Oasis have hired former SAS soldiers as bodyguards.
The group's guitarist Noel Gallagher was reportedly wary of performing live following an incident in Canada last year where he suffered cracked ribs after being attacked by a stage invader, and insisted the band draft in extra security guards ahead of their UK stadium shows.
A source told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "
Noel was seriously shook up after he was attacked. It was a freak moment when someone burst through and managed to get on stage. But he wanted to make sure he never had to go through that again.
"There was a time when he was genuinely scared of getting back out there and performing. It was only fleeting but he couldn't get the image out of his head of what had happened. He was drugged up on painkillers and kept dreaming about the night.
"So he told the others he wanted extra security - of course, they agreed - after all it could have been any of them.
"When he heard a couple of the guys brought in to try out as security were ex-SAS, he knew he was in safe hands. They left the service a while ago but their killer training never leaves them."
Thanks for the report to Contactmusic.com.
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