(What's the Story) Morning Glory?

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(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Studio album by Oasis
Released	October 2, 1995
Recorded	April 1995 at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales
Genre	Britpop
Length	50:03
Label	Creation/Big Brother (U.K) Epic (U.S.)
Producer(s)	Owen Morris, Noel Gallagher
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Q magazine link Rolling Stone link
Oasis chronology
Definitely Maybe (1994)	(What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)	Be Here Now (1997)

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by the English rock band Oasis, released in October 1995. The album went straight to #1 in the UK, selling 347,000 in its first week. (What's the Story) Morning Glory? spawned four hit singles in the UK, two of which were #1s. It sold over 19 million copies worldwide, including over 4.3 million copies in the UK, 14x platinum, and is currently the third biggest-selling album in UK chart history.^[1] In addition, Morning Glory has gone 4x platinum in the United States. ^[2]

The album, which was recorded in less than two weeks, contains arguably the band's two most famous songs, "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back in Anger", along with "Champagne Supernova" and their first UK #1 single, "Some Might Say".

Despite often being cited as inferior to Oasis' debut album by critics, in 1997 Morning Glory was named the 5th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998 Q magazine readers placed it at number 8, and in 2000 it achieved the same position in Q's list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 376 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Contents 1 Album information and effect 2 Track listing 3 Singles 4 Personnel 5 Miscellanea 6 Chart info 7 Release history 8 References

[edit] Album information and effect

Main article: The Battle of Britpop

The success of Morning Glory catapulted Oasis from a successful Britpop band to one of the biggest bands in the world with a peak being reached in the spring and summer of 1996 with several massive open air concerts in the UK, which included two nights at Knebworth in front of a combined audience of 250,000 people with over 2.5 million applying to buy tickets.

The title of the album is said to have been inspired by a friend of Noel's who used the phrase during a telephone conversation. The phrase "Morning Glory" is British slang, referring to an erection experienced after waking up.^[3] The title is further possibly explained by the pair's use of the hallucinogenic 'Morning glory' seeds.

[edit] Track listing

• All tracks written by Noel Gallagher except where stated.

1. "Hello" (Gallagher/Glitter/Leander) – 3:21
2. "Roll with It" – 3:59
3. "Wonderwall" – 4:18
4. "Don't Look Back in Anger" – 4:48
5. "Hey Now!" – 5:41
6. (The Swamp Song - Excerpt 1) – 0:44
7. "Some Might Say" – 5:29
8. "Cast No Shadow" – 4:51
9. "She's Electric" – 3:40
10. "Morning Glory" – 5:03
11. (The Swamp Song - Excerpt 2) – 0:39
12. "Champagne Supernova" – 7:27

Note:

• Tracks 6 and 11 are officially untitled.
• The excerpts from "The Swamp Song" are parts of the instrumental B-side to the "Wonderwall" single.
• The vinyl LP edition of the album features a bonus track, "Bonehead's Bank Holiday". This song appears as the 7th track on the album, immediately after the 44-second untitled track.
• "Step Out" had to be removed from the album at the last minute. The song, sung by Noel, was intended to have been the original track 8 (after "Some Might Say" and before "Cast No Shadow"), but was removed as the chorus was similar to the chorus of Stevie Wonder's 1965 track "Uptight (Everything's Alright)". Wonder's publishing company were alleged to have demanded a substantial amount of royalties from the album which Oasis weren't prepared to pay, so the track was removed, although not before the first promotional copies of the album had been released with "Step Out" included. The track was eventually released as a B-side on Oasis' 1996 single "Don't Look Back in Anger", with an amended song writing credit of 'Gallagher/Wonder/Cosby/May', and was included on the live album Familiar to Millions.

