Champagne Supernova
by Oasis
- 150
- BPM
- A major
- Key
- 11B
- Camelot
- 29
- Danceability
- 47
- Acousticness
Paul Weller played guitar and sang backing vocals on "Champagne Supernova", the closing track of (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. Liam Gallagher sang lead. Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs recalled hearing it for the first time on the tour bus, when Noel played it from start to finish, voice and acoustic guitar only. Bonehead said he fell apart. He knew it was a hit.
Noel never settled on what the song means. In 1995 he told NME it changed with his mood and that some of the words were about nothing. The line about walking down the hall came about because he could not find a rhyme for "hall" but "cannonball", while thinking of Bracket the Butler from Camberwick Green. In 2009 he told The Sunday Times that with 60,000 people singing it, it means something different to each of them. He called it probably as psychedelic as he would ever get.
It was released as the sixth and final single from the album in Australia and New Zealand on May 13, 1996. In the United States it went to radio and became Oasis's second number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. A supernova, SN 2003fg, was nicknamed after the song.
Champagne Supernova runs at 150 BPM, the tempo of hard techno, punk and fast rock. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.6 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 400 ms. It is in A major, Camelot 11B, which shares its notes with F# minor and mixes cleanly with D major and E major.
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