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Vote: | All I ever wanted to do was make a record. Here's what you do: you pick up your guitar, you rip a few people's tunes off, you swap them round a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and again, and it sells. I'm a lucky bastard. I'm probably the single most lucky man in the world -- apart from our Liam. |
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Vote: | Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer. |
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Vote: | I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world. |
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Vote: | I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John. |
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Vote: | If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison. |
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Vote: | The thing about us is we're honest. If we're asked whether we take drugs, we say yes. I was brought up by my mam not to be a liar. |
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Vote: | With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there. |
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Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born May 29, 1967 in Longsight, Manchester) is the lead songwriter and guitarist with the British rock band Oasis. He is the older brother of Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and the two are famous for their arguments.
In the 1990s, he was centre stage of the Britpop movement. Oasis' first album, Definitely Maybe, became the fastest selling British debut ever, and the follow-up (What's the Story) Morning Glory? defined its era. His outspoken nature and penchant for controversy did as much to publicize Oasis as his younger brother's drunken attacks on the paparazzi.
He has received much critical press for his candid admiration of his own songwriting abilities. However, Gallagher suggests that his bravado is justified by the commercial and critical success of Oasis.
Biography Noel was born in Longsight, Manchester to Irish parents Peggy and Thomas Gallagher. He is the middle child of three, his elder brother Paul was born in 1966, and Liam was born 1972. The Gallagher brothers grew up in the suburb of Burnage.
Noel first began to teach himself to play guitar at the age of 13, imitating his favourite songs from the radio. Both he and Liam were regular truants and in their teens were often in trouble with Police - they allegedly broke into cars and stole bicycles, and at the age of thirteen Noel received six months' probation for robbing a cornershop. He attended St Robert's Infant School in Longsight (1971), St Bernard's Primary in Burnage (1972) and St Mark's Secondary in Didsbury (1978). His childhood nickname was Brezhnev, after the former Russian president known for his bushy eyebrows.
In April 1984, Peggy took her three boys and left her husband, Thomas, as he was an alcoholic known for his violent mood swings. Noel has had a strained relationship with his father since, though both he and Liam did work for their father's construction company for a time in the 80s.
It was whilst working for his father's building company that Noel sustained an injury when a weighty cap from a steel gas pipe landed on his right foot, crushing it. He was forced to work in a storehouse, and, as a result, he found that he had more time to practice guitar and to write songs. Much of the late 1980s found Gallagher unemployed and living in a bedsit splitting his time between drugs, songwriting and guitar playing.
In 1988, Noel auditioned to be vocalist for the band Inspiral Carpets. Although he was turned down, the band hired him as a guitar technician. In 1992, he returned from an American tour with the band to find that his brother had become lead singer with local band, "Oasis." The band also featured Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs on rhythm guitar, Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan on bass and Tony McCaroll on drums. In reality, Liam had joined the band in the hope of dragging along Noel so as to gain access to his songs. Noel saw Oasis play at Manchester's Boardwalk and was not particularly complementary of his brothers efforts. When pressed by Liam, he agreed to join the band on the condition that he have complete control of the group, including contributing all the songs. The rest of the band agreed and they began a year of intensive rehearsing.
Perhaps as a result of Noel's arrogant front, Oasis resisted the route of most up-and-coming bands. For example, they never sent a demo to a record company, but rather waited for a record deal to come to them, which it did in the form of Creation Records' Alan McGee. After seeing the band perform at in a Glasgow club - King Tut's, a gig they allegedly bullied their way into, McGee invited Oasis to meet with him a week later in London. McGee signed them on the spot to a six album contract. Their first album, Definitely Maybe was released two years later in 1994 and was a critical and commercial success, becoming the fastest selling debut album in British history. However, tension mounted between Noel and McCaroll, and in 1995, the band asked the drummer to leave. He was replaced by Alan White.
1995 saw the release of Oasis' second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. The album was released to a great deal of commercial success, making it the second fastest selling album in the UK, but received initial critical apathy. However, as the momentum of the album built, and with the help of a very well publicised feud with members of fellow britpop band Blur, it became their "breakthrough" into mainstream commercial success and the album with which they temporarily broke America. Oasis went on to become one of the most popular and successful British acts of the 1990s. Gallagher's extensive catalogue of songs - ironically written in the storehouses and the bedsits which he had so bemoaned in the 80s - were the fuel behind Oasis' success in the 90s. Noel admits having trouble with his songwriting as he suffers from dyslexia making it a difficult task for him.
Also in 1995, Gallagher joined his friend Paul Weller, Paul McCartney and Johnny Depp to form the Smokin' Mojo Filters. The supergroup, put together by Weller was assembled to record The Beatles' 1969 hit Come Together for the charity album Help!. The band took their name from a lyric in The Beatles' Come Together. He has also worked with the Chemical Brothers, Ian Brown, The Stands, The Prodigy and Paul Weller amongst others.
Gallagher is a keen fan of music and has had a hand in pushing the careers of many new bands including Coldplay, Travis and The Zutons. Amid much criticism towards Be Here Now, Richard Ashcroft, for whom the song Cast No Shadow was written, whilst accepting an award, stated "at the end of the day, Noel Gallagher opened our eyes; for a lot of young people in the North West, to pick up a guitar." Oasis are also attributed with helping to resurrect stadium rock and roll concerts in England, most noticeably their record breaking summer shows at Knebworth in August 1996.
He married girlfriend Meg Mathews in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 5th, 1997 and shortly afterwards the third Oasis album, Be Here Now, was released on 21 August. Following the worldwide success of Morning Glory, it became their most eagerly anticipated album to date. As with the previous two albums, all the tracks were written by Noel. However, whilst in 1997 it was a commercial and critical success, when the dust settled and the hype died down, it was seen as a bloated, over indulgent version of Oasis, which Noel has had trouble living down. He claims the album suffered due to his own bloated, drug addicted state. Around this time, Noel began to suffer panic attacks. He tackled this on the 2000 album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants with the song Gas Panic, which reveals his lonely, paranoid state.
After the critical panning of Be Here Now, the hype surrounding Oasis quickly faded. In 1997, Noel was criticised for joining new Labour PM Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street for a high profile media party, which seemed to go against the Working Class Hero cause which he championed with songs like Up In The Sky. In 1999, after a row with Noel, Bonehead quit the band, with Guigsy soon following. As a result, the fourth album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, was recorded by just Noel, Liam and White, with Noel playing all three guitar parts. The album customarily peaked at number one, but was met with an even greater level of contempt by the critics than their previous effort. On January 27, 2000, Mathews gave birth to a daughter, Anais. However, shortly afterwards in January 2001 Gallagher and Mathews were divorced. The announcement followed Liam's announcement of his separation from Patsy Kensit. It is rumoured that Mathews could not abide Noel's desire to move to the countryside and missed partying with her friends in London. Wonderwall - arguably Oasis' most famous and succesful song - was written for Mathews, and, perhaps as a result, the band have played it less and less since the divorce. He has entered a long-term relationship with Sara MacDonald.
Recruiting Andy Bell and Gem Archer for their fifth studio album, as well as allowing a greater level of lyrical input from the other band members proved a good move on Noel's part and in 2002 Heathen Chemistry was more positively received than their previous two efforts.
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