Westlife Win Battle Of Bands With "Love Album"

Irish boy band Westlife were the surprise winners of a high-profile battle to top the album charts on Sunday, beating Oasis, the Beatles and U2 to the top spot.

Westlife's collection of covers, "The Love Album", outsold greatest hits albums from Oasis and U2 as well as the similarly named "Love", a medley of remixed Beatles songs, the Official UK Charts Company said.

The four albums were all released this week in anticipation of strong sales ahead of Christmas, with many industry observers expecting Oasis's "Stop The Clocks" to top the pile.

In the end Oasis had to be content with second place, ahead of the Beatles at number three and "U218 Singles" from U2 at number four.

Top 10 UK Albums
01 - Westlife - The Love Album
02 - Oasis - Stop The Clocks
03 - Beatles - Love
04 - U2 -U218 Singles
05 - George Michael - Twenty Five
06 - Jamiroquai - High Times - Singles 1992-2006
07 - Girls Aloud - The Sound Of - The Greatest Hits
08 - Sugababes - Overloaded - The Singles Collection
09 - Razorlight - Razorlight
10 - Angelis -Angelis

Source: www.yahoo.co.uk

Gallaghers' Secret Sister Hits Out

Yes, my dad's a lying idiot

The secret sister of Oasis stars Liam and Noel Gallagher has "written off" their dad, just like her famous brothers.

Emma Davies could hardly wait to meet Tommy Gallagher when her mum June finaly told her she'd been born after June's affair with the married Irishman.

But her dreams of finding a loving father - and grandad to her own kids - have been dashed by the man already disowned by his rocker sons.

Emma, 33, told a close pal: "I know now why they want absolutely nothing to do with Tommy." "I accept him for what he is now, which is an idiot. He never took any interest in me. He would never ask about me. And he made out that what had happened between my mum and him was mum's fault. He was a married man and had an affair with my mum. She had no idea he was married. He was full of lies. I feel so stupid for thinking he could be the father I always wanted."

Emma, who lives with her children Jake, 13, and Isabel, 10, in Congleton, Cheshire, spent years of her life wondering what her missing dad was like.

After June told her who he acyually was, she fixed up a meeting with the 62-year-old Tommy at a hotel near his birthplace in the village of Duleek, Co Meath.

She told her friend: "There had been a big build-up to the meeting and it was a very emotional moment. "We talked and got on well and I thaught, 'Let bygones be bygones'."

Emma and her new-found father swapped phone numbers and Tommy promised he would be in touch. Just a few days later, it was her 33rd birthday. But there was no word from Tommy - whose Manchester home is less than 40 miles from Congleton.

Emma sighed to her pal: "I thought that here was his chance to show that he could be a dad. But there was no card, call, nothing." "I texted him to say that he hadn't even bothered to get in touch and it was my birthday and I then switched my phone off."

"Later, I had a message from Tommy saying I'd jumped to conclusions and that he had run out of credit on his phone. He said he would make it up to me when he got back from Ireland."

"I felt he wasn't trying enough, not making enough effort. Here I was after all these years and he wasn't bothered. A few days later I got a call and he said he would like to meet me. But everything had to be on his terms. The time he wanted to meet I was busy but he wanted me to change my plans to meet him."

"We couldn't agree and he kept putting the phone down on me like a big baby. I rang him back three times but he kept putting the ohone down. That was the end of August and I have not heard anything from him since. I was really tearful and I slipped into a depression."

Emma's only hope now is that some good can come out of knowing she has brothers - who suffered at boozer Tommy's hands during his marriage to Peggy that ended in divorce in 1986.

The Oasis stars, whose greatest hits album Stop The Clocks will smash into the charts today, refuse to have anything to do with their dad now.

Liam, 34, has even threatened to break his father's legs if the older man ever goes near him.

Noel, 39, has said: "I think he resented the fact he had kids because we got in the way of his lifestyle. We got hammered."

Tommy was not available for comment.

Source: Daily Star

In Memoriam George Best

On the 25th of November 2005, one of the all time greats of world football passed away.

Here is a video of him in action, with the hit single Live Forever.

Noel Gallagher Wonderwall & Don't Look Back In Anger Radio Deejay 24.11.06

Rocket Man V Thunderbirds

A National controversy may have passed you by. Elton John has entered the debate as to whether Westlife or Oasis have the greatest hits. Elton took great exception to Noel Gallagher of Oasis saying he was too precious to go out and buy a bottle of milk.

Branding Noel as a Parker from Thunderbirds lookalike - which he is - Elton went into his reasoned defence: "After what f****** Noel said about me I couldn't give a s*** about Oasis. I go into f****** shops all the time. He's just a tosser."

This is true. One of the funniest TV clips of Elton is his interview with Posh Spice while buying CDs in a record shop. He was chucking them into his wire basket by the dozen, most of the time without looking. I assume he doesn't do that with the semi-skimmed

Source: www.sundaymirror.co.uk

Oasis vs Westlife Latest

Bookies close the books

25 Nov 06 - It's official - Oasis are being trounced in their chart battle against Westlife.

Bookies are now taking no further bets on anyone other than the Irish boyband topping the album charts tomorrow as sales of their The Love Album are now 20,000 ahead of the Oasis best of Stop The Clocks.

Monday also saw the The Beatles Love album, and U2's U218 .

However, HMV spokesman Genarro Castaldo said the bookies may have been a bit hasty in their decision as Saturday is traditionally the strongest day of the week for sales - so it could all change at the last minute.

And he had these words of comfort for Oasis - whatever the outcome tomorrow.

He said: "There’s no dishonour losing out to Westlife. These guys, whatever people think, have had 14 UK Number One singles. If this album goes to the top, that’ll be their sixth UK Number One album. They are up there with the best in of them in terms of chart success.”

Source: www.bbc.co.uk/6music

Potty To Blow Oasis Chance?

David Potts knew he wasn't cut out to join Oasis when he attempted to rewrite Wonderwall. Right under the cobalt glare of erm, Noel Gallagher.

"The first song that I rehearsed with Oasis was Wonderwall,'' Potts recalls over a lunchtime pint in a city centre bar.

"But a few bars in, and I was starting to change the song. I tried to rewrite the chords to Wonderwall!

"Noel wasn't too pleased. That's the thing about being in Oasis - and in most bands - there's always a leader with an ego.

"And they're the ones whose instructions you have to follow. They tell you what to play, where to stand, what to wear. I'm not the kind of person who can follow someone's orders just like that.''

At 36 - albeit very boyish, complete with Mod-ish hairstyle, Beatles suit jacket and ruddy cheeks - David Potts is coming to terms with the fact that he simply isn't best suited to performing in the dictatorish confines of a rock 'n' roll band.

