Don't Look Back in Anger: Difference between revisions

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| recorded = May 1995

| studio = [[Rockfield Studios|Rockfield]] ([[Monmouth]], Wales)

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* [[Britpop]]

* [[Rock music|rock]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.musicmag.it/canzoni-rock-migliori-classifica/ | title=Canzoni Rock Famose &#124; Video delle Canzoni Rock più Belle di Sempre | date=22 December 2021 }}</ref>

* [[arena rock]]<ref>https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/top-10-oasis-songs {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>

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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."

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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As Oasis are often criticised for borrowing parts of other artists' songs, Gallagher commented on the intro's similarity to "Imagine":

{{cquote|In the case of "Don't Look Back in Anger"—I mean, the opening piano riff's "Imagine". Fifty per cent of it's put in there to wind people up, and the other 50% is saying, "Look, this is how songs like 'Don't Look Back in Anger' come about—because they're inspired by songs like 'Imagine'." And no matter what people might think, there will be some 13-year-old kid out there who'll read an interview and think, "'Imagine'? I've never heard that song." And he might go and buy the album, you know what I mean?<ref>{{YouTube|QVPPuCQg5K8|Oasis: Mad For It (1996, 2/4)}} (22 July 2008). Retrieved 12 June 2011.</ref><ref name=simpson>{{cite book |last=Simpson |first=Paul |title=The Rough Guide to Cult Pop: The Songs, the Artists, the Genres, the Dubious Fashions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F7hpXcrqA-8C&q=%22Don%27t+Look+Back+in+Anger%22+%22Imagine%22&pg=RA1-PA107 |publisher=[[Rough Guides]] |year=2003 |page=107 |isbn=1-84353-229-8 |access-date=17 October 2016 |archive-date=8 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208132037/https://books.google.com/books?id=F7hpXcrqA-8C&pg=RA1-PA107&dq=%22Don%27t+Look+Back+in+Anger%22+%22Imagine%22 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hurry |first=Pam |title=Heinemann Advanced Music |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YIjzx6AoIvYC&q=%22Don%27t+Look+Back+in+Anger%22+%22Imagine%22&pg=PA170 |publisher=[[Heinemann (book publisher)|Heinemann]] |year=2001 |page=170 |isbn=0-435-81258-0 |access-date=17 October 2016 |archive-date=7 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107052657/https://books.google.com/books?id=YIjzx6AoIvYC&pg=PA170&dq=%22Don%27t+Look+Back+in+Anger%22+%22Imagine%22 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

==Release==

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==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 |accessdateaccess-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>

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=live}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/nme-1474-1349079|title=50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever|work=[[NME]]|year=2007|access-date=5 November 2020|archive-date=11 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200911214655/https://www.nme.com/news/music/nme-1474-1349079|url-status=live}}</ref>

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!scope="col"|Peak<br />position

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!scope="row"|Czech Republic ([[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry|IFPI CR]])<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1996/MM-1996-05-18.pdf|title=Top National Sellers|magazine=[[Music & Media]]|volume=13|issue=20|date=18 May 1996|page=28|access-date=16 February 2020|archive-date=23 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823202241/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1996/MM-1996-05-18.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

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!scope="row"|Iceland ([[Íslenski listinn|Íslenski Listinn Topp 40]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timarit.is/page/2937175#page/n25/mode/2up|title=Íslenski Listinn Topp 40 (17.2. – 23.2. '96)|newspaper=[[DV (newspaper)|Dagblaðið Vísir]]|language=is|page=26|date=17 February 1996|access-date=17 November 2020|archive-date=28 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728140533/https://timarit.is/page/2937175#page/n25/mode/2up|url-status=live}}</ref>

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!scope="row"|US [[Cash Box Top 100 Pop Singles|''Cash Box'' Top 100]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/90s/1996/CB-1996-09-21.pdf|title=Cash Box Top 100 Pop Singles|magazine=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]|volume=LX|issue=4|page=6|date=21 September 1996|access-date=17 November 2020|archive-date=21 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821032653/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/90s/1996/CB-1996-09-21.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

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|{{hlist|7-inch vinyl|CD|cassette}}

|[[Creation Records|Creation]]

|align="center"|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/oasis-mark-dont-look-back-in-anger-25th-anniversary-with-b-side-lyric-video-2884705 | title=Oasis mark 'Don't Look Back in Anger' 25th anniversary with B-side lyric video | website=[[NME]] | date=19 February 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/25-years-ago-got-best-161553642.html|title=25 Years Ago We Got the Best Song of the '90s|last=Britt|first=Ryan|publisher=[[Yahoo! Lifestyle]]|date=19 February 2021|access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1996/Music-Week-1996-02-17.pdf|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=[[Music Week]]|page=31|date=17 February 1996|access-date=18 August 2021}}</ref>

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!scope="row"|Japan