The woman who is said to have ‘saved Oasis‘ in inspiring Noel Gallagher to write the song ‘Talk Tonight’ has finally been found.
As anyone whose seen the film Supersonic will remember, Noel famously went missing after the band’s legendarily disastrous gig at Whisky A Go Go in 1994, threatening to quit the band for good. He fled to San Francisco to spend time with a girl he’d been seeing. She would inspire to him to write the song ‘Talk Tonight’, which led him to rejoin Oasis. The Noel-sung track was released as the B-side to ‘Some Might Say’ in 1995.
In Supersonic, he said that he couldn’t remember her name or face, but now a woman named Melissa Lim has spoken to the San Francisco Chronicle about the time she spent with Noel during this period.
“I had never been backstage before, so I asked him ‘Where’s the afterparty?’ and he goes ‘What afterparty? Can I hang out with you tonight?”,” she says of their meeting. “He was very upset”, she said of the fateful day when Noel turned up at her apartment in Nob Hill. “I took him in, I fed him and tried to calm him down. He wanted to break up the band.”
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She continued: “We went to Huntington Park to clear his mind. We listened to music. We went record shopping.
“San Francisco has a reputation of being a place where bands come to die, like The Band and the Sex Pistols. I wasn’t going to let it happen on my watch. I told him ‘You can’t leave the band, you’re on the verge of something big!’”
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Speaking of a conversation they had about maintaining their long-distance relationship, Lim claims to have told Noel: “It’s OK, I won’t look back in anger. I know we’re just friends.”
When asked about Noel’s lack of memory of her, she added: “Keith Richards can remember the name of his milkman from when he was 8-years-old. I don’t know what’s going on with Noel, and that’s fine. I was a part of something that touched so many people. That’s good enough.”
Liam may currently be working on his first solo album, but added that “there’s nothing better than being in a fucking band.”
He went on: “You can do your solo records, you can be wherever you want, but when you’re in a band and you’re playing your music to four, three geezers playing back to you, there’s no better feeling.
“Just doing it on your own and playing back to yourself, yeah cool, you’re going to get a hard on, but there’s nothing better than watching four of your mates all together thinking ‘fucking hell this is stonking.’
“I don’t give a fuck what anyone says. There’s nothing better than being in a fucking band.”
Meanwhile, former Oasis boss Alan McGee recently told NME that the band could be likely to reform without Noel Gallagher.
“I don’t think Noel will ever reform Oasis, ever – but when he’s a bit older I think Liam will probably reform Oasis and he’ll sell 10,000 tickets a night singing Oasis tunes and he’ll be happy with that,” he said. “I can’t see Noel Gallagher going back and doing it. If anything came out of that film [Supersonic], it was that it’s done, it’s finished, don’t spoil the fucking legend.”