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00:03Good evening, Great Britain.
00:05We're Oasis, and this is Top of the Pops,
00:07and tonight we're exclusive.
00:08Hello, ma'am.
00:09My guest today is a man that needs no introduction.
00:12In fact, he doesn't even need two names.
00:15Just Noel.
00:17He's made headline news a lot,
00:20built stadiums around the world,
00:22and has a habit of finding himself at a winner's party.
00:24Or two.
00:26I've interviewed him many times,
00:27but this time, we're going right back to the beginning.
00:31I've hand-picked clips from across four decades,
00:33and it's his turn to sit down with me and take a look.
00:36It's Noel Gallagher.
00:42OK, so we've got ten or so clips to show you.
00:46Some of whom you're in, some of whom you're not in.
00:49Oh, right, right.
00:50Do you ever look at your old stuff back?
00:52No, I don't really have the...
00:54If there's something on, like, an old Oasis gig,
00:56I'll watch it for the first ten minutes.
00:57You know, until they go,
00:58I remember it now, you know, and that's it.
01:00What about your old records?
01:02No, I mean, if I'm in the back of a cab and one comes on,
01:04I'll get the guy to turn it up.
01:05Do you know what I mean?
01:06But I love that.
01:07All right, I'm going to take you way back first.
01:10This is from November 24th, 1983.
01:13Any ideas?
01:161983?
01:16Well, I was still at school.
01:18Oh, no, I just left school.
01:19I'd left school, so, no.
01:21Take a look.
01:21Go on.
01:22What a charming man.
01:23I'm talking of charming men at number 30 this week.
01:26These are the Smiths.
01:27All right.
01:32I do miss Top of the Pulse.
01:47I vividly remember seeing Johnny and Morrissey on the TV first,
01:52and that was like, wow.
01:54Was that the definitive performance that made you want to pick up a guitar?
01:58Johnny was the first guitarist that I can ever remember.
02:02It looked like he was enjoying himself in the indie realm, you know what I mean?
02:05Indie guitarists were always head down and very serious,
02:08particularly Mancunians.
02:09He was a big influence on me then, you know,
02:11to want to be a songwriter.
02:14Yeah.
02:18I've sat in many a Friday night having a drink and what have you
02:23and just, like, watching Top of the Pupses.
02:25They're amazing, you know.
02:26You get, like, you say, Bananarama followed by, you know, Bauhaus,
02:31you know, followed by some novelty record by a fucking stuffed giraffe,
02:36you know, followed by the Smiths.
02:41And I don't know if it reminds you of, you know,
02:44I mean, it's the one time I get nostalgic, I suppose.
02:52What was music like in your house?
02:54My dad was a DJ.
02:57He worked in the Irish social club,
02:59so he was playing country and Western music.
03:02Sort of the big Chauvin stuff, like Big Tom and the Mainlanders.
03:04Yeah, Big Tom, yeah.
03:06But there was, my aunties and my mum and dad used to go out
03:10dancing to the Irish social clubs in Manchester
03:12and we used to go along with them sometimes on a Sunday afternoon.
03:15Just sit there and these Irish social clubs drinking lemonade
03:17and eating crisps.
03:19And that's where my first experience of live music come from
03:22would be, like, four or five Irish guys, you know,
03:26playing Catch Me If You Can, you know, on the stage.
03:29What, they'll catch me if you can?
03:31My name is Dan, so I'm your man, yeah.
03:35But, yeah, I can't remember when I was never into music.
03:39It was such an escapist thing.
03:46Was there anything particularly Mancunian for you about that at the time?
03:50I mean, we were so lucky to have grown up in that city,
03:55to walk the same streets
03:56and breathe the same air as, you know,
04:00the Buzzcocks and the Bee Gees,
04:02Joy Division and New Order and the Smiths
04:04and Happy Mondays and Stone Roses.
04:06It's quite insane.
04:07Yeah.
04:09To be interested in music and guitars and all that,
04:12I mean, you're just in the best city in the world.
04:16Let's take a look at this clip.
