Squeeze - Biography Of The Band
The band broke up in 1999, but reunited for a tour of the USA and UK in 2007, the reunion being so successful that Squeeze now have dates for a 2008 tour of the USA in August (but unfortunately nowhere near Florida).
The band's founding members in 1974 were Chris Difford (guitar, vocals, lyrics), Glenn Tilbrook (vocals, guitar, music), Jools Holland (keyboards), and Paul Gunn (drums), with Gilson Lavis replacing Gunn on drums and Harry Kakoulli on bass in 1976.
Squeeze's early career was spent perfoming live gigs in the Deptford area of Southeast London, where they were part of a lively local music scene which included other new bands at the time including Alternative TV and Dire Straits.
Cool For Cats, their second LP which was released in 1979, spawned four hit singles, the first Up The Junction which was losley based on the 1960's cult film of the same name, then Cool For Cats, Goodbye Girl and finally Slap And Tickle. The first two of these both reached #2 in the UK charts, and between them brought about success worldwide for the band.
Jools Holland left the band in 1980 and was replaced by highly-rated singer-keyboardist Paul Carrack, a former member of the British soul-pop band Ace. In 1981 Squeeze released perhaps their best-known album, East Side Story. This was produced by Elvis Costello and Roger Bechirian, and featured Carrack's lead vocals on the radio hit Tempted. Carrack himself left after the release of East Side Story, and was replaced by Don Snow. This line-up recorded the Sweets From A Stranger LP in 1982. Negative reviews, the stresses of touring, and conflicts between band members led the band to break up later that year, after releasing a final single, Annie Get Your Gun.
I remember listening to Up The Junction and Cool For Cats and the radio stations were likening the sound to The Beatles. I used to love this band, still do, and it's a pleasure to create this tribute lens to one of their great hits, the song that first endered me to them.
Song Lyrics: Up The Junction by Squeeze
Written by: Squeeze from the Album: "Cool For Cats" - 1975
With me and the girl from Clapham
Out on the windy common
That night I ain't forgotten
Where she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said you are a lady
Perhaps she said I may be
We moved into a basement
With talks of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissin'
The Railway Arms we're missin'
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up
I got a job with Stanley
He said I'd come in handy
And he started me on Monday
So I had a bath on Sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she'd seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her
I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
And little kicks inside her
This morning at four fifty
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another
And now she's two years older
Her mother's with a soldier
She left me with my drinkin'
Became a proper stingin'
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling
Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there's somethin' missin'
I beg for some forgiveness
But beggin's not my business
And she won't write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it's my assumption
I'm really up the junction
Squeeze CD's from Amazon
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Up The Junction - Top Of The Pops
Squeeze - Up the Junction (TOTP)
Squeeze performing their #2 single "Up the Junction" on Top of the Pops from December 1979. Introduced by Dave Lee Travis and Mike Read.
Up The Junction - Music Video
Up The Junction - Accoustic Version 2007
Squeeze - Up The Junction
Squeeze perform their classic hit, 'Up The Junction' on the critically acclaimed Sky Arts show, 'Songbook.'
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AndyPo wrote...
I am a big fan of Squeeze. I still occasionally see the pianist, Jools Holland, play live. He does a "picnic" concert in Marble Hill Park, next to the Thames in Twickenham (which I can see from my lounge) and in Kew Gardens each summer.
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Posted November 15, 2008
JustBon-Crochet-Designs wrote...
A favorite by Squeeze. BTW Poddys, I think this was from 1979, no? Another great lens :) 5*s
Posted October 03, 2008
CleanerLife wrote...
I've never heard Up the Junction, even though songs like Cool for Cats, Tempted, Black Coffee In Bed, and Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) were standards on the college and classic rock stations I listened to in the 90's.
Posted September 18, 2008
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