Which is why, almost 15 years since he first entered the music business as a tea boy in a Rochdale recording studio, he's decided to brave it on his own as a solo artist.
That said, it's been a 15-year learning curve of some fortitude and involving seriously heavyweight musical figures.

Most infamously, there was that Oasis 'audition' in 2000 after original members Bonehead and Guigsy left the band. Potts was the first man Noel Gallagher nominated to play bass.

Loose end

"Noel knew about me through a friend of a friend,'' Potts recalls.

"He knew I was at a loose end and looking to do something new. At the end of the day, you're not gonna turn down an audition with Oasis are you? You'd be a fool to turn it down!

"But I don't really think I was in the best frame of mind to take orders - I wanted success on my own terms. I wasn't prepared to join another band again.''

That previous band he's referring to is the venture Potts is probably most recognisable for being in - the band Monaco.

Formed with New Order bassist Peter Hook in 1995, Monaco released two albums and had three top 20 hits, most famously their breakthrough radio smash, What Do You Want From Me? They split in 2000 after conflicts with their record label Polydor but left behind a reputation as under-rated Britpop battlers, who were unfairly maligned because of the New Order connection.

Nonetheless, Potts argues that leaving Monaco and disregarding the offer of joining Oasis made him feel "like I was 16 again... like I was in my bedroom playing songs for the fun of it''.

Music biz

And he has a salient point. Having first entered the music biz at the age of 18 to work in Peter Hook's Rochdale studio, Potts has spent a sizeable chunk of his musical life operating at the beck and call of others.

Although Monaco were perceived by many as a two-way partnership between him and Peter Hook, Potts felt compromised a great deal musically, although he does harbour a great respect and admiration for Hooky.

"I look back on Monaco as a learning curve,'' he explains.

"Peter Hook was such a big, established character. I felt inferior next to him. Hooky wrote songs in the style of New Order, so I wasn't expressing myself musically like I wanted. I compromised my ideas a lot. It was only after leaving Monaco that I started sitting down at the piano or with an acoustic guitar and wrote songs. It was like being a 16-year-old again.''

Which is why the 2006 incarnation of David Potts feels less like an 'artist reborn' and all those other cliches and more the work of a spirited, dynamic NEW musical artist. You can certainly feel it in his music, in particular, latest EP, I'm The Greatest.

Potts is a lover of all things Mod, Ska and pop psychedelia and his new material sounds like the work of someone paying glorious pop homage to his idols (Weller, The Beatles, The Who), but there's a questing quality to songs like Stop And Wonder and Different Planet, which makes him more contemporaneous with the new Manc music breed.

Released on his own self- financed independent label, Maximum, and with his big mug plastered all over the sleeve artwork, it's a release which leaves you in very little doubt that this is now David Potts on his own terms, very much his own boss.

Compromise

Potts considers: "Hooky used to call it 'ego'. But I think of it more as making the music you want to without compromise. I don't want to take orders from anyone or pander to the music industry. That's why I'm releasing the EP on my own label with independent distribution, independent press. I get everything my own way.

"There's lots of good music in Manchester at the moment... bands like The Vox, The Children, The Wombats. Apart from the age gap, I don't see much difference between what I do and what they do.''

As CityLife bids farewell to Potts as he makes his way back to his car, we notice one of the ubiquitous fly posters for Oasis's greatest hits compilation, Stop The Clocks, released this week.

Potts offers a wry smile.

He says: "I don't think I would have lasted in Oasis anyway. I'm far too gobby. They would have sacked me after a week! Anyway, I think Noel and Liam are doing fine without me.''

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Clocks Stop For Oasis

If you have listened to the radio, picked up a newspaper or magazine, or flicked on the TV in the last week you may think you have stepped back in time to 1995. Oasis-mania is sweeping the country once again and their classic songs are ringing in the ears of music lovers everywhere.
This week Oasis released their best of album 'Stop The Clocks', which comprises of 18 tracks that unofficial band leader Noel Gallagher considers their finest work.

With the globe still buzzing from last year's Oasis assault - critically acclaimed sixth studio album 'Don't Believe The Truth' was a worldwide hit, spawning two UK number one singles, 'Lyla' and 'The Importance of Being Idle', while their world tour covered 26 countries and featured a sell out show at New York's Madison Square Garden - it seems everyone is 'mad fer' the Manchester band.

It is no secret that brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher - the very essence of what Oasis is - never wanted the record to come out.

Noel said: "This is from the horse's mouth. We will only do a best of when we split up. I never understood the Manic Street Preachers and Blur putting out best ofs. It's kind of saying that whatever you're gonna do from there on is not gonna be your best. We'll put one out when we stop."

However, the band were told by their record company Sony - who they are under contract with until the end of the year - that a greatest hits record was going to be released whether they had anything to do with it or not.

Determined the compilation would not be a soulless money-making exercise the rockers - Noel, Liam, guitarist Gem Archer and bass player Andy Bell - decided to get on board and make sure the LP was something they could be proud of.

Every track on 'Stop The Clocks' has been handpicked by Noel, every piece of artwork approved and the cover given the seal of approval by the foursome.

What it makes for is a near perfect record.

Opening with the visceral 'Rock 'n' Roll' star - a raw, raucous rock track that sums up what it means to be young and struggling in a dead-end job in a dead-end town but still being full of hope and still feeling like a star - the record takes the listener on an audio journey made up of songs which for many have become the soundtrack to their lives.

'Some Might Say' - which Noel describes as the archetypical Oasis track - 'Acquiese' 'Supersonic' 'Lyla' 'Champagne Supernova', 'Live Forever', 'Don't Look Back In Anger', 'The Importance of Being Idle', 'Cigarettes and Alcohol', 'Go Let It Out' and 'Morning Glory' all feature.

These are songs that have inspired countless drunken sing-a-longs at pub closing times, been blasted out at parties, provided the background for late night drinking sessions and united thousands of people - most of who were strangers to each other - in one voice at sell-out concerts across the world.

The album's more tender moments 'Talk Tonight', 'Wonderwall', 'Slide Away', 'Half The World Away' and 'Songbird' have given people in love or struggling with life the words to express their feelings that they might not have been able to summon themselves.

While 'The Masterplan' is one of the greatest B-sides ever written.

The final song on the 'Wonderwall' single, the track features Noel at his most philosophical.
When he sings the lines, "we'll dance if they wanna dance, please brother take a chance, you know they're gonna go which way they wanna go, all we know is that we don't know how it's gonna be, please brother let it be, life on the other hand won't make you understand we're all part of the masterplan", it seems as though Noel has the answers. That he knows how everyone feels, no we don't know what's going to happen to us but enjoy the ride because "we're all part of the masterplan".

