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LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Oasis have released the full track list for their upcoming greatest hits album, including two brand new songs.

Earlier this week, it was revealed the band are bringing out a two-disc double album, featuring their favourite tracks and B-sides, called ‘Stop The Clocks’ on November 20.

The 18 song track list – chosen by the band, Noel and Liam Gallagher, Andy Bell and Gem Archer – has now been unveiled to the excitement of fans desperate to hear the new compositions.

‘Stop The Clocks’ and ‘Boy With The Blues’, penned by Liam, are both unreleased songs, and Noel has previously described the album’s title track as one of the best songs he has ever written.

He said: “It could be massive. I think it is the best song that I have ever written. The few people that have heard it have really liked it. It’s got fantastic lyrics and a great vibe.”

Among the other songs included on the compilation are theView the profile for Liam Gallagher on Celebrity Spotlightband’s eight UK number one singles – including ‘Some Might Say’, ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ and recent hit ‘The Importance Of Being Idle’ – and much-loved album tracks ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star’ and ‘Champagne Supernova’.

The album also features a clutch of popular B-sides, ‘Acquiesce’, Half The World Away’ and ‘Masterplan’.

‘Stop The Clocks’ track list:

• 1 Some Might Say
• 2 Don’t Look Back In Anger
• 3 D’You Know What I Mean?
• 4 All Around The World
• 5 Go Let It Out
• 6 The Hindu Times
• 7 Lyla
• 8 The Importance Of Being Idle
• 9 Masterplan
• 10 Half The World Away
• 11 Acquiesce
• 12 Champagne Supernova
• 13 Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
• 14 Supersonic
• 15 Wonderwall
• 16 Whatever
• 17 Boy With The Blues
• 18 Stop The Clocks

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Quelle: lse.co.uk

“Greatest Hits” – immer wieder hatten Oasis in Interviews betont, dass sie sich niemals zu so einem Ausverkauf herablassen würden. Nun erscheint STOP THE CLOCKS, eine Doppel-CD mit den größten Single-Erfolgen und raren B-Seiten.

Ein neuer Song auf der Compilation soll “einer der besten, die ich je geschrieben habe” sein, sagt Noel. Erste Details zum Tracklisting und ein Statement der Band:

Das komplette Tracklisting wurde noch nicht bekanntgegeben, als sicher gilt jedoch bereits, dass “Acquiesce”, “Half The World Away”, “Supersonic”, “Wonderwall” und “The Importance of Being Idle” dabei sein werden.

“Bei anderen Alben dieser Art wird das meist anders gelöst – in diesem Fall aber haben sich Oasis persönlich hingesetzt, um die fast unmögliche Aufgabe zu bewältigen, die Highlights ihrer Karriere aus ihrer Sicht zusammenzustellen”, heißt es in einem gewohnt großmäuligen aber auch seltsam steif formulierten Statement der Band. “Die Auswahl wird von den Millionen von Oasis-Fans auf der Welt zweifelsohne gelobt aber auch heftig diskutiert werden. Wie könnte es anders sein?”

Mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit wird der neue Song “Stop The Clocks” auf der Compilation zu finden sein, den Noel bereits als “einen der besten Songs, die ich je geschrieben habe”, bezeichnet hat. Die Komposition war ursprünglich für DON’T BELIEVE THE TRUTH aufgenommen worden.

“Eine Best-Of werden wir erst veröffentlichen, wenn wir uns aufgelöst haben”, hatte Noel noch letzten August gesagt. “Ich hab nie verstanden, warum Blur Best-Ofs veröffentlicht haben – was soll der Scheiß? Das bedeutet, dass alles danach nicht mehr so gut ist.”

Trotz allem arbeitet die Band derzeit an neuen Songs.

Quelle: musikexpress.de

Oasis have been at the helm of the worlds music scene for over ten years and, on November 20th 2006 the first ever Oasis retrospective will draw together the years of multi platinum albums, Number One singles and, unique to Oasis, instantly familiar B sides into one 18 track double album entitled Stop the Clocks. Furthermore, this collection has been chosen by the band themselves – the songs they believe encapsulate their remarkable career to date.

Oasis are widely regarded as the defining rock n roll band of the last decade, bestriding the music world since the release of debut single, Supersonic in 1994 to the current day whilst claiming a host of records for their own. Second album, What’s The Story, (Morning Glory), from which several of the tracks here are drawn, remains the highest ever certified album at 14 x platinum whilst their combined album sales total close to, a remarkable 40 million sales worldwide.

Unlike most albums of this nature, Oasis have sat down and undertaken the almost impossible job of picking what they consider to be their finest moments ever. So Stop The Clocks is imbued with the sort of wilfulness that has helped make Oasis the favourite band of millions of people worldwide and its running order will no doubt provoke equal parts adulation and bar discussions from the millions of Oasis fans worldwide. Could it ever be any other way?

Stop The Clocks includes the definitive greatest B side ever, Acquiesce, evoking memories of the White Room performance that so many regard as Oasis greatest music television moment. Also present is Half The World Away, another B side that became instantly recognisable to all in the UK for its use as the theme music of TVs The Royle Family.

Then come the singles, a stream of contemporary classics starting with Supersonic and moving on to anthems such as Wonderwall, as well as more recent moments such as The Importance of Being Idle. These songs explain in an instant why Oasis remain cover stars worldwide as well as being continuously name checked by contemporary bands as their greatest influence.