04:25Give it up for Oasis making their TV debut with Supersonic.
04:31This is a mad program, won't it the world?
04:33The word is mental.
04:50When I watch footage of those days
04:52and I see what I was wearing,
04:53I always think I'm wearing someone else's clothes.
04:57Because they're so big.
04:58Yeah, someone who's two stone heavier than me
05:00and four foot taller.
05:04What was it like getting booked on The Word
05:05as your first TV performer?
05:06Well, at this point, we were...
05:09So what year was that?
05:1094.
05:1194.
05:11Right, so we'd been rehearsing,
05:13like, literally five nights a week
05:16for three and a half years.
05:18We were brilliant live.
05:19We were amazing.
05:25At that point,
05:27I knew we were going to be relatively big.
05:30I just felt it.
05:30Because I'd wrote Lyft forever
05:32and cigarettes and alcohol,
05:35Supersonic was out.
05:37I knew it.
05:39Oasis are being hyped as the best band around.
05:41I'm 11 years old.
05:43The new single is called
05:44Cigarettes and Alcohol.
05:45Now, what kind of an example is that
05:47to set to the British youth of today?
05:49The radio probably ain't going to touch it
05:51because it says cigarettes and alcohol,
05:53but it's not about, it's not glorifying.
05:56It's not saying, go on.
05:57It's not glorifying drinking or smoking.
06:00It's a feeling that you get when you're on the dole
06:03and you've got no money,
06:03maybe to escape from your surroundings
06:05that maybe all you have is cigarettes and alcohol
06:08and that's all that matters.
06:10Yeah, I can see it.
06:11I haven't, we haven't mastered the art of the interview.
06:13I had a black eye when,
06:15that's why I had glasses on.
06:16What, do you remember where it had from?
06:17It was from one of the,
06:18one of the many fights on stage
06:21or it's just, I remember having a black,
06:22I remember having a,
06:23I wore sunglasses for about six months
06:25and it was once because I had a black eye
06:27or a busted nose or something.
06:32Oasis went through this period of,
06:33there'd been, like I said,
06:35it was only about a six month period,
06:37but nearly every gig that we did
06:39ended in a fight, brawl in the crowd
06:40or somebody, there was one.
06:41Between you and the crowd?
06:42Yeah, there was one particular night in Newcastle
06:44that's been broadcast live on the radio
06:46where somebody got on stage
06:47and attacked me
06:49and a guitar got damaged
06:52and...
06:53You hit him with a guitar?
06:54I hit him with a guitar, yeah.
06:55But, uh, it was a, honestly,
06:57there was this six month period
06:58where every song we did
07:00would end up in a brawl.
07:01I remember one gig,
07:03somebody hit Liam in the head
07:04with a shoe
07:05and he had the shoe
07:06and I remember
07:08we'd come off stage
07:09just waiting at the front door
07:11for this guy to walk past
07:12with one shoe
07:13and we were going to annihilate him
07:14and, of course, we never.
07:18Was that an exciting time for you?
07:19It's the best time.
07:20That post-King Tut's kind of,
07:22I don't know, let's say six months.
07:23It was only, like,
07:2620 years after the fact
07:27that you go,
07:28it's an amazing period
07:29where you're the same age
07:31as your audience,
07:32you're in the same circumstances
07:33because you've not become
07:35really famous
07:36or wealthy yet
07:37and maybe that period
07:40lasts for a year, six months.
07:42That's where you make your name.
07:44Yeah.
07:44Best band at the moment
07:45in the country.
07:47Bit cocky, a bit arrogant.
07:48That's what I like.
07:49It's like watching the classic
07:50again in 1977.
07:51Yeah, the first
07:5493, 94
07:55into 95
07:56was just an incredible time.
08:01Hello, we're Blur,
08:02we're number one
08:03and we're going to be
08:03camping it up later
08:04on top of the pops.
08:13Okay, so never in the field
08:14of human conflict,
08:15blah, blah, blah.
