Fade In-Out

Album: Be Here Now (1997)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song features actor Johnny Depp on slide guitar. Guitarist Noel Gallagher was reportedly too drunk to play so Depp played in his stead. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Joe - Baltimore, MD
  • Just like the band's first two albmus Definitely Maybe and (What's The Story?) Morning Glory, Be Here Now went to #1 in the UK. It was recorded at Abbey Road, Ridge Farm, Air, Master Rock and Orinocco Studios, England between November 1996 and April 1997. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Bertrand - Paris, France
  • The only ever instance of Noel Gallagher screaming on a song occurred when Oasis were recording this. He recalled on his Absolute Radio show: "Me and Liam did a scream. We had to take a week off afterwards. It was awful. If you hear it on the record, it's put through a harmonizer and it sounds… it wasn't very good. I'm closing my eyes now and thinking of it and I'm thinking it's not very good."

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  • Surfa from WebsterThe actual story is a little different. Noel had hired a slide guitar player to record on Fade In/Out because, as he admits himself, he can't play slide guitar. It is widely known that during the Be Here Now days the Oasis camp was a constant party, and Johnny Depp used to party with them occasionally because Noel's wife was friends with Johnny's wife, Kate Moss.
    The guy they hired to play slide guitar got too drunk to play (maybe he was a lightweight compared to the Oasis folks). So Johnny stepped in and said he would do it.
    Apparently he wasn't even that familiar with the song, because if you turn up the volume right in the beginning of the record, you can hear Noel giving him pointers "It's like Helter Skelter", and you can hear Johnny reply "Yeah".
  • Ian from Pittsburgh, PaNoel was not too drunk too play on this song, noel has said he owed Johnny to get on a song and they were all hanging around the studio when Fade In-Out was written. im sure johnny was equally as drunk as noel.
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