That's the skill of Gallagher senior as a songwriter, he has the ability to tap into the mass consciousness. He admits he was fascinated by terrace chants when he went to football matches to watch his beloved Manchester City as a child and he has managed to transfer this collective mentality to his music.

Oasis are one of the few bands whose songs sound better when experienced with thousands of other people at a colossal stadium show, with everyone singing every word to every song and at that time it means everything to them.

As fate would have it the release date of Oasis' first best of coincided in the UK with the release of Beatles compilation 'Love'.

The record is a collection of classic tracks reworked by legendary producer and 'fifth Beatle' Sir George Martin, and his son Giles, to accompany the critically acclaimed Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas stage show of the same name.

Despite their unwavering adoration and respect for the Fab Four - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - the record has not escaped a verbal attack from the Gallaghers' razor-sharp tongues.

Noel said: "It's a pointless exercise. I turned it off after five songs."

Liam added: "It's rubbish! If you haven't got The Beatles by now you're not going to get it. I'm all Beatled-up!"

Still fuelled by the competitive streak they have had throughout their career - Noel once said he had never heard Liam have a good word to say about anyone "except his kids" - the brothers were not about to enter into the chart battle they possibly always dreamed about without firing off a few warning shots.

However, it is not a two-horse race. Super-group U2 and Irish boy band Westlife, who released singles compilation '18 Songs' and the 'Love Album' respectively this week, are also in the reckoning. Who wins is yet to be decided but if Oasis' loyal fan base get behind 'Stop The Clocks' they have a great chance.

Of course Oasis are no strangers to an epic chart battle.

In August 1995 they went toe-to-toe with the other Britpop heavyweight Blur when 'Roll With It' was released the same week as 'Country House'.

The nation was completely gripped by the epic race - the story famously made the 'News At Ten' as a news item of "cultural significance".

Although Liam and Noel lost the battle - 'Roll With It' entered the singles chart at number two behind 'Country House' - they went onto win the war with second album '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' selling almost 30 million copies worldwide and becoming the third biggest-selling LP in UK history.

Its success landed the group a trio of prizes at the 1996 BRIT Awards, Best British Album, Best British Group and Best British Video for 'Wonderwall', and it is at the same awards ceremony where Oasis will cement their status as rock 'n' roll royalty.

The band are to be honoured with the Outstanding Contribution To Music prize and have agreed to perform a selection of their classic hits.

Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry Peter Jamieson said: "Oasis set the standard for many of the young rock bands who are currently enjoying success in the UK charts. As the BRIT Awards go live for the first time in nearly two decades, it is appropriate that we should honour one of the most exciting live acts the UK has ever produced."

Although they snubbed last year's ceremony, despite being up for two accolades, Best Rock Act and Best Live Act, the Gallaghers seem genuinely excited to be receiving the prize and the prospect of causing mayhem as they have done at so many BRITs in the past.

In 1996, a drunken Liam famously insulted the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence on stage as he collected a statuette, saying: "has beens shouldn't be given out awards to gonna bes!"
Noel has even invited his former bandmates Bonehead and Guigsy to join the current line-up on stage for the first time since they both quit the band in 1999 during the recording of the band's fourth studio album 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants'.

He said: "I bear them no malice. With the thing coming up at the BRITs it'd be nice if they came along and get up with us. It'd actually be nice to sit down with them."

The award is generally associated with artists whose careers are coming to an end or are losing their cultural significance, so it seems strange that an act still clearly as important and vibrant as Oasis should be getting it.

They are a band who never went away, whose songs never lost their appeal. Indeed you can put on a copy of debut album 'Definitely Maybe' -unquestionably one of the greatest records of all time - and it still sounds as relevant and fresh as it did way back in 1994.

Although Liam, now 34, and Noel, 39, may never have matched the creative achievements of The Beatles they have mirrored their idols in one significant way - they have become part of the fabric of Britain.

Their songs are loved by the nation and have become interwoven into people's lives. The Oasis story is one of struggle and triumph and love and hate - themes that most individuals can instantly relate to.

John Lennon once sang the lyric "a working class hero is something to be". Liam and Noel are those heroes.

By Philip Hamilton.

Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk

Westlife Set To Win Chart Race

Tomorrow will be remembered as The Day The Music Died.

William Hill have now stopped taking bets on whether Pestlife will beat Oasis to No1 when this Sunday’s album chart is revealed.

The latest midweek figures show the Oirish crooners have shifted 159,000 copies of their dreadful release The Love Album, while Oasis’ Stop The Clocks has sold 139,000. There’s still time for Oasis fans to prevent this grave miscarriage of musical justice if they mount a giant stampede on record stores up and down the country.

But I’d say it is less likely to happen than Michael Jackson taking over from Konnie Huq as the new Blue Peter presenter.

This week I risked a barrage of abuse from Westlife fans when I called on Bizarre’s loyal army of readers to help thwart the boy band. hitting No1 with my Stop The C*cks campaign. And while you put up a brave fight, I fear the end is nigh.

Tomorrow, barring divine intervention, I’m afraid De Loife will be crowned No1 — thereby sounding the death knell for British music as we know it.

They saw off rock’s Holy Trinity of The Beatles, U2 and Oasis in what will go down in pop history as Black Sunday — or should that be Sunday Bloody Sunday?

Perhaps it is now time for Liam Gallagher to show his mettle and prove he really Is God and the saviour of rock ’n’ roll. Above I’ve conjured up a frightening image of how the future might look should the likes of Westlife and G4 conquer our once great nation.

Stools, cheesy covers and plastic grins will become obligatory for any budding rock star hoping to crack the British charts.

I’ve got my design wizards to mock up how Bono, Paul McCartney, Liam and Noel Gallagher would look if they were forced to adopt the Westlife way.

I’m sure Britain’s stool manufacturers are rubbing their hands with glee.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Noel On Parkinson This Saturday!

Noel will be on Michael Parkinson's show this Saturday 25th Nov (UK ONLY). The program starts at 10.50pm on ITV 1.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Sun Readers Quiz Oasis

WE asked you to send in YOUR questions for OASIS, and you did – in your thousands.

In an exclusive interview with SFTW, Liam, Noel, Gem and Andy answer what you wanted to know.

In the first part of our chat with the band (the second follows next week) read what they have to say about Oasis members past and present, why they will never tour when they are as old as the Stones and whether Noel will ever make a solo album.

