Rig worker, Richard Stanway, has become an internet star after a video of him performing a heart-felt rendition of an Oasis track went viral.
The crew members on the North Sea’s Brent Delta platform have become an internet sensation since they uploaded their take of the 1995 song Talk Tonight which appeared on Oasis compilation album The Masterplan.
The rendition seems to have struck a chord with many since it featured on Energy Voice last week.
Richard, enlisted the help of two friends on guitar for the song, which first featured as a B-side on the single Some Might Say.
The lifelong Oasis fan performed the track to boost morale for ‘the boys working away from the wives, kids and the girlfriends.’
Following the video’s success Richard said: “It’s not easy singing to 30 odd guys, we had a go, heads are down with redundancies. We got over 9,000 views thanks for viewing and sharing guys.”
At the latest count, the video has received more than 18,500 hits.
The 38-year-old, hails from Burnage in Manchester, the same place as the Gallagher brothers.
He channelled his inner-Noel and sang while wearing sunglasses.
A number of workers filmed the performance on their phones and joined in with the song’s chorus.
Richard’s wife Sharron told the Manchester Evening News that she thrilled when she saw it.
She said she burst into tears during the first verse which begins: ‘Sitting on my own, chewing on a bone, a thousand million miles from home’ describing the lyrics as “so meaningful.”
Sharron added that her husband meant every word that he sang and that she cannot wait to have him back home.
Richard lives with his wife and four-year-old son Riley – who kept asking his mum why his daddy was wearing sunglasses in the video – in Urmston.
Sharron said that her husband is a huge Oasis fan and that the video ‘was a lovely thing to do for all of the wives and girlfriends waiting for their men to come home.’