one of his brother’s practical jokes.

Talking in the same documentary, Liam recalled a time he attempted to take Paul’s chair out of the window because he would block his position from the fireplace.

‘He’s come in from work and he’d lie there and take up f****** heat,’ Liam recalled. Peggy interjected, adding: ‘But he was the only one that was working’.

‘[I don’t] give a s****, it’s not my fault he was born first’, the star responded in his trademark deadpan manner.

It was a blasé attitude to the relationship that Paul reciprocated to his brothers once they found fame following the 1994 release of their debut album, Definitely Maybe, which entered the UK albums chart at number one week after its release.

Despite Liam and Noel’s spat, Paul maintained a close relationship with Liam (pictured together in 2015)

Unlike Noel, Paul, who is a DJ and photographer, said his sees his younger brother Liam every other day 

Pictured: Peggy Gallagher with her sons Paul, Noel (left) and Liam (right) before she left their father Thomas in 1984

In his 1997 book Brothers: Childhood to Oasis, Paul revealed that his brothers did not want him involved with the band, according to the Mirror.

During an interview on the Michael Anthony Show last year, Paul revealed that he, too, boasts an impressive singing voice but chose to leave it to his brothers.

He said: ‘I can sing. I don’t sing anymore, when you have got two fellas in your family who can sing then what the f*** are you doing singing. Do something else….I choose not to sing.’

He developed offshoot ideas, such as merchandise and a fan club, but Noel claimed they were unnecessary.

Still, he would travel with his brothers as they toured the country performing live, including at their first arena concert in Sheffield in 1994.

By 1996, Paul did go on to pick up work off his brother’s success with record label Creation Records but found that the band’s fame made it increasingly difficult to see his brothers.

The oldest Gallagher brother is pictured at the NME Carling Awards in Hammersmith, London, in 2003

Despite Paul’s various suggestions, including selling merchandise, his brothers did not want his involved in the band (seen in 2006 at the premiere of Liam Gallagher: As It Was)

When asked on The Late Late Show in 1996 whether he got on with his brothers, he said: ‘Um, yeah, great, they’re 300 miles away and I’m in Manchester. It’s alright, I mean, we work for the same company, so we see each other now and again.’

He added that while he got ‘instant self-worth’ from gigs, fans often overwhelmed the experience for him, ‘it’s actually quite a lot of hassle to get in the gigs because there’s so many people there around them now… you find yourself begging for a ticket,’ he said.

Paul joked that fans make a beeline for him when they can’t get their hands on Liam or Noel, ‘but they don’t offer me money,’ he quipped.

Even during perhaps the band’s most notable performances – Knebworth in 1996, where Oasis played to 500,000 fans over two nights in a Hertfordshire stately home, Paul decided to go on holiday.

Speaking to host Gay Byrne then, he said: ‘This year I went on holiday and didn’t bother going to Knebworth… I couldn’t be doing it.’

Still, even if not he didn’t attend all live shows, Paul remained one of his brother’s most avid supporters, believing they’re the best rock band to come out of the UK.

It’s a statement that many Britons agreed with throughout the early 2000s, leading Noel and Liam to dizzying heights, partying with A-Listers, and leading a true rock and roll booze-fuelled party lifestyle.

Liam and Noel Gallagher are photographed at the Knebworth Festival in 1996 – an event Paul missed because he was on holiday

Paul, who now lives in London, said he leads a normal life but sometime Oasis fans will spot him on streets

When asked whether he ever felt it necessary to reel his brothers back in when they reached fame on the Michael Anthony Show, he said: ‘No they don’t care what I do and I don’t care what they do’.

‘Unless I overstep the mark, then they’re f****** on your case… [if I] say something that the hangover didn’t agree with.’

In 2009, it all came to a standstill when Noel quit the band. The singer and guitarist, 42, published a statement on the group’s official website, saying that a rift with his brother and fellow frontman Liam had become unbearable.

He said: ‘It is with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.’

Earlier that month, Liam, then 36, revealed relations with his brother were so bad they no longer spoke, and they travelled separately on tour, only seeing each other on stage.

‘He doesn’t like me, and I don’t like him. That’s it,’ Liam said.

Still, throughout the brother’s bitter dispute, Paul maintained an amicable relationship with Noel and Liam.

In Liam’s 2019 As It Was documentary, Paul’s mother Peggy opened up about her hopes of a reconciliation.

Sitting beside her youngest son, Peggy was bullish as she declared how they are all going to get along and ‘that’s it’.

Paul raised a pint of Guinness with friend Andy Nolan on Instagram after news broke of the Oasis reunion

As Liam began to say how he gets on with his other brother Paul so ‘two out of three ain’t bad’, she says: ‘No, but the way I look at it, darling, life is very short and if anything happened to either one of you, you’d never…’

Paul went on to forge a creative path for himself, working as a DJ and photographer, often taking images of Liam’s shows and sharing them with his some 60 thousand Instagram followers.

He admittedly lead a typical life, though Oasis fans sometimes interrupted his normality, asking him for pictures or singing Oasis lyrics to him on the streets. 

Being recognised isn’t a reality Paul is so fond of, saying it’s always ‘some d**** h*** at the bus stop,’ on the Michael Anthony Show. He added that sometimes he’s asked to take the picture, ‘I’ll look at them with a scowl,’ he said. 

On the same podcast, he discussed his relationship with Noel, saying: ‘I do my own thing, I stay away from it as much as humanely possible.’ 

Meanwhile, Paul and Liam enjoyed a close relationship, with the pair often spotted out and about together. He said he sees Liam every other day and kept a relationship with Noel.

He told music project The Stage Left Podcast in 2017: ‘I speak to the pair of them. I see Liam every other day.

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‘This is a big business. I’m sure [the Oasis reunion] will happen one day; there is too much money for it not to. They’re a premier band.

‘Regardless of what they say… money talks.’

It was a turn of events that Paul rightly predicted because, after weeks of speculation over a shock comeback, the Gallagher brothers have confirmed they will perform 14 shows across Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin for a tour which could generate £400million.

Liam and Noel are expected to pocket about £50 million each, which will go a long way to raking back the money they lost during bitter divorce battles and reigniting their rock and roll lifestyle, which peaked in the 90s.

The 14-show tour will run from July 4 to August 17, kicking off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium before the brothers pack out Heaton Park in Manchester, Wembley in London, Murrayfield in Edinburgh and Croke Park in Dublin. 

Standing proudly behind them is Paul, who posed on Instagram to celebrate the news, holding up a pint of Guinness alongside friend Andy Nolan.

Andy wrote: ‘Tuesday is going to be the day that they’re going to throw it back to you! And all of a sudden, the world seems like a better place.