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And Finally
Noel Gallagher distances himself from Mail headline
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 7 February 2012
Noel Gallagher has said that that interview in the Mail On Sunday under the headline “‘It was all better under Thatcher’: Noel Gallagher on Britain’s glory days, turning his back on drugs and the end of Oasis” completely misrepresented his views.
In a blog post on his official website, Gallagher said: “There is a headline that implies that I am of the opinion that the years spent under the rule of that soon to be dead granny, Maggie Thatcher, was good for the soul. I’ve read the story and I must say it’s very misleading; any great working class art, fashion, youth culture etc came to be IN SPITE of that woman and her warped right wing views and NOT BECAUSE of them. Also for the record, on the day that she dies we will party like it’s 1989. Just so you know”.
Of course, that statement doesn’t address everything Gallagher was quoted as saying in the interview, which caused Mail journo Simon Lewis to write that “it’s starting to look like Noel Gallagher’s one of us”. Whatever his views on Margaret Thatcher, he still apparently claimed that there was no laziness or violence in Britain while she was Prime Minister, like that which now forces him to send his children to private school.