08:16All I can say about
08:17all this battle of bands
08:18business is,
08:19if there's any winners at all,
08:20it's you out there
08:21because you're getting loads
08:22of good music to listen to.
08:24So, straight in at number two,
08:25this is Oasis.
08:29You've got to roll with it,
08:32you've got to take your time,
08:33you've got to say what you say,
08:36don't let anybody get in your way,
08:38there's a song too much.
08:41Top of the pops,
08:42the battle of the bands.
08:44It was ridiculous, really.
08:46But the whole,
08:48that whole part of the Britpop thing
08:52was so unnecessary.
08:54Because?
08:55Because, well,
08:55this was going to be
08:57our single from the record
09:00and then some people
09:01come down for creation
09:02and said,
09:04Blur are putting a single out
09:05on that day too.
09:07And I'm like,
09:07oh, right.
09:08So we decided to put it back a week
09:09and then they called up
09:12and said,
09:13well, they've put theirs back a week now.
09:14And we were like,
09:15oh.
09:16And I think there was about a week
09:18where we were wholly uninterested in it.
09:21We were like,
09:21whatever,
09:21we're not bothered.
09:22And then the whole thing
09:24started to catch fire.
09:25And then we got interested
09:26in it pretty quick.
09:27And of course,
09:28if anybody starts a fight with me,
09:30it's fucking on.
09:31Another battle.
09:32Two of Britain's
09:33most popular pop groups
09:35have begun the biggest
09:36chart war in 30 years.
09:38The Manchester band Oasis
09:39and their arch rivals Blur
09:42released new singles today,
09:43each hoping to reach
09:44the number one spot next week.
09:46The music industry
09:47hasn't seen anything like it
09:48since the Beatles
09:49fought it out
09:50with the Rolling Stones
09:51in the 60s.
09:52But it was,
09:53the whole shame about the thing
09:55is the two songs are shit.
09:56That's it.
09:57You know,
09:58if it was like
09:59cigarettes and alcohol
10:00and girls and boys,
10:01fair enough.
10:03Country House
10:04is fucking dog shit.
10:05Roll With It
10:06has never been played
10:07by anybody
10:08since the band split up.
10:09So that tells its own story.
10:12And it's all...
10:16You know,
10:16I'm sure you like
10:18and rate Damon
10:19and have done for a while.
10:20Yeah, we've become friends.
10:21He's a good guy.
10:22We've become friends.
10:22So when does that
10:23and men's happen?
10:24And do you just put that
10:25down to like
10:26angry young man stuff?
10:27I put it down to...
10:30Like me and Vernon Kay
10:31back in the day.
10:32I put it down to
10:35lots of little different things.
10:36Drugs,
10:37alcohol,
10:38us all moving
10:39in a very, very small
10:41circle.
10:43But years later,
10:44we happened to
10:46pass each other
10:47in the corridor.
10:48And we kind of went,
10:49oh, no way.
10:49And then we went to the bar
10:50and got a drink.
10:51And the first thing
10:53we spoke about
10:53was how great
10:54all that was.
10:55You know,
10:56we never mentioned
10:56the insults
10:57and all that kind of thing.
10:58Still haven't.
10:59Yeah.
10:59So...
11:00Yeah, it's great, yeah.
11:01All right.
11:02Let's take a look
11:02at the next clip.
11:07Am I in this?
11:11This is great.
11:17Who's he?
11:18Barton Enfield.
11:19Good evening.
11:20Welcome to Northwesternite.
11:21Manchester's most famous sons
11:23returned home today.
11:24This weekend,
11:25Oasis will perform
11:26before 80,000
11:27at Main Road,
11:28the home of Manchester City,
11:30their favourite football team.
11:31They may be as big
11:32as the Beatles,
11:33but they haven't
11:34forgotten their mum.
11:35Noel Gallagher's
11:36first stop
11:37on his return to Manchester
11:38was the house in Burnage
11:40where he was brought up.
11:41Mrs Gallagher's
11:42had to put up
11:43with Oasis fans
11:44knocking on her door
11:45in the hope of tickets
11:46for this weekend's concert.
