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"Don't Look Back in Anger" is a song by English rock band
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. It was written by the band's guitarist and main songwriter
Noel Gallagher Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He was the chief songwriter, lead guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis until their split in 2009. After leaving Oasis, he formed ...
. The song was produced by Gallagher and
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. Released on 19 February 1996 as the fifth single from their second studio album, ''
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'' (1995), it became Oasis's second single to reach #1 on the
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, earning a quadruple-platinum sales
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in the UK. It was the first Oasis single with lead vocals by Noel, who had previously only sung lead on B-sides, instead of his brother
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. Noel would later sing lead vocals on six other singles. It is one of the band's signature songs, and was played at almost every live show from its release to the dissolution of the band in 2009. In 2012, it was ranked #1 on a list of the "50 Most Explosive Choruses" by '' NME'', and the same year it was voted the fourth-most-popular No. 1 single of the last 60 years in the UK by the public in conjunction with the
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's 60th anniversary. In 2015, ''
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'' readers voted it the second-greatest Britpop song after "
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" by Pulp. On 29 May 2017,
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broadcast a programme counting down the top 50 songs written by Noel Gallagher to mark his 50th birthday, with the song being voted No. 1. In August 2020, the song was voted as the greatest song of the 1990s by listeners of
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as part of celebrations for the station's tenth anniversary.


Background and writing

Noel Gallagher was so excited about the potential of the song when he first wrote it that he used an acoustic set to perform a work-in-progress version, without the second verse and with a few other slight lyrical differences, at an Oasis concert at the
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on 22 April 1995. He said before playing that he'd only written it the previous Tuesday (18 April 1995) and that he didn't even have a title for it yet. Noel Gallagher said of the song, "It reminds me of a cross between "
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" and something
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might have done." Of the character "Sally" referred to in the song, he commented, "I don't actually know anybody called Sally. It's just a word that fit, y'know, might as well throw a girl's name in there." He explained the song by saying, "It's about not being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been." In August 2007, Gallagher told ''Uncut'' magazine, "We were in Paris playing with
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, and I had the chords for that song and started writing it. We were due to play two days later. Our first-ever big arena gig, it's called Sheffield Arena now. At the sound check, I was strumming away on the acoustic guitar, and rkid (Liam Gallagher) said, 'What's that you're singin'?' I wasn't singing anyway, I was just making it up. And our kid said, 'Are you singing, 'So Sally can wait'?' And I was like—that's genius! So I started singing, 'So Sally can wait.' I remember going back to the dressing room and writing it out. It all came really quickly after that." Gallagher claims that the character " Lyla", from Oasis's 2005 single, is Sally's sister. In the interview on the DVD released with the special edition of '' Stop the Clocks'', he also revealed that a girl approached him and asked him if Sally was the same girl mentioned in the
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track "
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". He replied that he had never thought of that, but thought it was a good reference anyway. In a 2019 ''
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'' magazine interview, Gallagher stated, "I remember writing it in Paris on a rainy night. We had just played a strip club: our set finished, the strippers came on. We were nothing, an insignificant little band. And I remember going back to my hotel room and writing it, and thinking, 'That'll be pretty good when we record it.' If I'd have known that night what I know now about people playing it at fucking funerals and weddings, I'd never have finished the song. Too much pressure." Gallagher admits that certain lines from the song are lifted from
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: "I got this tape in the United States that had apparently been burgled from the Dakota Hotel and someone had found these cassettes. Lennon was starting to record his memoirs on tape. He's going on about 'trying to start a revolution from me icbed, because they said the brains I had went to my head.' I thought, 'Thank you, I'll take that!'" The line "revolution from me bed" refers to Lennon's notorious
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s in 1969 as Gallagher was reading '' Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties'' published in 1994. The piano in the introduction of the song strongly resembles Lennon's "
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", as well as " Watching the Wheels". As Oasis are often criticised for borrowing parts of other artists' songs, Gallagher commented on the intro's similarity to "Imagine":


