Unifarva-Herald to Gustavus Formoyle
2012-03-08 17:41:52 UTC
Noel Gallagher: 'If Obama loses, I'll run for president myself'
By Ben Wyatt, CNN
updated 5:15 AM EST, Tue March 6, 2012
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Noel Gallagher's success
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Noel Gallagher, 45, is former musical force behind British band Oasis
His new album: "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds," topped the charts
in the UK in October 2011
Oasis' second album (What's the story) Morning Glory? sold nearly four
million copies in the United States
First solo album tour includes 81 shows across Europe, the Pacific
(Japan and Australia) and America
(CNN) -- "I don't know the ins and outs of his politics (but) for his
procession to become President I was in America and his speeches were
spine tingling. Barack Obama can talk, and coming after Bush it was
something to behold. In my humble opinion, if he loses the next election
to the other bunch then, good Lord, I will run myself."
So says Noel Gallagher, former creative force of British band Oasis and
one of rock 'n' roll's biggest mouths. Singer-songwriter, brother to
Liam and now a U.S. presidential candidate: 2012 promises to be quite a
year for the 45-year-old whose song-writing talent has taken him from
unemployment in a city called Manchester in northern England to sell-out
stadium tours around the world, playing to millions.
By September, Gallagher will have completed the tour=A0 of his first
solo album since the demise of Oasis in 2009; an expedition entailing 81
shows across Europe, the Pacific (Japan and Australia) and America as
well as being a voyage into the unknown for the forthright
backing-singer-now-frontman.
It was initially intended as a small affair, but such has been the
demand for the new record -- "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds" topped
the charts in the UK in October 2011-- theaters have rapidly been
upgraded to arenas to cope with demand. A move that surprised the man
himself and maybe explains the overriding mood of calm satisfaction the
guitarist exudes from beneath a leather jacket as he sits down with a
coffee to talk to CNN.
Former Oasis man finding solo success
"The amount of tickets I've sold, the amount of records I've sold ... I
(just) didn't have any expectations for the new record. I thought I
might stall at playing theaters for a couple of years but I've gone up
to arenas before the end of the first year, so I'm blown away by that.
In my humble opinion, if he (Barack Obama) loses the next election to
the other bunch then, good Lord, I will run myself Noel Gallagher
"Part of me thinks: 'Of course I'll be playing arenas because I'm
f****** brilliant and the songs are f****** brilliant so it's
inevitable, but the other part of me says I don't have any divine right
to do that and I've got to work at it. Turns out, the former was
correct! I am very grateful though."
It is not the first time the man dubbed "The Chief" by former band
mates, has experienced a wave of success. Until 2009, Gallagher had been
the artistic catalyst and the calmer half of the capricious brotherly
partnership that saw Oasis, with their mix of Beatles melodies and Sex
Pistols attitude, conquer charts around the world and become one of the
planet's biggest-selling bands.
Oasis' second album (What's the story) Morning Glory? broke into the
Billboard top ten and sold nearly four million copies in the United
States alone. But this figure proved to be seven times the sales of the
group's next three albums put together according to USA Today, a
position that left many critics to argue that, unlike other British
musical exports that had gone before them, the Gallagher's had not been
taken to heart by the American music-buying public. It's an assertion
the writer of Wonderwall contests.
"We got off on the wrong foot with Americans because they are extremely
professional corporate people and we kind of treated that attitude with
contempt. The only time we were ever on the cover of Rolling Stone they
set aside eight hours for a photo shoot. Eight hours! I think we stayed
for an hour ... and they couldn't believe it. (But) we just couldn't
understand why you have to enter into theatrics with Rolling Stone
magazine on a day off, because we were s***-kickers from the streets and
didn't have time for that.
"Four American tours in a row were either never started or never
finished (with Oasis) and we were subtitled on television because of our
accents ... basically people couldn't understand a word we were saying.
We also didn't have a front man like Bono or Chris Martin, we had a
different kind of front-man who was like Johnny Rotten, but I don't
think anybody ... would look back at it with regret, we did what we did
on our own terms."
