Richard Ashcroft: I want to work with Noel and Liam Gallagher on a musical with Oasis

Richard Ashcroft has revealed he would love to make a musical with Oasis – but joked he would have to play himself.

Ashcroft, 44, said he would like to work on a musical production chronicling the rise of Oasis and his former band The Verve.

"I would love to do a musical with [Liam and Noel Gallagher]," Ashcroft told Noisey. "I'd like to do a musical of [Verve] songs combined [with Oasis songs] in a story of both our youths and the combination at the end and the fact that we have crossed paths, been mates [and] looked after each other.”

When asked who would play Ashcroft, he joked: “It would have to be someone who could do the whole thing from 20 to now and that would have to be me then. I don’t know.”

The singer – who will next month release his album, These People – also weighed up the advantages and disadvantages of working with the Gallagher brothers.

“The pros are that [Noel’s] an amazing songwriter,” he said. “So if I get 50 per cent on the publishing then it's obviously cha-ching for both of us. I'm an amazing lyricist and I've got incredible melodies so the combo is great.

"But there's also a lot of pros working with Liam, but there's a lot of negatives working with either of them and not working with the other one. It's like being a brother in the middle."

Noel recently revealed he would love to work on an album with Ashcroft but said it could kick start a war between himself and Liam.

He told NME: "Would that upset Liam? Oh that would be war. More reason to do it!"

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