A FEW years ago Noel said Oasis would never release a greatest hits album unless it was the end of the road for the band.
MALCOLM WEARING, Dumfries

Liam: I think you say that when you’re just starting out. We haven’t made the greatest hits — they’re all songs that we made ages ago.I’m proud of it. It’s got some of our best tunes and I wouldn’t have done it unless the record company forced us to do it. I’d rather be involved in it rather than not involved. But I prefer to be doing the new record, to tell the truth.

Noel: We didn’t have to get involved with any of it but we’re never going to do another “best of”. I was trying to be as hardcore as possible but there are about 10 more songs that should have been on there.

Andy: A lot of tunes were left off. My personal favourite would have been Whatever but it was Noel who picked the tunes. This is his baby.
Gem: I would have had Listen Up, D’You Know What I Mean? and Let There Be Love on there. But there you go. I totally understand the way Noel’s done it. It’s not meant to be the box set, it’s meant to run like a good gig — and everyone knows about all the other tunes not on there anyway.

WHY are there no tracks from Be Here Now? Has Noel missed off any tracks, do you think? TINA HALLADAY, Liverpool

Liam: Yes, I think he’s missed a few. I’d have put on Rockin’ Chair, D’You Know What I Mean? I would have put some off Be Here Now. If he didn’t like the record that much, he shouldn’t have put the f***ing record out in the first place. I don’t know what’s up with him but it’s a top record, man, and I’m proud of it — it’s just a little bit long.

Andy: Noel has purged Be Here Now from his mind — I don’t think he even remembers it. I’d like to play some of the songs live. I tried to get us to rehearse My Big Mouth but Noel doesn’t like these songs as they are all too long and take up two tracks in the set and the same for the “best of”. He probably associates it with a time he doesn’t want to go back to.

Noel: D’You Know What I Mean? was on it right up to the day before it was mastered. But it’s just too long. It upset the flow of the album. When we recorded Be Here Now I thought it was the greatest thing ever but the novelty of that record wore off pretty soon. Andy’s wrong. It was a great period. The money had just come in from Morning Glory so we had become very, very wealthy overnight. Sony had given us a private jet, I was given a Rolls-Royce but, unfortunately, the music suffered. I don’t know why Liam is saying that because, when it comes to playing them live, he won’t sing them!

LIAM, if John Lennon was still alive and you had 24 hours with him, what would you do? TRACY WHINNETT, St Albans, Herts

Liam: Good f***ing question, man, but I haven’t a clue. I’d freak him out by looking at him, stare him out — but I don’t know. I’d probably b*m him.

ACQUIESCE is a great record. Is it true it was written while the band were on a train – and that the title totally confused Liam?
TANJA BENDER, by email

Liam: I can’t remember, man, I don’t know when it was written as I was too busy having a f***ing good time. Yes, the title did confuse me. It still confuses me — I haven’t got a clue what it means. I’ve never asked Noel what it means either. The less I have to talk to him, the better.
Noel: It was written going to a studio in Wales to record Some Might Say. The train broke down and I was stuck for four hours and I wrote that song. Someone had said “Acquiesce” on the phone and I’d written it down. Liam still doesn’t know what it means. People have the misconception that song is about me and Liam, which annoys me to f***, as the lyrics in the second verse are, “To sing my soul to sleep, And take me back to bed.” It’s absolutely not about me and Our Kid and we’ve never shared a bed — and if I was looking for someone to take me to bed it wouldn’t be Liam!

HOW close did the band ever come to breaking up?
MARTIN MACDONALD, Kidderminster

Liam: Never. We just needed a couple of days off instead of going into another country. I don’t think it’s ever come close really. We’ve had some serious arguments but as you get older you think, nah, f***. Ask Noel.

Noel: The real low point was Barcelona for the Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants tour. In that period we were all drinking a lot and taking drugs.

IS it true Noel wants to make a solo album but never seems to have time. Would Liam let him? MICHELLE GEMMELL, Ayr

Noel: I’ll do one eventually as life’s too short and none of us is getting any younger. I’d like to make one while I still look good and before I look like Phil Collins, which, eventually, I will. It’s nothing to do with

Liam. I’ve got the songs — I could do four solo albums

LIAM once said he was John Lennon reincarnated. So who does he think Noel could be?
KEV HOLMES, by email

Liam: He’s f***ing Buzz Lightyear.

Noel: Buzz Lightyear? So I’m a superhero, then? Liam is Arthur Mullard.

WITH all the band members that have left over the years, if you had to pick one of them to rejoin Oasis, who would it be?
CLIVE KEARNS, by email

Noel: None of them — and I don’t say that with any malice towards them as they were all f***ing brilliant and I wish they’d never left. But it led to better things.

WHO do you believe is the most talented member of the band?
WAYNE BURTON, Rotherham

Liam: I’d say it’s Noel but we’re all talented in our different ways. He’s good at writing songs and I’m better at singing them. We’re all the same man. If it’s about f***ing looks, then it’s totally me.

Noel: Everyone’s got their own individual talent. Liam’s got many subtle little talents. 99 per cent of them I can’t see but he must be talented as everyone keeps telling me. Gem is a brilliant producer, Andy is a whizz at everything and a great songwriter. Obviously, everyone else will say me.

Andy: We are a band of equals. That’s the feeling that I got when I started to play with this lot. We’re all super good at what we’re doing.

Gem: I think we’re all really talented in different ways but Liam’s voice is an absolute gift from the gods. But I think Andy is the best musician in the band, and Noel’s songs — he’s one of the all-time greats.

WOULD Oasis have ever been as successful if you were all bald?
ENDA BURKE, Galway

Liam: No chance. I wouldn’t go and see a band with a load of bald f***ers. You’ve got to have a barnet or it doesn’t work.

Andy: The hair’s getting a little thinner but we’re stapling it together.

Gem: In my world it goes hand in hand — shoes, guitars, hair. That’s the triangle.

Noel: Absolutely not. The way Liam looks is a big part of it. Back in the day I didn’t look that great as I was too busy getting off my head, Bonehead was bald, Guigs looked like an average man. And shoes are always good as we’re Mancunians. We dress from the feet upwards.
AFTER 12 years at the top, how long do you think you will continue?

Will you be like the Rolling Stones or go gracefully?
DARREN MUGFORD, by email

Liam: I dunno. I didn’t join the band to split up. I joined the band because I like being in a band and I like to make music. If the tunes are f***ing good and we all look half-decent, then people will want to buy the records. I still love everything about it. This is what I like doing and it never gets boring. So who knows, man? All those bands that split up after a couple of records, well, they can suck my ****!I love singing Our Kid’s songs and I love doing the gigs. I like the way our band’s perceived and we’ve got the best fans in the world. So why would you not like it? I’ve got nothing in common with other bands — wearing their tight kecks and pointy shoes.

