Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Noel Thomas David Gallagheris an English musician, singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He served as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the rock band Oasis. Raised in Burnage, Manchester, Gallagher began learning guitar at the age of thirteen. After a series of odd jobs in construction, he worked for local Manchester band Inspiral Carpets as a roadie and technician in 1988. Whilst touring with them, he learned that his brother Liam Gallagher had formed a band of his...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth29 May 1967
CityLongsight, England
My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.
It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words
My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.
I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.
Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.
I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
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.
It was a change to not get the token live act award for being able to play the guitar. Best album - nice one.
Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
Some might say, we will find a brighter day.
Liam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
It's 'Let There Be Love,' which is another one that wasn't gonna go on the album,