Don't Look Back in Anger
1996 single by Oasis
"Don't Look Back in Anger" is a song by English rock band Oasis. It was written by the band's lead guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher, and produced by Gallagher and Owen Morris. Released on 19 February 1996 by Creation Records as the fifth single from their second studio album, "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" (1995), it became Oasis's second single to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart, earning a quintuple-platinum sales certification in the UK. It was the first Oasis single with lead vocals by Noel, who had previously only sung lead on B-sides, instead of his brother Liam. Noel would later sing lead vocals on six other singles. The music video was directed by Nigel Dick, featuring the band performing at a mansion where a large group of women appears.
It is one of the band's signature songs, and was played at almost every live show from its release to the dissolution of the band in 2009. In 2012, it was ranked number one on a list of the "50 Most Explosive Choruses" by "NME", and the same year it was voted the fourth-most-popular No. 1 single of the last 60 years in the UK by the public in conjunction with the Official Charts Company's 60th anniversary. In 2015, "Rolling Stone" readers voted it the second-greatest Britpop song after "Common People" by Pulp. On 29 May 2017, Absolute Radio 90s broadcast a programme counting down the top 50 songs written by Noel Gallagher to mark his 50th birthday, with the song being voted No. 1. In August 2020, the song was voted as the greatest song of the 1990s by listeners of Absolute Radio 90s as part of celebrations for the station's tenth anniversary. In 2025, "Don't Look Back in Anger" became Oasis's second song to hit a billion streams in Spotify, after "Wonderwall".
Background and writing.
Noel Gallagher was so excited about the potential of the song when he first wrote it that he used an acoustic set to perform a work-in-progress version, without the second verse and with a few other slight lyrical differences, at an Oasis concert at the Sheffield Arena on 22 April 1995. He said before playing that he had only written it the previous Tuesday (18 April 1995) and that he didn't even have a title for it yet.
Noel Gallagher said of the song, "It reminds me of a cross between "All the Young Dudes" and something the Beatles might have done." Of the character "Sally" referred to in the song, he commented, "I don't actually know anybody called Sally. It's just a word that fit, y'know, might as well throw a girl's name in there." He explained the song by saying, "It's about not being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been." Oasis later said they named the song after David Bowie's 1979 song "Look Back in Anger" (from "Lodger" (1979)).
In August 2007, Gallagher told "Uncut" magazine, "We were in Paris playing with the Verve, and I had the chords for that song and started writing it. We were due to play two days later. Our first-ever big arena gig, it's called Sheffield Arena now. At the sound check, I was strumming away on the acoustic guitar, and our kid (Liam) said, 'What's that you're singin'?' I wasn't singing anyway, I was just making it up. And our kid said, 'Are you singing, 'So Sally can wait'?' And I was like—that's genius! So I started singing, 'So Sally can wait.' I remember going back to the dressing room and writing it out. It all came really quickly after that." Gallagher claims that the character "Lyla", from Oasis's 2005 single, is Sally's sister. In the interview on the DVD released with the special edition of "Stop the Clocks", he also revealed that a girl approached him and asked him if Sally was the same girl mentioned in the Stone Roses track "Sally Cinnamon". He replied that he had never thought of that, but thought it was a good reference anyway.
In a 2019 "Esquire" magazine interview, Gallagher stated, "I remember writing it in Paris on a rainy night. We had just played a strip club: our set finished, the strippers came on. We were nothing, an insignificant little band. And I remember going back to my hotel room and writing it, and thinking, 'That'll be pretty good when we record it.' If I'd have known that night what I know now about people playing it at fucking funerals and weddings, I'd never have finished the song. Too much pressure."
Gallagher admits that certain lines from the song are lifted from John Lennon: "I got this tape in the United States that had apparently been burgled from the Dakota Hotel and someone had found these cassettes. Lennon was starting to record his memoirs on tape. He's going on about 'trying to start a revolution from me [sic] bed, because they said the brains I had went to my head.' I thought, 'Thank you, I'll take that!'" The line "revolution from me bed" refers to Lennon's notorious bed-ins in 1969 as Gallagher was reading "" published in 1994. The piano in the introduction of the song strongly resembles Lennon's "Imagine", as well as "Watching the Wheels".
As Oasis are often criticised for borrowing parts of other artists' songs, Gallagher commented on the intro's similarity to "Imagine":
Release.
The single's picture sleeve contains a photo by Brian Cannon. He intended the cover as a homage to an incident where Ringo Starr, having briefly left the Beatles in 1968 during the recording of the "White Album", was persuaded to return and George Harrison decorated Starr's drum kit in red, white and blue flowers to show their appreciation.<ref name="NME/Oasis"></ref>
The B-side "Step Out" was originally intended for the "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" album but was taken off after Stevie Wonder requested 10 per cent of the royalties as the chorus bore a similarity to his song "Uptight (Everything's Alright)". Because of this, Wonder, Henry Cosby and Sylvia Moy received credit for writing the song, along with Noel.
The song's chart success coincided with its usage at the end of the final episode of the BBC television drama "Our Friends in the North". The show's producers had included the track without knowing it was going to be released as a single.
Critical reception.
"Don't Look Back in Anger" was met with high critical praise and it became a commercial hit. Larry Flick from "Billboard" said, "Noel Gallagher reveals a deft sense of timing and craft that turn his improprieties into masterful pop gems." David Stubbs from "Melody Maker" commented, "It's Oasis at their least incandescent, another outing for the chamber orchestra, supposedly elegiac but actually coming across as jaded and shagged. The chorus sounds like a Mott the Hoople reunion gig." The Stud Brothers of "Melody Maker" stated, "From its 'Imagine' intro to its storming conclusion this is, as we all already know, a very good song indeed." "Music Week" rated it five out of five and named it Single of the Week, writing, "Cheekily opening with John Lennon's "Imagine" riff, another Beatles-inspired single which will turn on the fans on Brits day. The inclusion of the ill-advised Slade cover of "Cum On Feel the Noize" is a low point, however." John Robinson from "NME" remarked, "When That Noel Moment arrives with 'Don't Look Back in Anger', he instructs us not to "put your life in the hands of a rock and roll band"." Andrew Harrison from "Select" praised it as "superior" and "sung beautiful by Noel." He felt the song "captures a wistful mood of confusion and loss, but you're never sure what it's all about." Also editors Helen Lamont and Leesa Daniels from "Smash Hits" gave the single five out of five in two separate reviews. Lamont named it "a new rock 'n' roll classic, imagine that." Daniels wrote, "Noel's turn to have a go at the singing lark, and by God it's fantastic! A rip-roaring, fist-punching-the-air type of anthem."
