Oasis: Liam Gallagher's Wonderwall Tambourine has been sold
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- The tambourine used to record the album Morning Glory by Oasis (What's The Story) was auctioned for seven times the price.
- Liam Gallagher used the instrument in Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova before ditching it after recording it in Monmouthshire in 1995.
The album marked the era of Britpop and sold over 22 million copies. Morning Glory engineers have auctioned the tambourine, estimated at £300-500, for £3,600. "The tambourine was used during the recording from (What's The Story) Morning Glory," said Nick Brown, who was responsible for the tone of the recording.
"He was beaten enough at the end of the session, and they wanted to be thrown out. But I told myself." The tambourine was sold to an online dealer at the Hansons auction house in Derbyshire who "wanted a chance to own a piece of British rock history."
"The price amazes me, and bidders find the musical lineage irresistible," says Hanson music souvenir reviewer Josh McCarthy. Liam Gallagher has used more than 1 tambourine in his nearly 30-year singing career. The band went to Rockfield Studios in 1995 to record a new album, for which Nick worked as a sound engineer.
It was later voted the best album in 30 years and one of the best-selling albums of all time at the Brit Awards, while the hit Wonderwall became the first song of the 1990s to reach a billion streams on Spotify.
"This record means so much to so many people; it changes the lives of many people," said Nick. Who has worked with Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, also The Stone Roses. "This is the record I ask about the most. This record sums up the whole era and what the music and bands were like." Nick added that tambourines were also used in recordings by Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, The Verve, and Seasick Steve.