Album: Who Built The Moon? (2017)
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  • Who Built The Moon? found Noel Gallagher writing entirely in the studio for the first time, collaborating with Norther Irish producer David Holmes. This was inspired by Gallagher and Holmes listening to Sly Stone at the 1970 Isle Of Wight festival. Gallagher told Radio X's John Kennedy:

    "That came out of some other odd soul records. David is a fantastic DJ as we all know, he's got a deep collection of records. I had the guitar riff and he'd pull out something and say, try it like that."
  • This is the closest that Noel Gallagher has come to singing in a falsetto voice. He said: "Usually if I've written a song, and it's not in my key, I pull it down. That's as high as I've ever sang in my life and I can tell you we won't be doing it in that key live!"

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