"Morning Glory" is a song by the English rock band

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, written by

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and released on the band's second album ''

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'' is the second studio album by English rock band Oasis. Released on 2 October 1995 by Creation Records, it was produced by Owen Morris and the group's guitarist and main songwriter Noel Gallagher. The str ...

'' in September 1995. It was given a commercial single release only in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, and it was also a

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in the United States and Canada. In North America, it was the first song of the album to receive significant airplay, although primarily at alternative rock radio stations, as " Some Might Say" and " Roll with It" had not achieved as such.

Content

Lyrics and themes

"Morning Glory" contains lyrical references to the drug

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and to

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, and references the title of its parent album in the chorus.

Musical style

Kenneth Partridge proclaimed the riff that opens "Morning Glory" to be "strikingly similar" to that of " The One I Love" by American rock band R.E.M.

Music video

The song's accompanying video is directed by

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. The band is performing in an industrial apartment, suggested by the opening shots of the video to be the Balfron Tower (not to be mistaken with

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), as the building's tenants (including a man with a baby, a young boy, an old man and a female cyclist, an elderly woman with a hair dryer, a middle-aged woman in a house coat, a mafia boss and two bodyguards, an Indian couple, a drug addict, another elderly woman, and young woman and her mother) take offence to the loud noise of the band's playing and come up to knock on the door and look in the mail slot. The video concludes with all the tenants gathering around the door, beating on it and yelling, just as the band finishes playing and packs up their instruments.

Other releases

* In October 2005, a remix of the song was released on the soundtrack to the movie '' Goal!''. It was done by ''

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'' producer

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. * The song is included on Oasis' compilation album '' Stop the Clocks''. On the original album, the song segues into the 40-second untitled track, which in turn segues into " Champagne Supernova". This is the same thing that happens on ''Stop the Clocks'', except the untitled track is not included, leaving the water sounds from "Morning Glory" to directly segue straight into "Champagne Supernova".

Track listings

Australian CD and cassette single; Japanese CD single # "Morning Glory" # "It's Better People" # "Rockin' Chair" # " Live Forever" (live at Glastonbury '95, 23 June 1995)

Personnel

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– vocals, tambourine *

– lead guitars, backing vocals * Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs – rhythm guitar * Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan – bass * Alan White – drums, percussion *

Brian Cannon Brian Cannon is a British graphic designer, art director, photographer, band manager and music video director. His Microdot graphic design company created the album cover for Oasis' debut album, ''Definitely Maybe'' in 1994. Two of Cannon's record ...

– keyboard *

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 ...

– sound effects

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

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Lyrics
{{Authority control 1995 songs 1995 singles Oasis (band) songs Creation Records singles Epic Records singles Music videos directed by Jake Scott (director) Song recordings produced by Noel Gallagher Songs written by Noel Gallagher