Noel Gallagher says Oasis album with never-before-heard music was scrapped after disagreement with Liam

Noel Gallagher has – quite unsurprisingly – revealed that an Oasis Greatest Hits album was scrapped thanks to a disagreement with his brother, Liam.

Now it’s no secret that there’s no love lost between the long-feuding brothers – Oasis split back in 2009 and over a decade on, they continue to take pops at each other in the press, with no sign of an emotional makeup reunion on the cards just yet.

Their animosity for one another began in the early Oasis days, with many reports claiming their big fall out initially kicked off in 1994 while touring the US.

During one of their gigs in LA, Liam apparently changed the lyrics to their track ‘Live Forever’ from, ‘Maybe I don’t really wanna know how your garden grows’ to ‘Maybe I don’t really wanna know why you pick your nose’, just to annoy Noel.

Liam is also said to have whacked Noel over the head with an instrument on that same night, as well as insulting fans at the gig.

Obviously, his behaviour didn’t impress Noel, who actually quit Oasis shortly after to make a point (spoiler: he rejoined the band a couple of weeks later after a change of heart).

But the seed had been sown, and, during that same year, they did that iconic interview with NME, which saw the magazine follow them on the road and recorded how often they told each other to ‘f*** off.’

Even following the discontinuation of Oasis, the brothers’ relationship hasn’t fared much better, with them continuing to make public jibes towards one another even today.

And the latest instance took place just last week, with Noel dishing some serious dirt on his brother once again.

In a new interview, the High Flying Birds founder and frontman placed the blame on Liam for the collapse of a potential Oasis Greatest Hits album, which was set to feature never-before-heard music and covers from the band.

He told Record Collector Magazine: “You know that ‘Don’t Stop’ demo we put up? We had planned to do an Oasis best of the 2000s because it’s a period of Oasis that the masses are not interested in but for the actual fans there’s some great tunes.

“With ‘Don’t Stop’ it was like, ‘Well people are f****** floundering, put that out, the fans will love it.’ Well, we did this best of and the bonus disc was gonna be all these unreleased songs.

“But, ha, unfortunately we couldn’t agree on something and it got dropped by the wayside.”

The greatest hits LP was reportedly set to include covers of ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and ‘It’s All Too Much’ by The Beatles and feature guitar hero Johnny Marr.

Noel added: “There was this box in the cupboard under the stairs with all these blank CDs in.

“I went, ‘Right, today I’m going to fucking take that’. I’m putting on these CDs and I found a load of old Oasis stuff, like songs I’d never recorded but demoed. I’m going, ‘No fucking way’.

“There’s a great version of ‘Eleanor Rigby’, a punk version, and an amazing version of ‘It’s All Too Much’ we did on the day George died. Johnny Marr’s on it. I’d forgotten all about it. It was just the backing track. Liam hadn’t gotten round to doing the vocals.”