Who Feels Love?
Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher
On August 16th 2012 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the Frequency Festival in St Polten, Austria.
Watch a number of videos from the set below.
On August 16th 2016 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the Salata in Zagreb, Croatia.
Watch a number of videos from the set below.
On August 16th 2018 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the Olympic Hall in Seoul, South Korea.
Watch a number of videos from the set below.
Signed Versions Of Liam Gallagher's 'Knebworth 22' Album
On This Day In Oasis History...
On August 16th 1994 Oasis played at the Kentish Town Forum in London, England.
Watch the gig in full below.
Blast From The Past: Liam Gallagher
On August 16th 2019, Liam Gallagher released ‘One Of Us’ as a single.
Watch the video for the track below.
Songbird
CD - RKIDSCD 27
01: Songbird
02: (You've Got) The Heart Of A Star
03: Columbia (Live)
7" - RKID 27
01: Songbird
02: (You've Got) The Heart Of A Star
12" - RKID 27T
01: Songbird
02: (You've Got) The Heart Of A Star
03: Columbia" (Live)
Columbia was recorded at the Barrowlands, Glasgow, on October 13th 2001.
DVD - RKIDSDVD 27
01: Songbird
02: Songbird (demo)
03: Exclusive interview and live performance footage
Release Date: February 3rd
Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 3
Songbird is a song by Oasis, from their fifth studio album Heathen Chemistry. It was written by Liam Gallagher and included on Oasis' 2006 compilation album Stop The Clocks.
The song was released as the fourth single from that album on February 3rd 2003 and peaked at number three in the UK charts. It was the first time the band had released a single not written Noel Gallagher.
It is the shortest running Oasis single at 2:07.
Liam has said of the song: "I like beautiful things...It's not all dark in Liam World. I take my shades off every now and again and have a look at the world and see some nice things." The demo of the song is a typical Oasis approach to the song, featuring overdriven guitar and a stronger beat, as well as a guitar solo.
The video was filmed in Regent's Park in London, and featured Liam playing an acoustic guitar under a tree, and also being chased by a dog.
Let There Be Love
CD - RKIDSCD 32
01: Let There Be Love
02: Sittin’ Here In Silence (On My Own)
03: Rock 'n' Roll Star" (Live At City Of Manchester Stadium - 2nd July 2005)
10" - RKID 32
01: Let There Be Love
02: Sittin’ Here In Silence (On My Own)
DVD - RKIDSDVD 32
01: Let There Be Love
02: Let There Be Love" (demo)
03: Excerpts from the forthcoming film Lord Don't Slow Me Down and the Let There Be Love video.
Release Date: November 28th 2005
Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 2
Let There Be Love is a song by Oasis from their sixth studio album, Don't Believe The Truth and was written by Noel Gallagher. It was released on November 28th 2005 as the third and final single from the album in the United Kingdom and as the second single in the United States.
It reached number two in the UK charts, capping a very successful year for the band. Many critics cited this song as proof that Oasis had returned to the form seen in the mid-'90s.
A demo for the track was recorded during sessions for Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants. A bootleg of these demo sessions was leaked onto the Internet in early 2000. This track was given the unofficial title It's A Crime on many bootlegs as the track was unknown and unreferenced anywhere before then. The album version of the song is structurally almost exactly the same as the demo with a slight change in melody in the part that Noel sings. The lyrics to the chorus remains intact, but the verses and bridge have totally rewritten lyrics.
The single version of the song omits the second verse and chorus.
A second, Noel-sung demo was released on the Let There Be Love DVD single. It has the same lyrics as the album version, and in fact the album version takes some elements from the demo such as the piano. It was probably recorded sometime in 2003 or 2004, prior to the main Don't Believe The Truth recording sessions.
The video is a montage of some of Oasis' live shows during the summer of 2005 including clips of the gigs at Hampden Park and the City Of Manchester Stadium. The clips don't actually show the band playing Let There Be Love.
Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher
On August 15th 2016 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary.Watch a number of videos from the set below.
On This Day In Oasis History...
On August 15th 1996 Oasis played the second of two dates at the Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork, Ireland.
Liam Gallagher Heading For Fifth Solo Number 1 Album With Knebworth 22
Liam Gallagher is pulling ahead on the Official UK Albums Chart to claim his fifth overall Number 1 solo album with Knebworth 22.
