Oasis

Noel Gallagher was drunk in a Paris hotel room on April 18, 1995 when he wrote "Don't Look Back in Anger." Four days later, 12,000 people heard it live for the first time at Sheffield Arena. The line "revolution from my bed" came from a bootleg cassette of John Lennon's personal memoirs that Noel had bought in America. He offered Liam a choice between two songs at Rockfield Studios, presenting the more commercially appealing option first so he could claim this one for himself. In May 2017, crowds in Manchester spontaneously sang it at memorial gatherings after the Arena bombing.

In our deep dive into Don't Look Back in Anger, we trace the song from a drunken Paris hotel room to a national moment of mourning, and what it reveals about the strange second lives that certain songs acquire over time.

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