Snow Patrol, Noel Gallagher Team for North American Tour : July 17, 2012

Snow Patrol and former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher have announced a series of North American co-headlining shows for later this year. The newly announced shows will kick off ...

Album Review: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds ‘Self-Titled’ : March 31, 2012

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gallagher recently spoke--in his typical unfiltered manner--on the subject of bands putting out new material past what some would consider to be ...

Noel Gallagher Extends World Tour into Spring : November 15, 2011

Noel Gallagher and his new band, the High Flying Birds, only have a few more days left of their current mini-tour around the United States, but they’ll be back. The newly solo ...

Liam Sues Noel Over Oasis Breakup : August 19, 2011

One of the most infamous family feuds in all of music is heading to court. On Friday Liam Gallagher, the singer for Oasis, said he was going to sue Noel, his former band mate an ...

Muse Cleans Up the Hardware at NME Awards : February 27, 2009

Muse, MGMT and Oasis were some of the big winners in Tuesday, February 25th’s Shockwaves NME Awards night, held in the O2 Academy Brixton in London. According to NME.com, Oasi ...

noel gallagher Biography

Noel Gallagher, the English singer-songwriter and musician, was born in Manchester, England on May 29, 1967. He is the former lead guitarist, principal songwriter and occasional lead singer for Oasis. Currently Gallagher is the frontman for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, his own solo project.

Gallagher grew up in Burnage, Manchester and started to play guitar when he was thirteen years old. After working several construction jobs, in 1988 Gallagher started to work as a technician and roadie with a local band called Inspiral Carpets. During this time his brother Liam started a band called The Rain. Eventually the band became known as Oasis. Noel joined Oasis as a guitarist and songwriter.

In 1994 Oasis released "Definitely Maybe," their debut album. The band rose to fame, heading the Britpop movement. In 1995 Oasis released "(What's the Story) Morning Glory," their second album. The set topped the album charts of several countries. "Be Here Now" the band's third studio album, was released in 1997. The album became the fastest-selling in the history of the UK charts. Eventually Britpop became less popular and the next two albums from Oasis were not able to revive it. Despite this, the last two Oasis albums, 2005's "Don't Believe the Truth" and 2008's "Dig Out Your Soul," found renewed success and were considered some of the band's best efforts.

In August 2009 Liam and Noel got into an altercation before a Paris concert. In October 2009 Noel left Oasis and confirmed he would be pursuing a solo career. In October 2011 the self-titled "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds" album was released.