Oasis - Wonderwall

What this video is

Released 30 October 1995 as the fourth single from (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, 'Wonderwall' arrived at the apex of Britpop's commercial dominance and the 'Battle of Britpop' media cycle. The single reached No. 2 in the UK, topped charts in Australia and New Zealand, and became Oasis' sole top-10 US Billboard Hot 100 entry, breaking the band in America. The video's warehouse-and-circus aesthetic, desaturated…

Why it matters

A canonical artifact of mid-90s Britpop and alternative rock, 'Wonderwall' demonstrated that the genre could produce globally resonant ballads beyond its lad-culture swagger. The video's experimental warehouse-collage format, blending live performance fragments with circus tableau and…

The director

Nigel Dick (born 21 March 1953, Catterick, North Yorkshire) is an English music video director and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He trained as an architect at the University of Bath before entering the record industry at Stiff Records. In 1986 he…