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I believe that it is the music of our time that will be remembered long afterwe are gone, and it is bands like Oasis that led the revolution which tookplace recently. Oasis, headed by brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher wasthe first band after The Beatles to lash out against what had become thenormal way a band should be, and that is why they will be known for yearsto come as the band who changed rock music.Noel Gallagher was born on May 29, 1967 in Manchester, he was thesecond son of Thomas and Margaret Gallagher. Thomas, Tommy to theboys at the pub, was a construction worker. He and his wife, known to herpals as Peggy, resided in the working-class Manchester suburb called"God was playing a joke when He made me," Noel Gallagher once said."You know, 'Let's make this guy a writer and a guitar player, but let's makehim write with his left hand but play with his right, and let's have him bornin the middle of May and give him a Christmas name like Noel. Little didNoel know that when he grew up he was to become the frontman of one ofthe most influential rock bands in music history at a time when music wasthe most influential form of speech on the planet.
It was there that Noel truly tappedinto his songwriting ability, penning four of the songs that would laterappear on Oasis' debut album. "I thought I was really good for about a year, until someone tuned it up. He soon discovered that theposition meant that he would be alone for days on end and he beganbringing his guitar to work with him. "When they asked me to come and have ago, I thought, 'This is my destiny in life!'" Noel said later. Having already developed a love affair with the Beatles, theteenaged Noel fell for the angry energy of punk rock. ' 'A songwriter? Why can't you be a drugdealer like the rest of us?'" But he knew what he wanted in his life and itwasn't in Manchester. ' So I bowled into thepractice room one day and said, "Right, change that guitar, take themshoes off, cut your hair, I'm gonna be doing this from now on. " Well Noel was certainly one of those and althoughtheir third album "Be Here Now" was regarded by critics as the bandgoing downhill, it opened the door for them to release their finest pieces,the B-Sides to their singles. " Most important to Noel's musicalgrowth was the North's all-time greatest band, the Beatles. Oh yeah, and to be the biggest band in the world" A modestambition if there was ever one. "The others had theselittle grey shorts and I had these dead cool black skin-tight trousers withlittle Doc Martens. But Liam and Noelmade the best of it, and the bedroom saw the beginnings of the somewhatloving, often heated relationship between the brothers. Noel Gallagher's Mum used to tell them that God loved a tryer,and Noel used to ask "why? Has he got a car?" and she would tell him "a tryer, not a tyre. Rude to the media, destructive to hotel rooms, rebels in everyway.
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