NOEL GALLAGHER: ROCK STARDOM 'WILL DIE'

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Since I consider everything Noel Gallagher newsworthy, here is some info from an interview in the Sunday Express. In it, Noel Gallagher claimed that rock stardom "will die" because musicians don't make enough money to support the lifestyle anymore.

The High Flying Birds frontman said that the music industry "has changed beyond all recognition" and that the days of making money from releasing records were "gone".

Gallagher – who famously penned the track 'Rock 'N' Roll Star' for Oasis's debut album 'Definitely Maybe' – said:

Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money anymore to be rock stars. Everybody will be jobbing musicians. It's unbelievable. The music industry has changed beyond all recognition. The music business we signed into does not exist anymore.

Gallagher csaid the interview had drastically changed since he rose to stardom in further detail, adding: "What is fascinating about that is that there was a way of making money and selling records that got happened upon in the sixties and it worked for 30-odd years, then all of a sudden, in under a decade, it's gone, never to return.

"It used to be about the A&R man going to see gigs, demos and people going into record labels saying, 'Give us a chance,'" he finished. "It's not like that anymore."