[1] Musicians featured on the record include former Oasis keyboardist Mike Rowe, The Lemon Trees drummer Jeremy Stacey and percussionist Lenny Castro, in addition to guest appearances from the Crouch End Festival Chorus and The Wired Strings.

[1] The name, High Flying Birds, drew inspiration from the Jefferson Airplane song while using it as a band name was a homage to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

[2] On 20 July 2011, "The Death of You and Me" was confirmed as the lead single, scheduled for release on 21 August 2011, with "The Good Rebel" appearing as the B-side.

[3] On 30 August 2011, "If I Had a Gun..." premiered on Kroq Radio and will be Gallagher's debut single in North America.

He stated (in his web-blog 'Tales From the Middle of Nowhere'): "'I played the part of a slightly hungover grumpy northern taxi driver which is just as well as that's exactly what I felt like.

Producer Dave Sardy had said of the album and Noel turned solo musician "It wasn't a weird situation for me.

To record the album, Noel and Dave were using a(n) EMI TG console and several Fairchild limiters, in a basic studio set-up.

[8] Lawrence Watson, Noel's personal photographer, was to document Gallagher himself in Los Angeles, California & Beverly Hills starting in Spring 2010, where a number of photos were taken for press release, and for the artwork of the 'High Flying Birds' cover.

So we go out one night and it's all lit up in the neon, and we're taking these pictures – it looks like I'm stood under the wings of a high flying bird!

On 9 November 2011 it was announced that Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds would be headlining all shows at Australia and New Zealand's travelling Big Day Out Festival.

[15][16] On 11 November 2011, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipments of 300,000 units in the UK.

[19] Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds received positive reviews from music critics.

[28] The BBC review praised Gallagher for continuing the proven formula of songwriting he adopted in Oasis, describing the album as an "enjoyable record".

[21] Despite giving it a rating of eight out of ten, NME wrote that the album may have benefited from the vocals of former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.

[1] Digital Spy proposed that "despite all the hints to the contrary, Gallagher has managed to shrug off potentially suffocating expectations to record what could be his best album since (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.

[22] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic was more critical: whilst writing that "Gallagher does come up with some keepers," he noted that "the little brass flourishes... don't stop the album from playing like a succession of variations on "Don't Look Back in Anger" and "The Importance of Being Idle"," concluding that Gallagher is "missing anything resembling rock & roll, skimping on quick tempos and loud guitars.

He praised "indelible melodies" that "carry you blithely along, indifferent to the shortcomings of the rest of the song", concluding, "For now, it'll do that it's a more enjoyable album than Oasis' latter-day catalogue.

At the risk of handing out some well-worn advice, anyone hoping to hear a radical departure might be recommended to hold on.