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Digsy’s Dinner

Oasis
Track 24 on Definitely Maybe - Safety Copy of Masters (Whitfield Street) 

Produced by

Oasis & Mark Coyle
After Noel Gallagher’s musician friend Peter “Digsy” Dreary started singing nonsensical things about having lasagna for tea, he promptly inspired a romantic vignette about… Read More 
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Digsy’s Dinner Lyrics

[Verse 1]
What a life it would be
If you could come to mine for tea
I'll pick you up at half past three
We'll have lasagna
I'll treat you like a queen
I'll give you strawberries and cream
Then your friends will all go green
For my lasagna

[Chorus]
These could be the best days of our lives
But I don't think we've been living very wise
Oh no, no

[Verse 2]
What a life it would be
If you could come to mine for tea
I'll pick you up at half past three
We'll have lasagna

[Chorus]
These could be the best days of our lives
But I don't think we've been living very wise
Oh no, no
[Verse 2]
What a life it would be
If you could come to mine for tea
I'll pick you up at half past three
We'll have lasagna

[Outro]
I'll treat you like a queen
I'll give you strawberries and cream
Then your friends will all go green
Then your friends will all go green
Then your friends will all go green
For my lasagna

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Genius Annotation

After Noel Gallagher’s musician friend Peter “Digsy” Dreary started singing nonsensical things about having lasagna for tea, he promptly inspired a romantic vignette about asking a girl out, which Digsy wound up hating, retaliating with another called “Noel’s Nose”.

Q&A

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What did Oasis say about "Digsy's Dinner"?
Genius Answer

Noel on the song:

If you wrote ‘Digsy’s Dinner’ now, The Guardian or the music papers would destroy you. It’s a song about going to someone’s house for lasagne – you only write songs like that when you’re free of inhibitions.

Alan McGee on the song:

I think it was a piss-take of Blur. I don’t think Noel’s ever admitted to that. It’s a piss-take of that Britpop thing. It was Noel proving that he could do that in his sleep.

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Definitely Maybe - Safety Copy of Masters (Whitfield Street) (1994)
Oasis
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    Test track 1 (Disc 1) (Missing Lyrics)
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    Whatever (TV track) (Missing Lyrics)
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    Whatever (No Young Dude) (Missing Lyrics)
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    Supersonic (TV Backing Track) (Missing Lyrics)
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    Bring it on Down (Master Backing Track) (Missing Lyrics)
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    Cigarettes and Alcohol (Take 1 BT) (Missing Lyrics)
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    Cigarettes & Alcohol (Final Master BT) (Missing Lyrics)
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    Bring it on Down (Remix master BT) (Missing Lyrics)
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    Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (Instrumental) (Missing Lyrics)
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    Edit Section 1 (Disc 4) (Missing Lyrics)
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Credits
Produced By
Written By
Additional Production
Mixed By
Guitar
Piano
Drums
Bass
Vocals
Recorded At
Sawmill Studios, Wales, UK
Release Date
August 29, 1994
Digsy’s Dinner Live Performances
Tags
PopRockAlternativePop-RockAlternative RockBritpopBritish RockUK
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