In December 1996, "Melody Maker" ranked "Don't Look Back in Anger" number 31 in their list of "Singles of the Year". In a 2006 readers' poll conducted by "Q" magazine, it was voted the 20th-best song of all time. In May 2007, "NME" magazine placed "Don't Look Back in Anger" at No. 14 in its list of the "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever".
Chart performance.
The song reached No. 1 in the singles charts of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and it was a moderate success by reaching the top 60 in various countries. The song was the 10th-biggest-selling single of 1996 in the UK. It is Oasis's second-biggest-selling single in the UK (after "Wonderwall"), going quintuple platinum in the process. The song returned to the UK charts in 2017 following Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland's cover version at the One Love Manchester concert, reaching No. 25. "Don't Look Back in Anger" is Oasis's sixth-biggest "Billboard" hit in the US, reaching the No. 10 spot on the Modern Rock Tracks for the week of 22 June 1996.
Music video.
The accompanying music video for "Don't Look Back in Anger" was directed by British music video and film director Nigel Dick and features Patrick Macnee, the actor who played John Steed in the 1960s television series "The Avengers", apparently a favourite of Oasis. It was filmed at 1145 Arden Road in Pasadena, California on 4 December 1995. It features the band being driven by Macnee in a black cab to a mansion similar to the Playboy Mansion and performing the song there; a group of women dressed in white also occasionally lip sync to the lyrics. While filming the video, drummer Alan White met future wife Liz Carey, who also became as one of the models for the video. They married on 13 August 1997 at Studley Priory in Oxfordshire, but later divorced in 2004.
There are two uploads of the music video made available on YouTube. One being posted by the band themselves in 2008 with over 229 million views, and another posted in collaboration with Vevo in 2014 with over 120 million views.
Live performances.
The song became a favourite at Oasis's live performances.
Noel Gallagher encouraged the crowd to sing along and often kept quiet during the first chorus, allowing the fans instead to sing along while he played the song's guitar part. During the Dig Out Your Soul Tour, Noel abandoned the song's previous, full-band live arrangement in favour of a much slower, primarily acoustic arrangement. From 2008 through to Oasis's break-up, the song was performed by Gallagher on his Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar backed up by Gem Archer on electric guitar, Jay Darlington playing keyboards and Chris Sharrock playing tambourine. On 11 and 12 July 2009, during performances of the song at London's Wembley Stadium, Gallagher did not sing a word; instead, he stood back, played guitar, and allowed the crowd to sing the entire song. Since 2011, he has alternated between the acoustic version and the original arrangement when playing the song with his solo project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
Oasis became the first act since the Jam to perform two songs on the same showing of "Top of the Pops", performing "Don't Look Back in Anger", followed by their cover of Slade's "Cum on Feel the Noize", also on the single.
In June 2017, Liam Gallagher performed an a cappella version of the song at Glastonbury, making it the first time he had performed the song rather than Noel.
Manchester Arena bombing.
Following the Manchester Arena bombing on 22 May 2017 in the band's hometown of Manchester, the song was used by the people of Manchester in remembrance of the bombing's 22 victims and to show the city's spirit. The song was sung by students of Manchester's Chetham's music school on 23 May, and on 25 May it was spontaneously sung by the crowd gathered for a minute of silence in the city centre. The woman who started the singing told "The Guardian", "I love Manchester, and Oasis is part of my childhood. "Don't Look Back in Anger"—that's what this is about: we can't be looking backwards to what happened, we have to look forwards to the future." The song re-entered the charts, along with Ariana Grande's "One Last Time," which was No. 1 on the iTunes single charts as of 26 May. On 27 May, the song was performed as a tribute by 50,000 audience members of a performance by the Courteeners in Manchester.
It was performed by Coldplay's Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland on either side of Ariana Grande at the One Love Manchester concert on 4 June 2017. Martin introduced the song by saying "Ariana, you've been singing a lot for us, so I think we in Britain want to sing for you. This is called "Don't Look Back in Anger", and this is from us to you".
It was also performed by the military band of the French Republican Guard on 13 June 2017, at the France versus England football match at the Stade de France, as a tribute to the victims of the attacks in Manchester and, more recently, London.
Track listing.
All songs were written by Noel Gallagher except where noted.
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Don't Look Back (Fine Young Cannibals song)
"Don't Look Back" is a song by British pop-rock band Fine Young Cannibals. It was released as the third single from the band's 1988 album "The Raw & the Cooked". The song reached the top 40 charts in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Music and lyrics.
Written by lead vocalist Roland Gift and bassist David Steele, the lyrics of "Don't Look Back" are mostly pessimistic, and depict someone who tries desperately to leave their difficult past behind them without looking back.
While the band's previous two hits, the US number ones "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing", were influenced by American rhythm and blues, "Don't Look Back" features guitar riffs that are more reminiscent of The Byrds and The Beatles.
Release and reception.
Released in August 1989, "Don't Look Back" hit number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, number 8 on the Singles Sales chart, number 18 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart, number 9 on the Modern Rock chart and number 10 on the Cash Box Top 100 chart.
The song peaked at number 10 on the Canadian Singles Chart in October.
It also reached number 34 in the UK,
number 23 in New Zealand, and number 38 in Australia.
Chart performance.
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Don't Look Back (Matrix & Futurebound song)
"Don't Look Back" is a song by English drum and bass production duo Matrix & Futurebound. It was released on 6 July 2014. The song entered at number 38 on the UK Singles Chart.
Music video.
Two Irish models Sarah Tansey and Thalia Heffernan featured in the music video.
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Don't Look Back in Anger (disambiguation)
"Don't Look Back in Anger" is a song by Oasis.
Other meanings of this phrase include:
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Topics referred to by the same term
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Don't Go Looking Back
Don't Go Looking Back is the debut album by Australian rock band Innocent Bystanders, originally released in 1986. The album reached #59 on the Australian album charts in September 1986.
Track listing.
All songs written by Brett Keyser.
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Don't Look Back in Anger (TV series)
Don't Look Back in Anger is an Irish documentary television programme, first broadcast in 2018. Each episode covers a particular year in Irish history, using archive material (mostly from TV3 and Virgin Media Ireland), on-screen text in English and contemporary music to tell the story of a particular year. It is similar in format to RTÉ's "Reeling in the Years" or TG4's "Siar Sna".
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Don't Look Back (Harold Vick album)
Don't Look Back is an album led by American saxophonist Harold Vick recorded in 1974 and released on the Strata-East label.
Reception.
AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.
Track listing.
All compositions by Harold Vick.
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Look Back in Anger (disambiguation)
Look Back in Anger is a 1956 play by John Osborne.
