Noel is vocal in his opinions
NOEL Gallagher of Oasis has slated the latest plundering of the Beatles
back catalogue.
“It’s appalling,” Beatles fan Gallagher said of the
new Fab Four megamix album Love.
“I find it extremely annoying. I got as far as Tomorrow Never Knows
and had to switch it off.
“I don’t want to hear the Beatles as I’ve never heard
them before. I want to hear the Beatles as I’ve always heard them.”
Oasis’ new best-of compilation, Stop the Clocks, outsold Love in
Britain last month.
“Yeah, but we outsell most records,” Gallagher noted.
However, Stop The Clocks was narrowly beaten to No.1 in Britain by Irish
band Westlife.
“Yeah, but they don’t count,” said Gallagher who also
stood up for his hero Sir Paul McCartney and the messy drama around his
divorce from Heather Mills.
“It’s a shame. It amazes me everyone in England picked her
as a wrong ‘un, the one person that didn’t was him. But love
is blind.
“I’d love to meet her. I think she’d be fascinating
because she’s obviously an idiot.”
Meanwhile Gallagher has accused punk trio Green Day of “ripping
off” his Wonderwall anthem for their hit Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.
Gallagher has been a long-time outspoken critic of the American Idiot
hitmakers, but admits he was fuming the first time he heard their 2005
hit.
Gallagher explains: “If you listen, you’ll find it is exactly
the same arrangement as Wonderwall.
“They should have the decency to wait until I am dead (before releasing
this). I, at least, pay the people I steal from that courtesy.”
And the rocker’s rant continues: “They consider themselves
to be — and I quote — ‘a kick-ass rock ‘n’
roll band’. They could not be less kick-ass if they tried.” | 