D'You Know What I Mean?

Oasis were assembling their third album, Be Here Now, when Noel Gallagher wrote "D'You Know What I Mean?", released on 7 July 1997 as its first single. The track went straight to number one on the UK Singles Chart, the band's third song to do so, and also topped the charts in Finland, Ireland, and Spain. It sold 162,000 copies in Britain on its first day alone, 370,000 by the end of the week, and eventually reached platinum status there.

Gallagher admitted he struggled with the chorus. Unable to come up with anything profound, he settled on the vague line "All my people right here, right now, d'you know what I mean?" and decided it would do. He was more fond of "Coming in a mess, going out in style", remarking that the band were a bunch of scruffs from Manchester going out in a Rolls-Royce. The morse code audible in the background was inspired by Tony Newley's Strawberry Fairy; the band got hold of a code book and tried to tap out "Bugger All", though Gallagher said he would be curious to know what they actually said. The lyrics also namecheck two Beatles songs, "The Fool on the Hill" and "I Feel Fine", along with Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks".

At eight and a half minutes long, with drums absent for the first two minutes, the track opens on feedback. Gallagher expected to be asked to trim the introduction, but nobody did. Among the B-sides, "Stay Young" proved popular enough that fans voted it onto the B-sides collection The Masterplan, although Noel said this happened only because Liam requested it, being a fan of the song himself.