Oasis - Wonderwall

What this video is

Released on 30 October 1995 as the fourth single from (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, Wonderwall arrived at the precise apex of Britpop's commercial and cultural dominance. The Battle of Britpop between Oasis and Blur had concluded just months earlier, and Morning Glory was already the second-fastest-selling album in UK history. The video's stripped-back, warehouse-shot aesthetic — eschewing MTV-style glamour…

Why it matters

The Wonderwall video is a canonical artefact of 1990s Britpop visual culture and mid-decade UK indie music video production. Its deliberate rejection of high-concept narrative in favour of performance-fragment montage and analogue-nostalgic motifs established an influential template for…

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, later serving as the…