11:47Have there been
11:48problems here?
11:49Is that why
11:49you've been sent here?
11:50Do you remember him?
11:51Still know him, Rob.
11:53Yeah, Aussie Rob, yeah.
11:54Have there been
11:54a lot of fans
11:55turning up
11:55trying to get tickets?
11:58Thanks very much
11:59for your help.
12:00Liam and Noel
12:01regard this
12:02as their second home.
12:03They're big
12:04Manchester City supporters
12:05and today Main Road
12:07and today Main Road
12:07was preparing
12:07for 80,000 Oasis fans
12:09who will be
12:10at two concerts
12:11this weekend.
12:12It's probably
12:13going to be
12:13the biggest day
12:13of our lives anyway
12:15until we do it next time.
12:16In the last few days
12:17there have been
12:17a lot of your fans
12:18round at your mother's house.
12:20Well, there's no tickets left
12:21so I don't have them
12:22coming round.
12:23Oh, right,
12:24then Mrs Gallagher
12:25doesn't have any tickets.
12:27Parties, isn't it?
12:46Obviously, everyone
12:46talks about network.
12:47Was this
12:48in many ways
12:49more important?
12:51When somebody said
12:52we're going to put you
12:53on at Main Road
12:53we were like
12:54a football stadium.
12:55We were like
12:56an awful
12:56football stadium
12:57as well.
12:59Somebody could write
13:00a book about that gig
13:01because honestly
13:02it's incredible.
13:11When we were doing
13:12these gigs
13:13were in April, right?
13:15And so we're saying
13:16you can't play outdoors
13:18in Manchester in April.
13:19It'll rain.
13:20I was like
13:21it fucking rains in August.
13:24What's the difference?
13:25It might be freezing.
13:26I was like
13:27well, wear a coat.
13:27You always wear coats.
13:29Yeah.
13:29I think it was just
13:30I think it's a Mancunian thing
13:32is to wear
13:32as many coats as possible
13:35just in case you get
13:36into trouble
13:36and someone's looking
13:37for a guy in a green jacket
13:38you could sling that one
13:39and you've got a red one on.
13:43You just get those moments
13:44that stick with you
13:45for the rest of your life
13:46you know?
13:47Yeah, I remember sitting
13:48behind the stage
13:49in the flat lane
13:50and in a box
13:52and watching them dismantle
13:54the whole thing
13:55and it ended up
13:56just in an empty stadium
13:58and I wasn't really thinking
14:00of anything in particular
14:02I was just kind of
14:02taking the moment in
14:03you know what I mean?
14:05but they were great
14:07amazing times
14:08amazing gigs
14:09and you know
14:10it'll never be repeated
14:16I remember that
14:17I mean
14:18I had my first
14:18I was a runner
14:20researcher
14:20and I just started
14:21doing screen tests
14:22and my first ever pilot
14:24in 97
14:24and I remember that summer
14:26you know
14:26I remember Euro 96
14:28and I remember Blair
14:28getting elected
14:29the whole kind of
14:30cool Britannia moment
14:31it was a really exciting
14:32time to live through
14:34Alright, I'll Kev
14:38Well, it's great
14:39to be English
14:40isn't it?
14:41I think for a long while
14:42we've not been feeling
14:43too good about ourselves
14:44in this country
14:44and it's wonderful
14:45to see people
14:46being thrilled
14:47Do you feel like
14:48you're making history?
14:49We are making history
14:50Oh, definitely, yeah
14:52There was just something
14:53about that generation
14:54and that whole thing
14:56and the new labour thing
14:57and all that
14:58it was just a moment
14:59in time
15:01I kind of felt it then
15:03I feel it more now
15:04looking back
15:05you know
15:06I mean, the world went
15:08the world was fucking
15:09amazing for a few years
15:11That trip to Downing Street
15:12why wouldn't you go?