Having spent 10 months on the road in support of the 2 million selling Don’t Believe The Truth, Stop the Clocks is released as Oasis take a well earned sabbatical prior to starting work on new material, destined for similar levels of success in the future. As such, this is not a full stop, but merely a time out; a dream set list, and a chance for the world to review the immense contribution that Oasis have made and continue to make to rock n roll. Stop The Clocks – the definitive collection, chosen by the band.

What’s your definitive collection?

Quelle: oasisinet.com

OASIS stars Noel and Liam Gallagher have a secret SISTER they don’t even know exists, the News of the World can sensationally reveal today.

Pretty Emma Davies, 32, was the result of an affair the brothers’ love-rat dad Tommy had with her mum June.

Oasis fan Emma discovered the truth when she bought the band’s hit album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory in 1996 – and June blurted out the bombshell news.

Since then she has hidden her heart-rending secret – even when she came WITHIN FEET of millionaire half-brother Liam while working as a chambermaid at a luxury hotel where he was staying.

But now she has put aside her fears of being rejected by the battling brothers to come forward. And her story is backed up by legal maintenance documents that prove she is telling the truth.

Mum-of-two Emma – who bears a striking resemblance to Liam – told the News of the World: “It has been so hard for me, following their lives from afar. I wanted Noel and Liam to know I existed. But I was never brave enough to speak out. They were just too famous. I was worried they’d think I was some gold-digger, which couldn’t be further from the truth. I was also terrified they’d reject me. And so I’d sit watching them on Top Of The Pops, tears rolling down my cheeks. But now I want them to know about me. And I’d like to know them.”

Emma was born on August 8, 1973 – at the same hospital, St Mary’s in Manchester, where Liam’s mum Peggy had given birth to him 11 months earlier.

She grew up only FIVE STREETS away from the Gallaghers. Her mother had met Tommy at a local disco. June, 58, confessed: “Yes, I was a naive young girl. I took him home to meet my parents. None of us had any idea he was married or had kids. And by the time I found out I’d already had Emma.”

Bouncing

“We still carried on seeing each other. He’d secretly bring Liam round when he visited Emma.” But the affair soon ended – and June took Tommy to court for maintenance.

Manchester Magistrates Court records show that on February 22, 1974, Thomas Gallagher was ordered to pay June Davies ?4 a week for baby Emma. He never contested the fact that she was his daughter.

Emma was last week sent a legal letter confirming that later, in 1976, Tommy tried to have the maintenance reduced. “Bizarrely, I have a memory of Tommy bouncing me on his knee at the courtroom in 1974. But that’s the last time me or Mum saw him. He never paid the child support. Then we moved to Macclesfield,” she said.

“Tommy was a charmer and my mum fell in love with him. But all the time, he was cheating on Liam and Noel’s mum Peggy.”

Growing up, Emma knew nothing more about her father apart from his name. But when Noel and Liam stormed to fame, June knew she would have to be told the truth.

“When Mum told me I was dumbstruck,” said Emma. “I’d just bought their album. I could hardly believe it at first ? but gradually it sank in. And then I was just thrilled to know about them.”

She secretly worshipped her brothers from afar – but once, in May 1996, she and Liam’s paths crossed. Oasis had just cleaned up at the Brit Awards. Millionaire Liam and his then girlfriend Patsy Kensit checked into the Mottram Hall Hotel near Prestbury, Cheshire, where Emma was a chambermaid.

“I was gobsmacked. I thought it must be fate that Liam and I were under the same roof,” said Emma. “I was so tempted to approach him. But then it hit me. What would I say? ‘Hi Liam, I’m your sister’ I thought he’d go mental and call me a nutcase or a stalker. So I kept my distance.”

But she did get a couple of keepsakes of her half-brother. “After Liam and Patsy had checked out, a chambermaid friend who I’d confided in had to clean their room,” said Emma. “Liam had left behind a Sgt Pepper T-shirt and a Beatles CD. She should have put them in lost property, but instead she gave them to me. I have treasured them.”

Her dad Tommy, now 62, was divorced by Peggy, 63, in 1986. But Emma insists she doesn’t want to cause Peggy hurt by making her secret public.

“I know Mum AND Peggy have both been hurt by Tommy – but I was raised without a father and now there’s nothing I’d like more than to know my dad and my brothers,” said Emma.

Now living with boyfriend, Darren, in Congleton, near Manchester, she wants her children Jake, 13, and ten-year-old Isobel, to know them too.

“Noel and Liam are their uncles. Tommy is their grandfather,” said Emma.

“It is so important to know your family. I don’t want anything more from Noel and Liam than that.”

Her mum said: “I am now married. My husband and I have a good life. I don’t want anything to spoil that. And I don’t want Emma to get hurt.

“But I can’t stop her doing what she has to do. If she wants Liam and Noel to know about her, that’s down to her.”

Quelle: newsoftheworld.co.uk

And it’s for charity

Noel Gallagher is set to perform live at a drugs benefit.

‘For Pities Sake Focus’ is an evening of comedy and music, set to raise money for Focus12, a charity dealing with all aspects of drug addiction.

The event will take place at KOKO in north London on November 2.

Comic Russell Brand is also set to perform, and another ‘very special guest’ is also promised.

Tickets can be purchased now from ticketmaster.co.uk.

It will be the first time Gallagher has performed on stage since Oasis completed their world tour earlier this year in support of 2005′s ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’.

Quelle: nme.com