EXCLUSIVE How some brutal mockery of Noel Gallagher and his divorce from woman Liam had a cruel nickname for triggered Oasis reunion, exclusively revealed by KATIE HIND By Katie Hind Published: 02:20, 27 August 2024 | Updated: 02:23, 27 August 2024 e-mail View comments The performance was so bad that even the most ardent Noel Gallagher fan was horrified. The former Oasis guitarist’s attempt at singing the Joy Division classic Love Will Tear Us Apart last June on BBC2 show Later..
. With Jools Holland was widely scorned. Some industry insiders even suggested it could signal the end of Noel’s career.
But, as the Mail can now reveal, this was perhaps the moment that convinced Noel, 57, it was time to bury the hatchet with his estranged brother Liam and reunite one of the most iconic rock bands in living memory. For at the same time that Noel was humiliating himself on prime-time TV, younger brother Liam, now 51, was on a run of sold-out gigs, performing the historic hits that had turned the brothers into global stars in the Nineties. On Sunday night, both Gallagher brothers and the official Oasis Twitter account posted two images – one that said ‘8am’ and the other ‘27/8/2024’ – today’s date Music industry sources say their varied fortunes last year made Noel ‘realise just what he was missing’.
One tells me: ‘Poor Noel went on Jools Holland: he thought it would be fun and would raise his profile for his musical projects. ‘It backfired. He found himself l.