Little By Little

Album: Heathen Chemistry (2002)
Charted: 2
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Songfacts®:

  • Written by Noel Gallagher, this song is most likely a dig on his ex-wife Meg Mathews, who he married in 1997 and divorced in 2001. Their break-up was rather acrimonious, as Mathews accused Gallagher of infidelity and Noel claimed she was so annoying that he told her he was cheating just to speed up the divorce. Most critics found the sentiment more cloying than musing, but the song was still a UK hit when it was released as the third single from the album, possibly because it was a double A-side with "She Is Love."
  • Included with the single release of this song was a cover of The Who song "My Generation" and a DVD single with footage from their London Finsbury Park shows in July 2002. >>
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  • Robert Carlyle guest starred in the song's music video. The Scottish actor is known for a variety of movie roles including those in Trainspotting, The Full Monty and 28 Weeks Later.
  • Noel took the line "true perfection has to be imperfect" from a Buddhist saying. He said in an interview with Daniel Rachel (The Art of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters): "I like that, because everything that's beautiful slightly has to have an imperfection to it or else it's just a blank canvas. Nothing is perfect, the way I see it."

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