Singer's comments 'taken wrong way'
Noel Gallagher has claimed his comments about Jay-Z performing at Glastonbury were taken the wrong way.
The Oasis star created 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 Gallagher tells the latest edition of NME magazine: "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."
He added: "My f****** single went back in the charts, Jay-Z's profile went through the f****** roof. Everyone's a winner.
"He knows that I was misrepresented, as I guess he was, so let's f****** move on."
Gallagher said he watched Jay-Z sing Oasis anthem Wonderwall at the festival.
He said: "For my own part I can sit here and say I never dissed that f****** guy. I never would."
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