Travis admit to using 'Wonderwall' chords

Travis have confessed that they stole the guitar chords from Oasis track ‘Wonderwall’ for their 1999 song 'Writing To Reach You’.

Frontman Fran Healy said he realised that the chord sequence was similar to the Oasis hit but presumed that Noel Gallagher would not object.

He told XFM: "I remember trying to play a song by a band [The Connells], I can't remember their name, but it was a song called ''74 - '75'. I was trying to play the tune and it went [wrong], I quickly swapped it to E minor and I added this [riff] and I thought 'oh, that's good'. Then I realised they were actually the chords to 'Wonderwall' and I was like 'damn'!"

But he added: "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!"