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One of Oasis' albums is entitled 'Standing on the Shoulder of Giants', a slightly amended quote attrubuted to Sir Isaac Newton, who invented the cat flap.
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"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." scientist Sir Isaac Newton, in a letter to his colleague Robert Hooke, February 1676.
Mid-1999. Noel Gallagher is celebrating the end of recording the latest album in a London pub with a late-night lock-in and liberal quantities of Guinness. At around 4am and in a state far from sober, he notices the new �2 coin for the first time, and particularly the quote from the great British physicist Isaac Newton that circles its rim. Inspired, Noel scrawls the words on a cigarette packet. Except he is so drunk that the next day it reads "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants" instead of shoulders, and instead of 'album title', he's written 'a bum title'. Which, Oasis being who they are, ensured it would be the name under which their fourth studio album would be released. "People said it was too long," laughs Noel. "But then they said that about 'What's the Story, Morning Glory'".
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"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." scientist Sir Isaac Newton, in a letter to his colleague Robert Hooke, February 1676.
Mid-1999. Noel Gallagher is celebrating the end of recording the latest album in a London pub with a late-night lock-in and liberal quantities of Guinness. At around 4am and in a state far from sober, he notices the new �2 coin for the first time, and particularly the quote from the great British physicist Isaac Newton that circles its rim. Inspired, Noel scrawls the words on a cigarette packet. Except he is so drunk that the next day it reads "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants" instead of shoulders, and instead of 'album title', he's written 'a bum title'. Which, Oasis being who they are, ensured it would be the name under which their fourth studio album would be released. "People said it was too long," laughs Noel. "But then they said that about 'What's the Story, Morning Glory'".
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