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Noel Gallagher<\/a> wasn\u2019t one to apologise for being a student of rock and roll. <\/p>\n Although there\u2019s no doubt that he wears his influences on his sleeves, some of them might be a little more noticeable than others whenever he starts writing some of his tunes. But for all of those claiming that Oasis wouldn\u2019t have existed without The Beatles, there were just as many that were trying to tear \u2018The Chief\u2019 down just for the hell of it.<\/p>\n Granted, it\u2019s not like Noel didn\u2019t give everyone reason to have problems with him. He was brutally honest about every single artist that he came across, and if he took offence to something that Blur, Nirvana, or Radiohead were doing, he wasn\u2019t afraid of getting in front of a camera and calling their names to their faces. He was a straight shooter, but that also meant that everyone could be upfront when they caught him red-handed while making some of his classic tunes.<\/p>\n It didn\u2019t take a music scholar to know that he lifted the riff to \u2018Cigarettes and Alcohol\u2019 from T Rex or adopted the opening piano line of \u2018Don\u2019t Look Back in Anger\u2019 from John Lennon\u2019s \u2018Imagine\u2019, but he never played those riffs because he couldn\u2019t think of anything else. He was a walking encyclopedia of rock and roll, and since the world was still immersed in musical irony thanks to grunge, this was him reminding everyone why those classic riffs from back in the day worked so well.<\/p>\n If Definitely Maybe already had a few obvious \u201cborrowed\u201d tunes, What\u2019s the Story Morning Glory has a lot more originality to it. There are still a few obvious thefts like \u2018Step Out\u2019<\/a> taken from Stevie Wonder\u2019s \u2018Uptight\u2019, but it\u2019s not like anyone is questioning where Noel got \u2018Wonderwall\u2019 from. Those chords have been buried into the skulls of everyone who has ever played open mic nights in the past 25 years, and the reason why it works is that it\u2019s frankly\u00a0that\u00a0iconic.<\/p>\n The chords might be simple, but simplicity normally does the job just fine on any soft pop song. Noel had a bit of magic on his hands when he came up with this tune, but even with the millions of covers of the tune that have existed for years, Noel remembered getting more than a little bit pissed when he heard Mike Flowers Pops doing a big band version of his tune.<\/p>\n