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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

John Lewis, Metro, 14 October 2011

IT MUST HAVE been a relief for Noel Gallagher when Oasis finally split up. Finally, the bestselling British songwriter of the past quarter century was free to display all the intelligence and humour that he'd hitherto only ever displayed in interviews, without his idiot brother holding him back. High Flying Birds could be his Plastic Ono Band, his Gorillaz, his Style Council, his Big Audio Dynamite...

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