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Oasis · S3 E1
Some Might Say
The first Oasis single to go straight to number one. Top of the Pops, champagne in the dressing room, and a sense that the ceiling doesn't exist.
April 30, 1995. Oasis have their first number one single, and the drummer who played on it has seven days left in the band.
Oasis, Some Might Say (1995). The first Oasis single to go straight to number one. The last to feature the original lineup.
Some Might Say, Oasis (1995)
The earliest song written for (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, demoed in July 1994 at Maison Rouge Studios during the 'Whatever' sessions with Owen Morris. The production is cleaner and more polished than Definitely Maybe, with acoustic guitars layered under the electric crunch and a chorus that opens up like a stadium roof retracting. It's the first time Oasis sound like they're writing for arenas rather than clubs. Listen for Tony McCarroll's drumming, straightforward and unfussy, the last time you'll hear it on an Oasis single.
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Some Might Say, Wikipedia
NME
Number One
On April 30, 1995, 'Some Might Say' enters the UK chart at number one, knocking Take That's 'Back for Good' off the top spot. It's a symbolic moment: the biggest boy band in Britain pushed aside by five lads with guitars. Oasis have been chasing this since King Tut's, and it's taken exactly two years to get here.
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Some Might Say, Wikipedia
“I like Tony as a geezer but he wouldn't have been able to drum the new songs.”
— Noel Gallagher, on firing Tony McCarroll, NME
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The Founding Member
One week after 'Some Might Say' hits number one, Tony McCarroll is out. He's been with the band since The Rain days in 1991, played on every track of Definitely Maybe, and drummed at King Tut's the night Alan McGee signed them. The Gallaghers have been critical of his playing for months. Alan White, recommended by Paul Weller, replaces him immediately.
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Tony McCarroll, Wikipedia
Drummerworld
What song did 'Some Might Say' knock off the UK number one spot?
Underneath the Sky, Oasis (1995)
The B-side to 'Some Might Say' and one of the most underrated songs in the Oasis catalogue. Noel sings lead on a gentle, Beatlesque track that sounds nothing like the A-side's arena rock. It's the quiet other half of the single, the side of the band that never made the charts but always made the fans.
Underneath the Sky, Oasis (1995)
'Underneath the sky of red, there's a storyteller sleeping alone.' Noel at his most pastoral, tucked away on the B-side of the band's biggest hit to date. The song that proves the songwriter could do delicate even when the world only wanted loud.
Some Might Say: The File
The single is number one and the band has a new drummer. Now Noel needs a studio remote enough that nobody can leave, and Rockfield in Wales is about to become the birthplace of the biggest album of the decade.
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