The Beatles Influence Oasis

The Beatles still influence Noel and Liam Gallagher a huge amount. Both of them have continued to show the influence of The Beatles outside of their work with Oasis. Liam Gallagher's new band, Beady Eye, have stated that the reason why they chose that band name was so that as part of an alphabetized CD collection, their music would possibly be next to someone's collection of The Beatles albums. Also as a charity single, Beady Eye recorded a cover of Beatles song "across the universe". Liam once claimed to be the reincarnation of John Lennon despite being born eight years before Lennon's death, "I think I was him. He's me now" Noel performed a cover of "Come Together" with Paul McCartney and Paul Weller. Also in 2000, Noel was a guest at the John Lennon tribute show at George Martin's AIR studios. Noel was quoted for saying "[The Beatles] Inspire me more now than they did when I was a kid and are still the greatest". Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. The band initially consisted of Liam Gallagher (vocalist and tambourine), Paul Arthurs (guitarist), Paul McGuigan (bassist) and Tony McCarrol(drummer). Later on Noel Gallagher (lead guitar and vocalist) joined and then Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey became Oasis' new drummer. The two brothers shared the role of front man, a concept made popular by The Beatles. They had eight UK number one singles and eight UK number one albums. They also won fifteen NME awards, nine Q awards, four MTV Europe Music Awards and six Brit awards. As of 2009, the band have sold an estimation of 70 million records worldwide. The band were listed in the Guinness book of world records in 2010 for "Longest Top 10 UK Chart Run by a Group". The band also hold the Guinness world record for being the most successful act in the UK between the years of 1995 and 2005, spending 765 weeks in the top 75 singles and albums charts.