Noel EPs thread

3. “Black Star Dancing” (2019)
A groove partly inspired by INXS and U2 with a bass line akin to David Bowie’s “Fashion,” this new track has disappointed some of his longtime fans. Gallagher doesn’t care. “If you’re not trying to rewrite ‘Wonderwall,’ people are going to go, ‘Oh fucking hell, it’s disco!'” he says. “Actually, it’s the most successful single I’ve ever had. I’m raising my middle finger to the audience.”

Sail On from the previous EP has a feeling of being free to it.

“Listen, that song I recorded for Chasing Yesterday [his 2016 solo album] and it has actually blown me away the reaction. I had that lying around and I thought, ‘That will do. The fourth track on a f**ing EP. That’ll do.' But as soon as people heard it was like, ‘F**king hell. This song!’ I was like, ‘Really? It doesn’t even go any where. It is amazing what people think. It is one of the very few times when my instincts have been wrong about a song. I was just like, 'It’s f***ing not great. It’s alright.’

Who was telling you the song was great?

“The girls in the band. Then it went up on the internet, and everyone was saying, ‘Oh, people are going mad for it.’ I was blown away actually by it. It’s funny, isn’t it?”