Noel Gallaher, a Britpop singer, says that he has been banned from China and called an “enemy of the people” by Chinese authorities.

Noel said that he couldn’t play in China because of a show he did in New York City in 1997. Since then, he has been banned from visiting the country and can’t perform there.

The lead singer of the band High Flying Birds said that Chinese officials banned him because they feared that he might say “pro-Tibetan,” which is against Chinese policy in that area.

The Mirror says that the singer was shocked when he got a letter from the Chinese government calling him an enemy of the people and telling him he couldn’t go to China because he had played a show in New York in 1977 that backed Tibet’s freedom.

Noel talked about the incident in an interview with Daily Star. He said, “I walked out on stage in front of 50,000 people, and as I walked out to perform, I was thinking, why I agreed to this? I am not even the f**king singer.”

He said that he learned about the ban when his band Oasis was asked to play in China years later, but he was turned away just a few months before the trip. He said that Oasis had to agree on a set list that the Chinese would like before the show.

China has been in charge of Tibet since 1959 when they attacked it.