Jakarta (ANTARA) - Lagu "Don't Look Back in Anger" menjadi debut gitaris utama Oasis Noel Gallagher menjadi vokalis band rock asal Manchester, Inggris Raya tersebut.

Oasis membawakan "Don't Look Back In Anger" dalam sebuah konser besar pertama mereka di Sheffield Arena pada 22 April 1995. Lagu tersebut baru dirilis secara resmi pada 2 Oktober 1995 dalam album kedua mereka berjudul "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?".

Lagu itu ditulis oleh Noel Gallagher dalam sebuah kamar hotel saat Oasis sedang tur di Paris, Prancis, empat hari menjelang konser di Sheffield. Sebelum "Don't Look Back in Anger", posisi vokalis Oasis hanya diisi oleh adik Noel, Liam Gallagher.

Musisi asal Inggris John Lennon menginspirasi Noel menciptakan lagu itu. Penggalan lirik "So I’ll start a revolution from my bed" dan "'Cos you said the brains I had went to my head" merupakan penghormatan Noel kepada sang idola yang telah menyuarakan protes tidur bertajuk "The Bed-In For Peace" pada 1969.

Selain itu, instrumen piano pembuka lagu "Don't Look Back in Anger" juga mengingatkan pendengar dengan lagu John Lennon yang berjudul "Imagine".

Lirik lagu Oasis "Don't Look Back in Anger"

Slip inside the eye of your mind 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

Will slowly fade away

So I’ll start a revolution from my bed

‘Cos you said the brains I had went to my head

Step outside, summertime’s in bloom

Stand up beside the fireplace

Take that look from off your face

You ain’t ever gonna burn my heart out

And so Sally can wait, she knows it’s too late as we’re walking on by

Her soul slides away, “But don’t look back in anger,” 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

Of a Rock ‘n’ Roll band

Who’ll throw it all away

I’m gonna start a revolution from my bed

‘Cos you said the brains I had went to my head

Step outside ’cause summertime’s in bloom

Stand up beside the fireplace, take that look from off your face

‘Cos you ain’t ever gonna burn my heart out

And so Sally can wait

She knows it’s too late as she’s walking on by

My soul slides away

“But don’t look back in anger,” I heard you say

So Sally can wait

She knows it’s too late as we’re walking on by

Her soul slides away

“But don’t look back in anger,” I heard you say

So Sally can wait

She knows it’s too late as she’s walking on by

My soul slides away

“But don’t look back in anger, don’t look back in anger.”

I heard you say, “at least not today.”