Well, You Certainly Can’t Call This Noel A Coward
Noel Gallagher may be the more rational of the battling Gallagher boys in the British band Oasis, compared to younger brother Liam, but he’s still far from mellow.
In the process of promoting the new Oasis album, “Be Here Now,” the senior Gallagher mouths off on a variety of topics in the current Entertainment Weekly:
On why the band doesn’t do rock festivals: “We don’t like playing traveling circus-type things like Lollapalooza because you always get (jerks) like Courtney Love on the bill.”
On Alanis Morissette: “She needs a good kicking. I find her annoying, the same as that Bjork and Sinead O’Connor.”
On his own band: “I joined Oasis because (I thought) they were all right. I think it was the biggest mistake I ever (expletive) made.”
Loose talk
John Tesh, on his critics (in Icon Thoughtstyle magazine): “A lot of those guys could never, ever say ‘I really liked this John Tesh concert’ and get back into the newsroom with their skin … It’s akin to liking Satan.”
And you can add her to that Alanis list
Fiona Apple turns 20 today.
It’s offered, of course, on a ‘Pac-fail basis
One of the more popular new classes at the University of California at Berkeley this summer is a study of the poetry of slain rapper Tupac Shakur. Said Arvand Elihu, a junior who teaches the class: “He’s the Bob Dylan of our day.”
Sort of a greatest hits and misses collection
Speaking of Bob Dylan, Sony has recalled a reissue of the folk/rock icon’s 1985 “Biograph” boxed set because of several “technical software errors,” including a line dropped from Dylan’s spoken intro to “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down” and the wrong versions of “I Don’t Believe You” and “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight.”
The real one has all of his father’s noses
And speaking of babies, Michael Jackson said on “20/20” Friday that he sold pictures of his son to the tabloids to counter the fake pictures floating around. “Someone had taken pictures of a baby for millions of dollars and said, ‘Here’s Michael’s son,”’ he told Barbara Walters.
Guess you have to read between the lines
Former Aerosmith manager Tim Collins calls the band’s new autobiography, “Walk This Way,” a “great work of fiction.” Collins says he and a psychiatrist friend who once counseled band members agree that several of lead singer Steven Tyler’s comments, such as one about Collins “snorting up Peru,” were cases of “classic projection.”
Have you seen her, standing in Di’s shadow?
With monster sales looming for Elton John’s single of his reworking of “Candle in the Wind” as a tribute to the late Princess Diana, New York Daily News rock critic David Hinckley suggested that in honor of Mother Teresa, the Rolling Stones might consider a remake of “Mother’s Little Helper.”
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