What was the song "Wonderwall" about?

It was a response to Sheena Easton's "Sugar Walls."

According to Noel Gallagher, the song describes "an imaginary friend who's gonna come and save you from yourself ". And since the only 'you' in the song goes on to become the 'Wonderwall', it must refer to something/someone who will always be there for you, and well, save you. You're gonna be the one that saves me.

I've always thought Noel wrote it about Liam and their relationship. However fractious it was, they still had each other through the craziest part of their careers.

Strangely, I’ve heard this song the last three mornings on the radio and it’s been on my mind a lot lately as a result. Now there’s a thread on DL about it. Weird.

Life is telling you something, R5. Do you have a contentious relationship with your brother?

"Wonderwall" is a trippy 1968 movie starring Jane Birkin as fashion model 'Penny Lane,' who moves in with her hip photographer boyfriend next door to an eccentric, absent-minded professor. The professor spots a hole in the wall and spies on the young couple's wild and crazy antics. Eventually he becomes obsessed with Penny, fantasizes about her all day long, and drills more holes to catch better angles, eventually stripping away the bricks and mortar, and even the ceiling. When the couple breaks up, Penny takes a handful of pills, and the professor and enters his wonderwall to save her. The film was scored by George Harrison for Apple Records. "Backbeat" is a 1994 film about the Beatles early years in Hamburg, Germany.

We're gonna make Mexico pay for it!

That movie sounds dumb as hell r7.

Fun fact: It's actual a cover of a song from the 60s!

It was about the Trannies that threw the 1st Bricks at Stonewall

It's about Lesbians and their vaginal walls.

The title track to What's the Story (Morning Glory)? Is a much better song. And quite underappreciated.

Or R5, you could have a subconscious incestuous crush...

[quote]You're gonna be the one that saves me.

Don't count on it.

Unless you're really, really well hung.

The O.C. made me prefer the Ryan Adams version.

R16 blasphemy!

R16, fuck you.

Such a dreary song that even Cat Power couldn't save it:

Isn't Morning Glory a song about his cock?

Really, R19? I think that's a good cover.

I don't know they're right, OP, but someone tried to break down the lyrics:

It's about how the Gallaghers wish they were Lennon & McCartney.

It's about Noel wishing to be saved from Erna.

[quote]I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do, about you now.

I have said this to myself so many times about someone I was in love with.

I remember hearing/reading it was a Beatles reference, but I could never figure it out.

For R26:

[quote]The title of the song, "Wonderwall," was a subtle hat tip to Oasis' predecessors, the Beatles. In 1968, George Harrison released his first post-Beatles album, Wonderwall Music, which also happened to be the soundtrack to the film Wonderwall from that same year.

I don’t know what it meant originally, but it’s come to stand as an ephemeral term for ‘Britishness’. If you were born & bred a Brit, you know the feeling of ‘Wonderwall’ and all that the idea encompasses.

It’s similar to the Welsh concept ‘hiraeth’ which loosely translates to ‘nostalgic bittersweet homesickness, or longing for a time or place now past’, but also has several other wider connotations.

Aha. So that '94 film is the "Backbeat" reference "Backbeat, the word is on the street, that the fire in your heart is out...". If I'm thinking of the right film, it featured Stephen Dorf as Stu Sutcliffe and focused on him and his relationships with Astrid, his girlfriend, and Lennon during the Beatles' Hamburg years.

It's about the brothers craving for cock.

R27, oh I made the mistake of focusing on the Beatles catalog for the reference. I got the Backbeat reference that R29 mentions, but I figured there had to be more to it than that. So I guess George was the Gallaghers favorite Beatle?

Noel likes the ladies as much as he likes the Herren.

Noely is bi, that’s common knowledge. Ask any member of Inspiral Carpets.

Is Liam, though?

Your're my support system even though I treat you like dirt and I thank you for that (but I don't know how).

[quote]Fun fact: It's actual a cover of a song from the 60s!

I don't know if r10 was joking but The Mike Flowers Pops is a modern day band doing easy listening covers.

[quote]The Mike Flowers Pops (also known as MFP, The Pops or The Mike Flowers Pops Orchestra) is a British easy listening band fronted by Mike Flowers (real name: Mike Roberts)[1] and supported by the "Sounds Superb Singers" and "Super Stereo Brass". Formed in 1993, there were up to fourteen of them on stage at any time, and they were principally known for easy listening or lounge music covers of both 'classic' and contemporary pop music.

One of their covers on A Groovy Place is Björk's Venus as a Boy.