Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

After years of sibling feuding, huge stadium shows and multi-million-selling albums, one bust-up too many in Paris saw Britpop legend Noel Gallagher storm out of Oasis in 2009. Leaving his brother Liam Gallagher and the remaining band members to form Beady Eye, Noel Gallagher went with his songs into the studio for two contrasting albums—one of standard indie rock, the other a collaboration of psychedelic strangeness with experimental producers Amorphous Androgynous. Taking the moniker Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds from a Jefferson Airplane song, the self-titled first album emerged in 2011 featuring session musicians including The Zutons' bassist Russell Pritchard and bearing the trademarks of Oasis's later, more heartfelt moments. It shot to number one in the UK Album Charts and produced the singles "The Death of You and Me," "AKA... What a Life!" and "If I Had a Gun" despite Radio 1 refusing to place the new material on its playlist. In 2014, he collaborated with Rosie Danvers and The Wired Strings for his second album Chasing Yesterday, which was released the following year. The lead single "In the Heat of the Moment" was followed by "Ballad of the Mighty I' and 'Riverman." They toured the album in 2016 before releasing their third album Who Built the Moon? In May 2017 they performed as the headline act at the We Are Manchester memorial concert after a terrorist attack at Manchester Arena left 23 people dead. Three EPs surfaced between 2019 and 2020: 2019's Wait and Return, Black Star Dancing, and This is the Place and 2020's Blue Moon Rising. The band's fourth studio album, Council Skies, was released in June 2023 and takes inspiration from Noel Gallagher's upbringing.

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