Noel Gallagher - the "big brother" of modern indie rock

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:53

Noel Gallagher is a British musician and poet who co-founded the rock band Oasis with his younger brother Liam. This cult group set the musical direction for a whole generation of subsequent indie bands. From this article you can learn about the personal life of the musician, his relationship with his brother after the breakup of Oasis, as well as how Noel Gallagher achieved success.

Biography

Noel Thomas David Gallagher was born on May 29, 1967 in Manchester (UK). He is the middle of three brothers whose childhood was not easy: an alcoholic father beat the boys, causing Noel to develop a mild form of stuttering. When Noel was 9 years old, his mother was finally able to leave her husband, taking her sons with her. Pictured below are the Gallagher brothers with their mother, Noel on the far left.

However, constant beatings have already formed a difficult character in Noel: he skipped school, had problems with the police, and already at the age of 13 he received a six-month probation for trying to rob a store. The only thingcould pacify the young hooligan - this is music. During his probationary period, he became interested in playing the guitar, imitating the bands Jam and The Smiths and learning their hits heard on the radio. At the age of 21, he became the live assistant for the amateur band Inspiral Carpets.

Oasis

In 1991, Noel Gallagher learned that his younger brother Liam had formed a band called The Rain. He really liked the way they played, but he didn't like the songs. He asked his brother to give him a place in the band and also to let him write the lyrics - otherwise he predicted that the band would "rot in Manchester". Noel also came up with the new name Oasis.

The group was rapidly gaining popularity. The very first single Supersonic, released in 1994, became the best-selling debut album and took first place in the UK charts. Noel Gallagher described the music of Oasis as an alternative to the grunge and metal genres popular at the time.

Nothing pisses me off more than bands like Pearl Jam or Nirvana whining and complaining about life and how hard it is for them to be celebrities. And I declare: being a celebrity is great.

In the first two years of its existence, the group became ultra-popular - singles took first place in all charts, concert tickets sold out in an hour, they were dubbed "the new The Beatles". The popularity of the group was also facilitated by the "rock and roll" lifestyle of the Gallagher brothers: drinking, drugs, fights with fans, critics, and even with each other.were commonplace for them. Noel used the money he earned to buy cars he couldn't drive and swimming pools he couldn't swim in.

Further creativity

Oasis broke up in 2009 after Noel Gallagher left the band. The growth in popularity was in direct proportion to the growth of disputes and quarrels between the brothers.

Noel's next project was Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, formed in 2010. It sounds very close to the Oasis style, but with a more melancholic and even psychedelic sound. The first album of Noel Gallagher's solo project was very highly acclaimed by critics, topped the UK charts and sold two and a half million copies.

Noel is a songwriter and vocalist in the new band, playing acoustic and electric guitars, bass and keyboards. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds still exists today. "This project is what I have needed all my life. Complete creative freedom," said Noel Gallagher.

Personal life and relationship with brother

In 1997, Noel married actress Meg Matthews, in 2000 they had a daughter, Enai. They divorced in 2001 due to infidelity on the part of Noel. Later, the musician admitted that he never cheated on Meg - he came up with a cheating story to speed up the divorce process. Pictured below is Noel with her daughter Enai.

After his divorce from Matthews, Noel Gallagher began a relationship with Sarah MacDonald - they met in2000 in a nightclub in Ibiza. Sarah gave birth to Noel two sons: in 2007, Donovan Rory was born, and in 2010, Sonny Patrick.

Sarah MacDonald and Noel Gallagher got engaged in June 2011 in a private ceremony at the Lime Wood Hotel in the New Forest National Park. The couple are together to this day, Noel's song Waiting for the Rapture is dedicated to Sarah. Pictured below is Gallagher's wife and children.

After leaving Oasis, Noel did not maintain a relationship with his younger brother, never missing a chance to insult him in interviews or during concerts. "Liam Gallagher is the fork-wielding dude in the soup world," Noel once said. "He's brash, rude, scary and lazy." Liam did not lag behind his older brother, regularly responding to him in the same way - in one of the interviews he called Noel's works "space pop", and also regularly calls his brother "potatoes" and invites fans to bring potato peelers to his concerts.

In December 2017, Liam tweeted that he "wishes the NG group a Merry Christmas and looks forward to seeing you tomorrow". Oasis fans around the world raised a joyful cry - the Gallagher brothers reconciled, what a gift for the New Year! But the joy turned out to be premature: the very next day, Liam hurried to explain that a certain "NG" was not Noel Gallagher at all, but his friend Nick Grimshaw. Noel Gallagher himself did not comment on this situation, and the brothers' enmity continues to this day.