15:14You know, I was like
15:15I'm too nosy
15:16to turn that invitation down
15:18Of course
15:18So we went there
15:19Yeah
15:19And
15:21I remember kind of
15:22wandering around
15:23number 10
15:24and number 11
15:24and just wandering
15:26wandering around
15:27you know
15:27Taking it all in
15:28A little bit pissed
15:30and
15:31Piers Morgan
15:32had wrote a book
15:32where he said that
15:34I was walking around
15:35with a magic marker
15:36trying to find
15:37Margaret Thatcher's portrait
15:38to draw a tash on her
15:40which is a great story
15:41and I sincerely
15:42fucking hope it's true
15:44but I knew
15:45we were going to get
15:45slagged off for it
15:46and McGee was like
15:46No, I don't think we will
15:47Even at the time
15:47Yeah, I remember us
15:48being stood on the doorsteps
15:49at the end
15:50when we were coming out
15:51and saying to McGee
15:52we're going to get
15:53slated for this
15:54and he's like
15:54No, no, no
15:55I don't think we will
15:55and I was like
15:55I can feel it
15:57Embarrassment and inquest
15:58at Broadcasting House
15:59the home of BBC Radio today
16:00How was it
16:01that the Gallagher brothers
16:02of Oasis
16:03were able to spend
16:04the best part of an hour
16:05sitting in a Radio 1 studio
16:07effing and blinding
16:08praising drugs
16:09and threatening violence
16:10at 8 in the evening
16:11Are these the people
16:12we want vaunted
16:13on the front of magazines
16:14as the epitome
16:15of cool new Britain
16:16But then Tony Blair
16:18who says he's serious
16:19about fighting drugs
16:20had been happy
16:21to invite Noel Gallagher
16:23to Downing Street
16:23This was the musician's
16:25explanation of that visit
16:26Have you been to
16:28send Downing Street?
16:28No
16:29Well, I have so
16:30Shot it
16:33Anyway, I'll be
16:34Lord Mayor of London
16:35for the next six months
16:38And creatively
16:39in terms of where
16:40you were here
16:40was that the sort of
16:42period of excess
16:43where you started to
16:44I was a bit lost
16:45at this point
16:46and I'm starting to
16:49be just drinking
16:50and being out on drugs
16:52all the time
16:54Like not a day
16:55would go past
16:55where I wouldn't wake up
16:57with a hangover
16:58Yeah
16:58Drugs, it's like
16:59you know, it's like
17:01getting up and having
17:01a cup of tea in the morning
17:08With the whole
17:08Be Here Now
17:09Do you ever listen to that
17:10and go, actually there's
17:10some good tracks on that
17:11No
17:12You know what I mean
17:13Whatever I had
17:14was lost
17:15or I was losing it
17:16and I think that's the full stop
17:18of Britpop
17:19Do you think you should have done
17:20Master Planners now?
17:21Yeah, of course
17:22That's the one regret I have
17:23as a songwriter
17:24If that would have been
17:26our third album
17:28It would have been
17:28a different story completely
17:29But I was so engrossed
17:31in what Oasis had become
17:33I found it difficult
17:36to think outside
17:37of those parameters
17:38So you would just
17:39In terms of writing
17:40Yeah, yeah
17:40So you're just
17:41constantly
17:42going in ever decreasing circles
17:45of like stadium rock
17:47And of course
17:48once you get
17:49you get paid
17:50you know
17:51once you start buying
17:52fur coats
17:52There's a tipping point
17:54isn't there?
17:54Of course
17:55And then of course
17:56you can't
17:57you can't
17:58still write songs
17:59about the man in the street
18:01after that
18:01Yeah
18:09Were you enjoying it
18:12there and then?
18:13Well I enjoyed it
18:14I enjoyed it the same
18:16all the way to the end
18:18Did you?