Look Back in Anger may also refer to:
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Topics referred to by the same term
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Look Back in Anger (1989 film)
Look Back in Anger is a 1989 British television production of John Osborne's play. It features Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Siobhan Redmond, Gerard Horan, and Edward Jewesbury. It was directed by Judi Dench; and produced by Humphrey Barclay, Moira Williams, and First Choice Productions for Thames Television.
Oasis' Noel Gallagher famously disliked the film so much that it inspired him to write the future hit "Don't Look Back in Anger".
Plot.
"Look Back in Anger" is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.

Don't Look Back (Nat Adderley album)
Don't Look Back is an album by jazz cornetist Nat Adderley recorded in 1976 and released on the Danish SteepleChase label and on Inner City Records in the US.
Reception.
"The Penguin Guide to Jazz" states "Adderley's reputation as a mainstream traditionalist takes a knock with sets like these. Unfortunately the results aren't by any means commensurate with the daring of the lineup. ... A bold effort but not quite there".
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Look Back in Anger (TV series)
Look Back in Anger (Korean: ; RR: ) is a 2000 South Korean television series about two brothers' love for two women that aired on KBS2. Starring Joo Jin-mo, Lee Min-woo, Park Jin-hee and Bae Doona, the cast also includes the following actors pre-stardom: Kim Myung-min, Uhm Tae-woong, Kim Min-hee and Lee Eun-ju.
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Don't Look Back (Gary Morris song)
"Don't Look Back" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Gary Morris. It was released in February 1982 as the second single from the album "Gary Morris". The song reached #12 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Morris wrote the song with Eddie Setser.
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Don't Look Back (Boston song)
"Don't Look Back" is a song by American rock band Boston, written by main songwriter, guitarist and bandleader Tom Scholz. It was released as the title track and first single from their second studio album, "Don't Look Back" (1978). It reached #4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, making it one of the band's biggest hits.
Writing and recording.
Although the first song on the album, "Don't Look Back" was its final song to be written and recorded. According to Scholz "It was one of those things where everything clicked. I didn't even record a demo for that song. I came up with chord changes, melody, and the arrangement and put it right on the master tape." Brad Delp sang all the vocals, both lead and backing. According to Scholz, Fran Sheehan only played a few bass notes on the song and Barry Goudreau played the solo guitar parts in the intro and outro. Scholz praised Goudreau's lead guitar playing at the end of the song. Scholz also stated that he made more than 60 edits to Sib Hashian's drum track in order to get the performance he wanted.
Lyrics and music.
Paul Grein of "Billboard" cited "Don't Look Back" as an example of Boston's skill at changing tempos, stating that it "actually stops midway through and then rebuilds gradually to its peak of intensity." "Rolling Stone" critic Tim Emerson described the lyrics as "optimistic about the road that lies ahead." But Emerson also states that some of the optimism in the lyrics is contradicted in other songs, specifically comparing the use of the line "I'm much too strong not to compromise" in this song with the much more pessimistic line "I can't get any stronger" in its follow up single "A Man I'll Never Be." In the liner notes to the 2006 reissue of "Don't Look Back", David Wild described the title song as a "beautiful barnburner in the proud tradition of Boston's classic "More Than a Feeling." AXS contributor Bill Craig stated that it contained all the components people expected from Boston: "buzzing guitars, towering vocals, and lyrics that connected with young listeners."
Reception.
"Billboard" rated the song one of the best cuts on "Don't Look Back", and stated that the song "resounds with a thunderous rock beat underlined by a highly rich and melodic bass and a powerful vocal." It describes the instrumentals as "high powered" with "searing" guitar playing. "Cash Box" said that "Scholtz and Goudreau open with blazing guitar riffs" and that the "hard rock edge" is tempered by the "soaring vocals, melodic passages and a break at the 3:00 minute mark." "Record World" said that "The sound is much the same as Boston debut album with the strong bass/guitar line sweetened by Brad Delp's stellar vocals." Greil Marcus rated the song as one of three masterpieces on "Don't Look Back", along with "A Man I'll Never Be" and "Used to Bad News." Allmusic critic Tim Sendra described its riff as "killer," saying that it was similar to that in "More Than a Feeling." "The New Rolling Stone Album Guide" critic Paul Evans felt that "Don't Look Back" was the one song on its album that could "hold its own" on Boston's first album.
"Ultimate Classic Rock" critic Eduardo Rivadavia similarly stated that it "met every expectation set by Boston’s nearly perfect debut." "Ultimate Classic Rock" critic Michael Gallucci rated it the band's 4th all time best song. AXS contributor Bill Craig similarly rated it Boston's 3rd greatest song, describing it as an "arena rock style sonic blast." "Classic Rock" critic Paul Elliott described it as a "glorious, revving rock anthem." Philip Booth of the "Lakeland Ledger" called it one "of the most-played-by-garage-band rockers of the '70s." Pete Prown and Harvey P. Newquist praised the "layers of guitar harmonies" as well as Barry Goudreau's slide guitar playing and rideout guitar solo. "Ottawa Journal" critic Mike Voslin rated the song as a live performance highlight.
CBS Records reported that the "Don't Look Back" single sold more than a million copies in the first two weeks or so following its release. The single peaked at #4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in October 1978. It also reached the Top 10 in Canada, peaking at #6. It reached #14 in the Netherlands but only reached #43 in the UK. "Don't Look Back" was included on Boston's "Greatest Hits" album in 1997. "Don't Look Back" is the band's second biggest hit on the "Billboard" Hot 100, after 1986's "Amanda," which hit No. 1.
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Dont Look Back
1967 documentary film directed by D. A. Pennebaker
Dont Look Back is a 1967 American documentary film directed by D. A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in England.
In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In a 2014 "Sight & Sound" poll, film critics voted "Dont Look Back" the joint ninth best documentary film of all time.
Synopsis.
The opening scene of the film has Bob Dylan displaying and discarding a series of cue cards bearing selected words and phrases from the lyrics to his 1965 song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (including intentional misspellings and puns). This was the first single from his most recent album, "Bringing It All Back Home", and a top ten hit in the UK when he filmed it there (a fact discussed in the film). Allen Ginsberg appears in the background having a discussion with Bob Neuwirth.
The film features Joan Baez, Donovan and Alan Price (who had just left the Animals), Dylan's manager Albert Grossman and his road manager Neuwirth. Marianne Faithfull, John Mayall, Ginger Baker and Allen Ginsberg may also be glimpsed in the background. Notable scenes include:
Title.
