Noel Facts-

Full Name- Noel Thomas David Gallagher (Thomas is his middle name, David is his conformation name)

Childhood Nickname- Breshnev (cos of the eyebrows)

Current Nickname- The Chief

Birthday- May 29, 1967 (that makes him a Gemini)

Age- 34

Hair- Brown

Eyes- Wonderfully Blue!

Height- 5'7"

Marital Status- Divorced. He was married to Meg Matthews (whom I never liked), now he is seeing someone new but I can't recall her name.

Kids- One (a daughter from his marriage), and Godfather to Bonehead's daughter Lucy

Pets- 2 stray cats, Benson and Hedges (after his fave cigarettes). 2 guard dogs, Reno and Ruby

From- born: 2 Sandycroft Street, Longsight (suburb of Manchester), England
grew up: Manchester (more specifically Burnage), England
now lives: St. John's Wood, London, England (his house is called "Supernova Heights")

Religion: Well he was raised Catholic and he often wears a cross

Working In Construction- "The worst thing in the world is working with your dad, you can't do anything right. People ask what it's like being in a band with your brother and I think, 'What about being on a building site in January when it's hailstoning with your dad and your two brothers and two of our cousins and two of your uncles and you... hate the lot of them?'"

Car- a chocolate brown Rolls Royce (but I heard he can't drive it)

Favorite Food- Fried Kuyadu

Favorite Beatles Song- Ticket To Ride

Favorite Oasis Song- Live Forever (wich he wrote for his mum, how sweet)

Favorite Movies- Star Wars, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, and Pulp Fiction (wich I heard he's seen at least 11 times)

Music He Likes- The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, John Lennon, Paul Weller, The Who, The Jam, Ocean Colour Scene, Smallers, Travis, Radiohead, Beck, Prodigy, Cornershop, Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols

His First Real Guitar- he was about 13, got it from John England catalogue "a horrible black acoustic rip-off of a Gibson Hummingbird"... he played along with his favorite albums ("I can play all of 'The Wall', every single song, all the way through")

Favorite Guitar- Epiphone Casino

His First Song- "I was in my bedroom... winter time. It went G, E minor, C, D, the basic chords, right, and the chorous was, 'And life goes on, but the world will never change'"

What He Says About That Song Now- "I must have been smoking too much pot at the time. It was, I dunno, just to see if I could do it. After that I wrote about 75 songs no one's ever heard."

Instruments He Plays- Guitar, Piano, Mellotron and E-Bow

Noel And School- "School didn't really hold anything for me, I knew from a very early age what I wanted to be, I wanted to be a musician"

Noel And Vacations- "When we get time off from the band, everyone else goes on 'oliday, but I just start writing. I went away once over the summer, and our management wouldn't let me take a guitar with me- they locked 'em all up. They're afraid of me burning myself out."

Noel And Stalkers- "Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't belive you've arrived until you get a stalker."
(uhmm... I'll be his stalker....)

Oasis songs Noel sings lead on (that I know of)-
Angel Child
(As Long As They've Got) Cigarettes In Hell
Bonehead's Bank Holiday
Carry Us All
Don't Look Back In Anger
D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?
Fade Away (warchild)
The Fame
Flashbax
Getting Older
Going Nowhere
Half The World Away
Helter Skelter
Heroes
It's A Crime
It's Better People
Magic Pie
The Masterplan
One Way Road
Sad Song
Solve My Mystery
Step Out
Sunday Morning Call
Take Me Away
Talk Tonight
Where Did It All Go Wrong?
ever notice that Liam doesn't do backup for Noel, cept slightly on the Fade Away warchild version... (that's the only one I know of with Liam backup for Noel, could be more...)

