Noel Gallagher is writing a song for an upcoming John Lennon tribute album. The late Beatle star’s son Sean Ono Lennon is putting together the album to honour his father for his 80th birthday which was on the 9th of October.
A source told The Sun that Noel was recording the song in Tileyard Studios and spoke of Sean’s decision to include Noel saying; “Sean wanted Noel on board because of his love of The Beatles and John and also in recognition of the massive impact he’s had on the UK music scene over the last decades.”
Happy Birthday Johnny!#gimmesometruth@johnlennon pic.twitter.com/bG52QeA5cU
— Noel Gallagher (@NoelGallagher) October 9, 2020
Noel’s love for John Lennon is well known. Noel famously took inspiration from tapes he had of conversations the music icon had just before he was shot dead outside his apartment at the Dakota Building in New York in 1980 on Oasis’ hit ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’.
Speaking about this, Noel said; “I got this tape in the United States that had apparently been burgled from the Dakota Hotel and someone had found these cassettes. Lennon was starting to record his memoirs on tape. He’s going on about ‘trying to start a revolution from me bed, because they said the brains I had went to my head.’ I thought, ‘Thank you, I’ll take that!'”
There has been a range of tributes to the late music legend, including a remix album of his greatest songs called Gimme Some Truth. The album was created by John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono and son, Sean Ono Lennon. The album has a stunning 36 song tracklist, including Mind Games, Dear Yoko and Come Together, have been selected for the exceptional collection and will be “cleaned up to the highest possible sonic quality.” According to a recent press release.
There was also a special two-part Radio 2 programme, John Lennon at 80, where Sean talked to famous friends of his father such as Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John and Sean’s half-brother, Julian. The programme aired on the 3rd and 4th of October.
