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"To be honest, I don't consider myself a guitarist, so I don't sit around and think about the whole thing too much": Noel Gallagher explains his songwriter mindset in our classic interview

Plus songwriting, production, upcoming "psychedelic" record

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“A call came into the office from Radio One, saying the band had just gone to Number 1 in the album charts”: Oasis celebrate 30 years of Supersonic with raucous live version from ’94 show at Belfast’s Limelight

Oasis's set on 4 September 1994 captured a band on a steep trajectory and was surely worth the £6.75 ticket price and then some. Check out the video for the live version now

MusicRadar

Oasis launch previously unreleased live version of Supersonic recorded on the day Definitely Maybe went to number one

The recording of Supersonic comes from a show at The Limelight in Belfast

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Manchester City superfan Noel Gallagher gives surprise verdict on who will win the Premier League

The Oasis hitmaker and City fan gives his verdict on who will Slide Away in the Premier League title race

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“Noel Gallagher gave me one of Peter Green’s Gibson Les Pauls. Johnny Marr had given Noel a guitar, and maybe he felt it was customary that he do the same”: Bill Ryder-Jones on his ascent to UK indie rock royalty

The former Coral guitarist has gone on to release captivating solo material. He shares stories of recording with Noel Gallagher, tracking solos with Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner, and why he isn’t as good a player as he used to be – but he’s OK with that

Guitar World

'Many classic songs use chords that sit outside of the regular shapes that we learn in the early stages of playing': 9 iconic guitar chords from classic songs and how to play them

From The Beatles to Bond, Mr Britherside to Hendrix and The Police – these are historic chords

MusicRadar

"I think it’s time to make a defiant rock record": Noel Gallagher says he's scrapped his planned acoustic album but he's already got the cover art and title for the next one

"Acoustic tunes tend to be quite down"

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Record Store Day 2024: what and when is it and what vinyl releases will there be?

More than 270 stores will participate in the event this year in the UK, with many scattered around London

Evening Standard

“I was sitting around my house, drinking too many margaritas because I thought the world was ending. I got a call asking if I’d be interested in playing with St. Vincent”: Jason Falkner’s “oddball” guitars took him from Jellyfish to Beck and St. Vincent

The journeyman guitarist and session pro developed a bass technique without owning one (landing him a gig with Noel Gallagher), discovered St. Vincent isn’t the musical dictator he’d expected, and knows his fans are impatient for his next solo album

Guitar World

"They might just be Britain’s next generational band." Young Fathers put on a ferociously loud, soul-stirring show for the ages at the legendary Royal Albert Hall

Acclaimed Scottish alt-indie-soul trio Young Fathers upstage Noel Gallagher, The Who, The Chemical Brothers and more during a memorable night in London

Louder

“Noel spat on his T-shirt, rubbed off the signature and said, ‘I’ll take it anyway!’”: Noel Gallagher once bought one of Peter Green’s Les Pauls – but erased Green’s signature to get back at the store owner who sold it to him

Bill Ryder-Jones, the guitar's current custodian, revealed how the Oasis man came into possession of the storied Les Paul, and stripped it of its notable scrawl

Guitar World

“I was gonna have a year off after Knebworth, but when John rang up saying, ‘Look, I’ve got these tunes,’ I thought, ‘I’m in, mate’”: Liam Gallagher on why John Squire is like Hendrix and the best guitarist of his generation

The former Oasis frontman talks Gallagher/Squire and pays tribute to the Stone Roses guitar legend in an interview that is 100 percent gold

Guitar World

“It was the tune that changed everything” for Noel Gallagher and Oasis, with his greatest guitar solo – but it turns out that Live Forever got a serious guitar edit in the control room

"It was essentially the same solo that’s on the finished version Noel always plays live, but when it went high on the second half all I could think of was Slash in leather kecks with a wind machine on the Grand Canyon"

MusicRadar

'He's a piece of work' – Noel Gallagher opens up on friendship with Pep Guardiola and how his Liverpool band mates react to Manchester City manager

Noel Gallagher has spoken about his friendship with Pep Guardiola ahead of Sunday's game between Manchester City and Liverpool

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Manchester City to get Oasis-themed kit on 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybe

Manchester City will have an Oasis-themed third kit to mark 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybe, Noel Gallagher has confirmed

Evening Standard

The £2 million revamp of Richard James — Elton John and the Gallagher brother's favourite Savile Row tailor

Savile Row’s Richard James made wedding day suits for both Liam and Noel Gallagher — now they are back with a £2 million refurbishment

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Liam Gallagher John Squire review – chippy hauteur meets six-string pyrotechnics

On this textbook collaboration that’s anything but, the Oasis singer and Stone Roses guitarist rearrange the DNA of their former bands to intriguing effect

Louder

Liam Gallagher & John Squire's collaborative album really works: maybe it's because Squire is working with a singer for the first time

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and Stone Roses guitarist John Squire combine on an album that's derivative but hugely enjoyable

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Guitar World

“Many people think I was doing it all on the Rickenbacker in the ’80s, but a lot of the clean arpeggio stuff was done on a Les Paul”: Johnny Marr on the most prized guitars in his collection – and why they might not be what you expect

From his bonkers nine-pickup Strat to the Les Paul he gifted to Noel Gallagher, The Smiths great has traced his entire career through the prism of his amazing collection of guitars. Why don’t all our guitar heroes do this?

Evening Standard

Gibson to open huge guitar store in West End on Saturday

Fitzrovia flagship is the brand’s first retail outlet beyond America

MusicRadar

The Oasis classic that Liam hated because it was "reggae": "I remember Our Kid saying 'Why are you writing reggae songs?' And I was like, there speaks a man that has never heard reggae"

A songwriter in peak form, a singer and band who hated it, and the song that became bigger than anyone could have imagined

FourFourTwo

Sir Paul McCartney is DEFINITELY an Everton fan, says fellow Toffee, Andy Burnham

Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham explains how The Beatles bassist has always shown Evertonian-supporting tendencies...

Louder

“We put an offer on the table for an Oasis thing and Noel said no": Liam Gallagher reveals that his big brother turned down "a lot of money" to reform Oasis for a 30th anniversary Definitely Maybe tour

Shock Oasis news just in: Noel and Liam Gallagher still can't agree on anything

MusicRadar

"We put an offer on the table for an Oasis thing… and he said no" – but is Liam Gallagher now playing the long game with a Noel reunion?

He confirms brother Noel turned down an offer to reunite for Definitely Maybe's 30th anniversary – "It'll happen when it happens, it's not in our hands anymore"

Guitar World

“One of my favorite guitars. It carries a lot of history”: Gibson has reproduced the ‘78 Les Paul Custom that Johnny Marr gifted to Noel Gallagher – as heard on The Queen is Dead, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? and more

The guitar – gifted to the Oasis icon after the first Les Paul he received from Marr got damaged during an altercation with a stage invader – has been revived in its original format to celebrate the opening of the Gibson Garage UK, and will be sold in support of…

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