{"id":768735,"date":"2026-09-12T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768735\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:16:10","slug":"oasis-noel-gallagher-says-johnny-marr-has-always-been-gung-ho-with-his-guitars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768735\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis’ Noel Gallagher says Johnny Marr has ‘always been gung-ho’ with his guitars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noel Gallagher has said singer Johnny Marr has “always been a bit gung-ho” with his guitars.<\/p>\n

Marr, 62, is to auction almost 100 of his guitars, including one he once sent to Oasis that left Gallagher worried it could be damaged<\/p>\n

The Smiths musician said he was letting go of his guitars<\/a> because “I didn’t like the idea of my studio space becoming a museum”.<\/p>\n

The collection is on display in London before going under the hammer at Christie’s on 17 September.<\/p>\n

“You’ve always been a bit gung-ho with your guitars,” Gallagher said, reminiscing about borrowing the instrument – a black 1982 Rickenbacker 330 Jetglo – to appear on the cover of Oasis’ 1994 debut single Supersonic.<\/p>\n

Gallagher added: “I remember the day when Oasis was recording Definitely Maybe for the first time and you sent down some guitars, because we had one guitar each.<\/p>\n

“Someone took it out and just put it on the floor so it would look like we were a working band. It’s on the cover of Supersonic.<\/p>\n

“I remember looking at it on the floor going, ‘that can not be The Smiths’ guitar, there’s no way he’s sent that down here to a load of geezers from Longsight’.<\/p>\n

“I was like ‘you better take that back, mate’ – what if someone stands on it.”<\/p>\n

As well as This Charming Man, the guitar was used by Marr to write The Smiths hit What Difference Does It Make and is expected to sell for up to \u00a380,000.<\/p>\n

The Manchester-born stars revisited the collection in a video released by Christie’s ahead of the sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noel Gallagher has said singer Johnny Marr has “always been a bit gung-ho” with his guitars. Marr, 62,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-768735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}