By Community Correspondent Chris Lynch The music world – or, at least, the circuit that is the huge music industry of Britain – is still frozen in shock as, after seventeen years of flying high with seven number one albums, the Master of British Revival Music Noel Gallagher announced his decision to leave Oasis, bringing to an end the enduring, inspiring and totally sensational tenure Oasis has spent as the leaders in British music – and closing the door on a forgotten generation.

I consider it somewhat strange that, less than two months ago, I attended an Oasis concert. With Liam’s unique posture, shimmery but rough gravelly vocals, Noel Gallagher’s trademark conversing with the crowd, Oasis created a name for themselves as both excellent musicians and incredible live performers. With a catalogue spanning eight number-one albums and hundreds of top-ten success in over twenty countries, Oasis has booked itself a firm place at the top of the best bands of all time.

Oasis – moreover, the talented Gallagher brother Noel – can be a huge influence to us and, indeed, became a major positive inspiration to two generations of working-class Britons, bored with life and desperate for a resurgence of true British culture. And Oasis answered this call. Leading the revival of popular British music, Oasis introduced, shaped and claimed the genre of Britpop, and their music had a signature mix of echoes of 60s British International Invasion bands The Kinks, The Who, The Jam and, of course, The Beatles, and a fresh, modern sound. Oasis’ music, therefore, can be characterised with the lyrical intelligence that novelists would crave for, catchy guitar riffs and thrilling instrumental passages, lyrics that truly spoke to an otherwise dead British audience and a beautiful catchy tune over the sound of a rocking combo of electric and acoustic guitars, a drum kit and a keyboard: everything that was simply non-existent for the ten years running right through the mid 80s into the mid 90s.

As Noel Gallagher, the eloquent, now toned and cogently sensitive songwriter of Oasis – truly the man that carried Oasis and provided the motor it needed to become the best-selling British band since The Beatles, and his departure is a farewell-wave to modern British music’s heritage, to a symbol of rejuvenation and musical merit rotted in the depths of melodic history. Good bye Noel Gallagher – the last non-commercialised musician we will ever see. And, in the words of the man himself, Don’t Look Back In Anger.