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The world according to Noel Gallagher
Topic Started: Nov 23 2006, 03:43 PM (96 Views)
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Noel Gallagher of the British rock band Oasis has told soldiers fighting in Iraq to stop complaining when they get wounded.
The chief songwriter and lead guitarist said troops loved getting involved in war-zone action until they get hurt.
In a wide-ranging rant, the fired-up 39-year-old also turned his guns on British Prime Minister Tony Blair, environmentalists, Elton John, his brother Liam -- the lead singer in the band -- and predicted his own daughter would become a "mental, axe-wielding, cyber-punk lunatic".
"Blair made an almighty cock-up going to war in Iraq," Gallagher told The Sun newspaper.
"You get a million people walking through Hyde Park -- 'don't send the troops' and all that.
"The troops want to go, all they want to do is fight! They're soldiers. They're loving it, until they get shot -- then they're claiming compensation.
"If you're bothered about getting shot -- here's a thing -- don't join the army."
British veterans representative Ray Bristow told the Press Association  the guitarist only had the freedom to make such comments thanks to the sacrifice of thousands who gave their lives.
Bristow accused Gallagher of  "abusing his privileged position'' by making "silly comments''.
Private Lionel O'Connor, 22, who had his leg amputated after being caught up in a roadside bomb attack in Basra, suggested Gallagher should go to Iraq to see what conditions were like for soldiers.
O'Connor, who is recovering at a military rehabilitation centre in Surrey following the attack in May, said: ``If he has got a comment like that, send him out there.''

The seething rocker, whose hits include Don't Look Back in Anger and Stop Crying Your Heart Out, blasted celebrities who "lock themselves off from humanity".
"If I run out of milk, I go to the supermarket and I queue up like everybody else. Can you imagine Elton John queuing up to buy milk?," he asked.
"These stars like Robbie Williams and Elton and all the rest of that lot -- what are they afraid of? Are they afraid somebody might actually say hello to them?"
He also slammed the growing environmentally-conscious fad sweeping Britain, insisting green campaigners were "hippies with no place in the world".
"How do you suggest we get millions of Chinese not to have a fridge? Or get millions of Americans to stop using their big, stupid cars?".
The surly Gallagher brothers are famed for their bitter sibling rivalry, and Noel put the boot into Liam once again, saying he had a "split personality".
"The problem with our relationship is that he doesn't like me. I can accept that," he said.
"I don't actively go out of my way to antagonise him. He does actively go out of his way to antagonise me.
"It's very difficult to deal with someone who thinks he's the centre of the universe one minute and and the next minute everybody's out to get him."
Oasis burst onto the music scene in 1994 with their debut album Definitely Maybe.


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Posted this mainly cos I read this story in the paper on the train today, and one quote in particular made me laugh out loud:



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"How do you suggest we get millions of Chinese not to have a fridge?



Other than that, the guys a putz
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Noel Gallagher is a legend. A bit of an idiot though.
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