Damas, Jason. "Difford & Tilbrook, Difford & Tilbrook". AllMusic. AllMusic Review . Retrieved 6 July 2019. That being said, in the same way that you have to walk before you run and add before you multiply, it was widely understood that Greatest Hits compilations were an essential part of human development. So, while they were not appreciated by the cognoscenti, they were tolerated by everyone else — but only inasmuch as there was a clear hierarchy. Following the release of Ridiculous, Don Snow (now known as Jonn Savannah) returned to Squeeze yet again as their touring keyboard player, but by 1997, the Squeeze line-up had officially dwindled down to just Difford and Tilbrook. That year the duo, billed as Squeeze, released the non-album single "Down in the Valley" as a fundraising single for Charlton Athletic F.C. Tilbrook formed the Quixotic label for this and future Squeeze-related releases, as well as releases by other artists.

Mullens, Joby. "Still time for Glenn to squeeze in a hit". Worcester News . Retrieved 30 June 2021. Nash, Jesse (14 September 1991). "Tony Berg Squeezes The Most Out Of Production For New Album" (PDF). Billboard. Vol.103, no.37. New York City, New York: Billboard. p.68 . Retrieved 4 January 2021. a b "Band Squeeze's 'message' for PM on Marr show". BBC News. 10 January 2016 . Retrieved 27 March 2022.

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Biography". Squeeze Official. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013 . Retrieved 29 March 2012. Squeeze embarked on their 'Spot The Difference' tour of the US in July 2010, which continued in the UK in November and December. The CD Spot The Difference, a re-recording of Squeeze's classic hits, was released in August 2010 to accompany the tour. On the US tour, during a performance of "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" live on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show, Stephen Large played the keyboard solo on an Apple iPad. [22] Difford doesn’t seem entirely convinced. “I’ve battled with aspects of the life. Touring was a huge struggle for quite a long time. But I’m sixty years old, I’ve come all this way, it’s not going to change now. I’m not suddenly going to become a plumber.” There is a long pause, while he seems to consider this. “Although a plumber would probably make more money.” From 2008 forward, Difford and Tilbrook repeatedly stated in interviews that they planned to produce an album of new Squeeze material; they alluded to this in on-camera interviews at V Festival in both 2008 and 2011. In January 2010, it was announced that they would be spending part of the coming summer in Italy together writing songs for a new Squeeze album, and in an interview on BBC Radio Wales on 10 November 2013, Tilbrook stated that Squeeze would be recording between January and March 2014. However these sessions never took place and Tilbrook ended up recording and releasing the solo album Happy Endings.

Here's the full, epic list of this year's Record Store Day releases". Gigwise.com . Retrieved 11 July 2018.Squeeze's first EP and most of their self-titled debut album (1978) were produced by John Cale for A&M Records. Cale had been a member of Velvet Underground from whose album Squeeze took their name. However, the debut album's two hit singles (" Take Me I'm Yours" and "Bang Bang") were produced by the band themselves, as the label found Cale's recordings uncommercial. [17] Catlin, Roger (8 July 1994). "Big, Glorious Harmonies From Squeeze, Mann". The Hartford Courant . Retrieved 4 January 2021. a b c d e f g h i j k Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Squeeze | Biography & History". AllMusic . Retrieved 24 December 2015.

Mehr, Bob (1 March 2016). Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements. Hachette Books. ISBN 978-0-306-82203-2. Squeeze performed in front of David Cameron on BBC's The Andrew Marr Show in January 2016 and used the performance to protest against the then-Prime Minister by changing the lyrics to their song "Cradle to the Grave". [26]Soon to be all gone,” says Tillbrook, looking out on the shabby estate. “It’s all been bought up. There’s high rises going up, but we’re staying put.” However, a 2004 attempt by the VH1 show Bands Reunited to reassemble the mid-1980s line-up of Squeeze (Difford, Tilbrook, Holland, Wilkinson and Lavis) ended in failure. While Difford and bassist Keith Wilkinson were both favourable to the idea and drummer Gilson Lavis expressed interest, Jools Holland felt he was too busy with current projects to participate. Even more crucially, Glenn Tilbrook eventually decided against a band reunion at that point in time.

In January 1985, the Argybargy lineup of Squeeze (with Jools Holland returning) reunited for a one-off performance. [2] Tilbrook and Difford subsequently chose to reform the group officially, with Keith Wilkinson taking Bentley's place on bass. [12] After the release of Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti, Holland's brother Christopher joined as a second keyboardist on tour, but was replaced shortly thereafter by Andy Metcalfe. [13] In the summer of 1987, he was made an official member in time for the release of Babylon and On. [14] Metcalfe had left by 1988, with his place taken by Matt Irving. [1] Eighth album Frank was released in 1989. [15] Around the same time, it was announced that Squeeze would be providing the music for a BBC drama called Cradle to Grave, based on the autobiography Going To Sea in a Sieve by Danny Baker. [24] Squeeze debuted the song "Cradle to the Grave" on their 2013 tour, whilst Difford and Tilbrook were photographed with Danny Baker on the set of Cradle to the Grave. [25]If tension was the band’s best feature, it was also their existential bug. It is incredibly hard to balance effective tension with effortless melody. But it’s harder still to manage tension within a band when it’s the defining aspect of its co-founders. Glenn Tilbrook, the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter, and Chris Difford, the other singer, guitarist and lyric writer, were childhood mates whose affection and admiration for each other was matched only by the friction and disdain they inspired in one another. The duo also contributed to a musical written and staged in Deptford during this period, entitled Labelled with Love and based in large part on the music of Squeeze. [4] Second incarnation: 1985–1999 [ edit ] a b c d e f g Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Squeeze: Biography & History". AllMusic . Retrieved 4 January 2021.