You can work it out, Sir Paul McCartney has advised the feuding Gallagher brothers. And once they’ve done that, he reckons, they should come together.

“My advice to them? Just get together and make some good music,” McCartney said. “But they have got to want to do it. I think a lot of people would like them to do that. They are pretty cool guys.”

His remarks were made during an online Q&A with his Japanese fans. But McCartney was cautious about the chances of Oasis actually reuniting. “I don’t know if they will ever make up. It would be good because I think everyone likes brothers to like each other – and make up. It’s a pity because they are very good together. Like many brothers, they are crazy. But it would be nice if they got together.”

Recent days have suggested the brothers are in no great hurry to kiss and make up. The Sun has claimed a version of Oasis – featuring original members Liam, Paul Arthurs, Tony McCarroll and Paul McGuigan – will reunite without the band’s main songwriter. This follows tabloid reports last month, denied by Noel’s camp, that the whole band would be getting back together.

Last week Liam took to Twitter to air his disdain for his brother, calling him “another prick in the wall” for having a saxophone on his new album with High Flying Birds, Chasing Yesterday, and nicknaming him “Noel Katie Hopkins Gallagher”.