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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]], earning a quintuple-platinum sales [[Music recording certification|certification]] 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 [[Liam Gallagher|Liam]]. Noel would later sing lead vocals on six other singles. The music video was directed by [[Nigel Dick]], featuring the band performing at a mansion where a large group of women appears.
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> In 2025, "Don't Look Back in Anger" became Oasis's second song to hit a billion streams in [[Spotify]], after "[[Wonderwall]]".<ref>Spotify Most Streamed Songs from the 90s https://kworb.net/spotify/songs_1990.html</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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