Career
He was the group"s bassist from 1991 to 1999. They called themselves The Rain. Though a functional bassist onstage, McGuigan"s bass tracks were often replaced by Noel Gallagher on the band"s recordings, especially on Definitely Maybe, which features no bass tracks by McGuigan at all.
McGuigan has admitted to smoking marijuana during touring.
McGuigan left Oasis in 1999. Noel Gallagher claims he quit via fax and avoided phone calls from the Gallaghers in the following weeks.
Though he eventually gave up trying to contact him by phone, Noel claims to bear no malice towards McGuigan. He occasionally performs as a DJ. He declined to appear in the 2004 Definitely Maybe Digital Video Disc, though a polite letter explaining his reasons for doing so appears as a hidden extra, along with a short segment with pundits giving their views on him.
A lifelong sports fan, McGuigan especially loves football.
He is a supporter of Manchester City F.C. Whilst still with Oasis, he and journalist Paolo Hewitt wrote a book about football player Robin Friday, entitled The Greatest Football player You Never Saw (). McGuigan was renowned for his encyclopaedic knowledge of football and cricket. In an interview for a British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 1 documentary in 1995, McGuigan said his favourite magazine is FourFourTwo.
