Noel Gallagher, a Manchester City fan who has also done some recording and touring, laughed and told me a story about his kids. His daughter is 21, and until she was 16, he said she believed all Manchester United fans had six toes. When she told him this, he said he looked at her like she was nuts.
"You told me that when I was a child!" she said.
He waited a beat. Rock stars have great timing.
"I'm such a good parent," he said. "I should do a self-help book."
Gallagher grew up in a Manchester council flat and could see the lights of City's old Maine Road stadium from his childhood bedroom window.