Don't Look Back in Anger

For other uses, see Don't Look Back in Anger (disambiguation).

"Don't Look Back in Anger"
Single by Oasis
from the album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
B-side
Released19 February 1996 (1996-02-19)
RecordedMay 1995
StudioRockfield (Monmouth, Wales)
Genre
Length4:48
LabelCreation
Songwriter(s)Noel Gallagher
Producer(s)
Oasis singles chronology
"Wonderwall"
(1995) 		"Don't Look Back in Anger"
(1996) 		"Champagne Supernova"
(1996)
Music video
"Don't Look Back in Anger" on YouTube
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? track listing
12 tracks
  1. "Hello"
  2. "Roll with It"
  3. "Wonderwall"
  4. "Don't Look Back in Anger"
  5. "Hey Now!"
  6. Untitled
  7. "Some Might Say"
  8. "Cast No Shadow"
  9. "She's Electric"
  10. "Morning Glory"
  11. Untitled
  12. "Champagne Supernova"

"Don't Look Back in Anger" is a song by English rock 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 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. 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,[3] 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.[4] In 2015, Rolling Stone readers voted it the second-greatest Britpop song after "Common People" by Pulp.[5] 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.[6]

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  2. ^ https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/top-10-oasis-songs [bare URL]
  3. ^ "'Don't Look Back in Anger' by Oasis tops NME's 50 Most Explosive Choruses list". NME. 28 February 2012. Archived from the original on 20 August 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' named as 'UK's Favourite Number One single' | News". NME. 16 July 2012. Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Brit-Pop Songs". Rolling Stone. 25 March 2018. Archived from the original on 26 March 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  6. ^ "The 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s revealed". Absolute Radio. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.