In an interview with Total Guitar, Noel Gallagher talked about his friend, former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and the guitar Marr lent him throughut the years: “He’s given me three or four guitars down the years. He’s given me a 60s Les Paul that used to belong to Pete Townshend, and he’s given me a black Les Paul that was a Smiths guitar that was used on the track The Queen Is Dead. He also gave me a Fender Stratocaster. I don’t know what he used it on, but I wrote and recorded Don’t Look Back In Anger on it. I think that’s it. He only loaned them to me, and I’ve never given them back. He’s not getting them now.”

Then on extending the collaboration with Marr and even having him in the live band, Noel said:“He’s on the road doing his own thing. Needless to say, if I even had the slightest, one per cent thought that Johnny Marr would join my band and play guitar, I would fucking get on my knees and beg him to do it. He’s got a solo thing going on, I think. Rightly so. It’s about time he started making records for himself and stopped fucking about.”

Source: totalguitar