Watch the video for the track below.
Liam was also at the game and was pictured with fans.
"I'm bricking it because it's an all-English final."
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) May 29, 2021
"I'm quite recognizable and I live in London. The abuse I'll get from taxi drivers will be relentless if we lose."
Birthday boy Noel Gallagher joins @TheDesKelly, and he's a bit nervy... 😅#UCLfinal pic.twitter.com/yPiLBWDymk
"Mate that was worse than one of your own goals." @NoelGallagher got @Carra23 💀 pic.twitter.com/OQuxPtYh7R
— Champions League on CBS Sports (@UCLonCBSSports) May 29, 2021
Incredible reaction shots from the Chelsea fans, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher & Roman Abramovich #ChampionsLeagueFinal #MCICHE pic.twitter.com/3bg1SwXOUq
— Tom Flynn (@tomflynn_photo) May 29, 2021
13:00: Noel Gallagher counts down the chart from the very day he was in born in 1967. With classic singles from Jeff Beck, Bee Gees and The Who.
You can listen back to the show here.
14:00: Noel Gallagher counts down the chart from this day in 1979. With classic singles from The Police, ABBA and many more!
You can listen back to the show here.
What happened to the album you did with Noel Gallagher?
“He hasn’t destroyed the masters because I’ve got them, haven’t I? Of course! How has the producer who made the record alone in a room for 18 months and only worked directly with Noel for three weeks not have the masters? I wouldn’t release somebody else’s music because he’s paid for it, but I may or I may not be still working on bits – interesting question.”
How far out did the record get?
“I’m used to really battling to get things through the final hurdles. It required the kind of artistic process that I’m used to, but when you’re dealing with the chief songwriter of Oasis who’s got his own ways of producing things, it took a long time to get over those hurdles. It’s gonna be very different to the way he does it. It wasn’t our album so it was like, ‘We’re making an album for you, remixing, putting different backing around your songs, collaborating directly with you at points’, but then I delivered that work with loads of forks in the road.”
And then it all came to a halt?
“He basically went on tour and we never got to do the final mixing. To me, that’s more of a mystery than anything else. It was really wild and it’s a real shame because it wouldn’t have taken that much more of a relationship. There was some art, it got to almost being finished and I think it’s a real fucking shame. It’s still sitting there and it’s still extraordinary. I think people would love to hear it.”
He said he felt like he was making a record for you…
“Absolutely not. I couldn’t be more co-operative if I fucking tried. My job as a producer is to try to gently encourage people to surprise themselves. I’ve got better at that [but] I wanted collaboration [in a way] that maybe he wasn’t prepared to be collaborative. The truth is I think he thought we were gonna remix his songs and we weren’t gonna push collaboratively. The absolute opposite actually happened. I became the producer and I got really involved with him deep down and dirty, started trying to illicit deeper performances from him and I got them on some occasions. I think he even surprised himself. We got in a room with him, we pushed him, we argued with him.”
So it felt collaborative to you?
“I was very collaborative. We had the odd little argument but generally we were really buzzing. I was DJing at his album launch, he came over to me at that party and said ‘I’m gonna finish the mixes on these, it’s gonna be the second best rock album of all time’. Then I start to get bad-mouthed in the press, but I don’t really hold him much malice. Take it from me, the record is great, a lot of work was done, he was inspired by it.”
Have you fallen out?
“No, we’ve not fallen out at all. The way I view this is that it’s a relationship. As a producer you have to work with the person you’re with and I could’ve done better at that. So I’ve learned from it. I love Noel, I don’t agree with the way he’s handled some of it, but I understand – he makes his decisions that work for him at that point. I sat with him in a room, I’ve seen him surprised by what he can do when he’s inspired in a slightly different way.”
13:00: Noel Gallagher counts down the chart from the very day he was in born in 1967. With classic singles from Jeff Beck, Bee Gees and The Who.
Details here.
14:00: Noel Gallagher counts down the chart from this day in 1979. With classic singles from The Police, ABBA and many more!
Details here.
It's listed on several websites including www.cultura.com
Record Collector: Did you find it difficult to write during lockdown?
Noel Gallagher: "No. I wrote more songs in that first three month period than I would have done otherwise because I've always got songs in various stages of completion. I found it easy to write. And then there was this box in the cupboard under the stairs with all these blank CD's in. I went right, today I'm going to fucking take that... I'm putting on these CDs and I found a load of old Oasis stuff, like songs I'd never recorded but I'd demoed. I'm going, no fucking way!".
Record Collector: What a find!
Noel Gallagher: "There's a great version of Eleanor Rigby, a punk version of Eleanor Rigby, and an amazing version of (1969 George Harrison Beatles track) 'It's All To Much' we did on the day George died. We went to the studio and did it as a tribute, and Johnny Marr's on it. There are two drummers: I was playing with Alan White and Johnny is on Guitar. It's fucking amazing. I'd forgotten all about it. It was just the backing track; Liam hadn't got round to doing the vocals. So I found all this music, which was gonna come out. You know that Don't Stop demo that we put up. We had planned to do an Oasis 'best of the 2000s' because it's a period of Oasis that the masses are not interested in but for the actual fans there's some great tunes. With Don't Stop it was like, well, people are fucking floundering, put this out, the fans will love it".
Record Collector: Oasis fans would probably love the idea of a box full of more unreleased songs...
Noel Gallagher: "Well we did this best-of and the bonus disc was gonna be all these unreleased songs/ But - ha! Unfortunately we couldn't agree on something and it got dropped by the wayside. Because it was all set up and everyone was gearing up to release it, I was like, well hang on a minute, it's 10 years since I went solo, why don't we just do a best-of".
