Noel Gallagher: Oasis Would Never Have Formed If It Wasn't For Slade

Noel Gallagher has paid a remarkable tribute to Slade – insisting that without them Oasis would not have been formed.

Writing in Slade guitarist Dave Hill’s newly published autobiography, Gallagher said: “No Slade = No Oasis. It’s as devastating and as simple as that.”

“The Stone Roses? Yeah, they played their part. The Beatles? Well they were undeniably great... but Slade?

“I felt their songs could’ve been written at the end of my street... in a house just like mine.”