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The Charlatans live at Castlefield Bowl, Manchester (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
The Charlatans will release it on March 27th.
The Charlatans have announced an expanded re-release of their debut album Some Friendly.
A UK number one in 1990 off the back of the band’s breakthrough The Only One I Know, it will be beefed up with various bonus tracks and has been remastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road.
“It’s a song about teenage feelings: I was 21 or 22, but had those powerful emotions,” Tim Burgess has said of the aforementioned single.
I was a big Byrds fan so the line, ‘Everyone’s been burned before, everyone knows the pain’, is a nod to their song Everybody’s Been Burned. I was ecstatic when the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn said he loved us. It’s an unusual song construction. I’m still not sure which bit is the chorus. The title and main hook is in the verse, but the intro – before the main song crashes in – gives people just enough time to get on the dancefloor.
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