Released on 19 February 1996 by Creation Records as the fifth single from their second studio album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
The music video was directed by Nigel Dick, featuring the band performing at a mansion where a large group of women appears.
[4] In 2015, Rolling Stone readers voted it the second-greatest Britpop song after "Common People" by Pulp.
[7] 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.
[9][10] 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.
In a 2019 Esquire magazine interview, Gallagher stated, "I remember writing it in Paris on a rainy night.
"[11] Gallagher admits that certain lines from the song are lifted from John Lennon: "I got this tape in the United States that had apparently been burgled from the Dakota Hotel and someone had found these cassettes.
He intended the cover as a homage to an incident where Ringo Starr, having briefly left the Beatles in 1968 during the recording of the White Album, was persuaded to return and George Harrison decorated Starr's drum kit in red, white and blue flowers to show their appreciation.
album but was taken off after Stevie Wonder requested 10 per cent of the royalties as the chorus bore a similarity to his song "Uptight (Everything's Alright)".
The song's chart success coincided with its usage at the end of the final episode of the BBC television drama Our Friends in the North.
"Don't Look Back in Anger" was met with high critical praise and it became a commercial hit.
Larry Flick from Billboard said, "Noel Gallagher reveals a deft sense of timing and craft that turn his improprieties into masterful pop gems.
"[16] 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.
"[17] The Stud Brothers of Melody Maker stated, "From its 'Imagine' intro to its storming conclusion this is, as we all already know, a very good song indeed.
"[19] John Robinson from 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.
"[21] Also editors Helen Lamont and Leesa Daniels from Smash Hits gave the single five out of five in two separate reviews.
"[23] In December 1996, Melody Maker ranked "Don't Look Back in Anger" number 31 in their list of "Singles of the Year".
1 in the singles charts of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and it was a moderate success by reaching the top 60 in various countries.
[27] The song returned to the UK charts in 2017 following Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland's cover version at the One Love Manchester concert, reaching No.
[28] The accompanying music video for "Don't Look Back in Anger" was directed by British music video and film director Nigel Dick and features Patrick Macnee, the actor who played John Steed in the 1960s television series The Avengers, apparently a favourite of Oasis.
[32] Since 2011, he has alternated between the acoustic version and the original arrangement when playing the song with his solo project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
The woman who started the singing told The Guardian, "I love Manchester, and Oasis is part of my childhood.
[36] It was performed by Coldplay's Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland on either side of Ariana Grande at the One Love Manchester concert on 4 June 2017.