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Alan McGee Hopes For A Oasis Reunion

The music mogul famous for signing Oasis has told of his hope that the feuding Gallagher brothers can patch up their differences - in time for the 20th anniversary of their made-in-Wales classic.

Alan McGee, the founder of cult record label Creation, signed the Mancunian rockers when they were an up-and-coming outfit playing Glasgow’s King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in 1993.

And two decades on the pop svengali, who now lives near the idyllic Mid Wales booktown Hay-on-Wye, says he is particularly looking forward to the new year because it is marks 20 years since the release of the band’s Definitely Maybe debut.

In his new book, Creation Stories, Riots, Raves and Running a Label, McGee harks back to the band’s rapid rise to fame, after the recordings at Monnow Valley Studio, Rockfield, Monmouth.

The breakthrough release, which features an inside picture of vocalist Liam Gallagher reading The Mirror - went on to sell more than 15 million copies worldwide and brought widespread critical acclaim.

In June 2006, the NME named it the greatest album of all time.

“Definitely Maybe was released in August 1994; we had just got a Sony deal and I’d become a millionaire,” said McGee, who now lives in a mansion near the town famous for its annual literature festival.

“It was a weird time for me, I was lost in a haze and the album was a painful birth.

“The recording was a lot more complicated than it should have been and it took three attempts at mixing to get it right with Owen Morris, Mark Coyle and Dave Batchelor.

“There was a lot of ‘it’s not good enough’ so it was very difficult because we didn’t want it to sound laboured. But singles from the album (Supersonic and Live Forever) were going crazy in London.

“It is the 20th anniversary of the album in 2014 and it would be great if Oasis could get back together for that but I don’t think any reunion is going to happen just yet.

“Liam is 41 and Noel (Gallagher) is 47 or something; they are still young so maybe in another five years or so they will be ready to get back together... but it is not the right time at the moment.

“Noel has his solo career and Liam has Beady Eye, they have released a couple of albums and both are doing all right.

“We are living in the age of the Stone Roses comeback; they are kicking it right now.

“I’m friends with Noel and we run into each other in Europe and Tokyo.

“But I don’t even know Liam’s telephone number.

“There is no bad blood between us, we have had nothing to fall out about but we are not in touch - guess that’s just life.

“I’m not on that touring schedule, I’m just living in Wales in the middle of nowhere and if Liam turned up to have a coffee in a cafe in Hay-on-Wye, the locals would probably have a heart attack!”

Even though they have drifted, McGee fondly recalls the time Liam wanted him to take him to India to meet the Dalai Lama.

“When he asked me in 1997 I said, ‘OK’ and went as far as booking tickets.

“But he later rang me and said ‘We can’t go to India. I’ve only got a week off and Patsy (Kensit - Liam’s then wife) won’t let me’.

“My wife Kate didn’t want me to go either.

“She didn’t want me to get the anti-malaria tablets.

“‘You are mad enough already Alan,’” she told me.

He also reveals how a mystery woman he chatted to in the dark about the music industry turned out to be Lisa Marie Presley.

“I was at Joaquin Phoenix’s house chipping a ball at a party in 2007 and there was an American woman sitting in the shadow of a tree.

“She started firing questions about the music business to me, so I asked her, ‘Are you in the business?’

“She said: ‘Yes, I am, my dad was Elvis’.

“That was the best one-liner ever!

“And she invited me to her birthday party with her family.”

Creation Stories, Riots, Raves and Running a Label, is published by www.Panmacmillan.com, price £18.99

Source: www.walesonline.co.uk

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Merry Christmas Everybody...

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On This Day In Oasis History...

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Peggy Gallagher Orders Liam And Noel Gallagher To Behave At A Wedding Next Week

Liam and Noel Gallagher are to attend the same wedding next week under strict orders from their mother, Peggy, but she has warned them she won't tolerate any fighting during the nuptials.

The brothers, who fell out when Noel, 46, quit their band Oasis following a backstage bust-up with his younger sibling in Paris in August 2009, have been ordered by their mother Peggy to attend the family nuptials next week in Ireland.

The ceremony is to be held at the K Club in Co. Kildare, where there will be free alcohol on hand, and Peggy has warned the rockers they must be on their best behaviour.

A source told the Daily Star newspaper: ''Noel and Liam refused to go at first. They still don't want to see each other. But Peggy has insisted that they are both there. A few family members are expecting it to be very awkward. But Peggy has told them there is to be absolutely no drama or fighting on the day. She thinks they will surprise everyone though by sorting their issues out once and for all.''

Liam, 41, and Noel have barely spoken since their bust-up other than a few text messages exchanged and an surprise meeting at a post-Olympics party in 2012.

Liam's new girlfriend Debbie Gwyther was trying to encourage an Oasis reunion by getting the warring brother's older sibling Paul involved to persuade them to perform a series of gigs in 2014 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their acclaimed debut album 'Definitely Maybe'.

However, Noel is adamant he won't reconcile with Liam - who now has a new band, Beady Eye - under any circumstances.

The guitarist said previously: ''We are split up. You've heard that, haven't you? You must've heard. Yeah, so, ergo, band splits up, band is no more. There is no band. So, no, I won't be getting involved, anyway. If there is a reunion, I won't be in it.

