Travis’ Fran Healy shares Noel Gallagher’s reaction to “absolutely lifting” chords from Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’ for ‘Writing To Reach You’

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Travis‘ Fran Healy has shared Noel Gallagher‘s reaction to “absolutely lifting” chords from Oasis‘ ‘Wonderwall’ for ‘Writing To Reach You’.‘Writing To Reach You’ appeared on Travis’ second LP, 1999’s ‘The Man Who’.

The album helped the Glaswegian band become international stars. ‘Writing To Reach You’ peaked at Number 14 on the UK Singles Chart and ‘The Man Who’ spent a total of 9 weeks at Number One on the UK Albums Chart.During a new interview with The Charlatans singer Tim Burgess on his Absolute Radio show, Tim’s Listening Party, Healy opened up about Gallagher’s reaction to lifting ‘Wonderwall’s chords for one of their tracks.“We went in a bar after it, and Noel Gallagher walked in, looking like he was in the Velvet Underground.

He had a Ready Brek glow around him and it was like, ‘He’s a rock star!’ So, cut to six months later, and I’m sitting in the coldest room in Glasgow, and I’m writing this song, and I nicked his chords because that’s the chords to ‘Wonderwall’ in ‘Writing to Reach You’,” the frontman told Burgess.He continued: “The verse chords are absolutely lifted massively as we do, and as he does!

I thought, ‘I’m never going to meet Noel Gallagher in a million years because I’m on the dole, nothing’s gonna happen.”Healy added that he added a reference to Oasis in the track incase Gallagher were to recognise the chords.