Bonehead's Bank Holiday

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Bonehead's Bank Holiday is a song by British rock band Oasis released in 1995. It was included as the seventh track on the vinyl version of their multi-platinum album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.

The song was originally intended to be sung by Oasis rhythm guitarist, Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs but songwriter Noel Gallagher insisted he sung it instead, as he felt Boneheads singing voice was "crap". Bonehead instead provided drunken backing vocals with Liam Gallagher

Although largely a nonsense lyric, the song is believed, on some level, to be a jibe at Britpop contemporaries Blur. The fifth track on Blur's 1994 album, Parklife is called Bank Holiday. By coincidence, Blur's album The Great Escape, released around the same time as Morning Glory features a track called "Fade Away", much like the popular Oasis b-side. They would later use another Oasis-inspired song title with "Swamp Song" on 1999's 13. About 3 minutes and 14 seconds into the song, someone can be heard whispering "cockney cunt", a reference to Blur's pretend cockney personas used on the Parklife album. Also, a line on the 2nd verse of Blur's Country House says the words Morning Glory which is the title of a popular Oasis album track.

The song uses a tape loop of the band drunkenly arguing and joking around and ends with a recording Liam Gallagher and Bonehead reading the lyrics aloud in west country accents.

The song was written by Noel Gallagher who has explained the influence of The Beatles over the track saying "You know how The Beatles used to like get Ringo to sing the odd tune here and there? Well, [Bonehead] is our Ringo isn't he, you see? And he's ugly as sin, you know what I mean? Completely untalented and the luckiest man in rock so we thought we'd write him a song, you know what I mean? Bonehead's Bank Holiday - It's about nicking cars and going to Spain and meeting girls whose mothers are nuns."