Scala & Kolacny Brothers covered the song in their 2010 album Circle. American pop rock band OneRepublic released a cover as a stand-alone single in 2017. British Eurodance band Urban Cookie Collective did a dance cover of this song but Noel Gallagher prevented them from releasing it as a single. A "clean" version, editing out the waves sound effects at the start of the track, was released on Assorted, a free CD issued with the January 1996 edition of Q magazine. Live versions of the track were released on. Known as the "Lynchmob Beats Mix", this remix has been reissued on promotional material for the band's greatest hits album Stop the Clocks. The alternate mix was eventually released on the Deluxe Edition of (What's the Story) Morning Glory? while the remix was issued on the B-side on a promo-only 12" of Oasis' cover of Slade's " Cum On Feel the Noize". Alternative versions īrendan Lynch was hired to produce an alternate mix and a remix. Since Oasis' split, the song has been performed by Noel's follow-up band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Liam's follow-up band Beady Eye, and Liam during his solo career. At Oasis' Knebworth performance, Stone Roses guitarist John Squire made a guest appearance.Īfter Noel's abrupt departure from Oasis in August 2009 and the band's subsequent dissolution, "Champagne Supernova" became the last original song they performed live together the last song was a cover of " I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles, as was the case with most of their concerts. Oasis performed the song at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards, with lead vocalist Liam Gallagher making rude gestures at his brother Noel as he was playing his guitar solo and then spitting beer all over the stage before storming off. An example of one of these performances can be seen on the DVD. During the Morning Glory Tour in 1995/96 and the Be Here Now Tour in 1997/98, the song's ending was usually stretched out by five or so minutes, with Noel playing a long improvised guitar solo. Noel Gallagher has stated, "I think it's the only song, since it was written, that we've played every night". The song was played at the majority of Oasis concerts. The video for the song was directed by Nigel Dick and was filmed at Ealing Studios on 15 and 16 February 1996. But are you telling me, when you've got 60,000 people singing it, they don't know what it means? It means something different to every one of them." Music video This writer, he was going on about the lyrics to "Champagne Supernova", and he actually said to me, "You know, the one thing that's stopping it being a classic is the ridiculous lyrics." And I went, "What do you mean by that?" And he said, "Well, Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball - what's that mean?" And I went, "I don't know. In a 2009 interview, Gallagher told the following anecdote: But the number of people who've started clubs called Champagne Supernova is fucking unbelievable. And then I couldn't think of anything that rhymed with "hall" apart from "cannonball" so I wrote, "Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball." And people were like, "Wow, man." There's also the line, "Where were you while we were getting high?" because that's what we always say to each other. 
He used to take about 20 minutes to go down the hall. One is about Bracket the Butler, who used to be on Camberwick Green or Trumpton or something. When we started, we decided we weren't going to do anything for anybody, we just thought we'd leave a bunch of great songs.
The Manchester thing was going to be the greatest movement on earth but it was fuck all. Punk rock was supposed to be the revolution but did it do? Fuck all. As a kid, you always believed the Sex Pistols were going to conquer the world and kill everybody in the process. It's about when you're young and you see people in groups and you think about what they did for you and they did nothing. When I'm in a bad mood, being caught beneath a landslide is like being suffocated. It means different things when I'm in different moods. Noel Gallagher claimed in 2005 that he had still not made up his mind as to what the song actually is about, having previously told an NME interviewer in 1995:
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