Gallagher donates song royalties to bomb victims

LOS ANGELES — Noel Gallagher is to donate royalties from the Oasis song Don’t Look Back In Anger to the British Red Cross’ One Love Manchester fund.

The production companies behind last Sunday’s benefit concert said neither Gallagher, 50, nor Oasis were set to perform. SB Projects, Live Nation, Festival Republic and SJM Concerts produced the event, which was broadcast around the world.

Gallagher told organizers he would donate the royalties and approved using Oasis’s music at the concert, the companies said.

His brother, Liam Gallagher, 44, performed at the benefit concert in Manchester, fuelling speculation the brothers would reunite. Oasis disbanded in 2009.

After the show, Liam criticized his brother’s absence, saying he had shown his “true colours.”

“Sunday’s concert was a huge success, and we are all dismayed that there is negativity aimed toward Noel Gallagher,” the companies’ statement said.

Noel Gallagher’s spokesman previously said the singer could not attend because of a longstanding family trip.

Pop star Ariana Grande, 23, released a rendition of Somewhere Over The Rainbow as a charity single on Wednesday.

A suicide bomber attacked Grande’s May 22 show in Manchester, killing 22 people and injuring dozens.

On Monday, the fund had raised more than $13 million US.