“One of the first times I met Noel, I was round his house. He went, ‘This is what I played on Don’t Look Back in Anger.’ I was like, ‘What?’” Gem Archer on the Strat’s secret spot in Oasis history

Gem Archer and Noel Gallagher: Archer plays a Strat while this archive pick of Gallagher finds him playing a Union Jack Epiphone.

When Epiphone unveiled the Noel Gallagher Riviera in 2022, all Oasis fans instantly recognized the guitar.

This was the spitting image of the 1983 Riviera from the Don’t Look Back in Anger video; this was the Don’t Look Back in Anger Riviera. And it was one of the most important electric guitars in the history of the Manchester rock ’n’ roll institution. No question.