"Morning Glory" is a song by the English rock band Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher and released on the band's second album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? in September 1995. It was given a commercial single release only in Australia and New Zealand, and it was also a radio single in the United States and Canada. In North America, it was the first song of the album to receive significant airplay, although primarily at alternative rock radio stations, as "Some Might Say" and "Roll with It" had not achieved as such.
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"Morning Glory" | ||||
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Single by Oasis | ||||
from the album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | ||||
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Released | 18 September 1995 (1995-09-18) | |||
Recorded | 1995 | |||
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Length | 5:03 | |||
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Songwriter(s) | Noel Gallagher | |||
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"Morning Glory" on YouTube | ||||
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? track listing | ||||
12 tracks
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"Morning Glory" contains lyrical references to the drug cocaine and to the Beatles,[1] and references the title of its parent album in the chorus.
Kenneth Partridge proclaimed the riff that opens "Morning Glory" to be "strikingly similar" to that of "The One I Love" by American rock band R.E.M.[1]
The song's accompanying video is directed by Jake Scott. The band is performing in an industrial apartment, suggested by the opening shots of the video to be the Balfron Tower (not to be mistaken with Trellick Tower), as the building's tenants (including a man with a baby, a young boy, an old man and a female cyclist, an elderly woman with a hair dryer, a middle-aged woman in a house coat, a mafia boss and two bodyguards, an Indian couple, a drug addict, another elderly woman, and young woman and her mother) take offence to the loud noise of the band's playing and come up to knock on the door and look in the mail slot. The video concludes with all the tenants gathering around the door, beating on it and yelling, just as the band finishes playing and packs up their instruments.[2]
US promo CD (ESK 7302)[3]
Australian CD and cassette single (662488 2; 662488 8)[4]
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Year-end charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[15] | Gold | 35,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[16] | Gold | 400,000![]() |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Catalogue | Ref. |
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Australia | 18 September 1995 (1995-09-18) | CD |
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662488 2 | [17] |
United States | 26 September 1995 (1995-09-26) | Contemporary hit radio | Epic | ESK 7302 | [18] |
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