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Noel Gallagher Pays Tribute To The Smiths On 'BBC Five Live' Later Today














Noel Gallagher to pay radio tribute to The Smiths to mark their 30th anniversary

The Burnage-born star will discuss how the influential band shaped his own musical tastes and drove him to found Oasis with brother Liam

Noel Gallagher will play tribute to iconic band The Smiths this weekend to mark their 30th anniversary.

The Burnage-born star will discuss how the influential band shaped his own musical tastes and drove him to found Oasis with brother Liam.

Gallagher will be the guest star on the BBC Radio Five’s Men’s Hour show later today which celebrates the band's emergence in 1983.

Quizzed by presenter Tim Samuels on what brother Liam’s views were on the group, the musician revealed: “He used to do impersonations of Morrissey warbling.”

Asked by the broadcaster if Liam would now consider the group ‘effeminate’, Gallagher added: “He probably doesn't know what effeminate means. I can't speak for him anymore. Thank God.”

Describing the influence of the band, Gallagher added: “Funnily enough The Smiths came along at that time when indie bands – for want of a better word – indie bands actually invented stuff.

“Like the Happy Mondays – no one had heard that kind of thing before. New Order - no one had heard their sound. The Smiths were in the middle of that.

“Bands don't do that anymore. Bands are all derived from something else.”

Describing his favourite Smiths track as Hand in Glove, Gallagher said he had wanted guitarist Johnny Marr to play on his latest album.

He added: “I was musing it over with my producer and he said what about that Johnny Marr type stuff and I said you better call him because we can't play that.”

The interview on the Men’s Hour show will be on BBC Five Live, later today) at 9pm (UK Time).

For details on the show and to listen live click here.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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