Noel Gallagher could rake in more than £250m next year – and it has nothing to do with Oasis reunion tour
NOEL Gallagher could rake in an extra £250m – and it has nothing to do with Oasis reuniting.
Next year could deliver a bumper payday for the Oasis legend that would dwarf his earnings from the tour.
Noel, 57, and his brother Liam, 51, stunned music fans when they announced a 2025 reunion tour last month after years of not even speaking.
The multi-date UK and Ireland tour will land them a fortune according to industry experts – with a potential leg in America to top up their coffers.
However, Noel doesn’t need the money from the tour.
Thanks to writing most of their biggest hits across seven Oasis albums, Noel is absolutely loaded.
And he’s already hinted at selling off the rights to his catalogue of bangers.
Author and Oasis fan Richard Osman recently explained the process on his podcast, The Rest Is Entertainment, saying: “So those first three albums, Noel wrote every single song.
“The first two albums, Liam didn’t write a thing.
“Gary Glitter gets more from the publishing rights than Liam Gallagher does, because he’s got a co-writing credit on there.
“So Noel definitely doesn’t need the money. Because firstly, he’s got a lot already.
“And at some point very soon the publishing rights, he’ll be able to sell them off for a quarter of a billion.”
Richard continued: “Even Liam is loaded … Noel doesn’t need to lend Liam money.
“I think the reason is they genuinely they want to be back in the conversation.
“They had this incredible run in the nineties, I mean they were so beyond huge. There were four or five years when everyone wanted to see them, meet them, be them. They were everything that anyone reported on them.
“And that doesn’t happen anymore to them.”
Noel spoke out about a potential deal earlier this year.
He said: “The way I look at it is I’ll be approaching 60 and it’s like, do I want to leave it (music catalogue) to my kids, who’ll probably swap it for a f****** PlayStation game?
“Or do I get rid of it now and set everybody up for life? Bob Dylan sold his back catalogue.
“Hedge-fund guys are buying them up. What do you do? Leave it to your kids? They don’t value music.”
Bob Dylan sold his songs to Universal Music for a reported £250m (€295m) in 2020.
Bruce Springsteen followed suit a year later, selling up his back catalogue to Sony for a reported £380m (€450m).
Meanwhile, Oasis fans have been left bitter by the band and Ticketmaster cashing in with so-called dynamic pricing.
It’s led to the band putting on two more UK gigs with a fairer ticketing system.
TOUR WAGES
Oasis’ initial dates could rake in roughly £400m in ticket sales and other add-ons, according to Birmingham City University.
In comparison Take That’s Progress Live tour brought in an estimated $185m (£140m) in 2011.
Oasis - The Gallagher Feud Timeline
Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher have a long history of ongoing fights - both physical and verbal - here's the full history of the band and what they've said to each other.
1991 – Liam Gallagher forms Oasis with Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll, later asking Noel to join.
1993 – The band sign to Creation Records and start work on their debut album.
August 1994 – Oasis shoot to fame with their debut album, Definitely Maybe, with tracks including Rock n Roll Star, Live Forever and Supersonic. It’s one of the fastest selling debuts ever for a British band.
September 1994 – Noel temporarily leaves the band’s tour after Liam smacks him in the face with a tambourine on stage in Los Angeles.
1995 – The band release their second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? which features Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Champagne Supernova.
1996 – Liam is forced to sit out a leg of tour shows due to laryngitis, but causes chaos when he was filmed heckling his brother from a balcony while a taping of MTV Unplugged.
2000 – Noel quits the band temporarily for a second time when, while partying in Barcelona, Liam riles Noel by questioning if his daughter, Anais, is actually his. The pair get into a fist fight.
2005 – Noel tells Q Magazine that he’s ‘never forgiven’ Liam for his comments about Anais and he’s ‘never apologised. He tells the mag: “He’s my brother. I hope he’s reading this and realises that. He’s my brother but he’s at arm’s length until he apologises for what he’s done.”
2009 – Noel admits in an interview with Q that he ‘doesn’t like Liam’, branding him “rude, arrogant, intimidating, and lazy”. “He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet,” he added. “He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”
Liam later retaliates and tells NME: “It takes more than blood to be my brother. He doesn’t like me and I don’t like him.”
August 23, 2009 – Oasis pull out of a headline slot at V Festival in the UK due to Liam having laryngitis.
August 28, 2009 – Ahead of the Rock en Seine festival, Noel and Liam get into another fight, during which time Liam breaks one of Noel’s guitars after “waving it like an axe” according to Noel.
August 28, 2009 – Noel quits the band for the third and final time, saying in a statement: “It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”
2010 – Oasis win ‘best album of the last 30 years’ at the Brit Awards for (What’s the Story) Morning Glory. Liam picks up the gong, and thanks everyone except Noel. He later says this was misinterpreted as a dig.
2011 – Liam tries to sue Noel after he claims in the interview they cancelled their V Festival performance due to Liam being hungover. Liam disputed it said the comment “questioned my professionalism”. He later apologised and the lawsuit was dropped.
2011 – Noel admits regrets at quitting before the Paris gig, telling Absolute Radio and admits if he did “we may never have split up.”
2011 – 2014 – Liam and the other bandmates continue under new name, Beady Eye, while Noel forms new band, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
2015 – After years of jabs online, especially through media and Twitter, Liam teases he’s buried the hatchet with Noel by sharing an All Areas pass from a High Flying Birds gig. However, the fight would recommence two months later after Noel publicly dismissed suggestion Oasis would reunite for Glastonbury 2016.
2017 – Liam performs at Manchester’s One Love concert after the bombing at Ariana Grande’s show, with Don’t Look Back In Anger becoming a unifying anthem for the incident. He then slams Noel for not attending. Noel later tells Sunday Times: “Young music fan were slaughtered, and he, twice, takes it somewhere to be about him. He needs to see somebody.”
2018 – Liam suggests a reunion for the 2018 World Cup on Twitter, writing: “let’s get the big O back together and stop f***ing about the drinks are on me”. When it fell on deaf ears, he added: “I’ll take that as a NO then.”
2019 – Noel speaks out after Liam sends ‘threatening messages’ to Anais after a comment made about then wife Sara McDonald. Liam later apologises publicly to Anais.
2020 – Liam urges Noel to reunite for a one-off charity gig.
The Spice Girls crashed Ticketmaster in 2019 with their reunion tour – minus Victoria Beckham – which earned an estimated $78m (£60m).
It comes as The Sun on Sunday revealed how Oasis are set to rake in an eye-watering £50million through endorsements and the postential US tour.
An insider said: “It’s taken 15 years to get the warring brothers back together.
“There is every chance this could be their last hurrah, so everything’s getting monetised and they want to strike while the iron is hot. Marketing and advertising teams aren’t missing a trick.
“They are capitalising their comeback and everything has pound signs attached.”