Other Oasis Songs I Have Versions Of With Noel Singing: some are live (acousitc or electric), some are demos, some I have both
Cast No Shadow
Don't Go Away
D'Ya Know What I Mean?
Gas Panic
Go Let It Out
Listen Up
Morning Glory
Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is
Roll It Over
Round Are Way
Slide Away
Some Might Say
Stay Young
Supersonic
Whatever
Who Feels Love?
Wonderwall

Songs Noel Has Covered Live: (that I know of)
All You Need Is Love
Help
This Guy's In Love With You
To Be Someone
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

Songs Noel Has Done With Other Bands: (recorded or live)
All I Wanna Do Is Rock (with Travis)
Devil's Haircut (with Beck)
I'm Only Sleeping (with the Stereophonics)
Let Forever Be (with the Chemical Brothers)
Setting Sun (with the Chemical Brothers)
Temper Temper (with Goldie)

Noel 'Little Songs':
Chipper S.O.B.
Goodbye Cruel World
Who The F*** Are Man United?

If you're interested in any of those songs (not on albums or bsides), eMail me. I am sure we can work out a trade.


Thing's People've Said About Noel-

"He's very ambitious; He always was. He's not fantastically confident, but quite brave, funny, intelligent, a bit paranoid at times and increadibly big-headed and very moody. I sometimes think that Noel does think he's better than everyone else, and not just musically. He loves music and likes to hang out with cool people, always wanting and needing to be the best; but then all the Gallagher boys do."
-Paul Gallagher (Noel: you are the best!)


"He's not writing for me, he's writing for himeself. I mean, he writes some bits for me, but he's the man. He writes the gear, and I think it's good....But he's got it sewn up, he's got hundreds of songs that are just mega, totally different from what we've got now. He'll never run out."
-Liam Gallagher (Hey, he actually said something nice!)

"He has brought Britpop to new heights and new popularity, sucessfully combining all the major movements of rock and roll into a fresh new sound. His band, Oasis, is a breath of fresh air after the tired death of punk and grunge."
-Andrew Owen, Mass USA

"NOEL ROCKS!!!"
-A Noel-crazed fan (aka: me)


Some Quotes From Noel-

"Someone was playing a joke when they made me, y'know, 'Let's make this guy a writer and a guitar player, but let's make him write with his left hand and play with his right, and let's have him born in the middle of May and give him a Christmas name like Noel, and let's make him a dodgy, schizophrenic, two-faced Gemini.' Cheers!"

"I love playing music. It's a gift that was given to me by whoever dishes out these talents to people...and as long as I believe I have something valid to put out as a piece of music then I'll keep doing it. As soon as I feel it's not, I'll stop and do something else like open a chippy or work in a butcher's shop."

"My whole world came crashing down on me then. If it hadn't have been for Our Kid's support I don't know what I'd have done. This is my little brother, who I look after, putting his arm around me and saying 'It'll be alright man.' But I don't think people will ever forgive me for it."
-after his comment on Blur and A.I.D.S.
(now Noel said something nice about Liam...that's a sensitive moment there, awww...)

"Being acknowledged as a songwriter has definitely made me more content. I know I will leave my mark."

"Rock'n'roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the songs."

"Are the words gibberish? Yeah, of course. Top gibberish though"
-on the lyrics to 'Shakermaker'
(well, if it's gibberish, it is the top! he doesn't give himself enough credit on his ability to write songs... hard to believe huh?)

"Best act today. Tomorrow. The day after that. And the day after that."
-on winning Q Magizine Award for Best Act in the World Today

"If you're not bigger than the Beatles, it's just a hobby."

"We're rich... We're famous... Our album has beaten The Beatles' record... I am considered one of the best song writers in the world... and do you think I am satisfied with that... no!!... not at all!!... I want more!!!"

Interviewer: You once said in an interview that all the songs on Morning Glory have a connection. What is the connection?
Noel: It's all part of a big spiruital riddle to which only I have the answer.

"You can put your life in the hands,
of this rock'n'roll band.
Cos we'll never throw it all away"
-at Knebworth (Don't Look Back In Anger)

Interviewer: I have with me one of the stars of Oasis...
Noel: What do you mean one of the stars?

"...I am the most handsome."
(too true!)

"I went to Paul McCartney's daughter Stella's party and who should open the door but the man himself. He was dead cool. There were all these questions I wanted to ask him but I settled on, Do you watch Brookside?"

"I'm not like Jonh Lennon , who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon."

Liam: I need to be myself
Noel: I wanna be a Spaceman

some of the above quotes, and lots more great ones, are found on the Quotes page


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