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Page improved with multiple childish and hilarious comments regarding beady eyes performance at the olympics closing ceremony. 90.227.35.127 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:31, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Chords are wrong?

I believe there are sus notes missing from the chords..

A7sus4 instead of A7, Dsus4 instead of D.. (it can clearly be heard that D and A7 sounds wrong) someone should check a youtube video/dvd and verify the real live chords..

These are the ones I play:

Em7 G Dsus4 A7sus4

their official tab sheet from 1995 says (I got the book):

F#m7 A Esus4 B7sus4 Dmaj7 Esus4 B7sus4 ..

FIXME: check if the chords noted are the correct "live chords", I think sus4 is missing..

Untitled

what does "wonderwall" means? Search on google. I think thry took it from the name of the George Harrison album. Where he got it from I don't know. There's a line in the Travis song Writing to Reach You "Same old songs on the radio/And what the hell's a wonderwall anyway?"--Crestville 15:50, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) AMazed to see that that info still hasn't made it into the article! I'll get to it now. The song is indeed named after the George Harrison album Wonderwall Music, which was a soundtrack to a film called Wonderwall. I'll let you click on the link to find out about that! --kingboyk 21:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Liam and Noel's estranged father, Thomas Gallagher, gave an interview for Smash Hits in 1996, and he said that the song got its name because Liam and Noel shared a bedroom and that they used to graffiti lyrics and stuff on the walls and that they would call it their "wonderwall". But as far as I'm concerned I doubt that it came from that, it's just named after the George Harrison album. (Andrew07 (talk) 22:58, 22 March 2010 (UTC))[reply]

On this webcast, Noel says the song is inspired by the movie Wonderwall. This explains the reference to it being about an unknown friend who appears to save you, which is part of the plot of the movie. Don't know if this is interesting enough to include on the page. --Mujokan (talk) 03:47, 28 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Wonderwall" may even be attributed with leading the band Radiohead from the straight rock and roll

As far as I can see, this is unconfirmed and most probably is a joke. Should be removed. Please add what instruments are in the song wonderwall. thanks

U2

There's been talk about the U2 cover. Anyone got opinions on it?

Please God No.--Crestville 22:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

should the cover by cartel for the punk goes 90's complication be included

No and no :)Hrhadam (talk) 01:57, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original title

Mr. Monobrow states that the original title was "Wishing Stone". Any sources? æ ² ✆ 2006-10-04t11:59z

A new interview by Noel in UNCUT Magazine. I'll stick in a reference in the article. --Mr. Monobrow 12:08, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's interesting.--Crestville 13:55, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cover

I would do this myself, but I don't know how. I know that the song has also been covered by Melissa Rebronja, and the reference can be found here: http://www.melissarebronja.com/music2.htm (it's in the track list I think), but I don't know how to put references in the article. Can someone stick it in please? Thanks a lot! BlueStarz 00:21, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Notable Versions

I deleted this section. It appeared to be obnoixious selfpromotion via Wikipedia and youtube. Also, redudant as there was already a "cover" section.Ghettodude 23:18, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

16 years later this is now history and I'd like to know the 'notable versions' history you rebuked in 2007.

Could somebody please add a "notable covers" section or something along those lines.

24.77.19.163 (talk) 21:09, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Noel's acoustic guitar part

"When the song is played at live shows Noel's acoustic guitar part is played on a Fender Telecaster. This is among the rare occasions that Noel plays a Fender guitar rather than a Gibson." Last couple of times ive seen it played live its been on an acoutsic, not a tele. Should we get rid of this line?

Yeah, he plays it on whatever guitar he has.--Crestville 12:34, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What instruments are in this song? I know there is a cello, drums, guitar and at least one more instrument. It comes in at first on the: "and all the lives that lead us there are blinding".

1950s mystery song??

In several interviews with Noel he mentions Alan McGee coming to him and asking "Did you rip wonderwall off this song?!" and then they had a listen to it and were surprised at the likeness. Also he mentions the BBC Radio 1 playing the song. Does any one know what song this is?? It should be mentioned in the article. Here's the interview on youtube: Wonderwall Interview

Watch the interview again -- was a joke wasntit.

Hrhadam (talk) 11:45, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No. I don't think it was, because I've read in interviews as well Noel talking about this song from the 1950s that the BBC would play on the radio saying he stole wonderwall from it.

Zachiroth (talk) 21:09, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's The Mike Flowers Pops cover version of Wonderwall that got to number 2 in the UK charts that Noel's talking about. The article mentions it in the 'Notable cover versions' section. Cavie78 (talk) 13:54, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:14, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chord Progression-trivia

"The Chord Progression to Wonderwall is actually the progression of "A Day In The Life," By The Beatles, in reverse."

Sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.66.115.51 (talk) 20:03, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Placing in last.fm charts

Wonderwall has consistently ranked high in the last.fm charts for the past few years and seems to be the only enduring "old" song (even after Radiohead's digital release skewed the rankings) to remain on the list week after week. I'm not sure if this is notable or not, but it might be worth a mention http://www.last.fm/music/+charts/track/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phocks (talk • contribs) 02:16, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

incomprehensible sentence

What is this sentence trying to say? "Fittingly, as widely and self-acknowledged Beatles fans, "Wonderwall Music" was a 60s film & soundtrack written by George Harrison, and the title of his first solo album." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.65.209.146 (talk) 01:32, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Most weeks on indie chart ever?

I believe this song holds that record? (Andrew07 (talk) 21:43, 4 April 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Reference number 7

Dead link. This video has been removed due to terms of use violation Is this video located anywhere else? Battleaxe9872 ^Talk 19:20, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 5 October 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Andrewa (talk) 05:34, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderwall (song) → Wonderwall
Wonderwall → Wonderwall (disambiguation)

– Is this the primary topic? There's a case to be made with 9x the pageviews of the other topics with this name and a 7x platinum certification in the UK. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 05:19, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support move. This song is clearly the primary topic, with a large lead in pageviews and far more cultural significance than all other Wonderwalls combined. O.N.R. ^(talk) 23:24, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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