You are so right. It is such a refreshing change, rather than them saying what they think you want to hear. Or even trying to glamorise their upbringing. Noel tells it like it is. God he must know how good he is, how could he not. He is a true genius, a once in a lifetime gift. I think he must know what an icon he is. When asked he just says, "I don't know where that song came from, it just fell out of the sky". I'm just so glad that I have been lucky enough for him to be around in my lifetime.

You don't know how wrong you are.

@@DrunkJesterSome people believe Noel must have had covert assistance to have written so many massive songs in such a short time, given he’d done nothing but a bit of noodling on a guitar until Oasis. Bowie, on the other hand, was an “overnight success” in 1972 with Ziggy Stardust. What many don’t appreciate is that Bowie had been testing, trying, failing and learning for about 6 years by then. His early stuff is quite good though there’s no hint of rock and roll stardom in The World Of David Bowie. What is there is melody & song structure. Some of my favourites are on that album. Like “When I live my dream”, a just stunning composition and despite his lack of self belief as a singer, there’s the Bowie we love, already with his unique voicing. Numerous stinkers of songs there, too. And note, he and his publisher would already have winnowed out the weakest songs. Many professionals reckon you’ve to write twice as many decent songs as you need in order to have enough. Even Noel said, towards the end of an Oasis recording trial, that he’d written 30 songs that year and they’d used only 5 of them. Therefore there’s agreement that you need a multiple of decent songs. Consider the first two Oasis album and especially the timescale. He’d no formal musical training. He hardly played the guitar early on. Sufficient to create melodies, lyrics basic chord progressions. Yet look at the stunning impact. If it was that easy, it would have been done more often. It’s easy to write bad songs. Even I can do it & did do it. But no more than a couple had enough about them to play to another person. I simply wasn’t any good at it. Noel clearly has a great deal of talent. He’s a superb melody writer, lyricist and structure author. But he went into the studio with all the separate guitar parts.and bass parts. He could play all those instruments well enough to have recorded the entire second album with noone more than Nick Brine (sound engineer at Rockfield Studios, he’s still there!) and producer Owen Morris. How the dickens did NG do that, with such a barren starting point. He adored the Beatles and met three of them. I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt today, after decades of honing his craft. He’s also an excellent singer now, and he wasn’t initially. But I just don’t buy the narrative of working glass lad from Burnage with no musical underpinnings going from a complete unknown to world famous prolific song writer in 3-4 years, without external assistance. Uh oh. Then we’ve the not believable story of playing in Glasgow and being seen by sheer luck by Alan McGee, who offered them a record deal on the spot. That’s not really plausible. They weren’t good enough at the time. There’s no way they’d have gone to Scotland on a whim, as they were all broke. No, once you look at it, there are massive inconsistencies in the origins story. That doesn’t tell us what happened really. But it does tell us that they want you & me to believe it. Why? Why not just give us the truth? I wish I wasn’t suspicious, but I’ve been forced here by the facts. I will say in closing that Dead To The World is his best composition. Not the best / most preferred song by far. But everything about it is superb. Much earlier, he was helped. Why?

@@GT380man realistically if Noel hadn’t written the songs himself, Liam would’ve told everyone long before now. Every now and again musicians do come from nowhere and do amazing things (look at the Beatles), and accusing them of not writing their songs just because you couldn’t do the same stinks of jealousy

​@@DrunkJesterGo on then how wrong?

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@@lomarsweed6604 like a comfort blanket, he carried the action man around because it was comforting during a stressful childhood, that’s what the OP was getting at. Hope that helps? 👍🏼

I know :(

Yeah, but Action Man was wicked!

Because he's a psychiatrist

Easy with millions in the bank. Come on!

@@johnroff9869 He was locked in way before the millions you dolt. That is HOW he got the millions.

Oooooooooo ooo

@@1962losgigantes 😂...yeah...you get it P....peace to ya.

Can you remember what songs Noel played?

@@thragblan she loves you, magical mystery tour and golden slumbers. 😆

Noel wrote the dictionary 😁

Noel is the dictionary 🤪

He’d tell you to fuk off or mebbe say dyslexia rules KO Then read it from frack to bunt

Hahahaha 😉

Aw I miss talking to Peggy What a woman She’s so down to earth even now that Liam said that she’s Dolce and Gabbana’d up ❤️❤️

Remember that well, most of us were there for Noel, not for that other retarded nob.

Second night of the Be Here Now Tour? Guys with megaphones outside going up and down? Was there myself. Epic gig.

@@mccarthy5825 That's the one. I know I'm in the minority but I always thought Noel was a better singer than Liam. If I remember correctly too, that gig with Noel singing was broadcast on 2FM which I'm sure I have somewhere in my house on cassette!!!

@@guppy9713 that's awesome! Brings me right back! I definitely agree with you, even though I think Liam can be absolutely magic at times, from that gig I really remember hearing songs sung by him that usually aren't and being blown away. I wasn't into Oasis really in the 00s but did see them and when Noel released 'Ballad of the Mighty I' I tuned right back into Noel. If you havnt seen it yet, check out the Microdot channel. Its the guy who designed all the covers from the 90s and he talks all about them. Every 90s cover was so special and I can picture them so clearly. I remember the cassette of Cigarettes and Alcohol was designed like a pack of smokes.

