Travis Caught Stealing Chords From Oasis

The Scottish Travis have admitted taking the chords from Oasis's "Wonderwall" to use in their 1999 single "Writing To Reach You."The song was the group's fist single off of ??The Man Who??, an album which brought them international recognition, as well as 'best group' and 'best album' in the 2000 Brit Award.Songwriter Fran Healy figured 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!""Writing To Reach You" off of the album ??The Man Who?? (Independiente). "MORE HERE":YA[YA]http://news.yahoo.com/s/launch/20071019/en_launch/50744734