Win Exclusive Oasis Event Tickets - With Noel Gallagher Q&A!

To celebrate the release of Oasis’ Best Of Album ‘Stop The Clocks’, STV Music is giving 14 lucky viewers the chance to get up close with Noel Gallagher during a special Q&A session after the exclusive fan screening of the bands new on-the-road documentary “ Lord Don’t Slow Me Down” in Glasgow on 22 November at Imax Cinema at the Glasgow Science Centre at 6:30pm.

Our 14 winners will each win a pair of tickets to the screening and Q&A, plus some Oasis goodies! For your chance to get up close with Noel Gallagher just visit our WIN section The screening of the short film is to celebrate the release of the bands' greatest hits anthology 'Stop The Clocks' which is out the same week on 20th November.

It is the ONLY chance people will have to see the short film in full before 2007. In addition, Noel will partake in a Question and Answer session, for which the comp winners will have the chance to submit their own question to him! This is an amazing price, an absolute must for Oasis fans, so spread the word! ENTER HERE

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Noel Answers Fans Questions

Click here to watch Noel Gallaghers interview for MTVU.com. The interview is done in two parts, one from a normal interview and the second with Noel answering questions sent in by fans.

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Clock These Weird Oasis Notes

The sleeve notes for Oasis’s album Stop The Clocks — out on Monday — are gems of gibberish.

Sylvia Patterson writes of the band: “They came into our lives in April ’94 as the body of Kurt Cobain lay newly dead, like a star-shaped tambourine shattering through a window.”

Noel and Liam’s mum Peggy would have done a better job.

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Watch The Gonzo Interview Here

It's only Noel Gallagher chatting to Zane Lowe!

You can watch the two hour special with the main man by clicking HERE.

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The Times Stop The Clocks Review

The title gives it away, of course. The clocks have been stopped at 1996, the nation is waiting for new Labour to step in and abolish the Conservative Party for ever, the England football team are preparing to win the European Championship at home and Oasis are in their pomp.

That, at least, seems to be Noel Gallagher’s interpretation of his band’s history. Fourteen of the 18 songs on this selection date from the time when the planet’s biggest band (or so it seemed) was also the best, before cocaine and hubris dulled them. An awed if sarcastic friend nailed it back then, observing: “Football is almost as popular as Oasis these days.”

How five young men from a nondescript Manchester suburb became megastars remains a mystery. Britpop was little more than the application of marketing techniques to a previously marginal genre, but Oasis went beyond appealing to mere music fans. At their peak you could hear every tune from (What’s the Story) Morning Glory on any provincial pub crawl.

They were also the noisiest pop sensation (as opposed to a critical sensation) since T Rex and Slade. No wonder the much-loved Cigarettes and Alcohol borrowed Marc Bolan’s boogie so blatantly. Often Oasis improved on their inspirations. Morning Glory shared a guitar hook with R.E.M.’s The One I Love but it remains a sight more exciting.

Champagne Supernova, the apogee of Dadrock, was modelled on the Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps, but the solos of Gallagher and his guest Paul Weller were made for stadiums. Yet it took his mercurial brother Liam to turn Rock’n’Roll Star from statement of intent to plain fact. The pounding Acquiesce, their only shared vocal, is probably the best B-side since the Beatles.

One story has it that not only had Noel already penned the songs that sealed Oasis’s reputation before the band were signed, but that the sporadic highlights of their later, weaker albums, overlooked here, were leftovers from this original bounty. Certainly by the time success was a given, pastiches such as the Kinks copy The Importance of Being Idle and the comic-psyche- delic Go Let It Out were pleasing, and nothing more.

Despite their efforts, they never really resembled the Fabs, beyond Liam’s Lennon-esque rasp. Their style of an undisputed leader playing overlong guitar solos probably owed more to Neil Young and Crazy Horse, hugely influential in the early Nineties. Yet they were anthemic, not introspective, as raucous as the Sex Pistols but unafraid of sentimentality. If there really is anyone in Britain who doesn’t own the first two Oasis albums, this overpackaged Christmas present of guilt-free nostalgia will substitute.

Weirdly, the band that killed off indie music forever with their all-conquering success turned out to be its saviours. The generation that grew up playing these uncomplicated songs now dominates the charts. None of them has written a Live Forever yet but at least the guitar industry was saved. This snapshot of an unrepeatable era certainly entertains. Terry Venables is back on the England bench too, so maybe history really is repeating itself.

