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"Charlatans singer Tim Burgess has admitted to running marathons while on ecstasy when he was younger. The veteran rocker claimed his band was confident that between 1994-97 they were the &amp;quot;biggest drug-takers&amp;quot; in the music industry. He also revealed that the reason that the group spent so much time working on albums during that period was that they were taking &amp;quot;way, way too many drugs&amp;quot;. Burgess told Uncut magazine: &amp;quot;We were doing a lot of speed, ecstasy, coke and skunk.  &amp;quot;But, while all that was going on, I&amp;#039;d be running marathons in my spare time. There&amp;#039;s nothing quite like running a marathon when you&amp;#039;re off your head on E.  &amp;quot;I look back on those times with great fondness.&amp;quot; The frontman claimed that the only reason he decided to stop taking illegal substances was that he didn&amp;#039;t want to end up &amp;quot;fat&amp;quot; like Elvis Presley. He added: &amp;quot;I found myself going through a Jim Morrison/Elvis stage, feeling all fat and horrible. Also, I started having problems with my liver and kidneys.  &amp;quot;My body started telling me that enough was enough and I decided it was time to pay attention.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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