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Noel Gallagher will support Russell Brand's revolution if he dubs him "the Duke of Manchester".
The 47-year-old former Oasis rocker has shown his support for the comedian-turned-anarchist but only if he can gain a royal title from Russell's proposed regime.
Recalling a conversation he'd had with the 39-year-old funnyman, Noel said: "I love Russell but he doesn't half talk out his arse sometimes ... He does talk a lot of s**t.
"I couldn't see him overthrowing a table full of drinks. I was out with him the other night and he said it with a straight face: 'There is going to be a revolution.'
"I'm like, 'F**king hell, give us a shout mate when you're going down the mall with your pitchforks and that, I'll come and serenade you in on my lute before we go and eat the Queen.'
"He said, 'Come on man, back us'. I said, 'Tell you what I'll do, you f***ing make me the Duke of Manchester, I'm in'. Scarily enough he does mean it, that's the funny thing."
However, the Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds frontman wasn't laughing when it came to discussing the state of the music industry, as he hit out at fans who are unwilling to spend money on an album.
He told Noisey: "It fascinates me and it infuriates me, that people are more willing to sit in a coffee shop and spend a tenner on two coffees and talk about the weather to their friends and that coffee will last 45 minutes. Yet they will psychically get angry at you for asking them to buy an album for a tenner which will last a lifetime and might even tell you something about yourself and might even change your life or how you dress or your outlook on everything."

Nick Mason has hinted there could be more Pink Floyd releases in the future.
The band have just released their first album of new songs for 20 years, 'The Endless River', and although the drummer is adamant there will be no more new tracks he says there could be re-issues of their classic LPs with unheard bonus material.
Speaking to Billboard, he said: "There's always a sort of discussion going on about what we could do. And it tends to be one of those things that I think is probably more driven by the record company than us. But we're always open to their ideas.
"I know both Roger (Waters) and David (Gilmour) have at times mentioned they'd like to have a remix of Animals, which technically is perhaps one of our less well-recorded records. I think we'd just probably clean up some of the tapes and just sort of review it and see whether it can be enhanced. And if one was doing that, one might have a look at whether there's anything else to be done on it. But no one's got that down on their work schedule at the moment."
Mason worked with David Gilmour on 'The Endless River', completing tracks that were originally recorded for 'The Division Bell' record with late keyboard player Richard Wright.
The duo intend to release some videos to support the new LP, including footage of the original recording sessions from 1993.
Mason, 70, revealed: "We had the equivalent of GoPro cameras in the studio quite a lot for the actual recording sessions. So we've got some rather nice, black-and-white, one-position camera stuff of us actually playing this [music]. It's proof positive that we were actually all in the same room together at the same time."

Usher is giving away his new track with boxes of cereal.
Customers who purchase a box of Honey Nut Cheerios from Walmart stores in North America will find a download code for his song 'Clueless' at the bottom of the box
The R&B singer made an agreement with the retailer to distribute his track in the unique way ahead of the release of his album 'UR' and the promotion will begin next Tuesday (18.10.14).
Usher recently appeared in a Cheerios advert in which he danced with the cereal company's mascot Buzz The Bee to his song 'She Came To Give It To You'.
'The Voice' coach - who released his last album, 'Looking 4 Myself', in 2012 - took his time with his new collection of songs and refused to be rushed by anyone.
Among the songs on the tracklist will be a duet between Usher and Drake, and it is one of his favourite songs on the LP.
He recently said: "Drake's extremely talented, man.
"He's nice. Money really knows what he's doing. He really understands how to analyse a beat and then recognise a cadence. Because hip hop is that way; it's not just words and a rhythm.
"You gotta understand the cadence of what the song is saying, so that when you're on it, you know how to get it."
A collaboration between Usher and Nicki Minaj, entitled 'She Came To Give It To You', will also feature.

Wiz Khalifa is going to collaborate with Skepta.
The 'We Dem Boyz' rapper - who recently split from his wife Amber Rose - is a big fan of the British grime artist and the pair are planning to release a song together.
In an interview on BBC Radio 1, Wiz said: "I like Skepta - something between us is going to happen."
The 'Black and Yellow' singer has collaborations with several other rappers in the pipeline but he is remaining tight-lipped about who he is going to be working with.
Wiz said: "I got a couple songs with a couple people - I ain't even going to say because they're not my songs. When they want to talk about it I'll get straight behind them but, yes, they're rappers.
"I got three different situations going on right now with three different people."
Wiz - who has a 20-month-old-son Sebastian with Amber - also has ambitions to do more than music and hopes to break into the movie business at some point.
He added: "In the next five years I can see myself of course dropping more dope albums and directing my own films - or at least getting my ideas out there for film - just involving myself in ideas that involve the person not just the music."

Mark Ronson will release his new album 'Uptown Special' in January.
The collection will be the producer-and-musician's first LP since 2010's 'Record Collection', and will feature acts including Bruno Mars, Hudson Mohwake and Tame Impala's Kevin Parker.
Speaking about his new music, he explained: "The real good stuff on the record came last year when I went out to work with Jeff Bhasker in Venice, out in California, and we started writing some songs and I felt like I had something to say that was not being said."
The 39-year-old star unveiled the first single to be taken from the record, disco-inspired 'Uptown Funk' last week, which features 'Locked Out of Heaven' star Bruno Mars, and revealed that the inspiration for that track, and the other songs on the album, came from a roadtrip around America.
Mark - who made his name working with Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen - explained to BBC Radio 1: "Jeff Bhasker, one night he was like, 'Yeah we're going to drive through the South and find this singer,' and it just sounded so ridiculous, like it was never going to happen, and we actually did.
"We got in the car and drove through Baton Rouge, Louisiana, New Orleans, Mississippi, Memphis, Little Rock, Chicago, went to all these great churches saw a couple of thousand great singers and found the one girl that we were hearing in our heads, this one amazing singer, Keyonce Starr. She's on the record."
'Uptown Special' will be released on January 26 2015.