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Plays MySpace Japan Show

Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer of Oasis played a semi-acoustic show at Ebisu Liquid Room Wednesday night as part of the launch of MySpace Japan, a Japanese-language version of the popular social-networking Web site. The two guitarists ran through Oasis classics including "Talk Tonight" and "Wonderwall" (both on the recent "Stop the Clocks" CD/DVD package).

There was also a rare performance of "Whatever," and a cover of The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" in a set that lasted an hour. A 600-strong crowd mainly made up of businessmen in gray suits and their hangers-on shouted requests and sang along to the penultimate tune, "Don't Look Back in Anger," before Gallagher ended the chilled-out set with "Married With Children.

Source: www.japantimes.co.jp

Liam's Gay Handcuff Confessions

'Cop Turned Me Camp'

Liam Gallagher reckons being handcuffed by the German plod turned him camp.

Yes, the Oasis former hardman has finally 'fessed up - his fisticuffs with businessmen in ein hotel four years ago was the first step to becoming domesticated. And a little bit gay.

The swaggering singer - who spends much of his time as a docile, loving father these days - said: "Bring back them days man. Bring back the coppers and the arrests. All I do is take my kids to school. The feeling of wearing those hand-cuffs brought out the gayness in me."

Speaking on the Oasis: Lord Don't Slow Me Down movie, he said: "I'm gonna leather someone tomorrow just so I can get back in the papers. I've got it too easy now."

Tough nut Liam, 34, was famously left toothless after his brawl with a group of men in a hotel bar in 2002 ahead of a gig in Germany.

The missing gnashers were replaced and since then he's led a somewhat calmer life. In fact, even as showbiz and rock legends partied with his brother Noel after the Q Awards two weeks ago, Liam was playing the parent. Noel. 39, told me at the time: "He's not coming out as much these days. He's always doing stuff with the kids.
"Today he's taken them off to the zoo to let the monkeys have a look at him."

He's even modified his musical leanings. Last Sunday, he openly got his groove on in Brighton as he watched McFly and then Katie Price, 28, and Peter Andre, 33, performing.

So be warned anyone out there looking to provoke Gallagher Jnr:

He's feeling gay, primed and ready to explode.

Source: Daily Star

Noel Gallagher On WARATTE IITOMO

New Liam, Noel & Gem Interview

Best Of The Best

As a twenty-some-thing oik in Manchester, Noel Gallagher remembers using some of the money he had little of to buy Nirvana's In Utero album.One song made his blood boil: the unfortunately prophetic I Hate Myself and I Want to Die.

"I remember thinking 'Here's this f---ing yank who's got everything I want'," Gallagher recalls of Kurt Cobain."

He was in the biggest band in the world, he's critically acclaimed, revered by fans, he's a f---ing multi-millionaire. That was everything I wanted in life, he had it. And the c--- wants to kill himself. I started thinking, 'How can that be?'."

Gallagher, who had started writing the songs that would become Oasis' seminal debut Definitely Maybe, suddenly got the inspiration to write Live Forever.

The ballad became the band's signature tune, recently voted the best song ever by Q Magazine readers in the UK.

His lyrics became the antidote to Cobain's suicidal misery.

"At the time I had nothing, I was living in a council flat, I had nowt," Gallagher says. "I had one guitar, I could barely pay the rent on the rehearsal room, I didn't have a job but we kept it going. I still loved getting up every day because it was a pleasure to be alive. Live Forever just came out."

Fast forward to 2006 and the twenty-something Gallagher is now a thirty-something multi-millionaire who is the songwriting force behind one of the biggest rock bands in UK history.

He's got everything he thought Kurt Cobain was wasting . . . except Courtney Love. "I'm still working on that," he jokes, "but she won't have it."

Gallagher is on the phone to spruik an album he didn't want to release – Oasis' best of Stop the Clocks. You see, Oasis had left their label Sony BMG in the UK, but the company were going to release the album regardless, so Gallagher stepped in to, as he puts it, stop it being sh--.

"They're within their rights to do one," he says, "We got wind they were going to do one so we figured it's best to be involved, choose the tracks and the artwork and all that f---ing bollocks. But it's frustrating, we'd rather be working on new stuff."

Stop the Clocks features precisely no new tracks, resisting the recent trend for artists to throw a couple of new or previously unreleased songs on their "best of" albums."

