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"'''Don't Look Back in Anger'''" is a song by English [[Rock music|rock]] band [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]. It was written by the band's lead guitarist and chief songwriter [[Noel Gallagher]], and produced by Gallagher and [[Owen Morris]]. Released on 19 February 1996 by [[Creation Records]] as the fifth single from their second studio album, ''[[(What's the Story) Morning Glory?]]'' (1995), it became Oasis's second single to reach number one on the [[UK Singles Chart]], eventually earning a
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 number one on a list of the "50 Most Explosive Choruses" by ''[[NME]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/oasis-170-1278050|title='Don't Look Back in Anger' by Oasis tops NME's 50 Most Explosive Choruses list|date=28 February 2012|work=[[NME]]|access-date=5 November 2020|archive-date=20 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820092954/https://www.nme.com/news/music/oasis-170-1278050|url-status=live}}</ref> 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 [[Official Charts Company]]'s 60th anniversary.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/queen-63-1266677|title=Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' named as 'UK's Favourite Number One single' | News|date=16 July 2012|work=[[NME]]|access-date=5 November 2020|archive-date=14 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514012031/https://www.nme.com/news/music/queen-63-1266677|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' readers voted it the second-greatest Britpop song after "[[Common People]]" by [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]].<ref name="auto">{{cite news|title=Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Brit-Pop Songs|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-britpop-songs-20150513/oasis-dont-look-back-in-anger-20150513|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=25 March 2018|access-date=19 September 2019|archive-date=26 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326064352/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-britpop-songs-20150513/oasis-dont-look-back-in-anger-20150513|url-status=live}}</ref> On 29 May 2017, [[Absolute Radio 90s]] 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 [[Absolute Radio 90s]] as part of celebrations for the station's tenth anniversary.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://planetradio.co.uk/absolute-radio/music/news/greatest-songs-of-the-90s/|title=The 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s revealed|website=Absolute Radio|access-date=8 September 2020|archive-date=4 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204034406/https://planetradio.co.uk/absolute-radio/music/news/greatest-songs-of-the-90s/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==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 [[Sheffield Arena]] on 22 April 1995. He said before playing that he had 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 "[[All the Young Dudes]]" and something [[the Beatles]] 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."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/oasis-dlbia-20-10960 |title=Oasis' Don't Look Back in Anger: 12 Things You Didn't Know |date=19 February 2016 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-US |access-date=9 May 2019 |archive-date=9 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509112716/https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/oasis-dlbia-20-10960 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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." Oasis later said they named the song after [[David Bowie]]'s 1979 song "[[Look Back in Anger (song)|Look Back in Anger]]" (from ''[[Lodger (album)|Lodger]]'' (1979)).<ref
In August 2007, Gallagher told ''Uncut'' magazine, "We were in Paris playing with [[the Verve]], 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 our kid (Liam) 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 (song)|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 [[Stone Roses]] track "[[Sally Cinnamon]]". He replied that he had never thought of that, but thought it was a good reference anyway.
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The single's picture sleeve contains a photo by [[Brian Cannon]]. He intended the cover as a homage to an incident where [[Ringo Starr]], having briefly left the Beatles in 1968 during the recording of the ''[[The Beatles (album)|White Album]]'', was persuaded to return and [[George Harrison]] decorated Starr's drum kit in red, white and blue flowers to show their appreciation.<ref name="NME/Oasis">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nme.com/photos/oasis-the-stories-behind-their-cryptic-album-and-single-sleeve-art-1424210|title=Oasis – The Stories Behind Their Cryptic Album and Single Sleeve Art|magazine=[[NME]].com|date=18 August 2015|access-date=1 March 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170427163505/http://www.nme.com/photos/oasis-the-stories-behind-their-cryptic-album-and-single-sleeve-art-1424210|archive-date=27 April 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The B-side "Step Out" was originally intended for the ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'' album but was taken off after [[Stevie Wonder]] requested 10 per cent of the royalties as the chorus bore a similarity to his song "[[Uptight (Everything's Alright)]]". Because of this, Wonder, [[Henry Cosby]] and [[Sylvia Moy]] received credit for writing the song, along with Noel, who decided to release it as a B-side.