Noel: We just take everything one step at a time. I don’t know how long it will go on. As long as we’re all still into it. I’d say longer after the last tour, as I’ve seen a new generation of Oasis fans.

IF Tony Blair told the Queen to give Noel a knighthood as his parting gesture before stepping down, would you accept it?
RICHARD JONES, Australia

Noel: I’d initially accept it and not turn up. I’m not a big fan of the monarchy.

YOU’VE got one bullet. Who do you shoot, Robbie Williams or Phil Collins?
STEPHEN BAILEY, by email

Noel: It always comes out wrong about Phil. I don’t give a f*** about Phil Collins. I wouldn’t shoot him. I think he’s bit of a knob though. As for Robbie, I’d load the gun for him as he’s eventually going to do it himself as he is a grossly unhappy person.

MORRISSEY used his celebrity to reform the New York Dolls. What about using your power to get The Smiths back together.
CRAIG WELLS, by email

Noel: Well if The Smiths announced a gig anywhere in the world tomorrow I’d be there and the same goes for The Stone Roses. But they properly fell out. As bad as things get in Oasis there’s always this sibling thing that draws us back together or my Mam gets involved. So it’s a pipe dream.

THE Beatles have had their music adapted for Cirque Du Soleil and Queen have had their songs turned into a musical. Any plans for Madferit: The Story Of Oasis?
JAMES, by email

Liam: Nah, I wouldn’t be up for it. Not sure what Noel would say as he’s getting weirder the older he gets — especially as he’s coming up to 40. I bet he’ll have a yellow f***ing Ferrari next, so who knows where his head will be at in a couple of years’ time? But it’s not my cuppa tea. It’s not rock ’n’ roll is it?

Andy: The Cirque De Soleil is a mad one. I’ve heard some of the music and it’s amazing. I’ll see it next time I’m in Vegas.

Gem: I sincerely hope not. I really do. I think it’s an un-Beatles thing to do.

Noel: I bought the album and I had to switch it off. I thought it was ridiculous and I didn’t get it. It was like Stars On 45. A musical? I don’t know. It sounds that f***ing ridiculous that I’m kind of getting into it.

WAS Songbird included just to stop Liam whingeing?
BEN GOULSON, London

Liam: Our Kid put it on! It’s a f***ing tune! And I don’t f***ing whinge. Who asked that? Tell Ben he’ll be whingeing when I take my foot off his head.

Noel: No, because it’s a bona fide good Oasis song and I wish I’d written it as I f***ing love it.

DOES your success and commitment to touring and promotion interfere with your creativity?GARY STANFORD, by email

Noel: I’d say yes it does. I used to aggressively pursue creativity. Ten years ago if I wasn’t writing a song every day I’d panic. But now I’ve nothing left to prove and I don’t mean that in a defeatist way. The only things I’ve got to prove are to myself. So even if I go four months I don’t stress. I used to chase after my creativity but now I let it find me.

ANDY/GEM, if you could have played on any songs before your time which would they be? Do you ever regret not being a part of Definitely Maybe?
SARAH DYSON, Wigan

Andy: I would’ve liked to have played on all my favourites like Slide Away, Champagne Supernova, Live Forever — all those kind of tunes. But it doesn’t really matter as I play them live now anyway. I don’t have any regrets in life as everything led me to where I am now. When they did Definitely Maybe I was seeing Liam and Noel as we were in the same studios a few weeks apart as I was making Ride’s third album.

Gem: It’s all what it was, what it is. It’s carved in stone. Now they’ve got a different life in my head played live. Champagne Supernova is a different record when I play it live.

DO you envisage a time when the band no longer tour?
BRENDAN FINNEGAN, by email

Liam: I hope not because sitting in the studio all day is great but I’ve got to see people’s reactions. It’s a top day out at an Oasis gig, whether you’re on the stage or in the crowd so why would you want to cut that stuff short?

Andy: Yes I can, well maybe not tour so much. I can look forward to a day when we do tone it down but right now we’re still in our prime and none of us want to stop now.

Gem: No I think you’ve got to tour and that’s why all the great bands, us included, have our fans because we go and play to them. Simple as that.

Noel: Me and Andy look at things more objectively. I’m not going on the road when I’m 50! And it depends on how I look. We’ll still be touring in five years but I don’t ever want to end up like Pink Floyd. Now I f***ing love Pink Floyd but on stage at Live 8, well I’m not going out like that. I want our last photo shoot to look good. I don’t see an end to it yet but we’re not going to be like the Rolling Stones, no f***ing way — all that macrobiotic food and tights? No way.

NOEL and Gem, will you make an acoustic album after your tour?
SIMON MANGERS, Luton

Gem: Who knows? We’ve done loads of stuff, radio sessions and everything so all they need is for someone to put them in a sleeve. It’s weird as everything with Oasis is this rock ’n’ roll lad thing but this shows a really tender and quiet side of us.

Noel: We had a good laugh doing that tour but I wouldn’t like to make it a bigger tour. Doing the acoustic tour I was centre of attention and I’m not sure I like that. It’s weird.

YOU’VE got a docu coming out, but if Hollywood was to make the Oasis film, who would play who?
NEIL RENTON, Edinburgh

Noel: Nobody really looks like Liam and fortunately no one looks like me. We’re pretty unplayable I guess. Rhys Ifans would do a good Liam if he could get the accent right.

WAS it difficult for the band to adjust to being musical celebs?
ALEX MacGREGOR-DEVLIN, by email

Liam: Nah, if people ask for an autograph, sign it and move on. I don’t like it if there’s a load of people mithering me but apart from that it’s not hard.

Andy: I haven’t the same profile as the brothers so I can go down Woolworths, do my shopping and I don’t get bothered.

NOEL featured on the Radio 2 superstar line-up telly advert. Who would you have in your fantasy line-up?
DAVE MYERS, Liverpool

Liam: I wouldn’t have had Sheryl Crow. I would have had Keith Moon for a start. I would have f***ed Our Kid off and got Jimi Hendrix in. Elvis would go and I would have been in there. For backing singers, The Supremes.

Andy: I’d keep Keith Moon on drums, Noel on guitar. I’d get rid of Sheryl Crow and get John Power from The LA’s in and yes, maybe Elvis on vocals.

Noel: I’d go for Reni from the Stone Roses. Lee Mavers from The LA’s singing and playing guitar and me on another guitar. On lead guitar Johnny Marr and on bass Mani.