[edit] Singles

Cover	Information
	"Some Might Say" Released: 24 April 1995 Writer: Noel Gallagher Producers: Oasis & Owen Morris Chart positions: #1 (UK), #3 (IRE)
	"Roll with It" Released: 14 August 1995 Writer: Noel Gallagher Producers: Oasis & Owen Morris Chart positions: #2 (UK), #2 (IRE)
	"Morning Glory" (AUS only) Released: 15 September 1995 Writer: Noel Gallagher Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris Chart positions: #25 AUS, #24 U.S. Modern Rock Chart
	"Wonderwall" Released: 30 October 1995 Writer: Noel Gallagher Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris Chart positions: #2 (UK), #8 (U.S.), #1 U.S. Modern Rock Chart (10 Weeks)
	"Don't Look Back in Anger" Released: 19 February 1996 Writer: Noel Gallagher Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (IRE), #10 U.S. Modern Rock Chart, #55 (U.S.)
	"Champagne Supernova" (AUS only) Released: 13 May 1996 Writer: Noel Gallagher Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris Chart positions: #26 AUS, #1 U.S. Modern Rock Chart (5 Weeks), #20 (U.S..)

[edit] Personnel

• Liam Gallagher - vocals
• Noel Gallagher - lead guitar, vocals, piano, co-producer, mellotron, E-bow
• Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs - rhythm guitar, mellotron, piano
• Paul McGuigan - bass guitar
• Alan White - drums, percussion

with

• Owen Morris - co-producer

• Tony McCarroll - drums on Some Might Say
• Paul Weller - lead guitar and backing vocals to Champagne Supernova

[edit] Miscellanea

• "Hello" contains elements of Gary Glitter's "Hello Hello I'm Back Again" as Noel jokingly sings part of the song's chorus when the song begins to fade out.
• On the cover of the album a man is seen brandishing what looks to be a vinyl record in its sleeve. This is in fact the master tape for the album. The man in question is Owen Morris, the producer. The photo was taken on Berwick Street in Soho, a London street well known for its independent record shops. The other man is BBC London's Sean Rowley.
• Episode 26 of the anime series Eureka seveN is named "Morning Glory" after the song.

[edit] Chart info

Album - Billboard (U.S.)

Year	Chart	Position
1995	The Billboard 200	4

Singles - Billboard (U.S.)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1995	"Morning Glory"	Modern Rock Tracks	24
1995	"Wonderwall"
		Mainstream Rock Tracks	9
		Modern Rock Tracks	1
1996	"Champagne Supernova"
		Adult Top 40	33
		Mainstream Rock Tracks	8
		Modern Rock Tracks	1
		Top 40 Mainstream	10
1996	"Don't Look Back in Anger"
		Modern Rock Tracks	10
		The Billboard Hot 100	55
		Top 40 Mainstream	33
1996	"Wonderwall"
		Adult Top 40	30
		Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales	17
		The Billboard Hot 100	8
		Top 40 Mainstream	10

[edit] Release history

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? was released in various countries in October 1995.

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue numbers
United Kingdom	October 2, 1995	Creation Records	CD	CRECD 189
			LP	CRELP 189
United States	October 3, 1995	Epic Records	CD	EK 67351
United Kingdom	August 14, 2000	Big Brother	CD (reissue)	RKIDCD007
			LP (reissue)	RKIDLP007

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.itv.com/news/2984e646dafbd52e65ea8abf60854ad4.html
2. ^ http://www.mirror.co.uk/northernireland/news/tm_method=full%26objectid=18104022%26siteid=94762-name_page.html
3. ^ http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=4027

Oasis
Liam Gallagher | Noel Gallagher | Gem Archer | Andy Bell | Zak Starkey
Tony McCarroll | Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs | Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan | Alan White
Discography
Studio albums: Definitely Maybe | (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | Be Here Now Standing on the Shoulder of Giants | Heathen Chemistry | Don't Believe the Truth
Compilations: The Masterplan | Stop the Clocks
DVDs: Live by the Sea | …There and Then | Familiar to Millions | Definitely Maybe – The DVD
Films: Lord Don't Slow Me Down
Related articles
The Rain | Britpop | Owen Morris | Creation Records | Big Brother | Awards and nominations