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Travis Tops U.K. Charts With No Help From Paul McCartney
06/20/2001 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Neal Weiss
(6/20/01, 1 p.m. ET) -- Travis has debuted at the top of the U.K. Top 50 Albums charts with its new album, The Invisible Band, and appears to have done so without the help of Paul McCartney, who was rumored to have co-written the group's "Flowers In The Garden."
British online music site Music365.com reported last week that Travis frontman Fran Healy told the outlet that the Beatles legend collaborated on the song, but that the co-write went uncredited. But Healy now tells LAUNCH, "Completely and utterly wrong. When we met Paul McCartney he was playing us all his songs. This is Paul McCartney sitting here and I'm going, 'I've got to play him a song. I've got to play him one of our songs.' And I played him 'Flowers In The Window,' and by the end of it he was singing along. And that maybe... I hate the press," he says. "I think it's like adult Chinese whispers, except people believe it."
The Travis frontman reiterates, "No co-writes. F. Healy songs all the way."
The Invisible Band, Travis's third full-length release, debuted at Number One on the U.K. chart. The effort uprooted last week's top album, Radiohead 's Amnesiac, which fell to Number Seven while holding off Hot Shot, by Shaggy , which clocked in at Number Two.
Travis remains on tour with Dido in North America. The pair performs tonight (June 20) at the Lakewood Amphitheater in Atlanta.
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
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