Music Appreciation

I am suspicious.

Look BackIn Anger is a 1959 British film about a working class man who, deeply dissatisfied with his life, becomes mentally and physically abusive to his wife. She leaves him. He is angry and does not let go of his anger. His wife is pregnant and loses their baby - she too looks back in anger. At the end of the film they reconcile - the obligatory (somewhat) happy ending.

The film is set in Derby, a town in the Midlands, 80 miles from Manchester. The protagonist might have reminded Noel of working class men he knew, trapped by prejudice and poverty. His advice is to get out and 'find a better place to play / You said that you’d never been [outside of your home town] / But all the things that you’ve seen [there] / Will slowly fade away.'

Noel left Manchester, and did not look back in anger at the abuse he suffered growing up. In doing so I guess he was hoping to break the cycle of violence, as well as breaking free from the worst strictures the British class system. The chorus fits the film, a wife leaving an abusive husband, except the line 'Sally can wait' which Liam misheard. I think it was originally ‘Sally can’t wait,' but whatever: The chorus fits missing the last bus at night

Anyway, if Noel is referencing abuse, it's little surprise that he does not to talk about it. My 2c.