Best ofs aren't about new music," Gallagher says. "When you buy a best of, not by a classic band but by new bands like Supergrass or Blur or Manic Street Preachers, there's always two songs at the end that are so obviously new songs that have been lying around the studio – let's stick that on the best of and they're so obviously not the best."

Two unreleased songs, Stop the Clocks and The Boy with the Blues were mentioned by fans as possibilities to make the compilation.

Gallagher says the songs exist but were never going to make the best of.

Instead the best of features Liam and Noel Gallagher's pick of their songs – tellingly nothing from their critically mauled Be Here Now album and a large smattering of tracks from their debut and follow-up What's the Story Morning Glory. There's also four B-sides from that era, only two tracks from their recent "comeback" album Don't Believe the Truth and one track each from Heathen Chemistry and Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.

"This album is not for the Oasis generation, as they're called," Gallagher says. "If you're an Oasis fan you've probably got all these songs anyway. This album is for kids in 10 years time who will maybe get an introduction to Oasis the way I got into the Beatles, through a best of. Then there's plenty of other material they can discover for themselves, as opposed to the band going 'Here's all our best music'. There's songs like Rockin' Chair, D'Ya Know What I Mean, Listen Up, Fade Away, Headshrinker and all these B-sides that should have been on there, but people can discover those on their own."

Stop the Clocks is a best of, not a "greatest hits". There is a difference.

Indeed, there's not only eight singles left off Stop the Clock, but three UK No. 1 hits.

"There's another seven or eight songs that should be on there. But that would have meant stretching it to three CDs and I thought that was a bit f---ing sh--, really," Gallagher says.

"Two CDs is enough. It would have been nice to get it down to one CD, to get 12 killer tracks on one album but unfortunately I've written too many killer tracks."

Not that Gallagher isn't quick to point out which singles he automatically nixed from the potential tracklisting.

"Roll With It, All Around the World. Stand By Me, Sunday Morning Call. Quite a few really. But I wouldn't be surprised if a 'greatest hits' album is on the way very, very soon. The record label owns all the rights to our music. I've got a couple of record labels myself. I'm thinking if I run a record label I'd go 'Hmm, I can still milk this Oasis thing for another album'. There's eight singles not on it. I wouldn't be surprised if there's an Oasis 'greatest hits' imminent."

While rifling through the Oasis vault recently Gallagher says he found a "f---ing immense" live version of Some Might Say and a demo of Cigarettes and Alcohol he has "no recollection of recording".

His iPod contains only one Oasis album in full – Don't Believe the Truth – but plenty of demo and unreleased material.

Any chance of an anthology series, like his beloved Beatles?

"I don't know how these things work. Sony Records is going down the toilet mate. They own it all. I'd brace yourself if I was you, the barrage of any old sh-- is coming.

"There's a full unreleased album of Definitely Maybe, the one that was scrapped, plus a full unreleased album of stuff from Don't Believe the Truth that was scrapped because of, well, various reasons. Well, it was sh-- really."

While they're in nostalgia mode, Oasis will also release a tour documentary Lord Don't Slow Me Down filmed on their Don't Believe the Truth tour between 2005 and 2006."Swarthes of it are from Australia, actually," Gallagher says. "What's it about? I have no idea. There's lots of me f---ing about in it. Me swearing and playing guitar, signing autographs.

"People are expecting me to big it up, the people who made it. You see band documentaries and they're really exciting? This one seems f---ing boring to me but who am I to say? I'm in it."

The band are also in hibernation, and will begin negotiations for new record deals outside the UK.

"As for offers I don't know, my manager deals with all that, but I'm sure there's been millions and millions been offered," Gallagher states.

There's also no word on a new album, but Gallagher is not concerned.

"We had 11 songs leftover from the last album. Out of those seven were pretty good and four were great. I'm certainly not panicking. We could release an album now without even going into the studio to be honest. But there's no hurry. We only got back off that tour in March. F--- that. I'm not even interested yet to be honest. I haven't spent the money

Source: www.news.com.au

Win Stuff - Oasis Limited Edition Albums Up For Grabs.

On Monday, Oasis release their first-ever 'Best Of…' collection. 'Stop the Clocks' is an 18-song romp through a spectacular career that has spanned more than a decade and placed Oasis as the band of choice for millions worldwide.

The tracks on the new album – singles, b-sides, album tracks – have been chosen by the band themselves and will no doubt provoke equal parts adulation and pub debate all over the world. It's a dream set list, if you will, a chance to review the immense contribution that Oasis have made and continue to make to rock n roll. Or in other words, it's a cracking album no discerning fan should be without.

