Oasis - Half The World Away (music video, video about the song, Noel solo 2011, Liam solo 2024, Oasis reunion tour)

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Wikipedia for some background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_the_World_Away

Noel with his own band, live for the BBC, 2011

Liam, touring with his own band last year, before Noel agreed to reunite

Oasis, reunited, in Dublin a few days ago, 8/17/25

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1. Half a world away is where I am,

half a world away from home. The melancholy tone of the song is sometimes how I feel. You see, my home does not exist anymore. It's the United States before MAGA.

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2. Sadly, "the United States before MAGA" doesn't exist any more for any of us. I envy you being in a country

where you're safe from much of the craziness of the Trump thugocracy and MAGA.

Not all of it, unfortunately. They're a threat to the entire world - politically, economically, environmentally. But being half a world away makes our fascists and wannabe fascists much less of an immediate threat for you.

I'm wondering if Liam will say anything about Trump during the US concerts. He really admires Neil Young, who's always outspoken.

Noel admires Neil, too. He's quoted in this 2022 article - https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/noel-gallagher-people-who-dont-like-neil-young/ - as saying, "The world can be split into two camps: people that like Neil Young and people that don’t. And the people that don’t are fucking idiots."


Oasis at Wembley, 2000, covering a Neil Young song:

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3. Great cover. Great cover!

👍👍

it's better to burn out than to fade away

Even their most vocal critics do not accuse Oasis of fading away.