Oasis Pay Tribute to John Lennon on New Album

Oasis' Gallagher brothers' love of the Beatles is no secret, and on one track off their new album Dig Out Your Soul, the band will pay tribute to John Lennon directly. The ballad "I'm Outta Time" will reportedly feature an audio extract of a John Lennon interview. "Liam has so much passion for the subject," a source told the U.K. Sun, "He's obsessed. That's why the song is so brilliant and poignant." The song is considered a candidate for a future single. Dig Out Your Soul is due out October 7th, with the single "The Shock of the Lightning" preceding it.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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