Travis 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!”

courtesy of NME.com