Travis admit stealing music from Oasis
Yahoo! Music, Oct 19, 2007 3:00 pm PDTTravis have admitted taking the chords from Oasis's "Wonderwall" to use in their 1999 single "Writing To Reach You."
Songwriter Fran Healy explained how he found that a promising chord sequence he'd written was identical to the chords from the Oasis classic, but decided that Noel Gallagher would approve of the borrowing.
Talking to Britain's XFM, Healy said: "I remember trying to play a song by a band, I can't remember their name, but it was a song called ''74-'75' [by the Connells ]. I was trying to play the tune and it went [wrong], I quickly swapped it to E minor and I added this [sings guitar riff] and I thought, 'Oh, that's good.'
"Then I realized they were actually the chords to 'Wonderwall' and I was like, 'Damn!' And then I thought, you know, Noel's always talking about nicking chords from people, so I figured just using the chords was acceptable--but I doff my cap to the writer!"
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