Noel Gallagher tells Zayn Malik to 'f****** get a good accountant' following 'strange' decision to leave One Direction

Noel Gallagher has offered some expletive words of advice for former One Direction singer Zayn Malik.

The 47-year-old musician revealed he laughed when he heard that Malik had taken the "strange" decision to quit the world famous boy band and said that it's time he invested in a "good accountant because life is very f****** long".

During an interview with Rolling Stone he said: "For Zayn, though, I'd say, 'F****** get a good accountant because life is very f****** long'."

Malik left fans or 'directioners' in mourning when he quit the band in March to be "normal". He has since had his Twitter handle changed from @ZaynMalik1D to @ZaynMalik and has deleted his biography.

Gallagher said of his decision to leave: "It's a strange thing for that lad to have done at that age. The greatest quote was — I laughed out loud when I read it — 'I just want to be a normal 22-year-old.' Pfft. Who wants to be a normal 22-year-old?!"

The High Flying Birds frontman continued: "Hang on a minute. You can be f****** anything that moves and getting paid half a million dollars a week, you f****** idiot. You want to be a normal 22-year-old? Have you met any normal 22-year-olds? They're f****** s***-for-brains. What are you talking about, you f****** idiot?"

He concluded: "I'll say this to you, Zayn: You might have wanted to be a normal 22-year-old, but you won't want to be a normal 25-year-old."

The former Oasis musician - who last week branded Ed Miliband a "f****** communist" and Nicola Sturgeon "unpleasant" - also hit out at music streaming service Tidal.

Speaking of the service, which was re launched by Jay-Z and a raft of stars in March, Gallagher said that to save the music industry musicians might be better off trying to "write a decent chorus for a f****** start".

He said: "I was speaking to Chris [Martin] the day after [the launch], and I said, 'Are you after a Nobel Peace Prize? Is that what you're after?' They were like, 'We're going to f****** save the music business'. And I'm just sitting there, thinking you might want to write a decent chorus for a f****** start. Never mind f****** royalties and the 'power of music'. Write a tune. F****** start with that."