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Don't Look Back in Anger is een nummer van de Engelse rockband Oasis, uitgegeven in 1996 en de 4de single van het succesalbum (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. Het nummer is geschreven door de songwriter en gitarist van de band Noel Gallagher in Groot-Brittannië. Het is ook de eerste single die Noel zingt en niet leadzanger en broer van de schrijver Liam Gallagher.

Algemeen bekend is dat de schrijver ontgoocheld was dat hij de hit Wonderwall niet mocht inzingen. Ter compensatie stemde de band in Noel de volgende single in te laten zingen. Over de inspiratie die tot het nummer heeft geleid zijn verschillende versies. De meest aanneembare is dat Noel Gallagher het liedje schreef toen hij voor een akoestische sessie een soundcheck deed.

"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. As of 2025, Don't Look Back In Anger became Oasis's second song to hit a billion streams in Spotify after Wonderwall, with the latter having hit a billion streams in 2020.