Why Supersonic will “always” be Noel Gallagher's favourite Oasis song
11 April 2025, 17:00
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Noel Gallagher believes that his favourite Oasis track will always be Supersonic.
The Manchester rocker visited Radio X HQ back in 2023 to talk about his Council Skies album and discussed why the Britpop band's debut single - which was released on 11th April 1994 - will always hold a special place in his heart.
According to Noel, their iconic 1994 single came about by surprise after he couldn’t quite get “right” their Bring It On Down track, which went on to feature on the band's Definitely Maybe album.
Asked by Radio X’s Johnny Vaughan which one Oasis tune he’d choose, he replied: “It’s always going to be Supersonic, Always. Just for how it came about that night and it still sounds amazing to me when I hear it.”
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It's still magic for me
The rocker continued: “I just remember the circumstances of we were going to record Bring It On Down, ‘cause Alan McGee wanted it to be our first single and we couldn’t get it right and we had one more night left In the studio and someone goes to me, ‘Why don’t you just go and write another song?’"
He scoffed: “‘Oh just like that!’ And I did.”
“I went into the back and I just wrote it. By the end of the night, that was the mix that we came away with and when we came down to London to see McGee and he said, ‘So did you get it?’ ‘Well no. We didn’t no, but we did this instead.’”
“We played him the cassette and he freaked out. And I still think when I hear it, because it came from nowhere, it’s still got the magic for me.”
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Supersonic might be Noel's favourite track, but his Oasis bandmates tend to disagree. Liam has long cited his favourite track as Live Forever, while the band's co-founder and former guitarist Bonehead's choice is Champagne Supernova.
In fact, the guitarist admitted to Radio X that the song still makes him cry. Recalling the first time he heard the single - which is the closing track on the band's second studio album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? - Bonehead told Toby Tarrant: "Noel was saying, I'll play you a couple of songs that I've written - I think he played us the whole of the next album.
"The first one he did was Champagne Supernova, from start to finish, in the back lounge of the tour bus, at about 8 o'click in the evening. And I just fell apart. That's the Cancerian in me. It hit me, I was a blubbering wreck on the floor.
"I heard it really stripped down, it was just Noel's voice and an acoustic guitar. Which is not a million miles away from how it came out. But you knew it was a hit. I was that Oasis fan, hearing it for the first time. It was too much."
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Luckily, all the three bangers are likely to get an outing when Oasis head out on their reunion tour dates this year.
The formerly estranged brothers will embark on mammoth dates that kick off on 4th July at Cardiff Principality Stadium and include five homecoming dates at Manchester's Heaton Park as well as seven dates at London's Wembley Stadium.
Liam and Noel will also visit Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium and Dublin's Croke Park, before hitting North America, South Korea, Japan, South America and Australia.
See Oasis' reunion dates for 2025 so far:
July 2025
- 4th July - Cardiff, Principality Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 5th July - Cardiff, Principality Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 11th July - Manchester, Heaton Park (SOLD OUT)
- 12th July - Manchester, Heaton Park (SOLD OUT)
- 16th July - Manchester, Heaton Park - (SOLD OUT)
- 19th July - Manchester, Heaton Park (SOLD OUT)
- 20th July - Manchester, Heaton Park (SOLD OUT)
- 25th July - London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 26th July - London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 30th July - London, Wembley Stadium -(SOLD OUT)
August 2025
- 2nd August - London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 3rd August - London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 8th August- Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 9th August- Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 12th August- Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 16th August- Dublin, Croke Park (SOLD OUT)
- 17th August- Dublin, Croke Park (SOLD OUT)
- 24th August - Toronto, ON – Rogers Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 25th August - Toronto, ON – Rogers Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 28th August – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field (SOLD OUT)
- 31st August – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium (SOLD OUT)
September 2025
- 1st September - East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 6th September – Los Angeles, CA – Rose Bowl Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 7th September - Los Angeles, CA – Rose Bowl Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 12th September – Mexico City, MX – Estadio GNP Seguros (SOLD OUT)
- 13th September - Mexico City, MX – Estadio GNP Seguros (SOLD OUT)
- 27th September - London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
- 28th September - London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
October 2025
- 31st October - Marvel Stadium, Melbourne
November 2025
- 1st November: Marvel Stadium, Melbourne
- 4th November: Marvel Stadium, Melbourne - JUST ADDED
- Friday 7th November: Accor Stadium, Sydney
- Saturday 8th November: Accor Stadium, Sydney
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