The original title of this film is "Dont Look Back", without an apostrophe in the first word. D. A. Pennebaker, the film's writer director, decided to punctuate the title this way because "It was my attempt to simplify the language". Many sources, however, have assumed this to be a typographical error and have "corrected" the title to "Don't Look Back". In the commentary track to the DVD release, Pennebaker said that the title came from the Satchel Paige quote, "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you," and that Dylan shared this view.
Production.
"Dont Look Back" was shot in black-and-white with a handheld 16mm-film camera and utilized direct sound, thus creating the template for the "rockumentary" film genre. Production began when Dylan arrived in England on April 26, 1965, and ended shortly after his final UK concert at the Royal Albert Hall on May 10. Pennebaker has stated that the famous "Subterranean Homesick Blues" music video that is shown at the beginning of the film was actually shot at the very end of filming. Pennebaker decided during editing to place it at the beginning of the film as a "stage" for Dylan to begin the film.
Release.
The film was first shown publicly May 17, 1967, at the Presidio Theater in San Francisco, and opened that September at the 34th Street East Theater in New York.
A transcript of the film, with photographs, was published in 1968 by Ballantine Books.
Reception and legacy.
"Dont Look Back" has been very well received by critics. It has a rating of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 55 reviews. The websites critics consensus reads, ""Dont [sic] Look Back" leaves the mysteries of Dylan largely intact while offering a gripping verite-style account of a pivotal moment in his incredible career." The film received a 5-star review from AllMovie and has a Metacritic score of 84, indicating "universal acclaim". In August 1967, a "Newsweek" reviewer wrote, ""Dont Look Back" is really about fame and how it menaces art, about the press and how it categorizes, bowdlerizes, sterilizes, universalizes or conventionalizes an original like Dylan into something it can dimly understand".
Kurt Cobain identified it as the only "good documentary about rock and roll" in a 1991 interview with his Nirvana bandmates, a sentiment with which Dave Grohl concurred.
The film has been parodied and paid homage to by many other films and television shows including "This Is Spinal Tap", "Bob Roberts", and "Documentary Now!". The opening sequence featuring "Subterranean Homesick Blues" has likewise inspired many music videos, including INXS' "Mediate", MC Evidence's "The Far Left," "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Bob" and Hozier's "Almost (Sweet Music)," and was cited by journalist Roger Friedman as "the most copied, most revered, music video of all time".
Home media.
"Dont Look Back" has been released and re-released on home video in many formats, from VHS to Blu-ray, over the decades. A digitally remastered deluxe DVD edition was released on February 27, 2007. The two-disc edition contained the remastered film, five additional audio tracks, commentary by filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker and Tour Road Manager Bob Neuwirth, an alternative version of the video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues", the original companion book edited by D. A. Pennebaker to coincide with the film's release in 1968, a flip-book for a section of the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video, and a brand new documentary by D. A. Pennebaker and edited by Walker Lamond called "65 Revisited". The DVD packaging was also given new artwork.
On November 24, 2015, The Criterion Collection released a newly restored 4K transfer of the film on Blu-ray and DVD. The Criterion version contained new special features.
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Don't Look Back! (NMB48 song)
"Don't Look Back!" is the 11th single by Japanese idol girl group NMB48. It was released on March 31, 2015. This single and SKE48's Coquettish Jūtai Chū were released on the same day, and SKE48 placed 1st in Oricon's Daily Charts on its first day with 573,074 copies sold. NMB48 thus placed 2nd with 381,650 copies sold.
Background.
This single was released in 7 versions: Type A (limited/regular), Type B (limited/regular), Type C (limited/regular) and Theater Edition. The title song was first performed on Music Station on February 13, 2015.
Members.
Don't look back!
Team N: Yuki Kashiwagi, Yuuka Kato, Riho Kotani, Kei Jonishi, Aika Nishimura, Sayaka Yamamoto, Akari Yoshida, Ririka Sutou, Yuuri Ota
Team M: Miru Shiroma, Airi Tanigawa, Reina Fujie, Sae Murase, Fuuko Yagura, Nana Yamada, Rina Kushiro
Team BII: Miori Ichikawa, Ayaka Umeda, Kanako Kadowaki, Konomi Kusaka, Nagisa Shibuya, Shu Yabushita, Miyuki Watanabe
Renai Petenshi.
Team N: Yuuri Ota, Yuki Kashiwagi, Yuuka Kato, Rika Kishino, Saki Kono, Narumi Koga, Riho Kotani, Kei Jonishi, Ririka Sutou, Aika Nishimura, Anna Murashige, Kanako Muro, Natsumi Yamagishi, Yuki Yamaguchi, Sayaka Yamamoto, Akari Yoshida, Natsuko Akashi, Yuumi Ishida, Eriko Jo, Rurina Nishizawa, Rina Yamao
Heart Sakebu.
Team M: Yuki Azuma, Akari Ishizuka, Ayaka Okita, Rena Kawakami, Momoka Kinoshita, Rina Kushiro, Rina Kondo, Miru Shiroma, Yui Takano, Sara Takei, Airi Tanigawa, Reina Fujie, Arisa Miura, Mao Mita, Ayaka Murakami, Sae Murase, Fuuko Yagura, Nana Yamada, Azusa Uemura, Megumi Matsumura, Reina Nakano, Ayaka Morita, Mizuki Uno
Minna, Daisuki.
Team M: Nana Yamada
Romantic Snow.
Team BII: Anna Ijiri, Kanae Iso, Miori Ichikawa, Mirei Ueda, Ayaka Umeda, Kanako Kadowaki, Emika Kamieda, Chihiro Kawakami, Haruna Kinoshita, Konomi Kusaka, Hazuki Kurokawa, Nagisa Shibuya, Akane Takayanagi, Kokoro Naiki, Momoka Hayashi, Shu Yabushita, Miyuki Watanabe, Mai Odan, Honoka Terui, Chiho Matsuoka
Nietzsche Senpai.
Team N: Ririka Sutou, Natsuko Akashi, Eriko Jo, Rina Yamao
Team M: Reina Nakano
Team BII: Mirei Ueda, Chihiro Kawakami, Haruna Kinoshita
Sotsugyou Ryokou.
Team N: Kishino Rika, Kotani Riho, Jonishi Kei, Yamagishi Natsumi, Yamaguchi Yuki, Yamamoto Sayaka, Yoshida Akari
Team M: Yamada Nana, Kawakami Rena, Kinoshita Momoka, Kondo Rina, Shiroma Miru, Okita Ayaka
Team BII: Kadowaki Kanako, Kinoshita Haruna, Watanabe Miyuki
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Don't Look Back (The Korgis song)
1982 song by the Korgis
"Don't Look Back" is a song by British pop band the Korgis, released by London Records as a non-album single on 6 August 1982. The song was written by James Warren and was produced by Trevor Horn.