18:19Yeah
18:19I mean
18:19there was never a point
18:21in Oasis
18:22where we were all getting on
18:23Never
18:24You never had a moment
18:25where you
18:25No I mean
18:25I joined last
18:26I joined last
18:28and even I remember
18:28on the first day
18:29thinking
18:30He's a fucking idiot
18:31You know what I mean
18:32A drummer
18:33has got to go
18:34He's an idiot
18:35So even from the very
18:36first rehearsal
18:37I was like
18:37How do you keep
18:38that energy out
18:39Because the music
18:42And when
18:46the music wasn't enough
18:47was when I just said
18:49I'm out
18:49See you later
18:50These are crazy days
18:52But they make me shine
18:55Time keeps rolling by
19:00Here
19:00Noor Gallagher has announced
19:01he's quitting the band Oasis
19:03He says he can no longer work
19:04with his brother Liam
19:05after a series of rows
19:07Last night
19:08the band cancelled
19:08a performance in Paris
19:10Had you played that Paris gig
19:11when you walked
19:12Do you think you'd still
19:13be together now
19:14or
19:16I think
19:16Yeah probably
19:18I think if we'd have
19:19done that gig
19:21Yeah we'd have probably
19:22had a year off
19:23and then just
19:24Carry on
19:24But what would usually happen
19:25at the end of a tour
19:26is everybody would
19:27leave the band
19:29I'm leaving
19:29that's it
19:30And then
19:30you'd have six months off
19:32and then someone would be like
19:33What are we doing
19:33anything
19:34Yeah
19:34Yeah but you left
19:37You mean leave leave
19:39Yeah
19:39Just leave
19:40I just meant
19:40just leave for a bit
19:43But then do you think
19:43if you hadn't been brothers
19:44you'd have stayed together
19:45as long as you did as the band
19:49That's a good question
19:51If he wasn't my brother
19:53we'd have probably got on better
19:54the fact that me and him
19:56were brothers
19:57it only really meant
19:58that we could say things
19:59to each other
19:59that no one else could say
20:01but I would never put my arm
20:02around him and say
20:03you might want to do this
20:03I might want to do that
20:04because you know
20:05he's not the kind of guy
20:06that you can reason with
20:08But I'm glad
20:08I'm glad it happened
20:10and it was meant to happen
20:11for a reason
20:13I absolutely believe that
20:15We were seen as pretty good
20:16when we were together
20:18That band
20:19We're fucking twice
20:20the band we are now
20:21We've been split up
20:22for ten years
20:22because you're like
20:23you know
20:24you're not around
20:25and people
20:26people know what they've missed
20:27you know
20:27and now with
20:29High Flying Birds
20:31I'm in a fucking great position
20:32You can tell that
20:33Yeah, everything is
20:34everything is on the table
20:40I was just going to say
20:41who are these people
20:42it's that's my band
20:43I thought this was Oasis
21:00I remember being at home
21:02and I wasn't really thinking of
21:05I was still writing and all
21:06I wasn't really thinking of doing it
21:08I wasn't thinking that I'd retired
21:10but I wasn't thinking of doing anything
21:12or putting anything together
21:13and it was
21:15my missus does that thing
21:16that your missus does
21:17when you've been around the house
21:18for longer than they think
21:20you should have been
21:21they'll do that
21:22so I was thinking
21:24what are you going to do?
21:27You're going to make another record?
21:30I don't know why
21:31I think you should
21:31and I was going
21:44So within six months
21:46I'm playing the O2
21:48and I'm like
21:48I remember going out on stage that night
21:51and seeing it
21:51and it's huge
21:52and I'm thinking
21:55you almost had to
21:57train yourself
21:58to be a lead singer
21:58that started in 1994
22:01the
22:02oh my throat's hurting
22:03so I would do a couple of B-sides
22:05and think
22:06well while his throat's not hurting
22:07I'll sing a couple of songs
22:08I mean did you take lessons
22:10or did you
22:11no
22:11I've never taken a musical lesson
22:12in my life
22:13I didn't even warm up
22:13before I'd go on
22:14no
22:15that's what the first song's for mate
22:18I've got girl singers in the band now
22:20and they're like professionals
22:21and they walk around the thing going
22:24sometimes I'll walk past the dressing room
22:26and there'll be
22:26frankly animal noises coming out of it
22:28and I'll be like
22:28are they alright in there?
