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London Restaurant Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel, 15.03.1999 © Dave Benett

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Bands – especially ones with a pretty boy singer or a female singer – can get really nervous that the singer gets all the attention. Noel was never like that. He said: “You’ve got to use the assets you’ve got.” Liam was a really attractive young boy at the time. You put that on the cover of a paper, you’re going to sell a lot.

Early on, I was asked by their label, Creation, to get Oasis used to being photographed and work out what kind of image suited them – whether we wanted a modern look or a 1960s vibe. I was from Manchester originally and Noel, Liam and I supported Manchester City, so the label thought I was the person to ease them into it. Bands are normally a little bit cocky when they first start, but Oasis weren’t. They were like: “Oh, I love those pictures you did of Joy Division.” So they were kind of in awe of me initially.

In July 1994, we went to Manchester to do a big session for the NME. A couple of people at the NME were obsessed with the Beatles and wanted Oasis to be a bit like that, but I didn’t really see that in them. They weren’t yobby – they were quite sensitive, I felt – but by the same token, they were lads who went to watch football. And those were the people who liked the band.

We went to Maine Road to do some photographs. This picture was taken from the steps of the entrance to the stadium. I like it because it’s very monotone. Liam’s shirt is pretty much reflected in the painted brickwork around the ground. At the time, City were sponsored by Brother, a Japanese electronics company, and to have “Brother” on the shirts was an absolute gift. We did a lot of pictures of the band in the Manchester City shirts that day. That was meant to be the cover of the NME, but my editor said: “I don’t want them to be associated with losers” – because City were about to get relegated.

Even now, people associate that shirt with the band. It was interesting because football wasn’t fashionable in the way it is now – and it wasn’t glamorous at all. It was very difficult for people outside the UK to get football shirts from English clubs but in Tokyo, fans in the front four rows of their shows were wearing Man City shirts. They must have written to the club and had them imported.

-photographer Kevin Cummins

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Back at the very start of my career, when I was 25, I knew an art director who was working on a new magazine called Loaded. In May 1994, he rang and said: “I’ve got a job for you.” He gave me the address of a hotel somewhere in Manchester and told me to meet a guy called Noel Gallagher. I thought he was a tour manager, at first. Nobody said he was actually in the band.

The hotel was like an Edwardian house: the place was so depressing. The receptionist had that Mancunian ambivalence, very downbeat. I said I’m here to see Noel Gallagher and she gesticulated with her thumb. So I go down this corridor, knock on the door. He answers and just goes: “All right?” That’s it, devoid of any warmth.

He’d split up with his girlfriend and they’d shared a flat, so the record company were paying for him to live at the hotel. He had this little pocket address book and was making phone calls. Each one was the same: “All right, seen our kid? OK, bye.” I was sitting there like a lemon thinking: “What is ‘our kid’?” So I thought: “I’ll just take some pictures.” Then he got up and said: “Let’s go.” As we were leaving, he stopped and said: “What do you think of Blur?” And I went: “I quite like them.” “Second-best band in Britain,” he said.

We walked to this street corner and then four guys came from the opposite direction. You could identify the leader from 200 yards away, because he had this unbelievable walk. It was mad experiencing that walk. I quickly gathered Noel and Liam were brothers. They spoke to each other in such a relentlessly passive aggressive way. Noel would tut and roll his eyes at everything Liam said.

Liam asked me what football team I supported. I said Arsenal. He put his hand up to my face and went: “I can’t even look at you.” For the actual shoot, we went to Maine Road [then Manchester City’s home]. I got on the ground and he made as if he was kicking a football at the camera.

Before that day, I had been living a very precarious existence. Afterwards, I started to get a lot of well-paid work. My wife’s best friend knows Noel and a couple of years ago we both went to a birthday dinner at her house. I said to Noel: “I often think of that photo as the day my career started.” He goes: “I’ll tell you why that’s the day your career began – because that’s the day you met Oasis.”

-photographer Chris Floyd

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Hey kid, did you know? Today 16 years ago It was you and I for the last time

that it's been 16 years since oasis last played...

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Oasis on the cover of Q Magazine July 1995 - April 2009

http://covers.q4music.com/Default.aspx?year=2002

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sulking in ibiza, hiding from your wife and brother. and now you've got this yacht to deal with

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remember this

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[after Craig Lawrence for Sonic FM Edmonton royally annoys Noel with his interview questions] Noel: [disbelieving] Is—is that the last? We're gonna sign off on that note, then? Craig: Yeah, pretty much. That was my power question. Noel: Right, well, it's no wonder you've never done an interview before, if this is your technique. I— Craig: Oh! Can I get one quick liner, too, is that cool? Or—? Noel: [resigned] I'll do one, yeah. Craig: Okay, can you say—I'll have you introduce yourself and just go, uh, 'you're listening to Sonic 102.9.' Noel: [sighs] Hello, this is the bass player from Coldplay, and you're listening to Sonic one-oh-two-nine-oh-whatever-that-guy-just-told-me-to-say, apparently one of the most average radio stations in all of North America. Craig: Okay! Well, thank you! Noel: Thank you.

—Craig Lawrence interviews Noel Gallagher over the phone | Sonic 102.9 Edmonton Canada | August 26th 2008

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Starting a collection.

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0610 Noel Gallagher

He is my biggest fan,you know.

The thing about the question he asked, he knows well where the answer is.

We’re done.

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“There’s no harm in taking a chance. Me mam always used to say to me, “God loves a tryer.” I said, “Why, has he got a car?” “No, a tryer, not a tyre.” - Noel Gallagher

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#rockday :)

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also i had a dream last night where noel did a house tour video and he had one room just filled with oasis fanart. and then later in the video it was somehow revealed that he had an ao3 account

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how have i not seen this before.... liam being interviewed by nic (and melanie blatt, who the title misidentifies as natalie)