Background.
Warren originally wrote and demoed "Don't Look Back" without any definite plans on its future use. The demo ended up being passed by Warren's publishers, Warner Chappell Music, to producer Trevor Horn, who expressed interest in producing the song. Warner Chappell set up a meeting and a deal was agreed. In a 2015 interview with "The Strange Brew", Warren recalled, "Trevor was the most inventive producer of that period and [Warner Chappell] thought he might be able to come up with something magical."
Warren was later critical of himself when reflecting on the recording session, which he described in 2015 as "rather tense" with the "final result not very satisfactory". He told "The Strange Brew", "I blame myself! I like the song but I sort of got in the way of the recording by constantly trying to recreate my original demo. I should have just let Trevor and Anne [Dudley] do their own thing with it. A pity. Not my finest moment." It was intended for Warren to work with Horn again on a follow-up single, "Endangered Species", but the plans never came to fruition.
Release.
"Don't Look Back" was released in the UK by London Records on 6 August 1982. With the production agreement with Horn in place, a deal for the song's release as a single was secured with London on the strength of the producer's involvement. The single failed to enter the UK Singles Chart, but did reach the unnumbered 'bubbling under' section for two consecutive weeks in September 1982, which would have been equivalent to a position between 76 and 100 at a time when the main charts covered the top 75.
Both "Don't Look Back" and its B-side, "Xenophobia", received their first CD release on the Korgis' 2003 compilation album "Don't Look Back – The Very Best of The Korgis".
Despite its poor reception in the UK, the song was one of the most played on Brazilian radio stations in 1983, a commercial success driven mainly by the song's inclusion on the soundtrack of the telenovela "Sol de Verão".
Critical reception.
Upon its release as a single, Radio Luxembourg DJ Rob Jones, writing for the "Daily Mirror", stated, "I always hoped that the Korgis wouldn't be a one-hit wonder. Trevor Horn brings out the best in them with a beautiful production job." Simon Tebbutt of "Record Mirror" stated, "Smooth, subtle, sensitive and airey, it has the same effect on the senses as an overdose of horse tranquilliser." Paul Screeton of "Hartlepool Mail" called it "rather wimpish and bland" and "for incurable romantics only". Larry Juviski of "The Northern Echo" wrote, "Ruff stuff from group who haven't snapped since 'Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime'. If you think those puns are bad, you want to hear the words to this mushy ballad."
Track listing.
7–inch single
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Other
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Don't Look Back (Natalie Cole album)
Don't Look Back is a 1980 album by American singer Natalie Cole. Released on May 15, 1980, by Capitol Records, The album reached peak positions of number 77 on the "Billboard" 200; number 17 on "Billboard"'s R&B Albums chart.
The album spawned one Top 40 single, "Someone That I Used to Love," which reached number 21 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 and spent five months on the charts. It also peaked at number three on the Adult Contemporary chart.
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Don't Look Back Into the Darkness
Don't Look Back Into the Darkness is the fourth full-length recording by Swedish band The Grand Opening. Originally released on Hamburg label Tapete Records.
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Look Back (Tone Damli song)
"Look Back" is a song by Norwegian singer Tone Damli from her fifth studio album "Looking Back" (2012). It was released in Norway on 27 April 2012. The song has peaked to number 8 on the Norwegian Singles Chart.
Music video.
A music video to accompany the release of "Look Back" was first released onto YouTube on 29 January 2012 at a total length of four minutes and eleven seconds.
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Look Back in Anger (1980 film)
1980 British film
Look Back in Anger is a 1980 British film starring Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones. The film is based on John Osborne's play "Look Back in Anger".
Plot.
"Look Back in Anger" is about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man Jimmy Porter (Malcolm McDowell), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Lisa Banes), and her snooty best friend Helena Charles (Fran Brill). Cliff (Raymond Hardie), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
Background/Production.
Lindsay Anderson, who had previously worked with Malcolm McDowell on "if..." and "O Lucky Man!", translated Ted Craig's Roundabout Theatre Company production (in which McDowell was starring) to the screen, and taped results in three days.
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Don't Look Back (Lloyd Cole song)
1990 song by Lloyd Cole
"Don't Look Back" is a song by English singer, songwriter and musician Lloyd Cole, released in 1990 as the second single from his self-titled studio album. The song was written by Cole and produced by Cole, Fred Maher and Paul Hardiman. It peaked at number 59 in the UK Singles Chart and remained in the top 100 for three weeks.
Music video.
The song's music video was directed by Matthew Chapman and produced by Laura Bickford for the production company VIVID.
Critical reception.
Upon its release as a single, David Giles of "Music Week" described "Don't Look Back" as "a fairly downbeat, almost countrified blues, track loaded with references to Cole's adopted homeland [the US]". He noted that there was "none of the subtle twists and turns of old, unfortunately". Tom Hingley of Inspiral Carpets, as guest reviewer for "NME", commented, "The musical content of this record makes Dire Straits sound radical. You can hear tons of influences but it's all so unchallenging and formularised. It's quite pleasant sounding but who gives a fuck about that?"
Robin Smith of "Record Mirror" commented that the song "seems to have precious little substance underneath all the surrounding gloss" and added that it "gave me a hankering for those glorious days of 'Jennifer She Said'". Penelope Leyland of Australia's "The Canberra Times" considered it to be "workmanlike pop/rock" and noted that Cole "sounds much the same" as he did with the Commotions.
Track listing.
7–inch single (UK, Europe and Australia) and cassette single (UK)
10–inch limited edition and numbered single (UK and Europe)
12-inch and CD single (UK and Europe)
Personnel.
Credits are adapted from the "Lloyd Cole" CD album liner notes and the UK CD single.
"Downtown"
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Don't Look Back (Lucie Silvas song)
"Don't Look Back" is the fourth single of British singer-songwriter Lucie Silvas from her 2004 debut album, "Breathe In".
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Don't Look Back (The Temptations song)
1965 single by the Temptations
"Don't Look Back" is a 1965 song recorded by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. The flip side to their Top 20 hit "My Baby", "Don't Look Back" broke out and became a hit among the R&B audience on its own, reaching #14 on the R&B charts.
Considered one of original lead singer Paul Williams' showcases, "Don't Look Back" was regularly employed as the closing number for Temptations live performances. Although the original flip side, "My Baby", was initially more popular with pop audiences at the time, "Don't Look Back" became the more popular and enduring song over subsequent decades. It was also performed by the group on "The Ed Sullivan Show".
Background.
Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, (who also co-wrote the group's #1 Pop smash, "My Girl") the previous year, "Don't Look Back" is a reassurance to the tentative that finding true love is worth the heartbreak and failed relationships it takes to reach it. As the song's narrator, Paul Williams, promises his lover, in his trademark gritty tone:
"If you just put your hand in mine"
"We're gonna leave all your troubles behind"
"keep on walkin' and don't look back."
Smokey Robinson, the song's producer, specifically assigned Paul Williams to sing lead on the song. Although Williams had been the group's original lead singer during its formative years, his role had by 1965 been eclipsed by David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, who had both sung lead on Temptations hit singles. As such, Williams was often overlooked for leads, even on album tracks and B-sides.
"Don't Look Back" was originally this single's A-side, but was passed over by the nation's DJs in favor of the Ruffin-led "My Baby", which had a much bigger pop success than this song, and placed on the B-side. The song nevertheless was promoted as if it were an A-side and would be the only B-side to chart on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for the group (but missed the Top 40 as it peaked at #83).
Although the song's relatively modest initial chart success prevented Paul Williams from getting any more leads on Temptations singles releases, the fact is that "Don't Look Back" became a huge belated hit, because his dynamic performance of the song on the "Temptations Live!" LP received huge airplay by R&B DeeJays nationwide, and propelled sales of the "album" into the Top 10 of the "Billboard" pop album chart. Both sides of the single would receive a second pressing and the tracks remixed, with the following statements added on: "Taken from the album #G 914 "The Temptin' Temptations"." With the second printing, the sides were reversed, making "My Baby" the A-side, while "Don't Look Back", the original A-side, was relegated to B-side status.
"Cash Box" described the song as a "catchy, rhythmic ode about a twosome who seem aptly suited to each other."
"Don't Look Back" was retired from The Temptations' repertoire after Williams, suffering from complications of sickle-cell disease and alcoholism, left the group in 1971. The group performed the song at their induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a tribute to Williams, along with Daryl Hall and John Oates, who announced the induction.
Chart history.
Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger version.
Peter Tosh scored a hit in 1978 with a reggae version of the song, sharing vocals with Mick Jagger. That version bore the modified title "(You Gotta Walk And) Don't Look Back". The song hit #1 in the Netherlands, #2 in Belgium, #20 in Australia, and #81 in the US. The song was also featured on the 2007 album "Putumayo Presents World Hits" starring Jagger and Tosh.
The track appears also on Peter Tosh 1978 album "Bush Doctor" with credited Mick Jagger vocals. The pair played the song together that year on an episode of Saturday Night Live and a couple of times during Tosh's opening performance on the Rolling Stones US Tour 1978. The Rolling Stones rehearsed it for that tour and played it once in Chicago 2002.
Tosh had previously recorded the song with The Wailers in ska style in 1966.
Dirk De Smet version.
Dirk De Smet, the winner of the second series of the Belgian edition of "X Factor" musical competition made a remake of the song under the title "Walk and Don't Look Back" being his debut release after the win. It reached #4 on the Flemish Ultratop Belgian Singles Chart in 2008.
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Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker song)
"Don't Look Back" is a song written by blues singer-songwriter John Lee Hooker, and released as a single in 1964. As a duet, Hooker later performed the song with the Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was a Grammy Award winner in Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 1998 from the album, "Don't Look Back".
Song history.
This song had a long history with Hooker and Morrison over the years. It was covered by Van Morrison's band Them on their debut album, "The Angry Young Them" in 1965. The album's sleeve had a comment on the song which read: "John Lee Hooker hailed as one of the greatest R&B singers in the world wrote 'Don't Look Back'...Perhaps it isn't so extraordinary that this soulful ballad sounds uncannily like a Morrison original as the two men have a lot in common." Them's version was also included in songs hand-picked by Morrison on his second greatest hit album, "The Best of Van Morrison Volume Two". A live performance in 1979 was also one of the songs featured on Van Morrison's video "Van Morrison in Ireland" in 1981.
Cover versions.
The Australian group The Black Sorrows covered the song for their debut studio album, "Sonola" (1984).
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Don't Look Back – The Very Best of The Korgis
Don't Look Back – The Very Best of The Korgis is a two disc compilation album by English pop band The Korgis. It was released by Sanctuary Records/Castle Communications in the UK in 2003.
"Don't Look Back" compiles all three of the group's albums "The Korgis", "Dumb Waiters", and "Sticky George" in chronological order, including a few alternate versions, single edits as well as the rare 1982 non-album single "Don't Look Back", produced by Trevor Horn. The compilation has extensive liner notes based on an interview with James Warren and was produced in collaboration with the band.
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Lookin' Back
"Lookin' Back" is a song written by Bob Seger, originally released as a non-album single in September 1971.
As with previous single "2 + 2 = ?", "Lookin' Back" was a criticism of political conservatism, chiding conservatives for not being open to new ideas. The song was originally recorded as part of Seger's 1970 album, "Mongrel", but cut from the final release.
The single was a moderate success, reaching #96 on the US charts and #3 on the Detroit charts. A live version of the song was included on Seger's 1976 live album, "Live Bullet".
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Won't Look Back (song)
"Won't Look Back" is a 2014 single by Duke Dumont. The song was written and produced by Duke Dumont and frequent collaborator Jax Jones. It was co-written by Naomi Miller and features uncredited vocals from Yolanda Quartey. The song was released on 31 August 2014 on iTunes. It is included on Duke Dumont's EP "EP1", which was released in North America.
Music video.
A music video for the song features three robbers stealing money from a jewelry store owner (played by Rene Napoli) on pogo sticks and whilst wearing face masks consisting of the royal family members. The trio split up when a police officer on duty catches them showboating over a broken down car and chases them on a Segway.
He arrests one robber by cornering him by a fence. The other one he catches by stealing the remote off a child's remote-controlled car and by driving the small car under the pogo stick in order for the pogo to tip. The video ends on a cliffhanger when the last robber jumps off the top of a car parking building, as the officer looks on in surprise, leaving a "To Be Continued..." on the screen as the sound of a helicopter can be heard.
Critical reception.
4Music gave particular praise to the vocalist of the song, saying "If Duke Dumont is watching, could you please tell us who the amazing vocalist is on this track? She deserves a credit!."
Charts and certifications.
The song debuted at number 169 on the UK Singles Chart in its first week. After the full download release, "Won't Look Back" catapulted 167 places straight to number two, becoming Dumont's third major release and his first single to miss the top spot.
