10 Moments That Prove Noel Gallagher Is A Genius

10. When He Wrote ‘Be Here Now’ And Released It

From 1996 through 1997, Oasis were the biggest and best group in the world. Bigger than The Beatles, Cast and Right Said Fred put together and more artistically accomplished than Rolf Harris, before he got done for... well, y'know. To celebrate this, they released their third album, ‘Be Here Now’, to wide critical acclaim after preceding the recording and release of it with an alleged 400 tonnes of cocaine.

Despite the record being about 16 hours in length, the tunes fizz by in a whirlwind of multi-layered guitars, over-produced thump and bloated brilliance. The clarity of Liam’s vocal throughout the record was balanced perfectly between the eager rawness of ‘Definitely Maybe’ and the nasal swine of Oasis’ later LP’s after he had his teeth smashed out in a bar brawl sometime in the mid-00’s; Noel’s guitar parts are overdubbed enough to make you want to kill a man, and ‘The Girl In The Dirty Shirt’ is one of the finest pop songs ever written about dirty shirts.

Unfortunately, possibly due to the three key changes in ‘All Around The World’, a backlash occurred in the months after its release, Noel disowned the album about six months before this happened, and Oasis immediately split up twelve years later.

Its legacy, however, as one of the greatest piles of cocaine set to music cannot be disputed.