DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER (Creation)

In the song of the month section, the choice is 'Don't Look Back In Anger'. Spread over a couple of pages, with pictures of Paul Weller, the Gallagher boys (Liam, Noel and Paul) with their mother, Liam, a still from the film 'Look Back In Anger', Kurt Cobain, and John and Yoko Lennon.

Our kid Liam and his big bruvver Noel have got a lot to answer for. They've gatecrashed John and Yoko's bed-in, picked up a mysterious girl called Sally, and now they've got Steve Sutherland looking back in bemusement...

Open your mind,

Slip inside the eye of your mind (1)

Don't you know you might find

A better place to play

You said that you'd never been

But all the things that you've seen

Are gonna fade away

So I start a revolution from my bed (2)

Cos you said the brains I have went to my head (3)

Step outside the summertime's in bloom

Stand up besides the fireplace(4)

Take that look from off your face(4)

Cos you aint ever gonna burn my heart out

So Sally can wait, she knows it's too late (5)

As we're walking on by

Her souls lides away, but don't look back in anger (6)

I heard you say

Take me to the place where you go

Where nobody knows

If it's night or day

Please don't put your life in the hands (7)

Of a Rock'n'Roll band

Who'll throw it all away

(1) A term used to describe the imagination or the faculty for picturing that which has not actually been experienced. It also has some onnection to the existence of the soul, in that the mind is thought by many to have a life of it's own, independent of the body - hence the power often referred to as " mind over matter".

(2) Between Tuesday March 25 and March 31 1969, newlyweds John Lennon and Yoko Ono held court from their bed in Room 902 of Amsterdam's Hilton Hotel. Soon acknowledged as the world's first bed-in, this odd event attracted news journalists from all over the world as Lennon and his new wife staged their living artform for global peace. The week's events were turned into a 60-minute film called 'Honeymoon', taped for one side of 1969's 'The Wedding Album' and referred to in 'The Ballad of John and Yoko' single: "Talking in our beds for a week...Trying to get us some peace."

(3) Noel says he nicked this line froma bootleg tape of John Lennon in conversation: "I thought it was funny. That's probably what people think about me now - it's all going to my head. It's a good line and he can't sue me. Sorry, Yoko."

(4) Noel says that this is the exact phrase his "mam" Peggy used to say to him as a kid when she lined him up with his brothers Liam and Paul for their yearly Christmas photo, which was sent to their gran in Ireland.

(5)According to Liam Gallagher: "Noel writes the songs, but we've all got ears. Noel needs to be told and i tell him. That's how half our rucks start...Everyone gives a bit of input; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That line, "So Sally can wait..", that was me. I'm not gonna tell you what it's about, but we was in America and Noel was doing this song. And I walked up to him and said: "You know what you're singing there? Don't. Sing: "So Sally can wait." And he goes "Alright", and he sings it. He won't admit it, 'cos he's like that. He reckons he wrote it. "Meg (Noel's girlfriend) was going to him: 'Who's Sally?' and he's going 'Oh, no one.' Why didn't he just say: 'Our kid said it'? "He won't, because he needs that recognition all the time, which is fair play. Noel's a strange chap." "I don't know anybody called Sally," Noel confirms. "I've never met a girl called Sally in my entire life...The words just fit, OK?"

(6)Originally a play by John Osbourne, the film version was released in 1959, starring the moody, virile Richard Burton. Hailed at the time for its gritty realism, this has held onto reputation as the forerunner of the series of "Angry Young Man" films which depicted the frustration of British working class youth struggling to break free from the depressed aftermath of World War Two.

(7) Noel says: " All we can do is make the records. If people like them, then fine...If you think about it too deeply you become a f---ing lunatic and blow your head off, like Kurt Cobain, I think, who felt he owed millions of people around the world something - and he didn't. Nobody owes anybody anything, really. Not like that."

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