Tim Burgess has compared The Charlatans’ ‘One To Another’ to Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ in the new issue of Uncut (dated July 2013 and out now).
The group tell the full triumphant and tragic story of their biggest hit, their last recording before keyboardist Rob Collins was killed in a car accident in July 1996.
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“I felt that [the song] had taken on another thing. I thought it was our ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’,” Burgess explains. “I felt it was part of that club, of deaths that put a myth around a record. And I wanted to make sure that we kept Rob’s name alive.”
You can read the full story of ‘One To Another’ in the new issue of Uncut, out now.
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