I SAW Oasis in Colorado and it was amazing. Do they still care about breaking the US?
RICH JONES, Denver

Liam: What’s breaking it? We tour there. I would never want to be that huge that you’re on Oprah. I’d never want to be that big in America as they’re all f***ing weirdos. If it means going out there all the time then I’d rather be big here. The money would be nice but if that’s the only reason, then nah.

Andy: Last time we played Red Rocks, Hollywood Bowl and Madison Square Garden so have we not made it playing those places? I feel like we have, though I feel we should be bigger. Americans would like it if they heard us more on the radio.

Noel: Our US label is conservative, Celine Dion’s on it. They’re ultra-professional and we weren’t bothered about the meet-and-greet side of it but the older I get the more I like going there. It would be great to have a No1 American album but I know what it takes to get that. The reason we didn’t break America wasn’t anything to do with the music — how can it be, our music is f***ing great. A lot of it has to do with mine and Liam’s personalities — they just don’t get it. Our record company never really got us, but I can live with that.

SO, will there be another record?
MARTIN PETERS, Manchester

Liam: We’ve done stuff for the next record. When we recorded the last one, we recorded about 50 tunes and I think there’s an album there definitely. We’ve just got to wait for Our Kid to decide what he wants to do. If he wants to make a new record let’s go. I’m ready to go. If Noel wants to take a f***ing break then I’ll be doing the f***ing record with Gem as I don’t take breaks. He always says: “Our Kid loves the limelight, he can’t relax” Well where were you last week? In Tokyo you f***ing knobhead.

Noel: Is that right Liam? Liam sees things very differently to the rest of us. After The Brits I don’t know. Liam needs to go to anger management classes and get some manners and then maybe we’ll make another record.

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Gallagher Brother Blasts Oasis Greatest Hits Compilation

Oasis star Liam Gallagher is furious with his brother and bandmate Noel for "missing out" some of the rockers' best tracks on their newly released greatest hits collection. Stop The Clocks is tipped to be a huge festive hit in the UK but Oasis frontman Liam wishes he'd had more input in the content. He fumes, "I think Noel's missed a few. "I'd have put on Rockin' Chair, D'You Know What I Mean? I would have put some off Be Here Now. "If he didn't like the record (Be Here Now) that much, he shouldn't have put the f**king record out in the first place. I don't know what's up with him but it's a top record, man, and I'm proud of it - it's just a little bit long."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

It's Official, Westlife Are Better Than Oasis

William Hill have closed the book on which Album will be number 1 this weekend having been inundated with bets on Westlife.

William Hill have hardly taken a bet on the other big bands. Oasis started as the 1/12 favourites to win and drifted out to 8/1 conversely Westlife starting at 6/1 and finishing at 1/20 on favourites!

"We could not have got this more wrong and have be whopped by Westlife, Oasis is a dirty word in our office," said William Hill's spokesman Rupert Adams.

Source: www.casinotimes.co.uk

Barlow Joins Oasis/Westlife Debate

Gary Barlow has joined the current chart debate, backing Oasis to win the album battle against Westlife.

The Take That singer reportedly told The Sun, "I just don't get the whole Westlife thing. I don't understand who would go out and buy their records.

"I haven't got it and I won't be buying it, but I have got the Oasis album. I'm definitely backing Oasis over them."

The comments come after Sir Elton John and Simon Cowell both expressed their support for Westlife earlier this week.

The latest midweek sales figures show that Westlife's Love album is slightly out-selling the Oasis greatest hits collection Stop The Clocks.

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

The World According To Noel

Noel Gallagher isn't backward in sharing his opinions about, well, everything. Here's what's been on his mind.

We're talking about the new best-of Stop the Clocks. Have you got a favourite Oasis song?
Not really a favourite, no. If I was to pick one I was to listen to right this very second it would be either The Importance of Being Idle or Supersonic.

Have you got a song then that you think is the best song you've written?

You can't . . . I don't think you can really say that. Fifty million people would say Wonderwall, I would say Live Forever but then again Liam would say something else. It's all opinion and conjecture, isn't it.

When you write a song like Wonderwall or Supersonic do you have that feeling once you get to the end of it, `Yeah, that's pretty good'?

I did with Live Forever. Supersonic was done in such a rush I still . . . when I listen to that song now I still think it's amazing. The Importance of Being Idle, when I finished that I thought it was amazing. I went out and celebrated that night.

You can feel it?

I've written many, many great songs, obviously but I've also written a few stinkers, you know what I mean so when the good ones come along I know. Some of the songs take you by suprise. Some songs you write and you think, "Hmm, that's alright'" and then loads of people go, "Wow, that's amazing." Like Lyla for instance, I thought, `well that's pretty good and then when people heard it they were going, `F***ing hell that's incredible' and I'm like, `Really?'... of course it is, I wrote it.

But that must be part of the fun as well. To take albums on the road and see which songs people really respond to live?

That's all part of the creative process. I've written some things that I thought were monumental and then people have heard it and gone, "Gnah, that's alright". You never quite know. But there certain songs that come along where you go, `F***in' hell. That is fantastic.'

Was it always frustrating that Acquiesce never got onto an album?

Not really. Frustrating for other people. Not me. I never understood what people were, "Oh this should have been a single." Well, why wasn't it then? I don't remember people at the time clambering for it to be a single. It's a great song and all that, but it's not like it's been brushed under the carpet and forgotten about. The cream always rises to the top.

Because a lot of the talk at the minute is going to be about the best-of, is it difficult or interesting for you to start thinking about the early days all over again?

You know it's not difficult because everytime we put an album out people always compare it to Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory so it seems to be I've been talking about the past forever. It's like same sh**, different day for me.

Does it feel then that the best-of might get rid of a bit of that then? Once the best-of is out you will be able to start again.

I don't know. Oasis and particularly Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory had such an impact on people around the world that maybe I wouldn't want people to stop talking about that. I don't know.

The best-of is the end of your contract with Sony BMG. So now you're looking for another record company?

My manager deals with all that kind of thing. We don't have to deal with any of that sh**. Far too complicated for me. I remember looking at a record contract once and it just looked like what I imagine the script for Lord of the Rings would have looked like. I was reading it, going, "What does...? What? What the...? What does that word mean?" It was like one of those scenes from Star Wars where an android is reading out the technical difficulties on one of the space ships in the desert. And you're just like, "I don't know what that means." I thought this is all about making records, isn't it? It's all forthwith and hereforth and I hereby degree that those forsooth, "What?"

So people just need to tell you when to start writing songs and when to book into the studio.
I'm a huge rockstar, point me in the way of the drum riser. That'll do me.

I read an interview where you said the 90 seconds where you walk from the backstage of a stadium to the stage are the best moments you can get.

