Ananova:

Noel Gallagher says Liam has written more than 50 songs for the new Oasis album.

He says the band have far too much new material for the album - and Liam's written most of it.

Noel was the band's sole songwriter but Liam contributed three songs to 2002's Heathen Chemistry.

Noel said: "We've written 66 songs, the majority of which I can't believe our kid's done.

"I've only written 14 of them. He's done most of the rest of them."

The Gallaghers have been working on songs for their sixth studio album for much of the year but scrapped their work to date following Glastonbury festival.

However, the band are now back in the studio with producer Dave Sardy, and are re-recording from scratch.

Noel added: "One of the songs on there The Importance Of Being Idle is one of the best tunes I have ever written. It is The Kinks meets The La's. It is blinding."