Half the World Away was originally approached about using an Oasis song for a series about a working-class family in Manchester, he suggested "Married with Children" and was confused when "Half the World Away" was chosen. On tour in America when "The Royle Family" was first screened, he claims the penny did not drop until he returned to the United Kingdom to find the series a huge success and viewed it, feeling the song was perfect for the series. He now claims not to think of "Half the World Away" as an Oasis song, but rather as the theme tune to "The Royle Family".
All Around the World (Oasis song) Portions of the song's chorus were used as background music for AT&T's advertising campaign for "The New AT&T". "All Around the World" currently holds the record of longest (in terms of duration) number one of all time in the UK. The photograph on the front of the single was taken on Bournemouth beach in Dorset, England. A two-minute, ten-second instrumental reprise of the song closes the "Be Here Now" album. The reprise ends with the sound of a door being slammed, which has been referred to since as "the sound of the end of the Britpop-era Oasis". Keeping with the