"Some of the very best songwriting is about doing special things with simple parts – Noel Gallagher's work is frequently a prime example": Here are 4 chords from his classic Oasis songs By Charlie Griffiths published 13 April 24 I'm feeling supersonic, give me F#m11/C#
"To be honest, I don't consider myself a guitarist, so I don't sit around and think about the whole thing too much": Noel Gallagher explains his songwriter mindset in our classic interview By Joe Bosso published 12 April 24 "I don't dwell on the whole aspect of guitar technique and stuff. I'm a songwriter" – Oasis chief and High Flying Bird told us in 2011
“A call came into the office from Radio One, saying the band had just gone to Number 1 in the album charts”: Oasis celebrate 30 years of Supersonic with raucous live version from ’94 show at Belfast’s Limelight By Jonathan Horsley published 12 April 24 Oasis's set on 4 September 1994 captured a band on a steep trajectory and was surely worth the £6.75 ticket price and then some. Check out the video for the live version now
"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 6 April 24 "Acoustic tunes tend to be quite down"
“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 12 March 24 "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"
The Oasis song Liam hated because it was "reggae": "I remember Our Kid saying 'Why are you writing reggae songs?' And I was like, there speaks a man that has never heard reggae" By Rob Laing published 21 February 24 A songwriter in peak form, a singer and band who hated it, and the song that became bigger than anyone could have imagined
"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 20 February 24 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"
"I don’t need some w**k award by some geriatric in a cowboy hat": Liam Gallagher is less than bothered about Oasis' Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination By Will Groves published 13 February 24 Other, hopefully keener, 2024 nominees include Ozzy Osbourne, Sinead O’Connor, Jane’s Addiction, and A Tribe Called Quest
"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 22 January 24 "I'm doing it for the fans really," he says, and two songs set to be included are already online in demo form
Liam Gallagher and John Squire confirm their first single together By Jonathan Horsley published 21 December 23 Just Another Rainbow is confirmed for January 5