We couldn't understand why we had to enter into theatrics with Rolling
Stone magazine on a day off, we were s***-kickers from the streets Noel
Gallagher
A staunch defense maybe of a band Gallagher currently has no plans to
reform, but for someone so imbued with a British identity, the new album
has particularly strong American sentiments. The new band includes an
American guitarist, the first single release -- 'The Death of You and
Me' -- has a New Orleans-style brass section, and the videos for all the
singles so far -- including 'Dream On' and 'AKA ... What a Life!' --
have a 1970's Americana theme with Noel as a central figure. Despite
this, when asked if this had been a conscious thematic move, Gallagher
remains adamant there is no new ambition to "crack" the United States.
"(Oasis) never had a number one album, we had a number two album ... we
nearly got there. I don't even know what cracking America is supposed to
be though? If it's playing arenas everywhere, 10 thousand people a night
then we did it. Not that I've got to justify it but we did sell out the
Hollywood Bowl and Madison Square Gardens regularly and I've got gold
and platinum discs (and) the house to prove it, Sonny Jim (sic). We
never won any Grammys, we never got nominated, but those people like
Green Day and Hootie and the Blowfish; f*** me, enough said."
The solo album has received good reviews broadly speaking so far.
Rolling Stone magazine gave it 3.5 out of five=A0 with the
recommendation that Noel had: "Cook(ed) down the Beatles' LSD pop into
MDMA head-rushes like Oasis did, he does his old band proud. "Shout it
out for me!" he declares in 'Dream On,' making you want to do just
that." So did the album feel like a renaissance as it was being created?
"I've made enough of my records to know this was a pretty good bunch of
songs. When I heard the final mixes, I wanted to stand behind them, they
were good. Whether it gets five stars out of five or seven out of ten
doesn't make it any better or worse an album for me - or if it sells 700
thousand compared to 100 thousand - it is a good album because it is.
"Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I
believed in it. Believed in them all equally but it's evident that
Morning Glory and Definitely Maybe have lasted for 18 years and some of
them haven't. We won't know where this sits in the canon of what I've
done for another five years but I'm confident it will be up there
though, in fact I know it will."
Basically, the album includes brilliant, well-crafted songs, deceptively
fantastic lyrics (all) criminally underrated in America! Noel Gallagher
The music on the new album breaks new ground for Gallagher, both in
musical terms -- the Dixieland band on 'The Death of You and Me' and the
driving, repetitive beats of 'Everybody's on the Run' and 'AKA ... What
a Life!'-- and in the song's lyrical content. They verge, even revel, in
romance.
"I don't know how that happened! My wife would say I'm not romantic at
all but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about
.. life being brilliant. Not like the Indie (independent) music scene
where I come from, they like to sing about the news don't they? There's
nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees
are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know
what I mean?
"So the themes (of the album are) escapism, love, romance; to be on a
journey - though I don't like that word, people say that on reality
shows don't they - you know when a fat person becomes skinny they've
been on a amazing journey. No they haven't, they've been on an amazing
treadmill. Basically, the album includes brilliant and very well crafted
songs, deceptively fantastic lyrics, all brilliantly played with the
minimum of fuss and which are criminally underrated particularly in
America," Gallagher surmises in unabashed appraisal.
But though his unshakable faith in his music remains the same as his
halcyon days with Oasis, touring is now a different proposition. As a
father of three life on the road now also means life apart from his
young family too.
"The boys (Donovan and Sonny) don't like me going away but I can't wait
until they're old enough so I can explain to them: 'You see all this all
this multi-colored stuff (in our house), where do you think it comes
from? Well, it doesn't come form Father Christmas, somebody's got to
work for it and that somebody is me. So you jog on and go to bed and
I'll see you in a month.'"
And with that Noel Gallagher leaves the room to prepare for his latest
arena show, played on this occasion in the Scottish city of Glasgow, a
stone's throw from the tiny venue where Oasis were first discovered all
those years ago. Maybe now it is time for establishment acceptance of
Gallagher in America, even if it is not in the White House.
