Category: TV
Ent
Date: 10.09.2004
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Friday
Night with Jonathan Ross, Friday 10 September 2004, 10.35pm, 大象传媒 ONE
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Noel Gallagher gets definitely maybe nostalgic
ten years on from the start of pop super-stardom when he meets Jonathan
Ross exclusively in the second show of the new series of 大象传媒 ONE's
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
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Gallagher accuses Jonathan of being "a proper shandy
boy" - "We call you Shandy Pants in Manchester!" before
reminiscing about the early days of Oasis...
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"Lots of good memories, lots of stupid ones, lots
of happy ones"... "[our greatest achievement] is that the
album [Definitely Maybe] is still talked about after ten years."
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And what it was like being at the centre of Brit Pop?
"It was quite calm. Not a playing bridge kind of calm. We knew
that we deserved all the accolades. It's not arrogance, it's self-belief.
There's a difference."
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He also talks about his brother Liam: "His mental
state is very Salvador Dali.
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"The last conversation I had was an in-depth conversation
about cheese. And he knows nothing about cheese.
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"My mum's worse than him. That's where we get the
foul language from."
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His school days 聳 "I hated my teachers to
a man. I got a letter asking me to go back to a school I went to. But
no one inspired me, I had to do it myself."
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Creation boss Alan McGee 聳 "We were three-plus
years playing toilets up and down the country. Alan came in and offered
us a record deal on the spot... six albums, which we're about to complete.
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"I'll always be eternally respectful to him...
he kept giving us more and more money because he believed in us."
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And Noel's inability to drive 聳 "I can't
drive, but it didn't stop me buying five cars."
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He only ever had ten driving lessons and was once given
a Rolls Royce by McGee while the rest of the band received vintage Rolex
watches: "It still narks Liam to this day. But he can't tell the
time, and I can't drive, so that's cool!"
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Jonathan also welcomes to the show Oscar-winning writer,
director and actor Tim Robbins, whose play Embedded is currently
at the Riverside Studios; Hollywood star Josh Hartnett whose
new movie Wicker Park opens this Friday in the UK; and there's a rare
appearance by Ian Brown, performing his new single Keep What
Ya Got, accompanied by Noel Gallagher.
