“One to Another” by The Charlatans

"One to Another" came out in 1996 as the first single from Tellin' Stories, the Charlatans' fifth album, and it carries a heavy weight: it was the band's first release after the death of keyboardist Rob Collins, who is still there in the writing credits alongside Martin Blunt, Jon Brookes, Tim Burgess and Mark Collins. Rather than mourn quietly, they came out swinging, with drum loops supplied by Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers pushing their guitars toward the dancefloor.

It worked. The single climbed to number three on the UK Singles Chart, still the highest any Charlatans song has reached, and years later it found a new audience as the theme tune to E4's My Mad Fat Diary.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.