Walking from the wings to your microphone is an incredible high, and it's an incredible re-affirmation of what you do. It's such a communal... people have said to me, "Well, is it better than drugs?". Well, it is because drugs is a selfish personal thing. If you're taking drugs with a whole lot of people, you can all take the same drug but it effects you in different ways. But when you experience something like that, this very communal thing with 60,000 or 70,000 people it's quite special. It's not something to be taken lightly. If you're going into it thinking it's a f***ing walk in the park...

The more you do it, the more you learn how to handle it. To me, I never used to get nervous, do you know what I mean? I was always a little on edge before going onstage. But now I just love it. It's almost like you can conduct an orchestra when you're up there.

What a lot of people don't understand, when they're starting up, they go, "Oh, I'd be petrified to get up there" and I always say to them, "The thing about it is ... all the people looking at you, they want you to be there. You should never go out on a stage and feel I'm not worthy to be in this stadium. The state of mind you've always got to be in is I'm bigger than this stadium and these people want me to be bigger than this stadium. So even if I don't feel like I'm bigger than this stadium I've got to act like I'm bigger than this stadium or let somebody else do it. I've never understood these wimpy rockstars who get stage fright. Go and get another job then.
When you can command an audience of that size elsewhere in the world, why come to Australia when the reality is you'll only play to 5000-10,000 people when you could be playing to 60,000 elsewhere?

That's a good question ... the weather?

The first time we came to Australia we didn't have a very good time at all, we were in the wrong place mentally and we were all heavily into drugs. It was a f***in' crazy time. We were having a great time but the music and all that suffered so we didn't go back for awhile. I guess ever since then ... well, let's put it this way. You speak English. We've kind of got the same cultural references. I can order room service pretty easy in Australia. It gets a bit difficult in Japan. You say, `No, I asked for sugar, man. Not lobster.' That kind of thing.

Australia traditionally has loved its music, it's rock'n'roll. Who wouldn't want to go there? My very good friend Paul Weller, I keep saying to him, "Everytime I go there, man, they keep asking me when you're going to go there.' And he's like, `Well, it's a bit far isn't it?" And I'm like, "Well, f***ing hell, it's a bit far. They do have airplanes now you know. No-one's requiring you to drive there."

Are you worried about the reception you're going to get next time you come down here after your comments about the Socceroos?

What did I say?

I believe you said, you wanted to "kick Tim Cahill in the bollocks" and that the Socceroos had a "sh*t name."

That's rubbish. Socceroos. That's f****n' nonsense. And explain to me this ... you know Tim Cahill? Everytime he scores a goal he goes and boxes the corner flag, that's ridiculous.

He's being the Boxing Kangaroo.

F***ing boxing Socceroo. What a tit.

It's no different to British players DJing when they score goals.

Yes it is. Well, they're idiots as well. Listen... can you print this? All footballers are f***ing idiots. Start from that rationale. They're all idiots. All of them. They're moronic. They can't dress, they're into shit music, they've got sh*t hairdos, they've got ugly wives and they've got stupid kids.

That's alright then, if you're bagging all footballers.

Oh, totally. I do think Australians are that good at cricket and rugby, what are you playing football for?

You'll never win the world cup. That's for sure. But then neither will England so I don't know what I'm going on about.

England are shit and all. And don't get me wrong, I went to the World Cup in summer and all those English footballers are f***in' knobheads.

Are you going to come out here to catch some of the Ashes?

No, cause I'm kind of busy doing the promotion for this.

It'll be interesting, very, very interesting. You ... you lot have to win it really, don't you? Cause it was bad last time. Old f***ing Glenn McGrath saying you were going to whip us five-nil but it didn't quite turn out like that, did it.

I'm looking forward to that and the Rugby World Cup. It's going to be good man. Do you think you'll win the Rugby World Cup?

I'm from the Southern States so we don't really play Rubgy down here.

Oh really, Do you play boomerangs and all that lot?

We play Australian Rules Football.

* See, now that's f***in' insane. That is insane.

It's a great spectator sport.

It's stupid. Men in really tight shorts and vests, c'mon.

Have you been to a live game?

Are you insane? How would I have been to an Australian Rules ... do you know why it's called Australian Rules?

Because we only play it in Australia.

Because you only f***ing play it in Australia.

What about when you've been out here on tour?

Listen, I'm too busy getting drunk and talking about the Beatles.

You can do that at the football

Nooooo. I'm not having that. That's wrong. That's like saying Sumo wrestling, ain't it brilliant... if you're Japanese it is. It bears no relation to the rest of the planet. It's like baseball. What a load of sh** that is. Each to their own I guess.

No plans to tour here any time soon, then?

I guess when we put a new record out whenever that'll be. It'll be on the map.

Have you started thinking about a new record?
Not really. We only really got back off that tour, it only finished in March. And I don't really need to be hanging out with my brother. Once every three years and only for one year at a time.
You also have another brother Paul, what does he do?

He gets on my nerves, is what he does.

You're the oldest?

No, I'm the middle. Our Paul, what does our Paul do? He keeps the Oasis archive. If you asked him where were the band playing on the 29th of August 1992? He could tell you in an instant. He could even tell you what clothes I was wearing. He's an encyclopedia of all that irrelevant bullsh**. Good lad though.

Thanks for your time, Noel. I think you need to check out a bit of Australian Rules Football next time you're in Australia.

And you need to get a life, love. See you in a bit.

Source: www.news.com.au

Gum Might Say

You think of Oasis and you think of big tunes, punch-ups and massive drug usage.

The tunes are all present and correct on current chart-assaulting greatest hits album Stop The Clocks, and the brothers are still scrapping – so that just leaves the drugs.

Luckily, a certain Mr Noel Gallagher isn’t shy when it comes to talking about the illicit produce that helped fuel his most creative years.

And – despite being off the naughty stuff for more than eight years – the big Manc only has good things to say about narcotics.

Even though his teeth started falling out and he found people he hated sitting in his front room.

In fact, he takes great pleasure in ripping the mickey out of today’s crop of rockers for failing to handle their nose candy without seeking out help.

Noel, 39, says: “You read all these stories now of rock stars going into rehab. Someone must take them to one side at some point and say: ‘Look, I think you’re going off the rails and you might want to go to The Priory or something.’

“To start with we were off the rails before we got a record deal! That’s the difference between the working classes and the middle classes.

“The middle classes experiment with drugs and the working classes just get stuck in. Forget experimenting with them, let’s just get them done.”

And get them done he did.

“We kind of arrived in London hammered,” he confesses.

“We were just out of it and like ‘let’s ’ave it!’ It’s never been a problem for me and Liam.

“It fascinates me that out of all the people we hung out with the only two people who haven’t been in rehab is me and Liam.

