Liam Pace
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Liam Pace is the lead singer of Drive Shaft, and Charlie's older brother.
Biography
Charlie and Liam formed a band called Drive Shaft. Early on in their musical career, the group were driving to a gig, when suddenly one tire of their van blew. Charlie explains that he has had enough of band-life and is ready to quit, much to Liam's dismay. Suddenly they hear "You All Everybody" on the radio for the first time, and celebrate. Charlie decides to stay with the band. ("Greatest Hits")
Liam became a drug addict while touring with Drive Shaft.
One Christmas, Liam gives Charlie his great-grandfather's DS Ring - a Pace family heirloom that their mother had given to Liam. Charlie refuses, but Liam explains that out of the two of them Charlie is the one who is going to have a family and live past 30. Charlie then says he will hold the ring for his brother but that he will not take it from him. ("Greatest Hits")
Some time later, at a gig, Liam steals Charlie's lines. Charlie becomes angry with Liam when he sees him retire to the dressing room just after a show with a girl in one arm and a wrap of cocaine in the other. At another show, Charlie enters Liam's dressing room, ordering Liam's girls to get out. The main singer has missed the sound-check, and seeing his brother in the state that he is in, Charlie asks Liam to make good on his promise to walk away. Liam refuses, saying that without the band, Charlie is nothing, and he storms out of the room. Just afterward, Charlie sees Liam's heroin stash and takes some of it, leading to his own addiction. ("The Moth")
Because of Liam's destructive habits, the band began to lose its magic, reduced to recording advertising jingles based on "You All Everybody", their one hit song. For example, "You All Every Butties" was recorded as a commercial for Butties Diapers. However, Liam's drug problems made even this impossible, as he was too wasted to be able to follow simple directions.
Liam marries a woman named Karen and has a daughter Megan, named after his mother. He missed Megan's birth while out getting a fix, an event that seems to have been key to him realizing that he needed to get his life back together. In order to get as far away from temptation as possible, Liam quit the band and sold Charlie's piano (a gift of priceless emotional significance to Charlie) for plane ticket money to allow him to emigrate to Sydney. Karen's uncle promised him a job in Sydney, and he successfully underwent rehab while there. ("Fire + Water")
He refuses Charlie's offer to reform the band for a comeback tour, but offers to help get Charlie off heroin. During this encounter, he refutes Charlie's claim that it is his fault that Charlie is an addict. ("The Moth")
Cultural references
- The name Liam, as Charlie's brother in the band Drive Shaft parallels Liam Gallagher, the brother of Noel Gallagher, both members of the real life band Oasis, a group that had a strong influence on the conception of Drive Shaft. (Backstage with Drive Shaft)
Additional casting
- Zack Shada played the role of Young Liam in "Fire + Water" and "Greatest Hits".
