Johnny Marr joins Noel Gallagher on stage in Manchester – watch

The music legends performed 'Ballad Of The Mighty I' together at Manchester Arena

Johnny Marr joined Noel Gallagher onstage at Manchester Arena last night (March 9).

The pair performed ‘Ballad Of The Mighty I’ together during the encore, a single which features on Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ second album, the recently released ‘Chasing Yesterday’. Marr plays guitar on the album version, but this is the first time the pair have performed the track together in public. Gallagher has called it one of his best songs, thanks to Marr’s contribution. Click above to watch fan-shot footage of the performance.

In October 2014 Gallagher joined Marr on stage at London’s O2 Academy Brixton to play The Smiths’ ‘How Soon Is Now’, as well as a cover of Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust For Life’.

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Gallagher’s set last night included a number of Oasis covers, including ‘Fade Away’, ‘Champagne Supernova’, ‘Digsy’s Dinner’, ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ and ‘The Masterplan’. Gallagher plays London’s O2 tonight (March 10). Scroll down for a full setlist from last night’s show.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds played:

‘Do the Damage’
‘(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach’
‘Everybody’s on the Run’
‘Fade Away’
‘In the Heat of the Moment’
‘Lock All the Doors’
‘Riverman’
‘The Death of You and Me’
‘You Know We Can’t Go Back’
‘Champagne Supernova’
‘Dream On’
‘The Dying of the Light’
‘The Mexican’
‘AKA… Broken Arrow’
‘Digsy’s Dinner’
‘If I Had a Gun…’
‘AKA… What a Life’
‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’
‘Ballad of the Mighty I’
‘The Masterplan’

Meanwhile, Marr is set to release a seven-inch Depeche Mode cover backed with a live Smiths track for Record Store Day 2015, which takes place on April 18. The single will consist of Marr’s own version of electronic rock band’s 1993 single ‘I Feel You’ and a live version of The Smiths‘ 1984 b-side ‘Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want’.

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