Noel Gallagher says the women in his band the High Flying Birds have changed his songwriting.
The 54-year-old rock legend already had Jessica Greenfield, Charlotte Marionneau and YSEE in his group and he has now added three backing singers known collectively as Roxy.
The trio feature on the songs We re on Our Way Now and Flying on the Ground which he recorded for his compilation album Back the Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011â2021) and he admits he is writing all the tracks for his next studio LP with the sound of his new female vocalists in his head.
Speaking in a fan Q&A posted to YouTube, he said: What I m into in a minute, I ve got these three girls who do backing vocals and theyâre called called Roxy. The single Flying on the Ground , when I was doing that I thought the song was good, and I thought it would turn out good, but they come up with this backing vocal part and when they sang it on the track it elevated it.
Share And in between those songs, people are constantly shouting out for stuff that you wrote 20 years ago. But you either sink or swim and you have to actually look these people in the eye and say, F k them . When you re writing for a band that s become a brand and a huge f ng business – and this is only with hindsight, as I didn t realise this at the time – you re kind of writing with the weight of the brand hanging over you.
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By Kitty O Neal, News 93.1 KFBK
Dec 18, 2020
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