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UPDATE: There’s a great scoop in this morning’s London Daily Mail that Liam Gallagher, former front-man of Oasis, has optioned a book about the break-up of The Beatles. The Longest Cocktail Party charts the rise and fall of Apple Records. Its author, Richard DiLello, was a former employee. Gallagher is developing the Beatles movie with Revolution Films, Brit director Michael Winterbottom’s production company and his regular producer Andrew Eaton (The Killer Inside Me). Oasis, to my ears, have always sounded like the Fab Four anyway. There’s no screenplay yet nor director attached. I wonder who’s going to play John, Paul, George and Ringo. And it’s not going to be much of a film unless Revolution can persuade the Michael Jackson estate/Sony to license those Beatles songs. That sounds like a long and winding road.
Oasis Rock Star Planning Beatles Biopic
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My brother, the talented one, broke up Oasis last year.
Arse lick, arse lick – The Beatles have been done to death and nobody wants to see another group of wannabes with dodge accents strutting about pretending to be the fab four. As for Oasis, they were the coolest and got more so, unfortunately their music didn’t!!
I don’t think getting the songs will be as hard as you think. Not now, anyways.
Might be harder than you think getting the rights to those songs. Jackson’s estate is now under much better management than it was for the 10 years prior to his death. The Beatles catalog is a HUGE asset, and I would think the administrators of the estate would drive a hard bargain to license those rights. May have actually had better luck on that front 5 years ago.
It drives me crazy when people say Oasis sounds like the Beatles. They definitely were influenced by the Beatles musically, and many of their lyrics are direct nods to the Fab Four, but Oasis definitely had its own signature sound.
I’ve been a longtime Oasis fan and listener, and I couldn’t agree more with your comment. I was saying the same exact thing when I read the article. It’s frustrating and I ignore it. And although I enjoy the Beatles, Oasis, like you said, has their own sound.
I liked Oasis but they sure didn’t do much to quiet the naysayers who said they were trying to rip off the Beatles. From covering Beatles songs, referencing lyrics, stealing riffs and video imagery, projecting images of John Lennon behind them at concerts…and now this, the biggest non-surprise of the year.
I’m sure it’ll suck just like their music. nice unibrows
Noel wrote the songs.
They went from “We’re going to be bigger than the Beatles” to “Let’s make a movie about the Beatles”.
They were always more Hype than Hip even if the sales don’t lie.
It’s not enough to just get the music rights. To have any hope of success at all, they need to get the rights to the actual Beatles recordings — presumably material from Let It Be/Abbey Road albums. Otherwise they’ll have to make due with copycat re-recordings, which always sound cheesy — especially when compared to The Beatles. But to use those original masters, they’d need to get permission from The Beatles themselves, and I just don’t see that happening. Considering how protective they are their work in general, plus the fact that this would be a movie (which they have no control over) about a sensitive, sometimes-ugly aspect of the group’s history… well, good luck with that.
What’s the book called?
The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider’s Diary Of The Beatles, Their Million Dollar Apple Empire And Its Wild Rise And Fall
The book is is “The Longest Cocktail Party” by Richard DiLello. It’s about the rise and fall of Apple Records (DiLello is a former employee), and there are many other characters besides the Beatles (including a group of Hell’s Angels from California). It’s a pretty entertaining book, and could be made without much Beatles’ music, as it doesn’t figure into the story too much.
Do they break up because they are, in reality, ZOMBIES?
Of course he’d cast himself as Lennon (gag), in his ultimate lifelong fantasy wish-fulfillment.
Is there anybody with even a mild interest in the Beatles who doesn’t already know this story?
Oasis have a sound different to the Beatles,The Jackson estate would release some of the songs but they would have to also go through Yoko,The Harrisongs publishers and also Starling music they would all have to agree or it may fail to emerge
If they managed to have about 30 Beatles songs in the rock opera Across The Universe which came out about 3 years ago, why will it be so hard for this production? They’re obviously doing business with production companies or that film would not exist.
I read the news today Oh boy!!!
Hey, what would be cooler is an Oasis movie made by the (remaining) Beatles with Maccer playing Liam – how funny would that be?