Noel Gallagher - 'Rock And Roll's Gone But Not Dead'
Noel Gallagher says that rock'n'roll is "dead" at the moment – but that won't be the case for long.
Gallagher says that all the genre needs in order to reinvigorate itself is a unique frontman or songwriter, like himself or brother Liam Gallagher.
He says: "[The state of rock'n'roll is] really fucking bad now but when it's bad there's someone somewhere like Ian Brown, Liam or Bobby Gillespie or a songwriter like me who can retell the story.
"That's all rock and roll is; retelling this great fucking story. Music snobs will think when this band come along that its all been done before, but it's only a story that needs retelling for a new generation. Rock'n'roll is gone at the minute but it'll never die because Neil Young said so."
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Liam changes mind on vocal warm-ups
Liam Gallagher has revealed he is finally succumbing to age - by exercising his voice before gigs.
The former Oasis frontman, who now leads his band Beady Eye, previously scoffed at the idea of warming up ahead of shows.
But in an interview with Q magazine, he admits he now takes care of his voice to avoid cancelling gigs.
He said: "I remember having a chat with Roger Daltrey. He was going, 'Oh you should warm up". And I'm like, 'f*** that'.
"I was young and I was like, I'm not doing any of that nonsense'," he said, mimicking practising a scale.
But he said as time went on he has had to "bite his tongue" and now warms up - without "any of that la-la-la nonsense", instead sitting with his guitar for half an hour before going on stage.
He also takes one of his many swipes at his brother and former bandmate Noel - and goes on to accuse Radiohead of copying The Beatles.
The brothers have been in a renewed round of hostilities since the summer when Noel talked about the row which led to him walking out of Oasis.
Asked which figure he has met who has the worst taste in music, Liam said Noel was "into a lot of s***" and "into himself".
Liam told the magazine, on sale on Wednesday, he fails to understand the appeal of Radiohead. "I mean we've all written songs like Creep, y'know, them classic songs. Karma Police is alright, but it's The Beatles, innit?" he said.<br /><br />-- Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:49 pm --<br /><br />Noel Gallagher will play "seven or eight" Oasis songs at his solo gigs.
The 'AKA... What A Life!' singer is currently rehearsing for his debut concerts with his High Flying Birds project and as well as performing his forthcoming album almost in its entirety, he realised the shows would be short so will include more of his formed group than originally intended.
He said: "It was f***ing very short. [The number of Oasis songs] has gone from four, to six. In fact, it could actually be seven or eight now."
Noel will also play B-side 'The Good Rebel' and a new track at the shows.
Two tracks on Noel's album, 'Everybody's On The Run' and 'If I Had A Gun', were written during Oasis' South American tour three years ago - after he had stopped travelling with the rest of band as his relationships with his brother, frontman Liam, had got "so f***ing bad" - and the 44-year-old rocker says he only started penning more songs out of boredom.
He told NME magazine: "That's when it was at its f***ing lowest ebb. That was it. It was my decision. Mine and Liam's relationship, it got so f***ing bad, it was like, 'I'm gonna do everybody a favour here, I'm going to travel alone because it's a bad atmosphere.'
"I'm alright being on my own. So at that point I was writing, not for any specific reason, just because I had a lot of time to kill."