"Shockwave" is a song by English singer and songwriter

Liam Gallagher William John Paul Gallagher (born 21 September 1972) is an English singer and songwriter. He achieved fame as the lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis from 1991 to 2009, and later fronted the rock band Beady Eye from 2009 to 2014, before starti ...

. It was released as the lead single for Gallagher's second solo studio album, '' Why Me? Why Not.'' (2019). Gallagher co-wrote the song with

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and producer

Greg Kurstin Gregory Allen Kurstin (born May 14, 1969) is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter. He has won nine Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical in 2017 and 2018, and written and produced four songs ...

. Kurstin also produced the single. "Shockwave" was released on 5 June 2019, and entered the

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at #22, being his best charting single since " Wall of Glass". It also became his first solo #1 single, hitting the top spot in Scotland.

Music video

The music video to "Shockwave" was uploaded onto Gallagher's YouTube channel on 13 June 2019. The video, directed by François Rousselet is mostly set in America’s Deep South, though much of it was actually filmed in

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. Scenes show Gallagher walking away from a burning building, standing in a train carriage and walking through a crowd of protesters, some of whom are holding signs with the song's lyrics on them as well as the name of the album the song comes from - "Why Me? Why Not".

Charts

References

{{Authority control 2019 singles 2019 songs Liam Gallagher songs Songs written by Liam Gallagher Songs written by Greg Kurstin Songs written by Andrew Wyatt Song recordings produced by Greg Kurstin