inthemix | Lifestyle | Oasis confess; 'our best music written on cocaine'

Noel Gallagher chatted about the direct correlation between his drug habits and commercial success this week and revealed that all three of Oasis’ multi-million selling albums were written on cocaine. “I remember being off my nut and going into the back room and setting the goal of writing a song in 10 minutes – that was ‘Supersonic’. All those albums and all the B-sides were written on drugs,” he told Spin magazine. “That’s why they’re so good. And that pisses me off. I think, ‘Maybe I should get back into taking drugs, and then it would be brilliant again’. But that thought lasts less than a second”, said Gallagher.

Countering his candid comments, however, was the intriguing case of (relatively) struggling millionaire pop star George Michael who was this week released with a caution after being caught in possession of crack cocaine in toilets in Hampstead (London). The former 80s icon’s bust also provided further evidence that drug use in the UK has now been effectively decriminalised for the famous, a point noted drily by Daily Mirror columnist Sue Carroll. “How fortunate the singer didn’t spill a rock of his crack in the street. Littering is a serious crime these days with a fixed penalty fine,” she said.

“We know that because while George Michael was being chauffeured home by sympathetic policemen, Ian Tomlinson, an ex-Army officer who served in Iraq, was ordered out of his car for dropping a chip outside a McDonald’s – a charge he strenuously denies – and asked to cough up £80,” she said.