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30 Years Ago Today, Oasis Released a Hit Single That Took Noel Gallagher Decades to Finally Understand

Even though he wrote the words, Noel Gallagher never fully understood ‘Champagne Supernova’.

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On May 13, 1996, Oasis released “Champagne Supernova” as the final single from their second album, What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, released the previous October. At the time, there were a lot of questions for Noel Gallagher concerning what the song was actually about. To hear him tell it, it meant everything and nothing at the same time.

“Some of the lyrics were written when I was out of it,” he told NME in 1995. Of the lyrics “Someday you will find me / Caught beneath a landslide / ln a Champagne Supernova in the sky,” he said, “That’s probably as psychedelic as I’ll ever get.”

Back then, Gallagher seemed to have a better understanding of what “Champagne Supernova” might have meant. “It means different things when I’m in different moods,” he explained. “When I’m in a bad mood, being caught beneath a landslide is like being suffocated.

Later, Noel Gallagher Found Less Personal Meaning in Oasis’ ‘Champagne Supernova’, but maybe realized what it actually meant

“The song is a bit of an epic,” he........

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