Dec 5, 2008 • 1 min read

Gallagher on stealing Beatles songs

Noel Gallagher told Radio 1's Colin Murray he takes the most obvious components of Beatles records to write Oasis songs, before saying 'of course not'.

Noel Gallagher has admitted that every Oasis song is a complete Beatles rip off. Look, here's what he told Radio 1's Colin Murray. "I'll lay it on the line for you. What I actually do is I sit and listen to Beatles' records and I play along with them and then I gradually take the most obvious components of their songs, take them out and just put some of my own words in and hey presto, we've got a song". So there you go. Knew it. He followed that comment up with an "of course not!", but it's a much better story if we don't mention that.

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