(What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (Chasing The Sun Edition)

Released: 30th September 2014

Recorded: March 1995 at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales

More: (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by the English rock band Oasis, released October 2, 1995. The album went straight to #1 in the UK, selling 347,000 copies in its first week, and spawned four hit singles in the UK, two of which were #1s. It sold over 19 million copies worldwide, including over 4.3 million copies in the UK, 14x platinum, and is currently the third biggest-selling album in UK chart history. Morning Glory has gone 4x platinum in the United States. The singles “Wonderwall” and “Champagne Supernova” went gold in the United States.
The album, which was recorded in less than two weeks, contains arguably the band’s two most famous songs, “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger”, along with “Champagne Supernova” and their first UK #1 single, “Some Might Say”.
In 1997, Morning Glory was named the fifth greatest album of all time in the “Music of the Millennium” poll, conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998, Q magazine readers placed it at number 8, and in 2000 it achieved the same position in Q’s “100 Greatest British Albums Ever” list. In 1999, the editors of Q declared it the “album of the decade”. The readers of Q placed it seventh on the 2006 top 100 greatest albums of all time list.In 2003, the album was ranked number 376 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Highest Chart Position: Number 1 in the UK

Designed and Directed by Brian Cannon

Assisted by Matthew Sankey

Photography James Burns

All Photograph by Michael Spencer Jones & Starring
Sean Rowley

P.Weller -Lead Guitar & Backing Vocals on "Champagne Supernova"
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