Noel Gallagher knocking on heaven's door - or perhaps just in the area

An eye-popping headline from NME.com:

Noel Gallagher told he would 'drop dead' if he came off medication

That's quite serious, then - so he was told he'd die if he didn't take the medicine, right?

Right?

Oh.

"Then I went on holiday with the kids. And I was getting out of a swimming pool with one of them in my hand and did my back in. Then my doctor put me on these tablets – I won’t tell you what for – [and] told me that if I didn't take them I would virtually drop dead."

So that's 'Noel says doctors told him he'd be quite unwell without taking medicine', then.