If I Had a Gun...
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| Single by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | ||||||||||||
| from the album Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | ||||||||||||
| B-side | "I'd Pick You Every Time" | |||||||||||
| Released | 26 December 2011 | |||||||||||
| Format | CD single, 7" vinyl, digital download | |||||||||||
| Genre | Rock | |||||||||||
| Length | 4:18 | |||||||||||
| Label | Sour Mash | |||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Noel Gallagher | |||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Noel Gallagher, Dave Sardy | |||||||||||
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds singles chronology | ||||||||||||
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"If I Had a Gun..." is a song by the English rock band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, written by frontman Noel Gallagher from their self-titled debut studio album Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (2011). It was released as the third single on 26 December 2011 in all regions bar the United Kingdom. As with the other single releases from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds singles, Strangeboy Stacey engineered and mixed the B-side. The song impacted US radio on September 13, 2011.
The track features Jon Graboff on second guitar (credited as the Pedal Steel in the sleeve notes).
Written in Lima, Peru and originally intended to be the lead single off the album, "If I Had a Gun..." was passed over in favour of "The Death of You and Me" as Noel thought it sounded too much like Oasis and wanted to make his comeback with a whisper rather than with a bang while describing the song as "emotionally uplifting and up there with the best I've wrote".
The song first surfaced on the Internet when Noel was recorded playing it at a soundcheck in Taiwan in April 2009 during the Asian leg of Oasis' Dig Out Your Soul world tour.
Filmed in Los Angeles, California, the music video for "If I Had a Gun..." is centred on a wedding ceremony with Noel acting as the priest. During the ceremony a cowboy on a horse arrives and dives into a swimming pool and the bride (Peyton List) follows him and they ride off into the sunset on the horse. Visible at 3:27 are the two women and the "Soulsucker" video camera from the "AKA... What a Life!" music video.
The video appears to be part of a three video story start with "If I Had a Gun" then "The Death of You and Me" and ending with "AKA... What a Life!" as all the videos begin where the other one finished but the videos weren't released in chronological form as the singles came out in a different order.
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