10 Moments That Prove Noel Gallagher Is A Genius

1. When He Won The NME's Godlike Genius Award

File photo dated 26/02/15 of former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher, who will join Mercury Prize winners Alt-J and a rare appearance from cult act Portishead to be highlights of this year's Latitude festival.
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It says Genius in the title so it’s proof, aside from this definitive article, that Noel Gallagher is in fact a Genius of some sort or another. When the NME says you’re a Genius, and a god-like one at that, then you’re a Genius. No, really. Noel has taken his place right alongside the uber-pantheon of living musical deities such as 2016 winners, Coldplay. Rock gods indeed.

Still, when you’re the writer of one of the most important albums in the history of British music, an insurmountable influence on a generation of people, have eyebrows that just won’t quit, and the same majestic haircut for 30 years then you deserve every accolade going.

'All I ever wanted to do was make a record. Here's what you do: you pick up your guitar, you rip a few people's tunes off, you swap them 'round a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and again, and it sells. I'm a lucky bastard. I'm probably the single most lucky man in the world - apart from our Liam'.

Never change, Noel, you withering genius.

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