Noel Gallagher creates six-hour ambient version of Oasis’ ‘Champagne Supernova’ for National Portrait Gallery exhibition

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Noel Gallagher has created a six-hour-long, ambient version of the Oasis track ‘Champagne Supernova’ for an upcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.The song, which was first released on the band’s 1995 sophomore album ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’, has been transformed into a mixed track that spans across six hours.

It will be played as a portrait of Britpop icon Noel Gallagher will go on display at the Trafalgar Square museum later this month.It all comes as part of a new Legends exhibition, which includes 100 portraits taken by UK photographer Zoë Law, and depicts famous faces who influenced her in both her life and her career.Alongside Gallagher’s portrait will be one of England World Cup winner Sir Bobby Charlton, Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall, Pirates Of The Caribbean actor Orlando Bloom, and a never-before-seen portrait of Sienna Miller.

The latter will see the actor pose with the 1967 Epiphone that Noel Gallagher used to write the Oasis hit track.The reimagined version of the song will be played as an immersive soundscape, and aims to create an immersive experience for visitors as they look at the black-and-white photographs on display.A post shared by National Portrait Gallery (@nationalportraitgallery)“The one thing that I do fall back on is to not overthink anything.

You can create mountains out of molehills,” the singer-songwriter said in a new promotional video for the exhibition. “I would try and teach my kids to just step back and see problems for what they are.