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‘Don’t look back in anger’

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

How did Noel Gallagher manage to write ‘don’t look back in anger’ in his early twenties?! You aren’t born with Wisdom (from what I understand of life). What other poignant lyrics were written by young geniuses?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Imagine - Lennon.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Imagine - Lennon."

Wasn’t he in his thirties by this time?

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By *ighty_tightyMan
over a year ago

Norfolk/Suffolk

How the feck does anyone write songs? I struggle to compose a meaningful sentence

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"How the feck does anyone write songs? I struggle to compose a meaningful sentence"

My son can compose lyrics for fun. I can barely rhyme two lines. He's just got a musical, lyrical brain.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"How the feck does anyone write songs? I struggle to compose a meaningful sentence"

Hahaha! Meaning is in the eye of the beholder... or the ear of the listener ...or the hand of the feeler.

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool


"How did Noel Gallagher manage to write ‘don’t look back in anger’ in his early twenties?! You aren’t born with Wisdom (from what I understand of life). What other poignant lyrics were written by young geniuses? "

Apparently, Noel Gallagher used a rhyming dictionary to write his lyrics.

Makes sense when you think about it - how else could he have concocted such gems as 'slowly walking down the hall/faster than a cannonball"?

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By *ulldog_71Man
over a year ago

Sedgefield

Everything that Ian Curtis wrote.

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By *ormorantMan
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Neil Young and Joni Mitchell… good starting point..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"How did Noel Gallagher manage to write ‘don’t look back in anger’ in his early twenties?! You aren’t born with Wisdom (from what I understand of life). What other poignant lyrics were written by young geniuses? "

Fun fact he managed to write supersonic in the time it took the band to eat a Chinese.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"How did Noel Gallagher manage to write ‘don’t look back in anger’ in his early twenties?! You aren’t born with Wisdom (from what I understand of life). What other poignant lyrics were written by young geniuses?

Fun fact he managed to write supersonic in the time it took the band to eat a Chinese. "

I’m having you both in my next pub quiz team!

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By *parrow77Man
over a year ago

cheshire

I love writing my own songs and performing them sometimes I write something and thing where did it come from and other times write and emotions drive it.

Either way I love it and then performing the songs cos then they change in what mean

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dolly Parton was 21 when she wrote 'Just because I'm a woman' which was a great 'fuck you' to the (country) music industry at the time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

These Days by Jackson Browne,

Jackson Browne was only 16 years old when he wrote the song which deals with loss and regret. Nico first recorded that song in 1967

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Look at what Kate bush wrote when she was 16.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Look at what Kate bush wrote when she was 16.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Look at what and how much Dolly Parton wrote, especially in the very early stages of her career...

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Covent Garden

Mmmmmmm Kate's bush.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Donovan was 19 I think when he wrote

When sundown pales the sky

I want to hide a while, behind your smile

And everywhere I'd look, your eyes I'd find

Catch the wind is a beautiful song

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By *lli_RiversTV/TS
over a year ago

Leeds

"So Sally can wait, she knows it's too late"

I'm not sure it was exactly the most profound song ever written.

Like most of their songs it was just nursery rhyme style nonsense and catchy.

Though that first album is still an absolute banger to this day

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By *ickJMan
over a year ago

Hemel Hempstead

George Michael wrote careless whisper when he was in his teens.

(I think I heard it was at 14, but I might be wrong)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"George Michael wrote careless whisper when he was in his teens.

(I think I heard it was at 14, but I might be wrong) "

I heard that too. Very insightful for someone so young!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything before 1990 by Morrissey, Weller, Kate Bush and Costello are words of wisdom.

The Yanks have Dylan,Fry/Henley,Mould/Hart, Springsteen, Westerberg, Chuck D, Mitchell, Young, Tori Amos and Vedder. They now have Kendrick Lamar and Frank Ocean. We have Dave and Alex Turner.

For pure wit, its gotta be Shaun Ryder or Jarvis Cocker.

I love good lyrics. Even NO! NO!There's no limit

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


""So Sally can wait, she knows it's too late"

I'm not sure it was exactly the most profound song ever written.

Like most of their songs it was just nursery rhyme style nonsense and catchy.

Though that first album is still an absolute banger to this day "

I beg to differ. “Slip inside the eye of your mind. And you know you might find”. This shows an awareness introspection.

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

Pretty much anything by Amy Winehouse to my mind: songs that are full of humour, but also pathos. And just plain great songs!

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Million Love Songs might not be terribly introspective or earth shaking, but Gary Barlow wrote it when he was 15.

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By *ooBulMan
over a year ago

Missin’ Yo’ Kissin’

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By *ooBulMan
over a year ago

Missin’ Yo’ Kissin’

Stevie Wonder's Grammy-nominated single "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" was released when he was 15.

Kate Bush wrote "Wuthering Heights at 19. That was a No.1 I think?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"How did Noel Gallagher manage to write ‘don’t look back in anger’ in his early twenties?! You aren’t born with Wisdom (from what I understand of life). What other poignant lyrics were written by young geniuses? "

Personally find it to be awfully simple doggerel, and any deep meaning it may have is utterly destroyed by the last line of the song which is only there because he couldn’t resist a last rhyming couplet which utterly reverses the whole point of the song

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

It's not really a lesson those two are actually living by. At least not when it comes to each other .

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By *icolerobbieCouple
over a year ago

walsall


"How did Noel Gallagher manage to write ‘don’t look back in anger’ in his early twenties?! You aren’t born with Wisdom (from what I understand of life). What other poignant lyrics were written by young geniuses?

Fun fact he managed to write supersonic in the time it took the band to eat a Chinese. "

I’m not surprised really, 4 chords and seven repeated lines.

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By *hamrock 1888Man
over a year ago

on tour

Weller wrote some really great songs in his teens.

In the city, modern world , going underground, town called malice all written before he was 24

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By *ickJMan
over a year ago

Hemel Hempstead


"George Michael wrote careless whisper when he was in his teens.

(I think I heard it was at 14, but I might be wrong)

I heard that too. Very insightful for someone so young! "

I looked it up today. He was 17/18 when he wrote it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its not exactly aristotle

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