Live performances

The song became a favourite at
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's live performances.
Noel Gallagher Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He was the chief songwriter, lead guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis until their split in 2009. After leaving Oasis, he formed ...
encouraged the crowd to sing along and often kept quiet during the first chorus, allowing the fans instead to sing along while he played the song's guitar part. During the
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, Noel abandoned the song's previous, full-band live arrangement in favour of a much slower, primarily acoustic arrangement. From 2008 through to Oasis's break-up, the song was performed by Gallagher on his
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acoustic guitar backed up by
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on electric guitar,
Jay Darlington Jay Peter Darlington (born 3 May 1968 in Sidcup, London) is an English keyboardist, best known as a member of Kula Shaker. He went on to work as a touring member of Oasis and is currently a member of the Totnes, Devon based prog band, Magic Bu ...
playing keyboards and
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playing tambourine. On 11 and 12 July 2009, during performances of the song at London's Wembley Stadium, Gallagher did not sing a word; instead, he stood back, played guitar, and allowed the crowd to sing the entire song. Since 2011, he has alternated between the acoustic version and the original arrangement when playing the song with his solo project,
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. Oasis became the first act since
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to perform two songs on the same showing of ''
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'', performing "Don't Look Back in Anger", followed by their cover of
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's " Cum on Feel the Noize", also on the single. In June 2017, Liam Gallagher performed an a cappella version of the song at Glastonbury, making it the first time he had performed the song rather than Noel.


Manchester Arena bombing

Following the
Manchester Arena bombing On 22 May 2017, an Islamist extremist suicide bomber detonated a shrapnel-laden homemade bomb as people were leaving the Manchester Arena following a concert by American pop singer Ariana Grande. Twenty-three people were killed, including ...
on 22 May 2017 in the band's hometown of
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, the song was used by the people of Manchester in remembrance of the bombing's 22 victims and to show the city's spirit. The song was sung by students of Manchester's Chetham's music school on 23 May, and on 25 May it was spontaneously sung by the crowd gathered for a minute of silence in the city centre. The woman who started the singing told ''
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'', "I love Manchester, and Oasis is part of my childhood. "Don't Look Back in Anger"—that's what this is about: we can't be looking backwards to what happened, we have to look forwards to the future." The song re-entered the charts, along with Ariana Grande's "One Last Time," which was No. 1 on the iTunes single charts as of 26 May. On 27 May, the song was performed as a tribute by 50,000 audience members of a performance by
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in Manchester. It was performed by
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's
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and
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on either side of Ariana Grande at the
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concert on 4 June 2017. Martin introduced the song by saying "Ariana, you've been singing a lot for us, so I think we in Britain want to sing for you. This is called "Don't Look Back in Anger", and this is from us to you". It was also performed by the
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of the
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on 13 June 2017, at the
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versus
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football match at the
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, as a tribute to the victims of the attacks in Manchester and, more recently,
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.


Release

The single's picture sleeve contains a photo by
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. He intended the cover as a homage to an incident where
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, having briefly left the Beatles in 1968 during the recording of the ''
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'', was persuaded to return and
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decorated Starr's drum kit in red, white and blue flowers to show their appreciation. The B-side "Step Out" was originally intended for the ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'' album but was taken off after
Stevie Wonder Stevland Hardaway Morris ( Judkins; May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, who is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include rhythm and blues, Pop musi ...
requested 10 per cent of the royalties as the chorus bore a similarity to his song "
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". Because of this, Wonder,
Henry Cosby Henry R. "Hank" Cosby (May 12, 1928 – January 22, 2002) was an American songwriter, arranger, producer and musician who worked for Motown Records from its formative years. Along with Sylvia Moy, Cosby was a key collaborator with Stevie Wonder ...
and Sylvia Moy received credit for writing the song, along with Noel. The song's chart success coincided with its usage at the end of the final episode of the BBC television drama ''
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''. The show's producers had included the track without knowing it was going to be released as a single.


