Noel Gallagher On Writing Oasis' Live Forever

The new copy of MOJO that features an interview with Noel Gallagher is out now in stores and available digitally here below is an extract from it.

MOJO: What's the first song you wrote that you thought was any good?

Noel Gallagher: "Before I left home I met this guy Pete through an ad in the Manchester Evening News. He had a little 4-track and we wrote these songs together. I remember playing the demo tape to people and the overriding reaction was a look of of surprise "Fucking, hell, is this what you do?"

MOJO: And the first song you thought was generally great?

Noel Gallagher: "Live Forever. I wrote it on John Squire's Gretsch Country Gent because one of the roadies lived at Mark Coyle's house and it ended up at my house. When I played it at the next rehearsal Bonehead said, "You've not just written that fucking song. That's from somewhere else." I'd listened to enough music to know that was a classic. It was Mark Coyle that came up with the drumbeat because when he was checking the drums on the last (Inspiral Carpets) tour I would play these chords. It's funny how a song changes everything".

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On This Day In Oasis History...

On May 19th 2000 Oasis played at the Plasa De Toros La Cubierta De Leganes in Leganes, Spain.

Watch a video of the band playing 'Who Feels Love?' below.



On May 19th 2001 Oasis played at the Xcel Energy Center in Minnesota, USA.

Listen to the bootleg of the gig below.

Noel Gallagher On Working With The Chemical Brothers

Noel Gallagher has spoken about how his collaboration with the Chemical Brother's Setting Sun came about. 

The single sold 99,000 copies during its first week of release and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in October 1996.

He told the new issue of MOJO "I knew them from (notorious London club night) the Sunday Social. I remember being at the bar with them and said, "I'll do a fucking tune with you". City had played Wycombe on a Friday night away, we'd lost one-nil, and I went from Wycombe to the studio. I did it in about 20 minutes. I even left the taxi waiting outside. And then the next I knew it had knocked (Deep Blue Something's) Breakfast At Tiffany's off number 1. That felt like a proper triumph. The 90's! What a decade! You had an idea, you did it, you moved on to something else". 

Noel Gallagher On The Recording Of Oasis' (What's The Story) Morning Glory? And More

The new copy of MOJO that features an interview with Noel Gallagher is out now in stores and available digitally here below is an extract from it.

MOJO: Did you always know if a song would be sung by you or by Liam? Could any of them have gone the other way.

Noel Gallagher: "No. The only time I laid down the law was Wonderwall and Don't Look Back In Anger. I was so fucked off with him walking off stage and me having to take over and do the gig. I remember thinking, If I'm going to keep doing this, I want a big fucking song to sing. I said, "You're singing one or the other but not both." He hated Wonderwall. He said it was trip-hop There speaks a man who's never heard trip-hop. He wanted to sing Don't Look Back In Anger but it came apparent during the recording that Wonderwall was going to be the tune. If I'm being honest I shouldn't have sung either of them because I wasn't really a singer then".

MOJO: So you don't like the recording of Don't Look Back In Anger?

Noel Gallagher: I don't like any of the recordings on (What's The Story) Morning Glory? It's the only album we never did demos for. I was writing on tour and I'd planned on finishing the songs when I got to the studio and we never got around to it. Cast No Shadow is half-written. Wonderwall. Morning Glory.

MOJO: Last year Wonderwall became the first song from the 1990s to exceed one billion streams. Any theory as to why it's become The One?

Noel Gallagher: I have no idea. It beggars belief. Wonderwall is one of my least favourite songs because it's not finished. If I could somehow twist time and go back there, I'd pick a different song for our calling card. Probably Some Might Say.