The Charlatans: Leadmill, Sheffield
Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 18 August 2001
LAST WEEK'S shock revelations that keyboard player Tony Rogers is suffering from testicular cancer was a rare occurrence of a rock band making the national news. For the Charlatans, it was just business as usual: this, as singer Tim Burgess ruefully admitted, is "the unluckiest band in pop".
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