Watch Noel Gallagher go in deep to reflect on Oasis’ ‘Definitely Maybe’ ahead of 30th anniversary
nme.comNoel Gallagher has been looking back on ‘Definitely Maybe’ ahead of the album’s 30th anniversary next Thursday (August 29).The former Oasis man spoke to journalist John Robb at Manchester’s Sifters Records, telling the story of the band’s iconic debut, ahead of new limited edition versions being released.“It was only through Liam [Gallagher] getting together with Bonehead that they asked me, that I joined – and when I joined, ambition took over,” he said of his start in Oasis. “In fact, it was only, I think, the second rehearsal with Oasis our kid said, ‘Yeah, you’ve got some tunes.’“I was just like, ‘If you play this, I’ll play that and you play that,’ and once everybody joined in the fucking bomb went off and I was like, ‘Fucking hell, this is amazing.’”A post shared by Oasis (@oasis)He explained that it was difficult to get a job when he was younger, so music was, as he put it, “The one thing that could get us out of the situation where it – it worked.
There were good tunes and good bands, but the [Stone] Roses had disappeared, the [Happy] Mondays had fallen apart. There was nothing that was inspiring everyone.”Gallagher called Oasis a band “made by the people,” saying: “To say to somebody in 1993, ‘Where’s guitar music going?’ They’re not going to go, ‘Right, we want this fucking band from Manchester with a fucking singer who’s 19, lairy, he’s writing the songs, he’s ripping off everybody who’s fucking dead.
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