“Why would you go to a hospital to pay somebody four grand an hour to tell you things that really you should already know yourself?”

Certainly, Noel had the strength to leave that tempting powder behind him without the help of men in white coats.

He explains: “I’m free of drugs, now, eight-and-a-half years. When you say that to people you sort of half expect a round of applause but I don’t think there should be anything like that.

“Where we come from in Manchester, that was just the done thing and I’ve never had a problem with it.

“The only thing that is bad about drugs is that you drink more and that eventually messes you up, I think.

“If there were gold medals for taking drugs for England then I’d have won a sh*t load!

“I did enjoy it but it kind of got to the point where I’d done them all and that was it, there was none left and I just thought: ‘Can’t be arsed any more.’

“How it’s been portrayed in the past is that I kind of just stood up at a party and went: ‘And this shall be my last line, after this there will be no more!’

“We were at a party one night and then I got up one day and thought: ‘I can’t be bothered today.’

“Then one day turned into a week and that turned into a month, then that into a year – I kind of then just enjoyed not being out of it all the time.

“As that state of mind took hold I would go out with the people I was surrounded with at the time, I’d be sitting there thinking: ‘I don’t even like you, your bird’s an idiot. What you doing in my front room? Get out of here.’

“In the end everybody kind of left the party, if you like, and left to get on with life I guess.

“You’ve got to be strong-willed to say it and vanity also plays a big part in my life – my teeth were falling out and all sorts!

“Nobody wants to look like a weirdo, you know what I mean? You don’t look good and everything was revolved around getting hammered.

“I don’t want this to sound like ‘my drugs hell’ because it wasn’t hell, it was fantastic and I had some of the most monumental nights out and monumental nights in ever.”

Noel grew up in Burnage, south Manchester, and was a regular truant with his brother Liam, allegedly breaking into cars and stealing bicycles.

As a teenager he taught himself to play guitar and also had his first brushes with narcotics before he became a roadie with indie band Inspiral Carpets.

There he began to experiment with Class A drugs on a regular basis and returning from an American tour in 1992 he formed a band called Rain.

They eventually became Oasis when Liam went on vocals. The rest is rock ’n’ roll history.

Noel adds: “I wrote some of the best songs, met some of the greatest people in some of the greatest parties … man.

“It just came to the point where it was like: ‘I can’t be bothered any more, it’s too much.’”

He may be nearly 40, and settled down with his missus Sara MacDonald, 31, but Noel’s still regularly scrapping with his brother Liam, 34, who he affectionately calls “Our Kid”.

He jokes that they row because “I’m better looking than him, obviously”, but admits even when they are warring, deep down they still have feelings for each other.

He says: “I guess because there is a lot of pressure being in a big group we kind of fall out on a regular basis but it’s not anything that’s ever put the band in danger.

“The only people that suffer really are the people that happen to be in the band at that point – there’s been hundreds of them in the past.

“I think that maybe, how can I put it, we don’t like authority figures very much, me and Liam.

“I guess because everyone in the band kind of directs everything towards me because I am, for want of a better word, seen as the leader – I think Liam sort of rebels against that. I think that causes friction between us.

“But put it this way, if he was getting his head kicked right now I would probably join in to save him and if I was getting mine, he would probably join in to save me. I can’t say any fairer than that.”

Both brothers are particularly protective of their mum Peggy, who brought them up single-handedly when their dad walked out on them in the early Eighties.

But they didn’t exactly splash the cash when the millions started rolling in from sales of albums Definitely Maybe and (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?

Noel says: “When all the money started rolling in we were like, ‘Of course you’re going to leave now, aren’t you?’

“She was like: ‘I’m not moving anywhere.’ All of her sisters, she’s got seven or eight, live within a two-mile radius of each other.

“The one thing that we got her was a new garden gate! Seriously, it never had a latch on it so when it was windy it would bang all night.

“Her bedroom was at the front, and she said ‘If you’re going to get me one thing get me a f***ing garden gate’.

“You should have seen this garden gate at the time because it’s not much now. It was mega – had this big gold number five on it.”

Noel Gallagher appears on Parkinson on ITV1 tomorrow night at 10.50pm.

Source: Daily Star

The Razz: Noel Loves Westlife

Noel Gallagher last night shocked his fans by claiming Westlife are better than The Beatles.
Speaking after the showing of the Oasis documentary, Lord Don't Slow Me Down, at Glasgow Science Centre, Noel described the Irish boy band's new single as "genius".

He also spoke of his love of Paul Weller and meeting Neil Young and Burt Bacharach. Noel, who is staying in Edinburgh for the next week, also said he was looking forward to taking a break from touring next year.

Promising he'll be back in the future, he added: "I'd go insane.

"I can't work with our kid more than once every three years.

"He gets on my t**s."

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Celts Hit Right Note With Noel

Oasis star Noel Gallagher told last night how he had a spring in his step after Celtic beat Man United 1-0.

Manchester City fan Noel said the victory was all the sweeter because his Scots girlfriend Sara MacDonald is a Rangers supporter.

Noel said: "It was a f***ing sensational score. I was sat on the sofa at home with Sara, and she was devastated.

"I would be lying if I said the words 'Get in there, you f***ing dancer" didn't pass through my head.

"Forget the goal. It was the penalty save I liked more than anything."

Noel claimed he'd rather be a rocker than a football player despite his love of Man City.

He was speaking after new Oasis documentary Lord Don't Slow Me Down was shown at the Glasgow Science Centre.

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Gallagher: 'Robbie Williams Will Kill Himself'

Noel Gallagher is convinced British pop star Robbie Williams will kill himself, and the Oasis guitarist would happily load the gun for his longtime rival. The Wonderwall guitarist has no sympathy for Angels singer Williams, who he believes will turn to suicide because of his battles with depression. He says, "I'd put the bullet in the gun as he's eventually going to do it himself as he is a grossly unhappy person."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Gallagher Praises All Saints

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher has hailed British girl group All Saints as "the coolest band around". But the WONDERWALL singer, who has been in a relationship with All Saint Nicole Appleton since 2000 and has a son, Gene, with the singer, insists his opinion is in no way biased. He believes the band caused a huge stir when they entered the music scene in the late nineties becuase they refused to sugar coat their relationship. He says, "They were the coolest band around. "They weren't like all the other girl bands, with their arms around each other, saying, 'Ooh, we love each other,' when it was obvious they didn't. "They told it like it was - one of you's a c**t and other one's a bitch! It was refreshing and that's what makes them different." All Saints recently reformed after a five-year hiatus, with a new single called Rock Staedy.

Source: www.contactmusic.com