Yeah, Noel had the better voice for sure. I remember watching Jools Holland one night with my dad & Noel sang (dunno where Liam even was) & dad just said "Well, if he can sing like that and he writes all the songs then his brother won't be in the band much longer." He was wrong, because that was early days and they stuck it out with Liam as frontman for another couple of albums and more than 5 years but it must've itched for Liam that there was another guy in the band that wrote most of the songs and could step up in a heartbeat to play frontman as needed. I mean, he plays a mean tambourine but you know what i mean (as either Gallagher would put it) 😆

So could I, but they can't listen to each other for 5 minutes

@@martinmcguire5458 You won’t get this from Liam

Totally agree

He understands his brother totally.

He is brilliantly sarcastic..and that takes intelligence

You’re quite a witty man, mate, if anyone is…

Bear in mind this was 2012. Nearly ten years on since this interview and they still haven’t spoken! Unfortunately I cannot see anything that will bring the two of them back together as brothers.

@@callumbland7798 Mum's death

I'd rather have a brother I'd spent 20 years of global success with and then fall out than have a brother that I see once a week for a Roast Dinner without either of us tasting success, fame and fortune. That's my opinion anyway. If you asked either of the Gallaghers I'm sure they'd both agree that they had 20 years of unbelievable success together and lived the dream together as brothers. Most brothers distance themselves from one another to a certain extent once they are married and have children anyway. They were close and living in each others pockets from Liam's birth until Oasis split, shared a bedroom, shared a love for Man City and music until Noel was 40 years old and Liam 35. What brothers do you know who are joined at the hip on a daily basis until their 40s? I'm surprised they lasted 20 years together considering the arguments, punch ups, alcohol and drugs tbh. Im a Manchester lad, I had 2 mates that were brothers, I tried to break up a fight between them once and ended up with a pint pot in my face. Noel and Liam are just normal Mancunian brothers. They'd have had punch ups and fall outs even if they were never in a band together. They'd have probably fell out and distanced themselves a lot sooner without the band

@@sqwidink1 I've always thought that too if something happens to Peggy finger's crossed she lives a long healthy life though, Liam said god help Noel if they haven't buried the hatchett before anything happens be sad for there mum to take that to the grave

If its toxic its toxic , blood or no blood

I wonder do either of them buy each others albums and what would they say they liked or hated, or would that be too much like sending a card at Christmas.

Not with the arrogance, no!

Just seen ur comment pal n the arctic monkeys are not on the same level as oasis, just my opinion 👍

No way

Arctic monkeys lol

People worldwide can hum or sing Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger. Across the pond, most people haven't even heard of the Arctic Monkeys, nevermind know a tune of theirs... Nevermind places where they don't speak English - do you see a clip of the Monkeys playing to 100k Argentines singing along? This reflects their status in the UK, too, I'm sure. Oasis was more than a band (that sold waaaay more records and tickets than Arctic Monkeys), they were a fucking cultural phenomenon and a signifier of identity. This Canadian who wasn't there knows what Oasis meant. So yeah, Oasis > AM and it's not even close. Hell, AM are only the third best Monkey-named band, after Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and, natch, The Monkees.

Small feet!!

Try being at the front of an Oasis concert then 😂 I’ll let you borrow my time machine 😆 but I need it back for last week Bit of a tip tho Wear earplugs cos if that nearly deafened you,you’d have tinnitus at the intro of Rock n Roll Star which is usually the opening ‘number’ as they say 😜

Noels songs and Liam's stage presence, attitude and vocals is a rare combination we're never likely to ever see again. Liam would be nobody without Noels songs and Noels songs would never have been heard without Liam's vocals and image. The thing that made them rise to the top eventually tore them apart. Now they're both doing unbelievably well without one another.

I watched em in Sheffield a bit after after Definitely Maybe came out and Noel played a new song he'd (he said) written that day..i just remembered it as having a line about sally or summat , and that it was amazing ..obviously turned out to be (in my opinion)one of their best songs.

That's great! What band are you with? Global tours? Forgive me; I'm old.,....I am sure most folk know your musical success very well but I'm not down with the kids. Or did you mean you relate to his background? You and at least half the UK population. A deep connection indeed. Yeah.........

@@trayc2762 Hi Tracy. I meant his background his feelings his vibe. I'm with him. Thanks for asking. Have a great day.

TrayC sarcasm is the lowest form of Witt

Yeah he’s been writing music for over 30 years pretty much non stop now. Very talented songwriter, as said by Paul McCartney. In the 2016 documentary Supersonic, Noel said that he thought Liam came out of it well but didn’t seem to like it. I actually thought Noel came out of it better because he talks about how much he loved music from a young age. Liam admits he wasn’t even interested in music, until he was hit with a hammer in a fight!

or he just chooses not to cry about it

I was one, I mixed them that night…..

Thank god Alan Mcgee was one of them 🙏

That’s how most people write songs. I’ve seen Bono singing basically gibberish, just to fit around the melody. I think I saw Michael Hutchence do the same. Then work on the actual words later.

I was there from day dot, in my humble opinion noel Gallagher is up there with the greatest songwriters in the world, lets face it that was born to be in the arts one shape or form! Genius