Our friends at Upshot have stumped up three limited edition albums and, wait for it, a set of highly sought-after set of Oasis darts. Yes, darts. First name out of the virtual hat wins an album and the darts, next two get an album. Bargain.

To get your name in the hat to win one of these amazing prizes, just answer the following, frankly insultingly easy question...

The Gallagher brothers are called..?

A: Bill and Ben
B: Stan and Oliver
C: Noel and Liam

Mail your answer, with "I want to win Oasis stuff" in the subject line, to winstuff@rickwaghorn.co.uk.

Don't forget to include your name and postal address. If you would like to receive regular updates from rickwaghorn.co.uk, include the words "Please add me to your mailing list" with your entry. Thank you.

The competition closes next Friday, 24 November. Winners will be notified by email. Good luck!

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Noel: I Am Better Than McCartney

Noel Gallagher claims he is a better songwriter than Sir Paul McCartney.

The Oasis guitarist insists his debut album 'Definitely Maybe' is better than the first albums of every other leading British songwriter, including his Beatles idol Paul.

Noel said: "I was a superhero in the 90s. I said so at the time. Paul McCartney, Paul Weller, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards, my first album is better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that."

Despite his boast, the 39-year-old rocker regrets that he will never be able to record anything that will top the band's acclaimed 1994 debut.

He added: "Those songs were written in my 20s. All I had in the world was a guitar and a Dictaphone. When you're young, you write about being young and s****ing and drugs and drinking. You can't do that when you're 39. I was a different person then.

"If I knew how to write another 'Definitely Maybe', I'd do one every year. It astounds me that I wrote those songs."

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Noel Interview For The West Australian

At the end of 1994, Noel Gallagher was on tour with his band in the United States. The album he’d just written and recorded had gone straight to the No. 1 spot on British charts and was quickly becoming the (then) fastestselling debut album in British history.

But none of that meant much in Los Angeles. He’d just seen his younger brother, Liam, completely mess up a concert, bent on a cocktail of drugs and booze.

Gallagher grabbed his passport, went to the airport and, without telling a soul, boarded a plane for San Francisco. Oasis were over before they’d barely begun.

This was to be the first of many splits, fractures and punch-ups surrounding the enigma that is Oasis, one of the greatest episodes in the celebrated history of rock’n’roll.

Gallagher is enjoying a fairly relaxed day at his luxurious home in Chalfont St Giles, a short drive north of London. It’s been 15 years and more than 50 million album sales since he joined his brother’s band and drove it to the kind of fame and fortune that made instant rock’n’roll folklore.

“I didn’t think that we’d still be sitting here after however long it is discussing the merits of one’s back catalogue,” Gallagher laughs, reflecting on the tumultuous history of Oasis and the release of the band’s greatest hits album, Stop the Clocks.

“It was good to just be getting off the dole, really, and possibly making some money. Taking as much drugs as possible and have a good time. Rock’n’roll is not about making plans or achieving goals and that. It’s about doing what you want. Of course, Liam takes that to the absolute f...ing extreme, but there was no master plan, really.”

With the release of 1994’s debut, Definitely Maybe, there was no going back to the dole line for the five members of Oasis, which included the Gallaghers, Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs, Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan and Tony McCarroll.

Formed amid the crumbling decay of Thatcherism, for these Mancunians music was the only escape. And they were never going to leave quietly, as Liam so famously stated on the snarling Cigarettes and Alcohol: “Is it worth the aggravation/To find yourself a job when there’s nothing worth working for/It’s a crazy situation/But all I need are cigarettes and alcohol.”

Six albums later, including an impressive B-sides release, and Oasis have run and crawled rock’s gauntlet. (What’s the Story) Morning Glory created Brit-pop and made them filthy rich, Be Here Now pushed them out of favour with the hostile British music press and last year’s superb Don’t Believe the Truth reinstated them as heroes again.

There have been broken spirits and broken noses, and today Noel and Liam remain the only two original members in the band — and even they are hard pressed to muster any scrap of brotherly love.

“He’s a f...ing little idiot is what he is,” Gallagher says matter-of-factly. “I haven’t seen him for four months but I know wherever he is he is being a f...ing idiot. Genuinely, he doesn’t like me, I tell you that for a fact. And I am indifferent to his idiocy.”

