This time around, Noel set out to write 'music that had more of a groove', which he has, but occasionally at the expense of the song. Their last album, 2005's Don't Believe the Truth, marked a long-awaited return to form and the basics that made us take notice all those years ago. Noel, meanwhile, seems to be enjoying a second youth, appearing on Radio 1's breakfast show recently, evidently still drunk, having fallen out of a rock bar in Soho only an hour or so previously. He still peppers most sentences with the F-word, but now also appears on The F Word, joking with Gordon Ramsay. This month, he revealed his recipe for steaming salmon in soy sauce, and how the gastropub near his second home in Henley-on-Thames is owned by Antony Worrall Thompson. On Definitely Maybe, the young Gallagher sang about strawberries and cream and 'lassaagnnnya'. Last time out, Liam declared: 'I carry madness, everywhere I go', but of late, the rock'n'roll star seems somewhat tamed and sober, getting up at 6am to go running on Hampstead Heath before dropping off the kids at school. They remain, as Alan McGee said, 'too young to be the Stones and too old to be part of that whole Libertines thing'. Which leaves them slightly adrift and peerless. As bona fide rock stars, no one else has come along and, as Rio Ferdinand would put it, 'taken up the mantelpiece'. Mere mention of O*s*s in a blog prompts hundreds of posts, many asking why people are still interested. Nearly 15 years since they first swaggered and sneered their way into the public consciousness, the Gallaghers still polarise opinion like no other.
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