And the Welcome everyone to a very special festive edition of So de Jerker on songwriting.

This is our final show of 2017 and what a guest we have for you to round out what's been

another amazing year for the podcast.

Joining us today is quite simply one of the most influential British songwriters of the last 25 years. Over a 15 year period he enjoyed stratospheric success as League guitarist, chief songwriter and occasional vocalist for Oasis

before embarking on an acclaimed solo career with his high-flying birds.

He recently released his excellent third solo album, Who Built the Moon,

something of a creative departure, which as we record

this is currently sitting pretty at the top of the UK charts. We are overjoyed to welcome

the great Noel Gallagher to the show. We met with Noel in early November at a rather nice

restaurant in London's Covent Garden just prior to who built the Moon's release.

Noel was in fine fettle and every bit is entertaining, funny and opinionated as you'd expect and you're really going to enjoy this chat.

We'll stake our reputation on it. Such as it is.

Our guest was born in 1967 in Longsite Manchester in the northwest of England and grew up in Burnage.

His was an unhappy childhood and he was something of a tearaway as a teenager, but inspired by seeing

fellow Mancunions The Smiths on top of the pops, he took up the guitar as a hobby age 13.

However, it wasn't until much later that his music career began,

before which he worked as a roadie for and toured the world with another Manchester band

in spiral carpets. In August 1991

Noel attended the debut gig of his younger brother Liam's band Oasis. The former

saw the opportunity to use the band as an outlet for the songs he'd been writing in

the storeroom of the British

Gas Building where he worked at the time. He duly came aboard, on the condition he become

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