Behind the brawls and tabloid fanfare, Oasis were quite simply a brilliant rock’n’roll group. Noel the pop mastermind, Liam the untameable rock star — together they were unstoppable. And hearing these 18 undeniable hits from Stop the Clocks blast through the stereo back to back is all the proof you need: Rock ’N’ Roll Star, Wonderwall, Slide Away, Cigarettes and Alcohol, Live Forever, Supersonic, Don’t Look Back in Anger and so many more.

“We tell it like it is,” Gallagher suggests of the reason for the band’s continued success. “And I guess people have been through the ups and downs with us, and ultimately there’s some good music in there. It’s real as well; I often see the rock stars on the tele and I think, ‘There’s something intrinsically fake about you’. And you don’t get that with Oasis. Ask me the f...ing question, I won’t tell you any lies.

“I guess the 90s would have been a little less exciting if it wasn’t for us.”

Add the 21st century to that as well. Not only did Oasis make English music exciting again in the 90s, the band’s influence stretched across the oceans and has today manifested itself in the contemporary rock vogue, headed by bands as diverse as Jet and the Killers.

While Gallagher, who turns 40 next May, is happy to accept his fate as rock’s elder statesmen — and says he’s currently working on the next Oasis album, which will see a release “later rather than sooner” — he humbly admits his time as rock’s bad boy genius has passed.

“Fundamentally, rock’n’roll is youth,” he explains, “so once you reach a certain age you cease to be rock’n’roll any more. It’s not about bad behaviour or about living on the edge or wearing a leather jacket or having a drug habit and drinking Jack Daniels all day. All of those things help, right, but it’s about being young.

“Then you get older and you’ve got more baggage and instead of music being the single most important thing in your life, it becomes one of many important things in your life. “

A kid who is 24 and has one electric guitar and a f.....g head full of ideas is far more interesting than someone who is in their 50s with five kids and six houses.”

Source: www.thewest.com.au

Stop The Clocks For Oasis Retrospective

In 1994 Britain's rock fans were in the grip of a grunge invasion. American bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam dominated the charts with their heavy riffs and desolate lyrics.

Luckily Noel Gallagher was on hand to save the day. "I remember Nirvana had this two-chord song saying, 'I hate myself and I want to die'," says the Manchester-born Oasis songwriter. "And it was like, as much as I like Kurt Cobain, I'm not having that.

"I couldn't have people like that coming over here saying that they hate themselves and they want to die, that's rubbish. So I wrote early hit Live Forever at that time.

"I'm not saying it was written directly as a retort to that, but kids don't need to hear that kind of nonsense. It seemed like to me he was a guy that had everything and was miserable about it, and we had f*** all.

"I still thought that getting up in the morning was the greatest thing ever because you didn't know where you'd end up at night, you know? We didn't have a pot to piss in, but it was great, man."

This was Oasis at the beginning - champions of the people, champions of themselves - a group of men with a deep desire to make music that meant something.

Today, despite selling millions of records, they're still as down to earth, still as cocksure as ever - stomping along rather than treading the fine line between arrogance and self-belief, and still making music they believe in.

It's an impressive feat, not least because of all the line-up changes (only Noel and brother Liam Gallagher are left from the beginning, currently with Gem Archer on guitar and Andy Bell on bass while Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey is semi-official drummer), and the fall from grace as national heroes after some duff albums.

Aggressive

They're still an enticing live draw, holding on to a stadium-filling legion of core fans, and they've kept the less loyal interested with their entertaining interviews and the aggressive in-fighting between the Gallaghers.

But it's their insistence at doing things their own way, thank you very much, that has really kept them in favour with their fans.

Noel and Liam haven't changed at all. For a start, Noel still does his own shopping at the supermarket, and they've kept a 'can't-be-arsed' attitude to conquering the lucrative American market.

Even in bowing to record company pressure to do a best of, they've done it on their terms. The forthcoming Stop The Clocks compilation isn't the greatest hits collection fans may have expected, or even wanted - half the singles aren't there.

Instead it's a compilation of the songs that Oasis themselves think are their best, including some album tracks and b-sides.

"To me, the songs that are on it are the songs that we have generally played live over the last 14 years," says Noel. "Those are the songs that I feel is our best work. Five of us, four of us, can't sit in a room and pick a track listing.

