British singer and music producer Mark Ronson performs
at the 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux July 12.- Xinhua/Reuters
Mark Ronson has blasted Noel Gallagher. The Oasis rocker said last week the
super-producer should "learn three chords on the guitar and go write a tune",
instead of ruining other people's songs.
Now the "Valerie" hitmaker - whose album of covers "Version" was a massive
hit - has taken a swipe at Noel joking he is being taught to play guitar by
rapper Jay-Z. The hip-hop star mocked the "Lyla" rocker onstage at Glastonbury
following Noel's comments a rap artist should not headline the music event.
Mark wrote on his MySpace page: "I just want Noel to know that I'm actually
taking guitar lessons from Jay-Z right now and he's already taught me both
chords to "Wonderwall" (tune!). "In fact, it's so much fun having Jay teach me
all of Noel's songs on the guitar (hooray!) that I'm thinking of doing an
Oasis/Jay Z remix album a la "The Grey Album."
Potential titles are "Champagne Superhova" or "Definitely Jay Z." "P.P.S.
Noel, I did write a song called "Back to Black," which actually has 7 chords in
it!" Mark's DJ sister Samantha Ronson has also leapt to her brother's defence.
Referring to a recent Jay-Z collaboration with Kanye West which makes
reference to Oasis in the lyrics, she wrote on her MySpace blog: "'Jocking
Jay-Z' - the closest Noel from Oasis has been in years to being on the radio.
"He should stop focusing his energy on dissing people and go back to ripping off
Beatles songs... far more productiveˇˇjealousy is really
unbecoming."