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Noel Gallagher's ‘Definitely Maybe’ guitar heads to auction

Oasis recently announced a reunion tour in 2025

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The guitar was used by Noel Gallagher in the recording of Oasis’ 1994 debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’. (Credit: Sotheby's)

Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis achieved heights few bands could dream of, dominating the UK charts throughout the 1990s and early 2000s with hits such as “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and “Champagne Supernova.”

But the band was rife with discord from the beginning, as the two brothers were constantly at each other’s throats. From disputes over drug use to feuds over touring merch, it’s remarkable the band, which formed in 1991, even made it to 2009 before splitting up exactly 15 years ago today.

This week, the band announced it would be reuniting for a 2025 tour — a shock to many considering legal disputes, public insults and differing accounts of the break-up continued in public forums.

Suddenly, the feud appears to be over, marking a return to the stage for a musical act that once ruled the airwaves.

Originally planned to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the album’s release, Sotheby’s will be auctioning a guitar used by Noel Gallagher in the recording of the band’s debut album “Definitely Maybe” in 1994.

Now, the sale, set for Sept. 9, will borrow buzz from the highly-anticipated reunion.

The guitar was owned and used by Gallagher to record “Definitely Maybe,” in addition to appearing on the cover of the band’s debut single “Supersonic.”

The Epiphone Les Paul Standard seen in the music video and the cover art of the single was stage-played in the early days of the band’s journey.

With a high estimate of around $105,000, the guitar shares a special attachment to Gallagher, who once said, “I wanted to start playing Epiphones because of The Beatles. I didn’t know much about guitars back then. They looked good; they felt good, and I could make them sound good.”

Given Gallagher’s famous comments regarding Oasis being “bigger” than the Beatles, a claim which he walked back in later years saying he was high at the time, and the media’s constant comparisons of the band to the Fab Four’s heirs, this tie-in is so perfectly Oasis it is hard to believe it’s real.

Will Stern is a reporter and editor for cllct.