Musician of the week. 06/10/2011.

Noel Gallagher.

With all the excitement of the new album that will be released on the 17th of October I have made Mr. Gallagher my musician of the week. I can safely say he is my favourite musician, alongside Keith Moon, and I know he is a music stealing troll but we all love him, and he pulls it off well. But what I'd like to focus on is his lyrics, now I study English at A level and the poems we read in class are nothing compared to his songs, as I've said to my teacher many times "We should be reading Oasis songs, not this Seamus Heaney crap." He has spoke about subjects/emotions in songs that I have never been able to describe, sometimes I feel like he has been living inside of my head because of how much I connect with the songs he writes. Songs like 'Where did it all go wrong?' and 'If I had a gun' are the reasons why I get out of bed on a morning instead of wallowing in self pity because no one knows how I feel, well I know someone does and his name is Noel Gallagher.

I'm seventeen and Noel Gallagher has been a prominant figure throughout my life, since the age of  two.

It all started way back in 1996, ‘Don’t look back in anger’ was just huge, so I hear, and my mam always had the radio on because she liked that Take That song that was out at the time. And for a week whilst Oasis were on top spot they played the song a lot, my mam informs me that everytime it was on I’d put down my toys and just either listen or stand up and bop a bit. So when the song was kind of not played as much anymore I’d keep on saying to my mam “Where Noel?” in my baby voice, I wasn’t as grammatically correct in those days. And because she felt sorry for me she went out and bought ‘(What’s the story?) Morning Glory) and she’d play it to me as I slept most nights.
So I became completely obssessed with Noel G, even crying when I was told, by my mam, that he had gotten married. I was four! And I’d tell people I was his wife, so on in my life I did go only thinking Oasis released one album then for my tenth birthday (Yes, I know, I had been into Oasis for 8 years and I lived off that one album!) I got ‘Definitely Maybe’ and I over played that album too, but there was no Noel so I was a bit upset but I still liked Liam’s voice. When I was 12 (and a bit) and started getting pocket money I went and bought my first ever CD, ‘Stop the clocks’ at HMV - £7 on sale. I also over-played that, I fell in love with ‘half the world away’ too and then my parents got divorced the next April, I just didn’t know what to do but there was my four (I had gotten ‘Don’t Believe the truth’ for my birthday) Oasis CD’s waiting for me there, I’d go to my room everyday after school and close myself off from the world and listen to them, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard Liam sing ‘Shheeeeiiinnnnneeeee’ or heard that drum beat in the begining of ‘Live Forever’, but I felt so connected to the songs, it was as if Noel had written them for me, like he knew I was out there somewhere and really needed some guidance and he’d sit down and write me a song to make me feel better, even before any of these things happened. I was into other music at the time, I had gotten into The Who, Beatles etc… but even though I love Keith Moon a hell of a lot, and I feel we basically have the same personality, I can never even turn my back on the fact that songs like ‘Half the world away’,’Little by little’,’Who put the weight of the world on my shoulders?’ etc… have helped me get by in life. I remember having to go see a psycologist and she said asked me what I did in my spare time, I told her I listened to Oasis, she pulled a face and joked “They aren’t a very good band” and I replied “They might not be to you, but Noel Gallagher is going to help me through this more than you”. And that fact has stayed true to this day.