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No Lookin' Back
No Lookin' Back is the second solo studio album by American musician Michael McDonald. It was released on July 30, 1985 by Warner Bros. Records, three years after his debut studio album, "If That's What It Takes" (1982); this was his last album to be released by Warner Bros. For the first time, he co-produced and wrote or co-wrote all of the tracks. It features contributions from guitarists Joe Walsh (Eagles, James Gang), Robben Ford and David Pack from Ambrosia, Jeff Porcaro on drums (Toto, Steely Dan), plus the former Doobie Brothers members Willie Weeks on bass guitar, and Cornelius Bumpus providing horns, half of whom had also performed on "If That's What It Takes".
On release, the album was received favorably by the majority of music critics and peaked at No. 45 on the US "Billboard" 200. Three singles were issued from "No Lookin' Back": "No Lookin' Back", "Bad Times" and "Lost in the Parade". The album's first and leading single, "No Lookin' Back", was co-written by Kenny Loggins and was a commercial success, peaking at No. 4 on the "Billboard" Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and No. 34 on "Billboard" Hot 100.
The album was re-released one year later in 1986. The re-released version changed around the track order and featured different album cover artwork, along with the inclusion of the hit single "Sweet Freedom" from the soundtrack of the Peter Hyams action comedy film "Running Scared", as well as the remixed version of "Our Love", which served as the theme for the Richard Pearce neo-noir action thriller film "No Mercy".
"(I Hang) On Your Every Word" was originally released in 1983 on "On Your Every Word", the second studio album by Amy Holland, McDonald's wife – who he had married that year. McDonald produced, and performed on the album, co-writing four tracks, and some of the same collaborators on that album are on "No Lookin' Back".
Critical reception.
In a negative contemporary review for "Rolling Stone", critic J. D. Considine wrote that "the bulk of this album is utter piffle. McDonald's inability to move beyond his vocal limitations suggests that he might be simply the musical equivalent of a character actor, doomed forever to those parts demanding his particular mannerisms. If so, he'd better pay more attention to how he's being cast", and in a more positive review, "Music Week" wrote "having stabled the horses, hung up the cowboy boots and watched the Doobie Brothers ride off into the horizon, McDonald has clearly been moving in more funkier circles of late. The impressive soul vocal, previewed to such advantage on the Doobies' "What a Fool Believes", re-surfaces in a manner not that dissimilar to Hall & Oates. US in feel, but in with a chance if a single takes off."
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Don't Look Back (Boston album)
1978 studio album by Boston
Don't Look Back is the second studio album by American rock band Boston, released in 1978 by Epic Records, as the band's last album on the label. The album reached No. 1 in both the US and Canada, and No. 9 in the UK. The title track helped with the album's success, reaching No. 4 in 1978 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and remains one of the band's biggest hits. The album sold over one million copies in the ten days following its release and was certified 7× platinum by the RIAA in the US on April 11, 1996.
The album's two-year gap from its predecessor marks the shortest between two of the band's studio albums to date; guitarist, producer and primary songwriter Tom Scholz claimed that Epic executives pushed him and the band into releasing the album before they felt it was ready. He also felt that the album "was ridiculously short". Their next album, "Third Stage", was not released for another eight years, by which time the band and record label had parted ways and fought a courtroom battle that Boston ultimately won.
Recording.
"Don't Look Back" was recorded during 1977 and 1978 at Scholz's Hideaway Studio, except for the piano on "A Man I'll Never Be", which was recorded by engineer Dave Butler at Northern Studio in Maynard, Massachusetts.
Songs.
"Don't Look Back", "A Man I'll Never Be" and "Feelin' Satisfied" were all released as singles, reaching No. 4, 31 and 46 respectively on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
"The Journey" is a short instrumental track that links the opening title track and the third track, "It's Easy". In 1987, Scholz cited it as his favorite song on any of Boston's first three albums, but wished that it were longer. He described it as, "I'm floating through space, cruising in an airplane over the clouds". "Billboard" writer Paul Grein cited "The Journey" as an example of science fiction-like music on "Don't Look Back" that is consistent with the guitar-spaceship cover art of the album (and single). Grein referred to it as having an "almost religious" tone, anticipating that some listeners would find it "pretentious" but stating that he found it an effective interlude between the harder-rocking songs "Don't Look Back" and "It's Easy". Emerson said that the organ sounds church-like and that the guitars sound "ghostly", making the track sound "eerie and alienated". He compared "The Journey" to David Bowie's work during the late 1970s. According to Scholz, the song had been lying around for years before he found "the right theme to match the music". It took him just three days to record. The song was the only one on the album without a drum track, and so it was the only song on which drummer Sib Hashian did not appear. Barry Goudreau, who played rhythm guitar, was the only musician on the track besides Scholz. "The Journey" was released as the B-side of the "Don't Look Back" single.
Grein described the transition from "The Journey" to "It's Easy" as "appropriately jarring" due to the latter song's fast boogie guitar introduction. "It's Easy" contains the line "I believe what we achieve will soon be left behind", which Emerson points out appears to be sung to a girl with whom the singer is having a one-night stand, but may also be a self-reference to Boston's own music, similar to the band's approach on their earlier hit "More Than a Feeling". Emerson also noted a similar theme of nostalgia between "More Than a Feeling" and "It's Easy". Writer Derek Oliver included the song as one of several on the album that retained Boston's "signature sound" of "pristine production, humongous orchestral guitars and stupendous vocals" from the debut album. AllMusic critic Tim Sendra found this song "more reflective" than any of the material on Boston's debut.
"Party" was co-written by Delp and Scholz. It begins with a short, slow introduction before a surprising change of pace to the fast, harder sound that persists throughout the rest of the song, in much the same way as "Something About You" from the debut. The dual themes of "Party" are loud parties and teenage sex. Grein compared the "raucous bar band climax" ending of the song to Aerosmith. Sendra found the song to be a "storming rocker" in the mold of "Smokin'" from the debut. "Party" is another song cited by Oliver as retaining the band's signature sound. "Billboard" rated "Party" to be one of the best songs on the album. It is one of four songs from the album that were included on Boston's "Greatest Hits" album, along with the three singles.
"Used to Bad News" was written by Delp, making it the only song on the album on which Scholz did not receive a writing credit. Emerson described "Used to Bad News" as "a charming, rather Beatles-like song". Greil Marcus rated it as one of the three "masterpieces" on the album, along with the title track and "A Man I'll Never Be". As with "It's Easy", Sendra considered the song to be more reflective than anything on the debut. "Used to Bad News" is the only song on the album on which Goudreau is the sole lead guitarist. Scholz played all the other instruments except drums. It was released as the B-side of the "Feelin' Satisfied" single.
"Don't Be Afraid" closes the album. The song had an earlier genesis than other songs on the album, as it was originally one of the demos Scholz worked on before getting a record contract. Grein stated that it "comes to a crashing, concert-like crescendo", specifically citing Hashian's drumming. It was also released as the B-side of the "A Man I'll Never Be" single.
