Depending on when you read this write-up, with ‘Heathen Chemistry’ soon to out in shops, Noel is up to his old tricks again and has this time set pop superstar Kylie Minogue firmly in his sights!

Speaking to OK! magazine, the ageing Beatles’ fanatic stormed “Kylie Minogue is just a demonic little idiot as far I’m concerned. She’s been looked after big time. She gets cool dance producers to work with her for some bizarre reason. I don’t know why. She doesn’t even have a good name. It’s a stupid name. Kylie, I just don’t get it.”

Noel has also saved some venom for fellow pop crooners such as Britney Spears, N’Sync, and of course Robbie as well.

“My daughter, Anais started tapping her foot along to Britney,” he says. “Okay, ‘Baby One More Time’ is a classic tune, but she didn’t write it, she just mimed it on telly a few times. I don’t get the full Britney thing. I certainly don’t get the N’Sync thing, the Robbie Williams or the Gorillaz thing. Looks like there’s a lot of things I don’t get.”