Video: Noel Gallagher Presents A Special Icon Award To Jill Furmanovsky
Noel Gallagher has made an appearance at the Abbey Road Music Photography Awards to honour "one of my best friends" Jill Furmanovsky with a special icon award.
"She's a very, very dear friend of mine... and it's been an honour to have been associated with her for 30 years," Gallagher said on stage at the event at Abbey Road Studios in London. "I can only say that she is as lovely as she seems, she's one of my best friends, and I adore her."
Speaking to Sky News ahead of the awards, she said her body of work with Oasis is the one she is most proud of.
"I was just the right age to be working with them - I was experienced, I wasn't intimidated. They were so fantastic. It was just a time when they were sort of on a comet, hanging on for dear life, and I felt like I could actually offer something in the way of my experience... they allowed me to be close to them, which was just incredible as a gift."
Tickets Go On General Sale Today For Oasis' North American Tour
Tickets go on sale today for Oasis' North American tour, click here to check out availability from 12PM (local time).
Cage The Elephant On Touring With Oasis
Cage The Elephant members speak to CBS Mornings about joining Oasis on the North American tour.
Watch the short clip here.
Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher
On October 3rd 2012 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds played at the Mitsubishi Electric Halle in Düsseldorf, Germany.Watch a number of videos from the set below.
On October 3rd 2017 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds supported U2 for two nights at the Foro Sol in Mexico City, Mexico.
Watch a number of videos from the dates below.
On This Day In Oasis History...
Oasis' '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' was released on October 2nd 1995.The Daily Mirror reported the day after release that central London HMV stores were selling copies of the album at a rate of two per minute.
On February 16th 2010, Oasis' album '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' won the award for the best album of the past 30 years at the Brit Awards ceremony at Earl's Court in London.
Oasis' (What's The Story) Morning Glory? was easily the biggest selling album in the UK in the 1990s. It was comfortably ahead of Simply Red 'Stars 'and The Spice Girls 'Spice.
At the end of the first week of sales, the album had sold a record-breaking 347,000 copies, making it (at the time) the second-fastest-selling album in British history, behind Michael Jackson's Bad.
It entered the UK charts at number 1, it stayed around the top three for the rest of the year before a 6-week stay at the top in mid January, followed by a further three weeks at number 1 in March.
In total, the album didn't leave the top three for an astonishing seven months
On October 2nd 1995 Oasis played at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, England.
Listen to a bootleg of the gig below.