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"Noel Gallagher has admitted to making the Olympics Closing Ceremony organisers wait on his decision to let Beady Eye perform Oasis&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Wonderwall&amp;#039;. The songwriter told Xfm that he left it until two nights before the gig before granting his permission for his brother Liam to perform a new version of the song.   &amp;quot;They had to re-record it and then send it to me,&amp;quot; Noel said. &amp;quot;I did play a bit of cat and mouse with them for a few days - I took it &amp;#039;til Friday night at 10.00 before I said yes and they were s***ting it. Not Beady Eye, the organisers.  &amp;quot;Because I had to say yeah and I was like &amp;#039;Meh... it&amp;#039;s alright... I&amp;#039;m not sure with this new string arrangement&amp;#039;, and they were like, &amp;#039;F**k! The gig&amp;#039;s on Sunday&amp;#039;, so I was like, &amp;#039;Okay, alright, you can have it then&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Noel played &amp;#039;Wonderwall&amp;#039; at an Xfm Legend Series gig for War Child two days after the Olympics Closing Ceremony and dedicated it to &amp;quot;Stratford&amp;#039;s finest Oasis tribute band&amp;quot;.  &amp;gt; Noel Gallagher at Dingwalls: For Stratford&amp;#039;s finest Oasis tribute band He also confirmed that he turned down the chance to play the London 2012 show, adding: &amp;quot;They wanted me to do it acoustically and then they wanted me to mime. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m all for miming in TV shows - I&amp;#039;m all for that - but if you&amp;#039;re in a stadium with 80,000 people and you&amp;#039;re pretending? &amp;quot;I can play live! One of the organisers... I said, &amp;#039;Why do you want me to mime?&amp;#039; and he said, &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s a big gig&amp;#039;. Really?! I do this s**t for a living!&amp;quot; London 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony - photo gallery:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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