Heathen Chemistry
01: The Hindu Times
02: Force Of Nature
03: Hung In A Bad Place
04: Stop Crying Your Heart Out
05: Songbird
06: Little By Little
07: A Quick Peep
08: (Probably) All In The Mind
09: She Is Love
10: Born On A Different Cloud
11: Better Man
Release Date: July 1st 2002
Highest UK Chart Position: Number 1
Oasis
Liam Gallagher – vocals, tambourine , acoustic guitar
Noel Gallagher – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on tracks 2, 6, 9, 13, drums on track 11
Gem Archer – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Andy Bell – bass guitar
Alan White – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
Paul Stacey – mellotron on track 1, piano on tracks 2–3 and 11, Hammond organ on track 6
Mike Rowe – piano on tracks 4 and 10, pump organ on track 9, Hammond organ on tracks 8–10
Johnny Marr – guitar solo on track 8, slide guitar on track 10, guitar and backing vocals on track 11
London Session Orchestra – strings on track 4
Design
Design [Cover Design] – Noel Gallagher, Simon Halfon
Photography By [Additional] – Andrew MacPherson, Jay Brooks, Pennie Smith, Simon Halfon
Heathen Chemistry is the fifth studio album by Oasis, released on July 1st 2002. It ended up in the top ten best selling albums of 2002.
Heathen Chemistry was received more warmly than the previous Oasis album, Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, by both fans and critics alike. It spawned four singles, each of which made the top three in the UK charts: The Hindu Times, their sixth number one single in the UK, Stop Crying Your Heart Out, a song made famous as it was played on the BBC when the English football team were knocked out of the World Cup, the Double A-Side, sung by Noel — Little By Little/She Is Love and Songbird, the first single written by Liam Gallagher.
This album was the last one to feature the band's drummer, Alan White, who left in early 2004, with Noel Gallagher claiming White's commitment to the band wasn't up to scratch. He was replaced with Ringo Starr's son, Zak Starkey.
Album History
The title of the album, according to Noel, came from a t-shirt he bought in Ibiza which featured a logo reading, The Society Of Heathen Chemists. Similarly, the name of the first single, The Hindu Times, originated from a logo on a t-shirt that read the same thing, which Noel saw during a photo shoot for GQ's 100 Greatest Guitarists edition.
The album was recorded during 2001–early 2002, and was the first studio album written and recorded with the two new members, Andy Bell and Gem Archer. Bell and Archer wrote one track each, and Liam Gallagher contributed three, thus the album signalled the end of Noel Gallagher songs dominating Oasis albums (though Liam had previously contributed Little James on Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants).
The release of the album was overshadowed by an internet leak of all eleven tracks almost three months prior to release. However, listeners of the commercially released album heard slight differences to two tracks, Little By Little and Better Man.
Recording
Heathen Chemistry was recorded during 2001–early 2002 and is the first Oasis album to have significant writing contributions from members other than chief songwriter Noel Gallagher. Liam Gallagher contributed three songs, Andy Bell and Gem Archer contributed one song each as well.
The band headed into Wheeler End Studios to begin working on their fifth studio album. Noel tells the NME that Liam is delaying the process. "I was really happy with [the album] until recently, but I'm fucking livid now," he says. "I finished my bits three-and-a-half months ago, and then we handed it over to Liam, and in three-and-a-half months he's done nothing. Just concentrated on his drinking habit again. It's just drifting at the moment. All the backing tracks are done and it's a fantastic album of instrumentals. Hand it over to the singer and it just slows down and becomes this one really long, drawn-out, painful process. So, to be honest with you, I don't know when it'll come out now. It's down to him.".
Despite the setbacks during the recording process, when the album was finally complete Noel was confident that it was the group's second best album to date, behind their debut Definitely Maybe.
The length of track eleven, Better Man is 38:03; this is because of a hidden track called The Cage, which begins after 30 minutes of silence.
In the Japanese and digital versions, "Better Man" and the hidden track The Cage were separated and the 30-minute silence was removed.
Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher
On August 14th 2012 Noel Gallagher played an exclusive acoustic set at Camden's Dingwalls in London.
Listen to the set below.
Blast From The Past: Liam Gallagher
On August 14th 2017 Liam Gallagher played at the Mall Of Asia Arena in the Philippines.Watch the set below.
On August 14th 2018 Liam Gallagher played at Küçükçiftlik Park in Istanbul, Turkey.
Watch a number of videos from the set below.
