{"id":936530,"date":"2026-10-17T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936530\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T14:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:44:10","slug":"the-band-it-took-noel-gallagher-50-years-to-appreciate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936530\/","title":{"rendered":"The band it took Noel Gallagher 50 years to appreciate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Noel<\/p>\n

Credit: Far Out \/ Matt Crockett<\/p>\n

Sat 17 October 2026 11:30, UK <\/p>\n

When you\u2019re younger, you can develop an intense dislike for a band over something as trivial as the bassist wearing the wrong pair of shoes.<\/p>\n

As you craft your identity, you can happily dismiss classics over something as simple as a fringe, a vocal inflexion or the fact that Dale Chatterley from the year above at school loves them. The problem with getting older is that suddenly you start saying things like, \u201cThe thing is with Coldplay<\/a>, everyone does like at least one of their songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wrinkles start to form, and you realise that life is finite, pleasures are few, and the fact you\u2019ve pretended to hate Radiohead for a few decades, for reasons known only to your 14-year-old self, has not mattered to the world a single bit. You may as well enjoy what\u2019s out there to be enjoyed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It took Noel Gallagher to reach the age of 57 before he finally reconciled this when it came to one widely revered pillar of modern music. All the while, their anthems had proven so beloved to most of the world that the target of his ire happily managed to sell around 150,000,000 records (that\u2019s a little over double Oasis\u2019 tally).<\/p>\n

The band Noel Gallagher finally let himself enjoy<\/p>\n

Paul McCartney once said, \u201cI figure no one is educated musically \u2019til they\u2019ve heard Pet Sounds. I love the orchestra, the arrangements \u2013 it may be going overboard to say it\u2019s the classic of the century \u2013 but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

He even finishes the glowing appraisal off by adding, \u201cI\u2019ve often played Pet Sounds and cried.\u201d He wouldn\u2019t be saying that if he still lived in Allerton.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unlikely the Gallagher would ever put on an album other than one of his own and weep, but after years of dismissing the Beach Boys as rubbish and woefully overrated, he is finally coming around to his hero\u2019s way of thinking about the soulful surf group from California.<\/p>\n

Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n

In the past, he has boldly quipped, \u201cFuckin\u2019 hell \u2013 I hate Brian Wilson<\/a>! And you know what? If there\u2019s a more overrated person in the music business than me, it\u2019s that guy.\u201d I\u2019ve not checked, but that statement alone might be one of the 114 charges Man City have been proven guilty of.<\/p>\n

Not content with that ludicrous conviction, Noel even told The Age<\/a> \u201cI fucking hate the Beach Boys \u2013 I think Brian Wilson is a cabbage.\u201d But this was a younger, snappier Manc lad, and that all changed for him after the softening blow of the Covid age.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if I should even say this,\u201d he told Matt Morgan on their Funny How? podcast, \u201cBecause I\u2019ve spent a life, a musical life, dismissing this fucking group. In a sentence: \u2018Not interested, fucking dog shit, I\u2019m not having it, I\u2019m not having it\u2019,\u201d <\/p>\n

But suddenly, perhaps it was lockdown, a divorce, or the simple inevitability of self-evident brilliance breaking down manufactured defences, something changed. \u201cI\u2019ve started listening to them,\u201d Noel admitted, \u201cAnd actually quite enjoying\u2026 The Beach Boys<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was a revelation only to himself. The rest of us \u2013 every other musician in history included \u2013 have long been singing their innovative praises. They\u2019re even the 35th best-selling artist of all time. \u201cThey\u2019re brilliant,\u201d Morgan quips and Noel concedes, \u201cI\u2019m starting to think that they actually might be now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Never a man to fully accept a mistake, the Oasis legend did caveat this by quickly clarifying, \u201cI\u2019ve never denied his songwriting, but I don\u2019t like the barber shop quartet element of it. But I heard a couple of tunes, and it turns out they\u2019ve got about 12 tunes that I actually really fucking like.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lesson in this notable U-turn for all of us: if you find yourself taking the cool high ground during the Oasis reunion shows, be sure that your naysaying at least comes from a legitimate place. Because you could just be being contrarian for the sake of some strange ego-trip, and you can cut off a lot of beauty with such a folly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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