Noel Anthem's Indie Number 1

NME announces Live Forever as their Greatest Indie Anthem of all time in this week’s mag.

Noel Gallagher reveals he wrote it as a backlash to a miserable Nirvana track.

He said: “It was written in the middle of grunge and all that and I remember Nirvana had a tune called I Hate Myself And I want To Die and I was like, ‘Well, I’m not having that’.

“As much as I like Kurt Cobain and all that, I’m not having that.

“I can’t have people like that coming over here, on smack, saying that they hate themselves and they wanna die. That’s just rubbish.”

Er, well said, Noel.

But he’d probably give a completely different answer had he been asked at 9am after a night on the ale.

And Noel is a huge Smiths fan — a band famous for encouraging shoe-gazing misery among their fans.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk