Noel Gallagher reveals he suffers from tinnitus

Former Oasis star Noel Gallagher has revealed that he suffers from tinnitus, and has even gone for a brain scan.



Tinnitus is common in rock stars, as The Who's Pete Townshend and Coldplay's Chris Martin both suffer from it as well.

Speaking to Andy Goldstein, on his TalkSport radio show, Noel says, "I went for a brain scan. They did find it! I’ve got bizarre ringing in my ears. I think it’s just through playing guitar for the last 20 years so I had to sit in a tube in the hospital.

"It’s an accumulation of many things but I’ve had a bloody great time doing it all and if I do eventually die of brain disease it will have been worth it. The funny thing is they give you these headphones and I chose classical music. It came on and it was the exact music I play to my little kid when he goes to bed.

"I was in there for 25 minutes. It was horrible. I know what the results will be - ‘There is nothing wrong with you’. It’s another way of fleecing money out of you."

source: gigwise.com

Noel Gallagher: 'If Obama loses, I'll run for president myself'

(CNN) -- "I don't know the ins and outs of his politics (but) for his procession to become President I was in America and his speeches were spine tingling. Barack Obama can talk, and coming after Bush it was something to behold. In my humble opinion, if he loses the next election to the other bunch then, good Lord, I will run myself."

So says Noel Gallagher, former creative force of British band Oasis and one of rock 'n' roll's biggest mouths. Singer-songwriter, brother to Liam and now a U.S. presidential candidate: 2012 promises to be quite a year for the 45-year-old whose song-writing talent has taken him from unemployment in a city called Manchester in northern England to sell-out stadium tours around the world, playing to millions.

By September, Gallagher will have completed the tour of his first solo album since the demise of Oasis in 2009; an expedition entailing 81 shows across Europe, the Pacific (Japan and Australia) and America as well as being a voyage into the unknown for the forthright backing-singer-now-frontman.

It was initially intended as a small affair, but such has been the demand for the new record -- "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds" topped the charts in the UK in October 2011-- theaters have rapidly been upgraded to arenas to cope with demand. A move that surprised the man himself and maybe explains the overriding mood of calm satisfaction the guitarist exudes from beneath a leather jacket as he sits down with a coffee to talk to CNN.

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/06/showbiz/music/noel-gallagher-oasis-obama-high-flying-birds/index.html