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BEWARE OF OL' JEEZL PETE.
2012-THE YEAR OF THE ROBBY.
By Ben Wyatt, CNN
updated 5:15 AM EST, Tue March 6, 2012
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Noel Gallagher's success
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Noel Gallagher, 45, is former musical force behind British band Oasis
His new album: "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds," topped the charts
in the UK in October 2011
Oasis' second album (What's the story) Morning Glory? sold nearly four
million copies in the United States
First solo album tour includes 81 shows across Europe, the Pacific
(Japan and Australia) and America
(CNN) -- "I don't know the ins and outs of his politics (but) for his
procession to become President I was in America and his speeches were
spine tingling. Barack Obama can talk, and coming after Bush it was
something to behold. In my humble opinion, if he loses the next election
to the other bunch then, good Lord, I will run myself."
So says Noel Gallagher, former creative force of British band Oasis and
one of rock 'n' roll's biggest mouths. Singer-songwriter, brother to
Liam and now a U.S. presidential candidate: 2012 promises to be quite a
year for the 45-year-old whose song-writing talent has taken him from
unemployment in a city called Manchester in northern England to sell-out
stadium tours around the world, playing to millions.
By September, Gallagher will have completed the tour=A0 of his first
solo album since the demise of Oasis in 2009; an expedition entailing 81
shows across Europe, the Pacific (Japan and Australia) and America as
well as being a voyage into the unknown for the forthright
backing-singer-now-frontman.
It was initially intended as a small affair, but such has been the
demand for the new record -- "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds" topped
the charts in the UK in October 2011-- theaters have rapidly been
upgraded to arenas to cope with demand. A move that surprised the man
himself and maybe explains the overriding mood of calm satisfaction the
guitarist exudes from beneath a leather jacket as he sits down with a
coffee to talk to CNN.
Former Oasis man finding solo success
"The amount of tickets I've sold, the amount of records I've sold ... I
(just) didn't have any expectations for the new record. I thought I
might stall at playing theaters for a couple of years but I've gone up
to arenas before the end of the first year, so I'm blown away by that.
In my humble opinion, if he (Barack Obama) loses the next election to
the other bunch then, good Lord, I will run myself Noel Gallagher
"Part of me thinks: 'Of course I'll be playing arenas because I'm
f****** brilliant and the songs are f****** brilliant so it's
inevitable, but the other part of me says I don't have any divine right
to do that and I've got to work at it. Turns out, the former was
correct! I am very grateful though."
It is not the first time the man dubbed "The Chief" by former band
mates, has experienced a wave of success. Until 2009, Gallagher had been
the artistic catalyst and the calmer half of the capricious brotherly
partnership that saw Oasis, with their mix of Beatles melodies and Sex
Pistols attitude, conquer charts around the world and become one of the
planet's biggest-selling bands.
Oasis' second album (What's the story) Morning Glory? broke into the
Billboard top ten and sold nearly four million copies in the United
States alone. But this figure proved to be seven times the sales of the
group's next three albums put together according to USA Today, a
position that left many critics to argue that, unlike other British
musical exports that had gone before them, the Gallagher's had not been
taken to heart by the American music-buying public. It's an assertion
the writer of Wonderwall contests.
"We got off on the wrong foot with Americans because they are extremely
professional corporate people and we kind of treated that attitude with
contempt. The only time we were ever on the cover of Rolling Stone they
set aside eight hours for a photo shoot. Eight hours! I think we stayed
for an hour ... and they couldn't believe it. (But) we just couldn't
understand why you have to enter into theatrics with Rolling Stone
magazine on a day off, because we were s***-kickers from the streets and
didn't have time for that.
"Four American tours in a row were either never started or never
finished (with Oasis) and we were subtitled on television because of our
accents ... basically people couldn't understand a word we were saying.
We also didn't have a front man like Bono or Chris Martin, we had a
different kind of front-man who was like Johnny Rotten, but I don't
think anybody ... would look back at it with regret, we did what we did
on our own terms."
