Noel Gallagher performing with Oasis in New York months before the band split (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
Noel Gallagher has said the bandmates he left behind in a Paris dressing room nearly seven years ago could have kept the lucrative Oasis name with his blessing.
Speaking to Rolling Stone as he continues a US co-headlining tour with Ryan Adams, Gallagher insisted he only needed a call to hand over the rights to a band name which had built-up a world-wide fanbase on the back of nearly 100 million record sales.
“On the day that I left, they could have had the name if they’d have en masse, called me up,” he said. “I would have signed the name off to them but they didn’t.”
After a backstage altercation with brother Liam Gallagher before an August 2009 festival appearance in Paris, Noel left Oasis and subsequently formed his solo vehicle the High Flying Birds, where he remains. Liam, Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock reemerged in 2011 as Beady Eye but had a split of their own after two studio albums.
While Liam Gallagher has been hinting on social media he is now ready for a solo career, Andy Bell has since rejoined Ride while Archer was last seen back performing with Noel Gallagher earlier this year. Sharrock is back with the elder Gallagher too, and is currently behind the drumkit on the aforementioned US tour.
