His younger brother Liam, was born in 1972. They spent most of their childhood in the Manchester suburb of Burnage. He and his brothers were often beaten by their alcoholic father. Due to their unease around their father, Noel and Paul both developed stammers. In 1976 Noel’s parents divorced, and he and his two brothers ended up living with their mother Peggy Gallagher.Īs teenagers the Gallagher brothers worked in construction. In the late 1980s Noel lost his job and ended up being unemployed and living in a bedsit. At that time he started working on songwriting. In May 1988, Noel met guitarist Graham Lambert of Inspiral Carpets and he became part of their road crew for two years. After he returned from an American tour with the Inspiral Carpets, Noel joined his brother Liam in the band “The Rain”. They quckly changed the name to “Oasis” and entered a talent show at King Tut’s in Glasgow. They walked out with a six-album contract. The band became great commercial success in the following years, releasing hit singles like “Wonderwall”, “Live Forever” and “Dont’ look back in anger”. In 2009 Noel announced his departure from Oasis and on 23 October 2009, he confirmed he would embark on a solo career. Noel Gallagher Electric Guitars: Epiphone Les Paul Standardįor recording the Oasis’s 1994 debut album “Definitely Maybe” Noel used Epiphone guitars, mostly because he was unemployed prior to recording and was not able to purchase a Gibson. This was a stock Epiphone Les Paul in cherry sunburst. It can be seen in Supersonic music video. Noel’s first Gibson Les Paul was a 1960 sunburst model which he borrowed from Johnny Marr – ex-guitarist of The Smiths. Noel wrote and recorded “Slide Away” and “Live Forever” on this guitar. Unfortunately he broke the guitar’s neck in 1994 in Newcastle when a fan climb on the stage and Noel used the guitar to defend himself. Here’s Johnny talking about this whole thing:Īfter Noel broke his 1960 Les Paul, Johnny Marr was generous enough to give him another Les Paul, this time a Custom. The guitar featured white pickup rings, pickguard, and the switch ring, meaning that it was customized by someone prior to Noel since the stock Les Paul Customs came exclusively with black plastic parts. Only thing that Noel changed on the guitar was adding the “Oasis” sticker on the pickguard. This guitar was featured on “Come On Feel The Noise” poster, and for the American version of “Live Forever” music video. He also used it to recorded a couple of on “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?”īoth Noel and Bonehead started plaing Rivieras on “Definitively Maybe”. Noel’s guitar was from the early 70’s and equpped with two full-sized humbuckers (Rivieras usually have mini-humbuckers), and a Tune-O-Matic bridge. This guitar can be seen in Oasis’ live gig on David Letterman’s Show in 1995, and it was his main guitar during that year.Īfter Noel fell in love with his cherry Epiphone Riviera, he decided to take a similar model – Epiphone Sheraton – and make it his own. He had it repainted with the “Union Jack,” the U.K’s national flag, and it easily became on of his most recognizable guitar. As of specs, the Sheraton had a frequensator tailpiece and two mini-humbuckers. He played this guitar mostly live during the 1996 tour.Epiphone made a custom line of guitar based on this Sheraton. They named it Supernova and it has regular humbucker pickups and a stop-style tailpiece. The guitar was produced for a number of years, but has since been discontinued.
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