the-oasis.deUm den 40. Geburtstag des Beatles-Albums ‚Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band‘ zu feiern, wird ein Album mit Beatles-Cover veröffentlicht, neben Oasis steuern u.a. Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, Jamie Cullum und The Magic Numbers Songs bei. Oasis covert den George Harrisson Solo-Song „Within You Without You“. Noel dazu:
„Sgt Pepper is special for me because I was born on the 29 May, and it came out on the 1 June. So when I was being born in St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, it was being played on hospital radio. Because the songs are not rocking or having it, it’s very floaty and dreamy, I think the older you get the more you appreciate it. And it still contains some of the greatest Beatles songs like A Day in the Life, and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
When we were approached, I wasn’t overly enthusiastic about ‚Within You, Without You‘. I was thinking it was a bit pointless going there to copy the Beatles because it was never going to be as good. But I said if Liam wants to do it, I’ll do it, so he was up for it and decided he was going to pick the song. I just assumed he would say A Day In The Life, but he came back with Within You Without You , and I was like ‚what? There’s no guitars on it!‘ There’s nothing on it apart from singing and an Indian orchestra, but he said ‚I can hear it in my head‘, and I said okay, brilliant. The one good bit on the Love album, is a bit where they briefly cross Tomorrow Never and Always with Within You, Without You, so we said if we are going to do it, lets do it like that, because that sounds really exciting, and it also means we can all play on it.
We – maybe arrogantly on my behalf – said if we are going to do it we want to do it at Abbey Road, with the actual equipment or we are not interested. The BBC bent over backwards and managed to book a couple of days in the studio. The desk was in Lenny Kravitz studio, and somehow they managed to convince him it would be a good idea to rip it out, ship it to England, let us work on it, and ship it back again.
I was watching Kaiser Chiefs and Razorlight on the documentary and with the greatest respect to those two bands, it was embarrassing. I was embarrassed for them. Luckily for us we grew learning to play together in the same room, so we didn’t do a great many takes. I think we got it on the sixth.
Noel über ein neues Oasis-Album, welches die Band ab dem 3.7. aufnehmen will:
„You can only be of your time. The Beatles were of their time… you can’t compare a bad from today with one from the 1960s. Music doesn’t mean as much today as it did in the 1960s. That’s why there will never be another Beatles. The songs are written… but don’t hold your breath because the last album took three-and-half-years and three goes! It would be great if it was done by the end of the year and we could get out on the road by next summer, but that’s insane wishful thinking.“
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