"I always pick the set list and if anyone's got a problem with it they say to me they're not doing that. It's the same with the track list. I picked it, it went round, and I didn't get any of the usual phone calls at quarter to four in the morning," he laughs.

Savvy

People now bow to Noel's obvious savvy because Oasis' longevity is mostly due to his dedication and undeniable songwriting talent.

Before Noel joined, Oasis were just a bunch of school mates gigging around Manchester. Liam then invited Noel on board, who made himself sole songwriter, simplified the band's playing technique and demanded they aim for nothing less than the top of the charts.
But it took some time for his peers to realise his potential.

"I remember writing Cigarettes And Alcohol in my flat in Manchester," he says, "in those days I used to write on the electric guitar with my amp on 10 in my room in this block of flats.

"One of the guys that lived above me, I remember him once passing me on the stairs going, 'You're not going to write a song with that riff, are you? That's rubbish'. I was going, 'Listen, fat arse, it's going to be amazing when it comes out'.

"And I remember going down to the rehearsal room and bringing the song in. Bonehead used to always be the tut-tutter. I told him I've got this tune called Cigarettes And Alcohol, and he goes, 'Cigarettes And Alcohol? You've got to change the title'.

"And then I did the riff and he's just going, 'Woah, you can't do that, that's T-Rex'. And I was like, 'I don't give a shit who it is, no one's ever going to hear it anyway'."

Both were wrong. Cigarettes And Alcohol was a massive hit, among many others. The Oasis hit-making machine shows no signs of stopping or even slowing down. After a few critically-panned albums, their last, 2005's Don't Believe The Truth, was lauded by many as a return to form.
And while Noel and Liam continue to put new, up-and-coming bands in their place (Arctic Monkeys and The Klaxons are their latest sore points), as well as happily sharing their political views ("New Labour have destroyed politics in this country," Noel said recently), they'll always have an audience.

"To me 1/8this album3/8 is like looking back at old photos of your kid and going, 'Look at that, you've got an ice-cream on your head'," says Noel. "It's just like looking back in time and going, 'There's the tune'.

"And if we don't do as many great tunes for the next best of, then we'll see. But who's going to tell us we're not going to do any more great tunes? I reckon we'll be rockin' 'til the cows come home."

The Clocks EP is out now. The album Stop The Clocks is out on Monday, November 20.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Queen's ‘Greatest Hits’ Album Is The Best Selling Album Of All Time

In the most anticipated chart of all time, VH1 has teamed up with The Official UK Charts Company to release a definitive list of the Top 100 Best Selling Albums ever. This chart is not another poll voted for by the critics or viewers of a TV programme; it is a chart made up of actual sales figures from the last fifty years, unveiling who really has had the best selling album of all time; a fact that has never been revealed before, until now on VH1’s ‘Nation’s Favourite Album.’

VH1’s ‘Nation’s Favourite Album’ which transmits 18th November on VH1 at 6pm, reveals that legendary rockers Queen have outsold all other artists to claim the coveted title of the UK’s favourite album with their Greatest Hits compilation selling a staggering 5,407,587.
The Beatles are in second place with ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band.’ Cementing their place in music history, third place goes to Oasis, with ‘What’s The Story Morning Glory’

Top Ten Top Selling Albums of All Time:

01) Queen – Greatest Hits - 5,407,587
02) Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - 4,803,292
03) Oasis – What’s The Story Morning Glory - 4,304,504
04) Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms - 3,946,931
05) ABBA – Gold Greatest Hits – 3,932,316
06) Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of The Moon – 3,759,958
07) Queen – Greatest Hits II – 3,631,321
08) Michael Jackson – Thriller – 3,570,250
09) Michael Jackson – Bad – 3,549,950
10) Madonna – The Immaculate Collection – 3,364,785

Other Oasis albums in the Top 100 are...

84) Oasis - Be Here Now - 1,799,784
91) Oasis - Definitely Maybe - 1,740,386

The VH1 extravaganza hosted by Alex James, will make for compulsive viewing as he counts down the chart uncovering data that has never been revealed to the public, record companies and more importantly the artists themselves. A team of researchers from The Official UK Charts Company have worked tirelessly for over six months, trawling through hand written till receipts from the 1950’s to the most current sales figures, to announce information that will send shock waves through the music industry.

Astonishingly music luminaries such as Rolling Stones, Sting, The Sex Pistols and Bob Dylan do not have a single album in the top 100 and have been pipped to the post by artists such as Jason Donovan and Robson & Jerome.

