English Rocker, Noel Gallagher, recently joined The Rolling Stone Music Now podcast for a discussion surrounding his new album Council Skies and the chances of an Oasis reunion, plus took things back to early in his career as he shared the story behind writing of “Wonderwall.”
LISTEN NOW: Noel Gallagher opens up about the making of 'Wonderwall'
“I started that song in Scotland somewhere and I finished it off in the studio when I got to do ‘Morning Glory,’” Gallagher recalled. “I don’t have a great recollection of writing it but… I know once I hit it, it sparked a chain of events that ended up with me having a f***ing billion streams of it.”
Gallagher poked fun at himself as he explained the song was the first song after learning what a guitar capo was and admits he’s a bit embarrassed it gets as much attention as it does with the simplistic guitar part.
“It is literally the simplest f***ing song you could ever f***ing wish to play in the guitar,” he laughed. “There was a documentary in the ‘90s about music [with George Martin]… and somebody asked me to do this documentary and I was like, ‘Oh, George Martin, it’ll be great!’”
He continued, “They made me play ‘Wonderwall’ in front of him and asked me to intellectually articulate what I was thinking and honestly it’s the most embarassesd I’ve ever been as a f***ing human being… I had to sit there and go, ‘I just put me fingers there and then I put them there,’ and he was going, ‘Marvelous, isn’t it just marvelous?’”
Hear Gallagher open up about some more of his colorful stories surrounding his career as well as review his most recent release, Council Skies, by checking out the full episode of The Rolling Stone Music Now podcast above.
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