Members are expecting it to be very awkward. But Peggy has told them there is to be absolutely no drama or fighting on the day. She thinks they will surprise everyone though by sorting their issues out once and for all.

Source: contactmusic.com
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On This Day In Oasis History...

20 years ago today, on 19th Dec 1993 debut single Supersonic was recorded at The Pink Museum Studios
in Liverpool.

 

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On This Day In Oasis History...

When Oasis played their sold-out Madison Square Gardens gig on December 18th 2008, photographer Josh Cheuse filmed Noel performing an exclusive acoustic version of 'Waiting For The Rapture' in an unusual backstage location.

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Noel Gallagher: I’m Gutted AVB Has Been Sacked By Tottenham!

Legendary musician Noel Gallagher has admitted Tottenham’s decision to sack Andre Villas-Boas has left him gutted.

The former Oasis star also discussed Manchester City’s enthralling 6-3 victory over Arsenal and looks at how Manuel Pellegrini has turned things around at the club follow a disappointing campaign under Roberto Mancini last year.

Gallagher also talked about the Blues’ Champions League draw after it was revealed they would face Barcelona in the last-16 of the competition.

And he spreads his substantial Christmas cheer…

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Noel Gallagher Rejects 20 Million Pounds For 'Oasis' Reunion

Noel Gallagher has turned down 20 million to reunite with brother Liam for an Oasis world tour.

The singer-songwriter has put the kibosh on plans for the reunion which, would mark 20 years since the band’s 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe.

The Sunday People can also reveal that Paul Weller and the Happy Mondays had been lined up as special guests.

Noel, 46, right, has been asked to make up with frontman Liam for the tour, which ­included two gigs at Knebworth.

But the simmering feud between the ­brothers, which boiled over in a backstage row in 2009, won’t be cooling off any time soon.

A source close to Noel revealed: “There were hopes he would do it but frankly, he just doesn’t want to. The Oasis reunion is well and truly off.

“He has refused all offers, it got to £20 million but even the lure of money like that just didn’t work.

“Liam is very keen to get back together, if only for the money but Noel is having none of it.

“There have been several ­intermediaries from their respective camps working very hard indeed to reach some form of agreement but Noel isn’t budging and a working ­solution between the brothers simply can’t be found.

“It’s a real shame and Noel knows how much his fans would love to see the band reform but he doesn’t want to commit to the time, he is quite ­happy as he is.”

Source: www.irishmirror.ie

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On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from the 14th December 1997, when Oasis played at the G-Mex Arena in Manchester.


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Bid For A Signed Pair Of Pretty Green Shoes By Liam Gallagher

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Noel Gallagher On The Art Of Songwriting

The following piece is an extract from the superb book Isle of Noises by Daniel Rachel, a series of in-depth interviews with British musicians about their approach to songwriting. This is just the first half of the interview with Noel and the rest of it is just as good. You can click through and buy the book at the end of the article. It also features interviews with John Lydon, Mick Jones, Madness, Paul Weller, Johnny Marr, Jarvis Cocker, Pet Shop Boys, Laura Marling, Ray Davies, Squeeze, Joan Armatrading and many more. – James Brown

You were once asked but refused to answer this question. Do you recognize the romantic writer in yourself?
I remember that question. Yes, I am romantic. My missus would sit and scoff at this. I can only be romantic when I’m writing songs. I’ve written lots of love songs. I’m fucking shit at remembering birthdays and all that malarkey, buying cards and flowers: absolutely rubbish.

You recognize beauty in simple things, like the weather.

Oh yeah, for five years I was obsessed with the rain. It was raining a lot.

Or shining.

Well, there was sunshine after the rain. Somebody pointed that out to me at the end of the Nineties and said, ‘It’s been raining a lot in your music for the last five years.’ It’s like, ‘I’m from Manchester. It rains. I’m from up north.’

Is it a default when you’re stuck for ideas: rain, shine?

I’m not one of the world’s great thinkers. Damon Albarn said this once in an interview: he can ‘see four black dudes playing cards in a pub in Notting Hill and write a symphony about it’. I could see the same four black dudes and to me it’s just four black dudes playing cards. It’s just how you perceive things in life. I’m not a great reader of books; I’m not a great art lover. What I know is street life and street talk and football and drugs. I was probably the only songwriter in the entire world that hasn’t written a song about 9/11.

It’s unusual for you to write very personally. Did having an abusive father contribute to your reluctance to reveal yourself in song?

All the songs that I like, they’re not written by songwriters pulling the scabs off themselves. All John Lennon’s shit about his mother; I’m not interested in it, doesn’t mean anything to me. All these songs about personal torment, how can it? How can ‘Mother’ mean anything to anybody apart from John Lennon? It can’t, because he’s singing it about his mother, not mine. That’s just my perception of it. It’s never come out in my music ’cause (a) it’s nobody’s fucking business; and (b) it doesn’t make for great music. For instance, ‘Waterloo Sunset’; the sun setting at Waterloo Station belongs to everybody. The abusive father I had belongs to me. I really wouldn’t want to share that or put it into a song. Why waste that three minutes when you could be writing about the sun coming up in the morning?

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Beady Eye's Andy Bell Talks Past, Present And Future (Extended Version)

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On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from December 12th 1995, when Oasis appeared on MTV's 'Ultimate Winter Vacation' in Aspen, Colorado.





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