A LIFE IN PIICTURES
Gallagher’s gallery: high-flier Noel.
1 The Gallagher clan in the mid-’70s: (from left) Noel, Paul, Liam, mother Peggy. “I was an inquisitive child.”
2 “This is it. This is better”: Noel, the Inspiral Carpets’ roadie and loving it.
3 Starting to live forever: “It’s funny how a song changes everything.” Oasis at the Splash Club, King’s Cross, London, January 27, 1994.
4 “Every Oasis story should really end at Knebworth”: the band check the site, and the weather, 1996 (from left) Alan White, Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, Liam, Paul ‘Guigsy’ McGuigan, Noel.
5 “I’ll do a fucking tune with you!”: Noel with Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers at the Q Awards, Park Lane Hotel, London, 2000.
6 Come Together: (from left) Pauls
Weller and McCartney with Noel at Abbey Road studios to record The Beatles’ song for The Help Album in aid of War Child for, Bosnian relief, 1995. 7 Downing one in Downing Street: meeting the new Prime Minister Tony Blair at a Number 10 reception, 1997. 8 Transatlantic flight: Noel takes his High Flying Birds to the US for NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, February 8, 2018.
9 “It’s more pure now”: on-stage with his high fliers, SSE Arena, Wembley, London, April 27, 2018.