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Noel Gallagher of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds performs at The Lighthouse on March 17, 2024 in Poole, England
"I think it’s time to make a defiant rock record": Noel Gallagher says he's scrapped his planned acoustic album but he's already got the cover art and title for the next one

By Rob Laing Published

"Acoustic tunes tend to be quite down"

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Noel Gallagher of British rock group Oasis live at the Astoria in London, 19th August 1994
“It was the tune that changed everything” for Noel Gallagher and Oasis, with his greatest guitar solo – but it turns out that Live Forever got a serious guitar edit in the control room

By Matt Frost Published

"It was essentially the same solo that’s on the finished version Noel always plays live, but when it went high on the second half all I could think of was Slash in leather kecks with a wind machine on the Grand Canyon"

Singles And Albums
The singer Liam Gallagher during a performance on the third day of the Mad Cool 2023 festival, which opens in Villaverde Alto, on July 8, 2023, in Madrid, Spain. Liam Gallagher is an English singer, songwriter, critic and musician, known for having been the lead singer of Oasis and Beady Eye, the group that integrated some members of Oasis after their separation? Mad Cool 2023 is the most important music festival in Madrid and one of the most important nationally. This year, it premieres new location and enclosure: 185,000 square meters that are located in Villaverde and has eight stages. Since its birth in 2016, Mad Cool has climbed steps to become one of the Spanish festival events with the most ambitious lineup. (
"We put an offer on the table for an Oasis thing… and he said no" – but is Liam Gallagher now playing the long game with a Noel reunion?

By Rob Laing Published

He confirms brother Noel turned down an offer to reunite for Definitely Maybe's 30th anniversary – "It'll happen when it happens, it's not in our hands anymore"

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Noel Gallagher Custom Les Pauls
"The one that Johnny gave me in 1994 was always one of my favourite guitars - it carries a lot of history": Gibson and Noel Gallagher reveal strictly-limited run of 20 hand-signed Les Paul Customs

By Will Groves Published

All proceeds will go to the Teenage Charity Trust

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Noel Gallagher of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds performs at OVO Arena Wembley on December 14, 2023 in London, England.
"I’ve had to take all the electronic equipment out of the studio": Noel Gallagher confirms he's making an acoustic guitar album and pokes fun at Liam's new single with John Squire

By Rob Laing Published

"I'm doing it for the fans really," he says, and two songs set to be included are already online in demo form

Singles And Albums
Noel Gallagher performing with Oasis for MTV Unplugged in 1996
"Even before we got to the day of the show, there was a ‘concern’… a concern with Liam" – the story behind the farce and the glory of Oasis’s infamous 1996 MTV Unplugged performance

By Neil Crossley Published

Riding high after playing to 250,000 people at Knebworth, Oasis set about rehearsing for a very different kind of show – an intimate MTV Unplugged performance from the Royal Festival Hall. But within days, it was clear all was not going to plan…

Gigs & Festivals
Oasis Definitely Maybe album cover
Epiphone guitars Noel Gallagher used on the first two Oasis albums to go on display at the British Music Experience museum

By Rob Laing Published

It's part of Epiphone's 150th anniversary celebration

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Johnny Marr performs at Helsingin Juhlaviikot Festival 2023 at Huvila-Teltta on August 23, 2023 in Helsinki, Finlan
Johnny Marr explains his three biggest guitar influences: "Hand In Glove started out as a Chic riff"

By Rob Laing Published

"You put it all through a funnel in your own mind"

Guitarists
Noel Gallagher and Johnny Marr
“He’s like a poster from my bedroom wall that’s come to life. He’s got this black Strat with nine pickups and he’s saying, ‘Do you think it’s a bit mad?’”: Noel Gallagher on guitar shopping with Johnny Marr

By Jonathan Horsley Published

How a few days before Oasis's fateful gig at King Tut's, a then-unknown Gallagher received a phone call from a hero and found himself in an “Aladdin's cave” of vintage gear

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Noel Gallagher performing on the BBC Show Later… With Jools Holland
Noel Gallagher plays rarely performed Oasis B-side live on BBC's Later With Jools Holland show

By Rob Laing Published

Going Nowhere is one of Noel's most underrated b-sides and dates back to the early '90s

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