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Editorial: The Gallagher brothers might have taken their feuding to extremes, but it is nothing new
The Gallagher brothers went about it with such unbridled fury that the pleasure of seeing them back together on stage will doubtless be enhanced by studying their body language for clues as to how long the reconciliation will last. Though the music world has supplied more than its share of fraternal fallouts over the decades – from the Everly Brothers to the Kinks’ Ray and Dave Davies and the three Gibbs of the Bee Gees – it is not uniquely blessed. Saint Augustine could be credited as one of the early analysts of this condition when he wrote of a baby he had observed: “He could not yet speak and, pale with jealousy and bitterness, glared at his brother sharing his mother’s milk.
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