VH1’s ‘Nation’s Favourite Album’ on the 18th November at 6pm will be presented by Alex James and will be shown as a continuous five hour countdown. These sought after facts and figures will be interspersed with a plethora of interviews from leading figures from the music and entertainment industries. The ‘Nation’s Favourite Album’ countdown will be followed on November 20th by 10x60 hour spin-off shows.

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Stop The Clocks NME Review

You all know what these songs sound like. Like tea and soggy biscuits, snaking dole queues, recreational drug abuse and rainy, wasted days, these are songs - not only born from all of the above - but microcosms of modern life: songs woven into the tapestry of British culture itself.

Here's a theory: If folk music is supposedly music of the people, but modern-day folk music generally consists of bearded, smelly plebs in Arran sweaters singing songs about fishing, then surely these songs are the embodiment of what contemporary British folk music really is? Songs for the terraces, for closing time, for parties - these songs owned by the population of Britain. You can stop laughing now.

NME can stop trying to cross the speeding motorway of theoretical bullshit. And we can all get on to the important stuff.

Theorising Oasis is like drinking butter - pointless and bad for the heart. How do you Theorise the beat of a pulse, the strut of a peacock, the clang of a Les Paul? Just a second though, bear with us.

Yes, Oasis came to be at a time when rock music was on its knees (or splattered all over Kurt Cobain's conservatory if you'd prefer a more visceral image), and yes, for a brief time in the mid-'90s they seemed to provide a soundtrack to colossal, cataclysmic social and cultural change.

Yes, all of the above is true, yet, like the songs, you've heard that shit so many times before, it's no exaggeration that this writer, upon typing those words on the page, actually sighed. This is wrong. There is nothing about this record - and as a collection of singles, album tracks and B-sides culled predominantly from early era Oasis, we're talking about a record dosed to the gills with rich pickings - that should ever induce the practice of sighing.

To understand these songs is to know what it feels like to be 18 years old, with a great haircut and a great set of clothes, walking into a club with more heart and hope then dough, and thinking - metaphorically at least - "Everyone in this shithole is going to suck my f**king dick."

These are songs about triumph and adversity ('Talk Tonight'); about having nothing and wanting everything ('Rock 'N' Roll Star'); about being pissed off with the world, yet coming from such a poor lot, you're to pathetically educated to be able to express such rage linguistically, and anyway, the cool-as-f88k, forever iconic, six-syllable streched pronunciation of 'im-ag-in-aay-shee-en' says everything you want to say much more succinctly ('Cigarettes & Alcohol'). It's also about fighting - and, if you take into account Oasis' much underappreciated, career best dewy side ('Slide Away', 'Wonderwall', 'Don't Look Back In Anger') forgiving. Put plainly and simply, these are songs about every intake of air that goes into your lungs, swills about inside you for a bit, and then returns from where it arrived. These are songs that chronicle the experience of life.

Let's qualify that last statement: when Britpop ruled the roost and every half-arsed, talentless chancer (and Blur and Pulp) fancied themselves as a modern-day Alan Bennett - retelling tails of suburban strife via the eyes of detached sociological voyeurs - Oasis were singing songs of prize, choice-cut gobbledygook. No, these are songs about life in all its extremity, encompassing the minutiae of existence and the thrill of experience.

Much like Liam wore Noel's words like his own, these are songs for your life to wear. Consider 'Champagne Supernova' and its nonsensical refrain of "Slowly walking down the hall/faster than a cannonball". Now close your eyes. Remember where you were when you first heard it. Now try saying it means nothing. Repeat with the couplets of 'Supersonic', 'Morning Glory' and 'Lyla'. Turn stereo to 11. Those songs say everything about life. They document it. They pull you through it time and time again.

'Stop The Clocks' is a faultless record compiled by a band riddled with faults. After such early promise, Oasis never delivered beyond the stream of brilliant early album tracks and B-sides that marked their inception into the world. And while there's an argument that says there could be another bolted onto this record ('Whatever', 'Cast No Shadow', 'Bring It On Down'), there's not much worthy of inclusion that clocks in post-1996 within the scope of their discography.

If anything, 'Stop The Clocks' serves as an unflattering mirror to Oasis circa 2006. A national treasure, for other amusing/inspiring interview copy, and an inconsistent creative force, yet a band - for all the Gallaghers' bravado - at least ten years past their peak. Where did it go wrong?