Christine McVie is to tour Europe with Fleetwood Mac for the first time in 16 years.
The 71-year-old keyboard player will hit the road with her bandmates Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, ex-husband John McVie and Stevie Nicks in 2015 for a run of shows starting at The O2 in London on May 27.
The tour will stop at Amsterdam, Cologne, Antwerp, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin before finishing on June 30 in Leeds.
Christine quite Fleetwood Mac in 1998 after developing a phobia of flying and didn't appear on stage with the group again until September 2013 when she joined them on stage at The O2 for a rendition of 'Don't Stop'.
She rejoined the band on a full-time basis in January 2014 and played her first full gig with the 'Go Your Own Way' hitmakers in September 2014 at the the Target Center in Minneapolis.
Speaking about her return, Christine said: "It was so comfortable being back on stage with them as if no time had passed, and then we all started talking and it feels like the time is right. I'm really happy."
The band added in a statement: "We are overjoyed to have Christine back on stage with us."
Rumours were rife the super-group would headline next year's Glastonbury Festival.
Organiser Michael Eavis stated the group would not be taking to the Pyramid Stage, and drummer Mick insisted during a radio interview that they would not be performing next year.
He said: "A lot of folks think that we are, so loud and clear: we love Glastonbury and all the surrounding history of such a lovely festival but we're not playing it. No bad faith for Glastonbury, because I just don't want people thinking it's us ... But never say never."
However, the band's schedule for the 'On With The Show Tour' has a gap over the weekend of June 26 to June 28 when Glastonbury takes place.

Taylor Hawkins has compared U2's new album to "a fart".
The Foo Fighters drummer has slammed the 'With or Without You' rockers for having their 13th album 'Songs of Innocence' automatically downloaded onto people's phones, even compared the album to a totalitarian regime.
He explained: "I don't know that any of that new album has anything great on it. I listened to it once, but it's so marred by that whole sort of, like I said, Orwellian, '1984' extreme that it just kinds sounds like a fart any way you listen to it."
Talking to Australia's The Music, Taylor then added: "I mean, I think they probably thought it was gonna be a great idea, 'Here's the deal: everybody who has an iPhone, gets your record. And they get it for free!'
"And they thought, probably, 'Well that's pretty awesome!' but hey didn't really take into consideration the Big Brother feeling that kinda goes along with like, 'You have the new U2 record' ... You couldn't get rid of it and they actually had to come up with an app to get rid of it, that's horrible."

Usher is resisting "pressure" to "rush" his next album.
The 'OMG' hitmaker is determined to take his time working on his eighth record - the follow-up to 2012's 'Looking 4 Myself' - and wants to use his current 'UR Experience' tour to "reconnect" with his audience before returning to the recording studio.
Ask if he'll record while on the road, he said: "I found myself feeling pressure to rush it and put out an album, and all of a sudden, I just realised; I've been doing this long enough to really get it right.
"So on my eighth studio album, I thought it would be better for me to go out [on tour], feel my audience, reconnect, take some of that, and then go back and finish it up."
And the 36-year-old star also admitted he thinks there is a "pressure" on artists to do something unusual with their new music, such as releasing albums without warning or relying heavily on social media.
He told Vulture.com: "There's a pressure to cross-market and make sure that all the avenues through which you can reach a consumer make a connection. Musically, emotionally, branding, all of those things together, that's what makes you significant in this time."

Freddie Mercury stormed out of recording sessions with Michael Jackson because he insisted on bringing his pet chimp to the studio.
The two late music icons came together nearly 30 years ago to duet on 'There Must Be More To Life Than This', an uncompleted track that had been left in a vault to gather dust.
The song - released this week - was eventually discovered by Freddie's Queen bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor who decided to complete it with the help of producer William Orbit and include it on new compilation LP 'Queen Forever'.
In an upcoming new book by showbiz writer David Wigg - who knew Freddie Mercury well - he reveals: "Freddie got very angry because Michael made Bubbles sit between them and would turn to the chimp between takes and ask, 'Don't you think that was lovely?' Or, 'Do you think we should do that again?' After a few days of this, Freddie just exploded ... 'I'm not performing with a f***ing chimp sitting next to me each night.'
"He phoned his manager and told him to 'get me out of this zoo.' Freddie then flew back to London, leaving the track musically unfinished."
'There Must Be More to Life Than This' was first penned by Freddie in 1981 and he worked on it with Michael in 1984 in Los Angeles.
A version of the song did appear on Freddie's 1985 solo album 'Mr. Bad Guy' in 1985.
Talking about the finished duet, Orbit recently said: "Hearing Michael Jackson's vocals was stirring. So vivid, so cool, and poignant, it was like he was in the studio singing live. With Freddie's vocal solo on the mixing desk, my appreciation for his gift was taken to an even higher level."
Two other previously unheard tracks which appear on 'Queen Forever', Giorgio Moroder collaboration 'Love Kills' and 'Let Me In Your Heart Again' which was written by Brian May.