Original release.
"Don't Look Back" was originally to be titled "Arrival." However, Boston members discovered that Swedish pop group ABBA released an album by that name two years prior, so "Don't Look Back" was chosen.
Compact disc releases.
"Don't Look Back" was among the first commercially produced compact discs when the format was introduced in 1983, but because of ongoing legal issues between Scholz and CBS Records, the title was pulled after a small production run and did not reappear on CD until three years later. Inserts for the original CD pressings contained the "spaceship blueprints" from the original album dust jacket; those illustrations were not included in the 1986 reissue.
This album and the group's first album were remastered and re-released on June 13, 2006. The reissues were digitally remastered personally by Scholz after he heard indirectly that the remastering project was to be handled by Sony's team, which he felt was unacceptable. He took it on himself after negotiations with Legacy Recordings, saying, "I've always wanted to make those albums sound good on CD, and the chance arrived".
A small number of the Sony-remastered versions briefly went on sale in Canada on April 4, 2006, before being removed from sale. Those discs also included a live version of "Shattered Images" (mistitled "Help Me" on the packaging), an unreleased Boston original recorded at a 1976 concert in Philadelphia.
Critical reception.
"Don't Look Back" received generally favorable reviews from critics. "Billboard" described the album as "an equally superior effort [as their debut album] that further refines this group's ability to play hard rock underlined by a sweet, melodic base". In a more mixed review, Ken Emerson of "Rolling Stone" said that the album "consolidated the sound of the band's debut album but was less pretentious than Bruce Springsteen's 1978 album "Darkness on the Edge of Town"". Emerson noted a theme of Scholz expressing his anxieties, particularly with making this album, as evidenced by lines about being unsure about measuring up as a man in "A Man I'll Never Be", and the line "I've been used/But I'm taking it like a man" in "Used to Bad News" (a song written by Brad Delp). Emerson also pointed out contradictions between the lyrics of certain songs, such as the line that "I'm much too strong not to compromise" in "Don't Look Back" versus the line in "A Man I'll Never Be" that "I can't get any stronger", or the line "Emotions can't be satisfied" in "A Man I'll Never Be" versus the title itself of "Feelin' Satisfied".
Brad Chadderton of "The Ottawa Journal" praised the album for its heavy, innovative and melodic guitar lines; for Brad Delp's vocals; and for lyrics that contain philosophical meaning, calling "Don't Look Back" an improvement over the debut album. "" gave the album a B−, stating "Not only are the guitars perfectly received, but the lyrical clichés seem specially selected to make the band as credible in the arena as they are in the studio, and Brad Delp's tenor, too thin for nasty cock-rock distractions, leaves us free to contemplate unsullied form." AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars, saying Boston sounds "inspired" on the album. "
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Don't Look Back (1996 film)
Don't Look Back is a 1996 American made-for-HBO thriller film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Eric Stoltz, John Corbett, Josh Hamilton, and Billy Bob Thornton, who also co-wrote the screenplay.
Synopsis.
Jesse Parish, a heroin addict living in Los Angeles, steals a suitcase full of drug money and immediately finds himself on the run from its former owners. Jesse flees home to Galveston, Texas, to his childhood friends, and into their lives he brings not only his internal demon of addiction, but the evil men who want their drug money back.
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Look Back in Anger (song)
Song by David Bowie
"Look Back in Anger" is a song written by English artists David Bowie and Brian Eno for the album "Lodger" (1979). It concerns "a tatty 'Angel of Death'", and features a guitar solo by Carlos Alomar.
RCA Records was unsure if America was ready for the sexual androgyny of "Boys Keep Swinging", the lead-off single from "Lodger" in most territories, and "Look Back in Anger" was issued instead. The B-side was another track from "Lodger" called "Repetition", a story of domestic violence. The single failed to chart.
Beyond the shared title, the song has nothing to do with the John Osborne play "Look Back in Anger". Bowie performed the song on his 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour (it is the opening number on the "Serious Moonlight" film) and reworked it in the mid-1990s as a heavy rock song for the Outside, Earthling, Heathen tours.
Critical reception.
"Look Back in Anger" has a mixed reputation among Bowie commentators. "NME" critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray described it as "probably the low point" of the album, while Nicholas Pegg considers it "one of "Lodger's" dramatic highlights" and Chris O'Leary has called it "one of Bowie's strongest songs of the late Seventies".
Music video.
David Mallet directed a music video for the song, featuring Bowie in an artist's studio. The scenario was based on the conclusion of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", as a self-portrait of the protagonist grows more handsome while he himself physically decays.
Other releases.
"Look Back in Anger" has appeared on the following compilations: "Chameleon" (Australia/New Zealand 1979), "Christiane F." soundtrack (1981), "Golden Years" (1983), "Sound + Vision" (1989), "The Singles Collection" (1993), "The Best of David Bowie 1974/1979" (1998), and "The Platinum Collection" (2005/2006).
A concert performance recorded on 12 September 1983 may be heard on the live album "Serious Moonlight (Live '83)", which was part of the 2018 box set "Loving the Alien (1983-1988)" and was released separately the following year. The filmed performance appears on the concert video "Serious Moonlight".
In summer 1988 Bowie recorded a "new, brutal version of the song" with Reeves Gabrels on lead guitar, Kevin Armstrong on rhythm guitar, and Erdal Kizilcay on bass and drums; it was the first arrangement Bowie and Gabrels collaborated on, taking place shortly before the formation of the band Tin Machine. The recording was issued as a bonus track on the Rykodisc release of "Lodger" in 1991.
Bowie subsequently performed the song on several of his later tours, including the 1995 Outside Tour, the 1997 Earthling Tour, and his 2002 Heathen Tour. Live versions from the 1995 tour were included on "Ouvrez le Chien (Live Dallas 95)" and "No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham 95)" (both released in 2020).
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Don't Look Back (The Remains song)
"Don't Look Back" was the Remains' last single on Epic Records. The song was composed by Billy Vera, who composed and recorded "Storybook Children" for Atlantic Records. "Don't Look Back" was released as Epic 10060 in 1966. Its B-side was "Me Right Now", composed by Barry Tashian, the Remains' leader.
"Don't Look Back" was featured on the Remains' one album, "The Remains", which was released by Epic in 1966. "Don't Look Back" was also included on the popular "".
Robert Plant covered this song as one of the extra tracks released on the "Hurting Kind (I've Got My Eyes on You)" UK CD single in 1990; it also appeared as one of the bonus tracks on the "Manic Nirvana" reissue in 2007.
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