Their UK tour starts at Limelight, Belfast, on 22 November.Young Duval Timothy struggled through piano lessons, but when a friend taught him the chords to Amy Winehouse’s “Stronger Than Me,” something clicked.
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The Charlatans’ Covid-delayed 31st anniversary box set, A Head Full of Ideas, is out now. At one point it was so popular that people said: “It’s the only song they know.” But thankfully, the songs kept coming.
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We were invited to go on Top of the Pops but being silly sods we turned it down, like the Clash had, but the single still went Top 10. John Peel played the single on night-time Radio 1 and Simon Mayo made it single of the week. Whenever we played the song live, the reaction was carnage, in a good way. We were very young and excited and had all these mad ideas. Then Chris Nagle wanted to spend more time mixing it at Strawberry studio in Stockport, where he’d worked on the Joy Division stuff with Martin Hannett and where bands s like the Human League and the Housemartins had recorded. When we recorded it, Tim was stuck in a tailback on the M6, so the vocals were added when he finally made it. After the second chorus, we dropped it down to the bass, like all the best old Stax and funk tunes. I remember telling him, “Try to make it sound like morse code”, which he did. To give The Only One I Know a bit more urgency, Jon Baker added a stream of repetitive guitar notes similar to part of the Supremes’ You Keep Me Hangin’ On. Then Rob Collins, who played the Hammond organ, would put chord sequences over it to give it a template and add some organ stabs. In those days, most of our songs would start off with just drums and bass. The repetitive beats rubbed off on what we were doing, so we suddenly sounded like the Spencer Davis Group on E.
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We’d been influenced by the Stranglers, Stax Records, Joy Division and the Doors, but when everything came together in the summer of 89 acid house was in full swing. 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. I’m still not sure which bit is the chorus. Then when we got to the studio there was a fax from Beggars Banquet, who’d just signed us, also saying: “We think you should record The Only One I Know.” We went into the Windings studio in Wrexham to record the song Polar Bear as our second single, but my mate Jonah – David Jones – said: “You’re recording the wrong one!” He’d come to all our gigs and pointed out that everyone went nuts for The Only One I Know. I was ecstatic when the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn said he loved us. 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. It’s a song about teenage feelings: I like somebody, why do they not like me? I was 21 or 22, but still had those powerful emotions. The intro gives people just enough time to get on the dancefloor I didn’t have my Dictaphone, which I always carried around with me, so had to pelt back to my mum and dad’s to get it before I forgot it all. I had a job at ICI and one night after tea with mum and dad, I went to the local garage to get some fags and halfway there realised I had the melody and some words. The Only One I Know was an instrumental at first. The Electric Crayons’ first single, with me singing, came out on the day I joined the Charlatans. Martin Blunt, the bass player, went: “Right, let’s try again, but can you try singing this time?” I did and everything clicked. In the Electric Crayons we’d covered LA Woman by the Doors, so at first I did a sort of Jim Morrison impression.
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When I got there, it turned out the singer had left, and they asked if I would have a go. It was more a case of: “Would you like to come down to Wednesbury in the Midlands and hang out?” Shortly after that, I got a call from the band. I ended up jumping on stage and singing one of their songs. They had a different singer, Baz Ketley, then. I was in a band called the Electric Crayons and we managed to get a gig supporting the Charlatans.