"Look Back in Anger" is a song written by English artists David Bowie and Brian Eno for the album Lodger (1979).

RCA Records was unsure if America was ready for the sexual androgyny of "Boys Keep Swinging",[3] the lead-off single from Lodger in most territories, and "Look Back in Anger" was issued instead.

NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray described it as "probably the low point" of the album,[2] while Nicholas Pegg considers it "one of Lodger's dramatic highlights"[4] and Chris O'Leary has called it "one of Bowie's strongest songs of the late Seventies".

The scenario was based on the conclusion of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, as a self-portrait of the protagonist grows more handsome while he himself physically decays.

In summer 1988 Bowie recorded a "new, brutal version of the song" with Reeves Gabrels on lead guitar, Kevin Armstrong on rhythm guitar, and Erdal Kizilcay on bass and drums; it was the first arrangement Bowie and Gabrels collaborated on, taking place shortly before the formation of the band Tin Machine.