One of the band’s biggest hits, the album song (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? brings mysterious character in powerful chorus
“Don’t Look Back In Anger” usually compete with “Wonderwall” the highest hit post in the Oasis. Both defined the band’s signature in the 1990s and, preferences aside, took the album (What’s the story) Morning Glory?from 1995, to be one of the most acclaimed of Britpop and the decade in question.
A doubt, however, has always stopped in the head of the fans, at least the most curious: who is the Sallypresent in the chorus “And so, Sally Can Wait / She Knows It’s Too Late …”from “Don’t Look Back In Anger”.
The truth is that Noel Gallagherauthor of the song, has the answer. The guitarist and main composer of the Oasis It has already been asked about it and failed to offer a solution to the mystery.
In a 2006 interview with Reuters(via Superintendent), the oldest of the Gallagher brothers admitted:
“I still don’t know who this Sally girl is. I wrote that and I don’t know what it means, but for some reason, for fans it seems that it matters more than the world.”
Maybe Noel don’t know the answer because there really isn’t one. The musician himself, by the way, has said something in this sense on other occasions.
The origin of the name “Sally” in “Don’t Look Back In Anger”
When commenting on the composition process of “Don’t Look Back In Anger”He revealed that “Sally” does not refer to anyone in particular. The name was randomly suggested by the younger brother, Liam Gallagher.
In Video Compilation Time Flies: 1994-2009 (via Music Radar), Noel tells:
“I was doing the draft of ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ on a sound passage on our first show at an arena in Sheffield. Liam appeared and asked, ‘Who is Sally?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about’. He said, ‘Is that what are you singing?’ So Sally Can Wait? ‘ And me: ‘No, it’s not … but now it is – good! idea’.”
Another interpretation of Noel Gallagher
The lyrics were exactly this way, and the chorus not only took it but became one of the most powerful in rock history. “Don’t Look Back In Anger” It is mandatory music in the repertoire of Oasiswho again performed live in 2025 after 16 -year hiatus.
THE NPRNoel gave one more interpretation to the song, whoever is Sally:
“Sally is metaphorically seeing the diary of her life passing, and she is thinking, ‘You know one thing, I don’t regret it.’ She is toasting it, so she becomes a celebration song. And now, it’s like a hymn.”
Oasis in Brazil
The Oasis meeting tour, Oasis Live ’25 Tourstarted on July 4 in the city of Cardiffin Walesand also travels places like England, Ireland, Canada, United States, Mexico, Japan and others.
In November, the Gallagher brothers land in South America. Node Brazilthey will play twice in São Pauloon 22/11 and 11/23, in Morumbis.
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Source: Rollingstone
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