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Noel Gallagher Surprised By Beady Eye Sales













Noel Gallagher was "shocked" by the chart performance of Beady Eye's singles.

The 44-year-old musician insists he took no pleasure from the fact the group - made up of his former bandmates, brother Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Chris Sharrock and Andy Bell - have seen their tracks 'Millionaire' and 'The Roller' only reach numbers 71 and 31 in the UK singles chart respectively and says it was a "wake-up call" for his own fledgling solo career.

He said: "Do you know what? To be quite honest, it was a bit of a wake-up call. 'Cos I was like, right, well fing hell, maybe that's what's out there for me, do you know what I mean?

"So when 'The Roller' went in at 30 or whatever I mean, a lot of people were like, 'Fing hell, I bet you're happy with that.' And I was like, 'Not really', I was quite shocked, I thought it would do what Oasis singles do.

"So obviously, someone who puts my record out has got some fing work to do. I was a bit like, 'Wow.' "

Beady Eye released their first track, 'Bring the Light' as a free download but Noel insists he won't be doing the same when launching his solo career because he "values" his music too much.

He added in an interview with NME magazine: "No free downloads. I value my music. I don't sit in a studio, and fing make it up as I go along and go, 'This one's free then.'

"I think if you buy it, you as a listener value it more. I'm just not into free downloads and that's the end of it.

"I never considered it in Oasis and I'd never consider it now."

Source: www.gear4music.com

12 comments

Anonymous said...

he doesn't even know that Beady Eye singles don't exist, they are vinyls. And almost nobody has got an LP player. Only collectors buy them.
If Beady Eye are so unsuccessful as he thinks, why do they have 152,000 Facebook fans in a few months and Noel Gallagher 87,000 in years?

Anonymous said...

errr because not everyone uses facebook? Like Noel Gallagher's fans are going to login to facebook and sign up to his page. Get real. Ive seen Beady eye 7 times and there poor to be honest

Anonymous said...

inform yourself before writing, you're wrong. Noel Gallagher official Facebook page is the old one, they even took the old fans and just changed the profile pic. The information you know is poor to be honest.

Anonymous said...

so right, and the first vinyls were even "limited edition".
I see Noel Gallagher's fans lack of information as him, "there" poor to be honest, as "there" spelling

Anonymous said...

oh 'there' poor and 'Ive' seen Beady eye 7 times?! nothing to do in your life? Get real

Anonymous said...

hahaha they're not so poor if you've seen them SEVEN times eh? what was that, like a season ticket?

Anonymous said...

no not at all, thought id give em a chance at first. 2 Manchester Apollo, 2 x London Troxy, Newport, Paris and I Tunes. Loyal fans do that you see. Although its like Liam and the 4 puppets at the min. You know im right, the only thing you can say is about a spelling haha.

Theingupingu said...

Omg who fucking cares how many fans he has on facebook??! And if you check I'm pretty sure Noel has more than Liam anyway?? Goddamnit.. Noel's stuff wil be mega, regardless of chart positions, the ones on the top are always shit nowadays anyway aren't they?

Anonymous said...

you can't even speak your own language, it should be English, it seems. You can't even read above, you read about spelling only.
Oh and where do you put Pretty Green? The number of fans on Facebook is VERY indicative about how popular someone is.
So if Noel will be 1st for 1 week he will be shit? 'cause "the ones on the top are always shit"? Find a brain.

Anonymous said...

Noel has more than Liam anyway? I didn't know Liam Gallagher went solo. He doesn't have any official site about himself, he doesn't have any official Facebook about himself. The arrogant one has always been one called Noel Gallagher. You read too many tabloids. Meet Liam and know him, you muppet.

Anonymous said...

it's clear that people who only see "God Noel" and attack Liam, they're jealous and blocked in an old idea where Noel does everything, which is unreal

Theingupingu said...

Okay since everyone here is "anonymous" except me it's hard to know who's talking to me here. But for the record I am not english to the one trying to insult my spelling or whatever, you can fuck off with that please.
And uhhh no if Noel is on the top of the charts, then great. I'm not saying his music will suck of it's number one for a week. What im saying is that today the most popular music is not the best. Therefore, one can not use charts to see how good the music is. If you don't get that maybe you should get YOURSELF a brain mister.

And fucking hell don't start the liam vs noel thing, they are both great in their own way. And they are both pretty arrogant