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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." 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>{{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><ref>{{Cite web|last=Shchelkunova|first=Maria|title=21 Reasons Why Oasis Is So Popular|url=https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/articles/21-reasons-why-oasis-is-so-popular/|access-date=3 October 2020|website=Culture Trip|date=12 February 2016|archive-date=10 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110213234/https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/articles/21-reasons-why-oasis-is-so-popular/|url-status=live}}</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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