Supersonic (song)

"Supersonic" is a song by British rock band Oasis written by Noel Gallagher. It appears on their debut album, Definitely Maybe and was their first single to be released (aside from the limited, white-label release of "Columbia"). It peaked at #31 in the British Charts on April 11, 1994 making it their lowest charting single to date and themselves being small at the time. However, despite this, it has become one of their most popular songs and a standard at live gigs.

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Oasis - Noel Gallagher - Definitely Maybe - April 11 - 1994

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In spite of its popularity, Gallagher claims the song is basically a collection of nonsense lyrics written in a matter of minutes, just before the band entered the recording studios to record the track.

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The identity of the character "Elsa" caused some confusion — according to the song She done it with a doctor/On a helicopter/she sniffin' in a tissue/Sellin' the Big Issue. Noel claims, "Someone told me "Supersonic" was about teenage prostitution. Shit!". It has since been revealed that Elsa was a nine-stone rottweiler with a flatulence problem who was in the studio on the day the song was written.

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Big Issue - Rottweiler

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