Wah, that one's for the theorists/marriage guidance councillors/drug dealers. This is an album of celebration - a toast to the band that embodied everything you ever believed rock 'n' roll ever could be. And moreover, the band who embodied everything you ever believed life could be.

We'll say it again: You all know what these songs sound like - but Stop The Clocks, take a look back, rejoice! Celebrate how they made you feel.

10/10

Source: NME Magazine

Win Oasis Film Tickets

Next week is busy enough with the UEFA Champions League game against Manchester United on Tuesday but how about going to a special screening of the new Oasis film on Wednesday, November 22 in Glasgow's IMAX followed by a Q&A with members of the band?

Thanks to Upshot in London, we have four pairs of tickets to give away for this very exclusive event.

Oasis will release their ‘Best Of’ collection, “Stop The Clocks” on 20 November 2006. To celebrate the release the album will be accompanied by the first ever on the road film of Oasis, “Lord Don’t Slow Me Down” which will be screened in selected cities across the world in November.

“Lord Don’t Slow Me Down”, directed by renowned promo director Baillie Walsh, is compiled from a year’s filming with the band on their mammoth “Don’t Believe The Truth” world tour 2005/6 and follows one of the world’s greatest rock n roll band behind the scenes and in front of the fans across the globe.

With unique access to the band throughout the tour, “Lord Don’t Slow Me Down” is the ultimate Oasis documentary and a must see for fans.

Competition winners are also in with a chance of asking Noel some questions at the end of the screening!

If you want to enter email tictalk@celticfc.co.uk with the subject Oasis and tell us Noel and Liam's surname!

Closing date for entries is Sunday, November 19

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Liam To Open A Pub With Pete

Liam Gallagher is joining forces with Pete Doherty to open a late-night north London pub.

The 34 year old Oasis star came up with the plan after being persuaded by the Babyshambles singer during a chat in a boozer near the home of Pete's lover Kate Moss.

An insider said: "Liam loves the old days of north London where his group would hang at cool boozers such as the Good Mixer in Camden.

"But there just isn't the same vibe anymore, even at the live music venues there.

"Pete knows Liam through singer Lisa Moorish, with whom they both have children, and got talking to him one night and suggested they start their own cool venue. Somewhere with traditional ales, largers and spirits with a good old fashioned pub grub vibe - square pies, bangers and mash and all that.

But the main element is somewhere late where up-and-coming artists and bands can showcase their new music.

"It would have a retro feel and be some where cool where luvvies, music industry types and models could feel at home."

And it certainly sounds like somewhere that supermodel Kate, 32, would fit it.

Having arrived wearing a white fake fur coat, the catwalk queen headed to the Ritz for a few hours before leaving in this leopard print number.

Pete, 27, was snapped at the airport after flying to a gig in Toulouse, France.

Our mole added: "Pete and Liam are looking at a place in Kentish Town near the Pineapple pub on Leverton Street."

We're sure there will be Cigarettes and Alcohol all round...

Source: Daily Star

'Nobody Has Ever Bettered Definitely Maybe'

Noel Gallagher has branded people who like Oasis' second album the best "squares".The guitarist - who insists he has never bettered his debut album 'Definitely Maybe' - has mocked people who favour the band's worldwide hit LP '(What's The Story Morning Glory?' for not being cool.Noel said: "If you stop the man in the street and ask, 'What's Oasis' best album?' a few might say 'Don't Believe The Truth', which is great, the squares will say 'Morning Glory' and the cool people will say 'Definitely Maybe'."Noel has also praised British band the Artic Monkeys for being the only group that has come close to making a debut album as good as Oasis' 1994 offering.He said: "Nobody has ever bettered 'Definitely Maybe', don't pin it on my shoulders. The Arctic Monkeys came close, but that's it. They've got the tunes and the attitude. If only they could front it out."(C)

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Tom Atkin Scraps With Liam

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher was left red-faced recently when a young British rock rival told him to "grow up" during a backstage confrontation.The Wonderwall singer was left fuming when The Paddingtons frontman TOM ATKIN called him a "tw*t" in a recent interview, and decided to vent his frustration at a DIRTY PRETTY THINGS gig.But Atkin was less than intimidated by Gallagher's fearsome reputation, and gave him a piece of his mind before walking away. He says, "Liam was having a go and in the end I told him to grow up. "NOEL's (GALLAGHER) a great songwriter, but Liam's a toothless tw*t."

Source: World Entertainment News Network