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The Charlatans: Independents have their day

Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 23 October 1990

TWELVE months is a long time in pop music. This time last year The Charlatans had never made a record. They could only boast that they were big in Northwich, lead singer Tim Burgess's Cheshire home town.

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