The song's chart success coincided with its usage at the end of the final episode of the BBC television drama ''[[Our Friends in the North]]''. 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. [[Larry Flick]] from ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' said, "Noel Gallagher reveals a deft sense of timing and craft that turn his improprieties into masterful pop gems."<ref>[[Larry Flick|Flick, Larry]] (15 June 1996), "Singles: Pop". ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''. '''108''' (24):74</ref> [[David Stubbs]] from ''[[Melody Maker]]'' commented, "It's Oasis at their least incandescent, another outing for the chamber orchestra, supposedly elegiac but actually coming across as jaded and shagged. The chorus sounds like a [[Mott the Hoople]] reunion gig."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=David|last=Stubbs|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53563867514/|title=Albums|magazine=[[Melody Maker]]|date=30 September 1995|page=33|access-date=13 March 2024|author-link=David Stubbs}}</ref> The Stud Brothers of ''Melody Maker'' stated, "From its '[[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]' intro to its storming conclusion this is, as we all already know, a very good song indeed."<ref>{{cite magazine|author=The Stud Brothers|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53631986306/|title=Singles|magazine=[[Melody Maker]]|date=10 February 1996|page=34|access-date=9 May 2024}}</ref> ''[[Music Week]]'' rated it five out of five and named it Single of the Week, writing, "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."<ref>{{cite magazine|title= Reviews: Singles – Single of the Week |magazine= [[Music Week]] |date= 10 February 1996 |page= 10 |access-date= 27 May 2021 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1996/Music-Week-1996-02-10.pdf}}</ref> John Robinson from ''[[New Musical Express|NME]]'' remarked, "When That Noel Moment arrives with 'Don't Look Back in Anger', he instructs us not to ''put your life in the hands of a rock and roll band''."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=John|last=Robinson|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53565940480/|title=Albums|magazine=[[New Musical Express|NME]]|date=30 September 1995|page=52|access-date=13 March 2024}}</ref> [[Andrew Harrison (journalist)|Andrew Harrison]] from ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]'' praised it as "superior" and "sung beautiful by Noel." He felt the song "captures a wistful mood of confusion and loss, but you're never sure what it's all about."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Andrew|last=Harrison|url=https://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2012/03/oasis1.jpg|title=New Albums|
In December 1996, ''Melody Maker'' ranked "Don't Look Back in Anger" number 31 in their list of "Singles of the Year".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53760986465/|title=Singles Of The Year|magazine=[[Melody Maker]]|date=21 December 1996|page=68|access-date=5 June 2024}}</ref> In a 2006 readers' poll conducted by [[Q (magazine)|''Q'']] magazine, it was voted the 20th-best song of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm#100%20greatest%20songs|title=100 Greatest Songs Ever|work=Q|year=2006|access-date=23 September 2007|archive-date=13 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313132941/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm#100%20greatest%20songs|url-status=
==Chart performance==
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==Music video==
The accompanying music video for "Don't Look Back in Anger" was directed by British music video and film director [[Nigel Dick]] and features [[Patrick Macnee]], the actor who played [[John Steed]] in the 1960s television series ''[[The Avengers (TV programme)|The Avengers]]'', apparently a favourite of Oasis. It was filmed at 1145 Arden Road in Pasadena, California on 4 December 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nigeldick.com/films/productions-1995/|title=PRODUCTIONS 1995|website=Nigel Dick – Director|access-date=19 October 2020|archive-date=20 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020053853/https://www.nigeldick.com/films/productions-1995/|url-status=live}}</ref> It features the band being driven by Macnee in a [[black cab]] to a mansion similar to the [[Playboy Mansion]] and performing the song there; a group of women dressed in white also occasionally [[lip sync]] to the lyrics.
There are two uploads of the music video made available on [[YouTube]]. One being posted by the band themselves in 2008 with over
==Live performances==
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===Manchester Arena bombing===
Following the [[Manchester Arena bombing]] on 22 May 2017 in the band's hometown of [[Manchester]], 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 ''[[The Guardian]]'', "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."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/25/dont-look-back-in-anger-becomes-symbol-of-manchester-spirit|title=Don't Look Back in Anger becomes symbol of Manchester's spirit|last1=Perraudin|first1=Frances|date=25 May 2017|work=The Guardian|access-date=25 May 2017|last2=Halliday|first2=Josh|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=25 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525163439/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/25/dont-look-back-in-anger-becomes-symbol-of-manchester-spirit|url-status=live}}</ref> The song re-entered the charts, along with Ariana Grande's "One Last Time
It was performed by [[Coldplay]]'s [[Chris Martin]] and [[Jonny Buckland]] on either side of Ariana Grande at the [[One Love Manchester]] concert on 4 June 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://pitchfork.com/news/73962-coldplay-sing-oasis-dont-look-back-in-anger-to-ariana-grande-in-manchester-watch/|title=Coldplay Sing Oasis' "Don't Look Back in Anger" to Ariana Grande in Manchester: Watch|last=Kim|first=Michelle|date=4 June 2017|work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=9 June 2017|archive-date=9 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170609061847/http://pitchfork.com/news/73962-coldplay-sing-oasis-dont-look-back-in-anger-to-ariana-grande-in-manchester-watch/|url-status=live}}</ref> 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".
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* [[Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs]] – piano, rhythm guitar, [[Hammond organ]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=transatlanticmodern|date=27 August 2013|title=INTERVIEW: PAUL 'BONEHEAD' ARTHURS|url=https://transatlanticmodern.com/2013/08/27/interview-paul-bonehead-arthurs/|access-date=2021-04-17|website=Transatlantic Modern|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan]] – bass guitar
* [[Alan White (Oasis drummer)|Alan White]] – drums, percussion
'''Additional personnel'''
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!scope="row"|Italy (''[[Musica e dischi]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaedischi.it/classifiche_archivio.php|title=Classifiche|work=[[Musica e dischi]]|language=it|access-date=28 May 2025}} Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Oasis".</ref>
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==Certifications==
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