Noel Gallagher

Speaking to Sky News at the premiere of the forthcoming Bowie film Moonage Daydream, the High Flying Birds musician said that the late icon has “one of the most ...

And then he emailed back straight away, and I was like, ‘Am I in a conversation with David Bowie?’.” [the High Flying Birds artist talked about how his last interaction with Bowie occurred “the very next night”](https://www.nme.com/news/music/noel-gallagher-on-the-last-time-he-spoke-with-david-bowie-3160647). A bit too tall for my liking, but still, a bit of a dude.” That was a good point for where we were going at the time with our record.” Gallagher added: “Turns out it was in fact David Bowie, and he was like ‘Oh, keep writing’, and I was like, ‘Start gigging’. And then it slowly dawned on me, so I emailed back straight away, ‘Oh, no problem mate…’. “And I was thinking, ‘David? “My relationship’s purely through the music, really,” Gallagher explained. He’s one of the all-time greats.” “I’m a big fan. “It was the first time I’d ever written in a studio, and he used to do it all the time, and my producer at the time was encouraging me to do that more,” Gallagher explained. [Noel Gallagher](https://www.nme.com/artists/noel-gallagher) has spoken about how [David Bowie](https://www.nme.com/artists/david-bowie) is “more of an influence on [him] now than he ever was”.