22:29what's going on?
22:30they're just warming up
22:31and
22:34fucking hell
22:35it's great
22:36but I was learning here
22:37you know what I mean
22:37I was learning, learning, learning
22:39and
22:40this is just the start
22:46Can we have it now for
22:48Noel Gallagher
22:49who's high-clay good
22:52for me the magic trick of music is
22:54the first two albums
22:55if you're a great songwriter
22:56you've had in you
22:57since you were a year dot
22:58right
22:59and then as you get older
23:00and you evolve
23:01it's about how you adapt
23:11like I say nothing
23:13nothing musically is off the table
23:15I can go anywhere
23:17with what I do now
23:19so for instance
23:20I've got a single out now
23:22that
23:23Oasis fans
23:25they hate it
23:26they don't just not like it
23:27they fucking hate it
23:27you know what I mean
23:28and
23:30there is a certain section of people
23:31who want you just to be like that forever
23:34you know
23:34and
23:36you have a decision then
23:37to make as an artist
23:38it's like do I want to be like that
23:39or do I want to teach these fuckers a lesson
23:45I go back to the time
23:46of the night
23:47going into the back room
23:48to write supersonic
23:49nobody wanted a song
23:50about fucking dog
23:51I remember going into the rehearsal room
23:54with cigarettes and alcohol
23:55and playing that riff
23:56and everyone going
23:57can't do that
23:59I was like
23:59I'm doing it
24:00that's it
24:01nobody wanted Oasis
24:02before they came along
24:04your taste
24:06has got you this far
24:07so therefore
24:08people going into it
24:09yeah
24:10you've got to keep fucking going with it
24:11you know what I mean
24:11that's it
24:12and I'm like
24:13I can't
24:13I'm hopelessly addicted to it
24:15I love
24:16being a songwriter
24:17I love writing songs
24:19and
24:20the older that I get
24:21the more I want to do
24:26let's take a look at this clip
24:28at 11 this morning
24:29a minute's silence
24:30was observed
24:31across the UK
24:32to remember
24:32the 22 people
24:34killed in the
24:34Manchester Concert Hall
24:35terror attack
25:02take a look from off your face
25:05you ain't ever gonna burn my heart out
25:13star Sally can wait
25:16she knows it's too late
25:19as we're walking on high
25:32I was watching that live
25:33you're joking
25:34I was watching that
25:35I happen to be watching it at home
25:37and
25:39I was
25:40well speechless
25:41you know what I mean
25:41I was kind of
25:43yeah it's a tragic
25:45it's such a tragic event
25:48it really brought it home to me
25:52that in times like that
25:55community leaders
25:56and politicians
25:57and fucking this
25:58that
25:58and religious leaders
25:59were all trying to bring people together
26:02and coming out with the same old bullshit
26:03you know
26:04we will stand for
26:05and it took a song
26:07to bring people together
26:27I can't even think of the words
26:28to express what it
26:30what it
26:30what it
26:31it's just the power of music
26:34it's the thing that brings people together
26:36and without being an extraordinary song
26:40it's an extraordinary thing
26:48but the great songs that I've written
26:52they all just fall out of the sky
26:54all the ones that
26:57will be forever remembered
26:59they're just there
27:00you know
27:00and nobody knows who Sally is
27:04I don't know who Sally is
27:05you know
27:06and it's a song of no regrets
27:08you know what I mean
27:08it's a woman toasting her life
27:10thinking you know what
27:11I fucked it up
27:12somewhere along the line
27:13but you know
27:14I've got no regrets
27:29what would your 16 year old self
27:31say to you now
27:35if somebody would have tapped me on the shoulder
27:37and in the kipax
27:38and said
27:38by the time you get to your mid 50s
27:41you'll have done all this
27:42I'd be like
27:44I'll get a nice one
27:46thanks Noel
27:46pleasure man
27:47really enjoyed it
27:48thanks for having me
28:16thank you very much
28:23He's not a boy