Earlier this evening Noel Gallagher attended the premiere of Moonage Daydream, the first officially sanctioned documentary on Bowie since his death from cancer in January 2016.
He told Sky News "My relationship's purely through the music, really. I didn't really know him that well. I was first aware of him in the '80s, doing Let's Dance and all that, and then going back, when I was getting more into music, going back in time. I'm a big fan. I was a big fan anyway, but he's more of an influence on me now than he ever was. He's one of the all-time greats."
Gallagher said that he looked to Bowie for inspiration when working on his third High Flying Birds album Who Built The Moon?.
He said "It was the first time I'd ever written in a studio, and he used to do it all the time, and my producer at the time was encouraging me to do that more," he said. "He was kind of like, 'listen to interviews by him, saying you've got to put yourself out there and be slightly unsure of what you're doing'. That was a good point for where we were going at the time with our record."
Moonage Daydream will release exclusively in IMAX on September 16th and generally in UK cinemas from September 23rd.