Noel on ‘Cast No Shadow’ and Ashcroft;Because he didn't write it for him. He wrote it and then dedicated it to him in the album cover, but Noel said he didn't actually write it for or about him.
‘He always seemed to me that he was not entirely happy with the things that were happening around him. So the lyrics “bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say” was cos I always felt that he'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time, and always tried to say the right things, but they went wrong. When I first sang the song to him he was near tears’.



