Stand by Me (Oasis song)

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"Stand by Me"
Stand By Me (Oasis).jpg
Single by Oasis
from the album Be Here Now
B-side
  • "(I Got) The Fever"
  • "My Sister Lover"
  • "Going Nowhere"
Released22 September 1997 (1997-09-22)
Length
  • 5:56 (album version)
  • 4:51 (French radio edit)
Label Creation
Songwriter(s) Noel Gallagher
Producer(s)
Oasis singles chronology
"D'You Know What I Mean?"
(1997)		"Stand by Me"
(1997)		"All Around the World"
(1998)
Be Here Now track listing
12 tracks
  1. "D'You Know What I Mean?"
  2. "My Big Mouth"
  3. "Magic Pie"
  4. "Stand by Me"
  5. "I Hope, I Think, I Know"
  6. "The Girl in the Dirty Shirt"
  7. "Fade In-Out"
  8. "Don't Go Away"
  9. "Be Here Now"
  10. "All Around the World"
  11. "It's Gettin' Better (Man!!)"
  12. "All Around the World (Reprise)"

"Stand by Me" is a song by the English rock band Oasis, written by lead guitarist, Noel Gallagher. It was released on 22 September 1997 as the second single from the band's third studio album, Be Here Now (1997).

Contents

The song peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in September 1997. Initially being certified gold in the UK in October 1997, the song would eventually reach platinum status in 2019. It was ranked number 46 on the year-end chart of the United Kingdom for 1997. The song also reached number two in Ireland and entered the top 10 in Finland, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Spain and Sweden.

History

Noel Gallagher claims to have written the song whilst suffering from food poisoning when he first moved to London. His mother Peggy would phone him to check on him and repeatedly told him to ensure he was eating properly. This spurred Gallagher to cook himself a proper British Sunday dinner, which resulted in a bout of food poisoning. In a 1997 interview promoting Be Here Now, Noel Gallagher had the following to say: "It starts, 'Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday'. When I first moved to London me mam kept on ringing up and asking was I eating properly. Yes, Mam. So I tried to cook a Sunday roast and puked up for two days with food poisoning. It was back to Pot Noodles after that." [1]

Release and reception

"Stand by Me" was first included as the fourth track on the band's third studio album, Be Here Now, which was released on 21 August 1997. [2] [3] It was released as a single a month later, on 22 September 1997. [4]

The song is generally seen as one of the album's highlights. In a 2002 review, Stephen Thompson of The A.V. Club called "Stand by Me" one of the only good tracks present, also naming "My Big Mouth" and "Don't Go Away". [5] Reviewing the album's 2016 deluxe edition, Laura Snapes of Pitchfork gave an overall distaste for the album, but called "Stand by Me" "genuinely touching". [6] Andrzej Lukowski of Drowned in Sound also considered "Stand by Me" one of the album's highlights, but felt that it, along with "Don't Go Away" and "The Girl in the Dirty Shirt" lacked the "romance" of the band's earlier works. [7]

Live performances

Due to Noel's general dislike of Be Here Now, "Stand by Me" was rarely played live by the band at their concerts after the Be Here Now Tour, as it was Noel who usually decided the set lists for Oasis' tours. A live version of the song from this tour can be found on the double-CD version of Familiar to Millions .

A well-known acoustic version of "Stand by Me" was shown on television the night before the release of Be Here Now as part of a BBC One documentary, featuring Noel, Liam Gallagher and drummer Alan White sitting by the side of a swimming pool, with Liam on vocals, Noel on acoustic guitar and White playing tambourine. This version became available with the 2016 "Chasing the Sun" edition of Be Here Now.

In 2019, Liam performed the song for the first time since 2001 as part of an acoustic set for MTV Unplugged , backed by former bandmate Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs. This recording would later be released in 2020 on the live album MTV Unplugged (Live at Hull City Hall) . [8] The performance was praised by Jordan Bassett of NME , who called it the album's standout track: "[It] provides the show's emotional centrepiece; from the way the audience sings along with his wounded dispatch, you sense Liam Gallagher's not the only person in the room nursing a few regrets." [9]

It has since remained a consistent staple of Liam's solo setlists. Beginning in 2022, Noel also began performing the song live again, mainly in an acoustic line-up.

Music video

The video for the song was shot on 20 September 1997. It was a reworking of a famous series of adverts for The Guardian newspaper. Entitled 'The Whole Picture', the adverts showed people appearing to be engaging in criminal and/or anti-social acts—only for it to be revealed that they are actually helping someone else. For example, a scruffily-dressed skinhead rushes at a businessman; it appears he is making an effort to mug him and break into his car, when he is actually getting it open for the businessman who locked the key inside it. Similarly, the music video shows a shop appearing to be being burgled – its window is smashed and people are taking away electrical goods – only for it to be revealed that in fact the victim of a motorcycle crash has gone through the window and is buried under the goods. At the same time, a man who was earlier shown to be apparently running away from approaching police officers was actually rushing to save a girl from being run over by the motorcycle – the officers just happened to come by at that time. [10] The video was filmed in the district of Feltham, west London.

Other uses

Since February 2021, the song has appeared in adverts for British bank Halifax. [11]

Track listings

UK 7-inch and cassette single(CRE 278, CRECS 278) [12] [13]

  1. "Stand by Me"
  2. "(I Got) The Fever"

UK CD single(CRESCD 278) [14]

  1. "Stand by Me"
  2. "(I Got) The Fever"
  3. "My Sister Lover"
  4. "Going Nowhere"

UK 12-inch single(CRE 278T) [15]

A1. "Stand by Me"
B1. "(I Got) The Fever"
B2. "My Sister Lover"

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "Stand by Me"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI) [36] Gold25,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [37] Platinum600,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Stand by Me"
RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom22 September 1997
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 Creation [4]
Japan26 September 1997CD Epic [38]

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