Noel Gallagher says the Britpop era was the end of rock music as a dominating part of pop culture.
The songwriter’s former group Oasis were the biggest band to emerge from the rock sub genre than came from the UK in the 90s and although it was a very special time for music he knew it was the end era.
He said: "It was an anniversary of something recently and somebody showed me a list of the album chart back them and in one week, it was Oasis, The Verve The Manics, Pulp and Blur, were like at least five of the top ten, and had been for most of that year. And I felt, I remember saying at the time that that era was the end of something, that that would be the last time that something like that would happen. There just isn’t that culture any more. I have a 15-year-old daughter who is like, ‘Albums? They take too much time just give me the track man.’
"I guess it was the end of pop music as we knew it and then the internet came along and bingo."
Meanwhile, the 48-year-old musician added that he was inspired to write albums with B sides by the soul and rock groups of the ’60s, such as The Kinks, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys.
He told Steve Lamaq on BBC Radio Six: "We were all derived from, maybe not so much The Manics, but we certainly were derived from those pop records and The Verve were the same and Blur probably."
Noel Gallagher: I saw the end of Brit Pop
