Noel Gallagher - The Biography

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Lucian Randall. Noel Gallagher - The Biography

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

HIGH FLYING BIRD

BURNAGE, MANCHESTER

AFTER THE RAIN

UP IN THE SKY

ROUND ARE WAY

THIS IS HISTORY

AROUND THE WORLD

THE MASTER PLAN

TO BE FREE

FORCE OF NATURE

OUT OF TIME

DISCOGRAPHY

OASIS. ALBUMS

SINGLES

SOLO

SINGLES

Copyright

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For Tamsin Mitchell and Miriam Randall

Dedication

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In 2012 Gallagher talked to the BBC’s Mark Lawson for an extended BBC Four interview which touched on the break-up. ‘It was never going to end like REM have ended,’ he said. Those other elder statesmen of rock had gone from indie status to stadium legends without ever blowing their credibility. They announced an amicable dissolution in September 2011, quickly followed by a final compilation album and promoted by members of the band who confirmed in gentlemanly fashion that they wouldn’t play again. Oasis, said Gallagher, ‘was always going to end in a fight of some description. Everybody was aware of that. We all wanted it to last forever. I certainly did, but I was always aware that when it came to it that one of us would eventually say, “Fuck you and you and you and you.” It just happened to be me. It could well have been Liam.’ But even as he spoke he seemed to realise that it would be down to him to end the band, that the element of control had always been with him. He added, ‘I think maybe it was inevitable that I would walk out. I’ve got a pretty long fuse and pretty thick skin until the day that I haven’t and then it’s just like, “No, no, no… I’m out of here”.’

Much had been made of Gallagher’s driving ambition and he didn’t always seem comfortable with the notion, as if it somehow implied something negative, rather than the creative impetus he felt. ‘I’ve had this reputation since the band broke up of being called a control freak and all that,’ he told Mark Lawson. ‘And I was,’ he continued, glancing directly into the camera. ‘And I controlled them all the way to Knebworth and Wembley and all the way to the top of the charts.’ And again, Gallagher looked into the camera directly, his level gaze with just a ghost of a smile giving no sign as to whether he was talking to fans or addressing critics or even former band mates. ‘So you’re welcome.’

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