We couldn't understand why we had to enter into theatrics with Rolling
Stone magazine on a day off, we were s***-kickers from the streets Noel
Gallagher
A staunch defense maybe of a band Gallagher currently has no plans to
reform, but for someone so imbued with a British identity, the new album
has particularly strong American sentiments. The new band includes an
American guitarist, the first single release -- 'The Death of You and
Me' -- has a New Orleans-style brass section, and the videos for all the
singles so far -- including 'Dream On' and 'AKA ... What a Life!' --
have a 1970's Americana theme with Noel as a central figure. Despite
this, when asked if this had been a conscious thematic move, Gallagher
remains adamant there is no new ambition to "crack" the United States.
"(Oasis) never had a number one album, we had a number two album ... we
nearly got there. I don't even know what cracking America is supposed to
be though? If it's playing arenas everywhere, 10 thousand people a night
then we did it. Not that I've got to justify it but we did sell out the
Hollywood Bowl and Madison Square Gardens regularly and I've got gold
and platinum discs (and) the house to prove it, Sonny Jim (sic). We
never won any Grammys, we never got nominated, but those people like
Green Day and Hootie and the Blowfish; f*** me, enough said."
The solo album has received good reviews broadly speaking so far.
Rolling Stone magazine gave it 3.5 out of five=A0 with the
recommendation that Noel had: "Cook(ed) down the Beatles' LSD pop into
MDMA head-rushes like Oasis did, he does his old band proud. "Shout it
out for me!" he declares in 'Dream On,' making you want to do just
that." So did the album feel like a renaissance as it was being created?
"I've made enough of my records to know this was a pretty good bunch of
songs. When I heard the final mixes, I wanted to stand behind them, they
were good. Whether it gets five stars out of five or seven out of ten
doesn't make it any better or worse an album for me - or if it sells 700
thousand compared to 100 thousand - it is a good album because it is.
"Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I
believed in it. Believed in them all equally but it's evident that
Morning Glory and Definitely Maybe have lasted for 18 years and some of
them haven't. We won't know where this sits in the canon of what I've
done for another five years but I'm confident it will be up there
though, in fact I know it will."
Basically, the album includes brilliant, well-crafted songs, deceptively
fantastic lyrics (all) criminally underrated in America! Noel Gallagher
The music on the new album breaks new ground for Gallagher, both in
musical terms -- the Dixieland band on 'The Death of You and Me' and the
driving, repetitive beats of 'Everybody's on the Run' and 'AKA ... What
a Life!'-- and in the song's lyrical content. They verge, even revel, in
romance.
"I don't know how that happened! My wife would say I'm not romantic at
all but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about
.. life being brilliant. Not like the Indie (independent) music scene
where I come from, they like to sing about the news don't they? There's
nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees
are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know
what I mean?
"So the themes (of the album are) escapism, love, romance; to be on a
journey - though I don't like that word, people say that on reality
shows don't they - you know when a fat person becomes skinny they've
been on a amazing journey. No they haven't, they've been on an amazing
treadmill. Basically, the album includes brilliant and very well crafted
songs, deceptively fantastic lyrics, all brilliantly played with the
minimum of fuss and which are criminally underrated particularly in
America," Gallagher surmises in unabashed appraisal.
But though his unshakable faith in his music remains the same as his
halcyon days with Oasis, touring is now a different proposition. As a
father of three life on the road now also means life apart from his
young family too.
"The boys (Donovan and Sonny) don't like me going away but I can't wait
until they're old enough so I can explain to them: 'You see all this all
this multi-colored stuff (in our house), where do you think it comes
from? Well, it doesn't come form Father Christmas, somebody's got to
work for it and that somebody is me. So you jog on and go to bed and
I'll see you in a month.'"
And with that Noel Gallagher leaves the room to prepare for his latest
arena show, played on this occasion in the Scottish city of Glasgow, a
stone's throw from the tiny venue where Oasis were first discovered all
those years ago. Maybe now it is time for establishment acceptance of
Gallagher in America, even if it is not in the White House.
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