Oasis - The Hindu Times

What this video is

Released 15 April 2002 as the lead single from Heathen Chemistry, 'The Hindu Times' represented a widely celebrated return to form for Oasis following the commercially and critically weaker Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2000). The track debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart — Oasis's sixth chart-topper — and was displaced the following week by the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me,' a juxtaposition that…

Why it matters

A flagship document of post-Britpop British guitar rock, the track blends Oasis's anthemic wall-of-sound production with neo-psychedelic and Indian-inflected tonal elements. Its music video — set at Abbey Road Studios — explicitly invokes the Beatles lineage central to Oasis's identity, while…

The director

Andrew John 'W.I.Z.' Whiston (born 4 January 1964) is an English director of films and music videos. Described by the BFI as one of the greatest ever British music video directors, he began directing with the cult short 'Weekender' (1992). He earned the MVA…