Noel: Jay-Z rant 'was taken wrong'

Noel Gallagher has claimed his comments about Jay-Z performing at Glastonbury were taken the wrong way. The Oasis star caused a stir when he said of the decision to feature the hip-hop star in the line-up: "I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance. "Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music. I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong." But he said in a new interview: "I wasn't saying I was better than Jay-Z as a person or rock was greater than hip-hop as a thing or whatever it is. "I said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong, and now all this. "My f****** single went back in the charts, Jay-Z's profile went through the f****** roof. Everyone's a winner." Gallagher added: "He knows that I was misrepresented, as I guess he was, so let's f****** move on. "For my own part I can sit here and say I never dissed that f****** guy. I never would. "But there's no point in going on about it, because you end up sounding like Heather Mills: 'I said this! I meant that!' To be honest I really couldn't give a f***. I'll have a beer with him one day and it'll all be fine."

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ITN | August 7, 2008

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