If there’s one thing brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher are good at other than making world-conquering Britpop, it’s lobbing insults in the press. Back before fraternal tensions broke up Oasis, Noel Gallagher took a rare break from bashing his brother and turned his attention to Jay-Z. J-Hova was set to headline Glastonbury in 2008, and Noel took that personally.
“Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music,” Noel Gallagher said at the time. “And even when they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday night, you go ‘Kylie Minogue?’ I don’t know about it. But I’m not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong.”
Choosing not to go to war with Noel in the tabloids, Jay-Z instead fired back from the stage at Glastonbury on June 28th, 2008. Prior to his set, the screen showed a montage of people including Gallagher criticizing Jiggaman, alongside others praising him as the greatest rapper of all time. In a real-life “anyway, here’s ‘Wonderwall’” moment, an acoustic guitar began strumming the (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? chart-topper as the lights came up and Jay hit the stage. Leading the massive crowd in an Oasis singalong, Jay-Z had the last laugh before dropping into “99 Problems”.
The bitter irony is that Noel’s comments proved crushingly prophetic. Fifteen years later, Glastonbury is ruled by pop and electronic music. Audiences are hard-pressed to find live instruments taking centerstage, and legacy acts like Guns N’ Roses are presented to crowds young enough to be their grandchildren (which Noel called “crazy shit“). Hell, Foo Fighters had to sneak onto the lineup this year under another name.
Watch Jay-Z troll Noel Gallagher by performing “Wonderwall” at Glastonbury, on this day in 2008, along with a cell phone video of the montage (from a phone that definitely had a keyboard).
Jay-Z – “Wonderwall” (Oasis), “99 Problems” – 6/28/08
[Video: Mr Foot]
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