Critical reception

"Don't Look Back in Anger" was met with high critical praise and it became a commercial hit.
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from ''
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'' said, "
Noel Gallagher Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He was the chief songwriter, lead guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis until their split in 2009. After leaving Oasis, he formed ...
reveals a deft sense of timing and craft that turn his improprieties into masterful pop gems." ''
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'' rated the song five out of five, picking it as Single of the Week. They wrote, "Cheekily opening with John Lennon's Imagine riff, another Beatles-inspired single which will turn on the fans on Brits day. The inclusion of the ill-advised Slade cover of Cum On Feel The Noize is a low point, however." In a 2006 readers' poll conducted by ''Q'' magazine, "Don't Look Back in Anger" was voted the 20th-best song of all time. In May 2007, '' NME'' magazine placed "Don't Look Back in Anger" at No. 14 in its list of the "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever".


Chart performance

The song reached No. 1 in the singles charts of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and it was a moderate success by reaching the top 60 in various countries. The song was the 10th-biggest-selling single of 1996 in the UK. It is Oasis's second-biggest-selling single in the UK (after " Wonderwall"), going quadruple platinum in the process. The song returned to the UK charts in 2017 following
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and
Jonny Buckland Jonathan Mark Buckland (born 11 September 1977) is an English-born Welsh musician and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay. Raised in Pantymwyn, he began to play guitar from an early age, being ...
's cover version at the
One Love Manchester One Love Manchester was a benefit concert and British television special on 4 June 2017, organised by American singer Ariana Grande, Simon Moran, Melvin Benn and Scooter Braun in response to the Manchester Arena bombing after Grande's concert t ...
concert, reaching No. 25. "Don't Look Back in Anger" is Oasis's sixth-biggest ''Billboard'' hit in the US, reaching the No. 10 spot on the
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for the week of 22 June 1996.


Music video

The video for the song was directed by
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and features
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, the actor who played
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in the 1960s television series '' The Avengers'', apparently a favourite of Oasis. It was filmed at 1145 Arden Road in Pasadena, California on 4 December 1995. It features the band being driven by Macnee in a
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to a mansion similar to the
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and performing the song there; a group of women dressed in white also occasionally
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to the lyrics. While filming the video, drummer Alan White met future wife Liz Atkins. They married on 13 August 1997 at Studley Priory in Oxfordshire, but later divorced. There are two uploads of the music video. One being posted by the band themselves in 2008 with over 229 million views, and another posted in collaboration with
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in 2014 with over 120 million views.


Track listing

All songs were written by
Noel Gallagher Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He was the chief songwriter, lead guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis until their split in 2009. After leaving Oasis, he formed ...
except where noted. * UK CD and cassette single # "Don't Look Back in Anger" # "Step Out" (Gallagher, Wonder, Cosby, Moy) # "Underneath the Sky" # " Cum On Feel the Noize" ( Holder,
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) * UK 7-inch single :A. "Don't Look Back in Anger" :B. "Step Out" (Gallagher, Wonder, Cosby, Moy) * UK 12-inch single :A1. "Don't Look Back in Anger" :B1. "Step Out" (Gallagher, Wonder, Cosby, Moy) :B2. "Underneath the Sky" * US CD and cassette single # "Don't Look Back in Anger" # "Cum On Feel the Noize" (Holder, Lea)


Personnel

Oasis *
Noel Gallagher Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He was the chief songwriter, lead guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis until their split in 2009. After leaving Oasis, he formed ...
– lead vocals, lead guitars,
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,
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*
Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs Paul Benjamin Arthurs (born 23 June 1965), known professionally as Bonehead, is an English musician. He is best known as the rhythm guitarist, occasional keyboardist and co-founder of the rock band Oasis. Early life Paul Benjamin Arthurs was ...
– piano, rhythm guitar,
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*
Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan Paul Francis McGuigan (born 9 May 1971), known professionally as Guigsy (pronounced "Gwigzee"), is an English retired musician. He is best known as the bassist and co-founder of the British rock band Oasis. Career In the late 1980s, McGuigan st ...
– bass guitar * Alan White – drums, shaker,
tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...
Additional personnel *
Owen Morris Owen Morris (born in Caernarfon, Wales) is a Welsh record producer who has worked with rock bands including Oasis, the Fratellis, Ash, the View, Loso and the Verve. Biography Morris started working in the music industry as a sound engineer at ...
– Kurzweil strings


Charts and certifications


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


Certifications


Release history


References


External links

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