History Music / SqueezeBand

* ADateWithRosiePalms: The opening line of "Touching Me Touching You"
-->"[[RefugeInAudacity I'm always touching myself]]"

* RevolvingDoorBand: Those that aren't Difford or Tilbrook tend to change, although Gilson and Jools both came back post-breakup.

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As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_(band) The Other Wiki]].

For the final Music/VelvetUnderground album of the same name (which the group took their name from), see ''[[Music/{{Squeeze1973}} Squeeze]]''.

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! '''''Tempted by the tropes of another''''':

* SopranoAndGravel: Compare Tilbrook's highers vocal to Difford's raspy vocals.

* SeriesFauxnale: ''Sweets from a Stranger'' functions as this: their "last" album followed by their "last" tour, "last" TV appearance[[note]]A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' hosted by child star Creator/DrewBarrymore[[/note]], etc. As it turned out Difford and Tilbrook continued to collaborate and were calling themselves "Squeeze" again within 3 years, although they became more of a RevolvingDoorBand.
* ShoutOut: "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" mentions "A Harold [=Robbins=] paperback"
* SopranoAndGravel: Compare Tilbrook's higher vocal to Difford's raspy vocal.

* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Sex Master"

* RevolvingDoorBand: Those that aren't Difford or Tilbrook tend to change, although Gilson and Jools both came back post break up.

-->"[[RefugeInAudacity I’m always touching myself]]"

-->'''Squeeze''', "''Cool For Cats''"

Squeeze is a new wave band from Deptford, South London. The group formed in 1974 when Glenn Tilbrook answered an advertisement Chris Difford posted looking for a guitarist and bandmate. The two began writing music together, and were soon recording and publicly performing. Their first hit came in 1978 with "Take Me, I’m Yours". The band experienced great success, at least in the U.K., with songs that followed, including "Cool For Cats", "Up the Junction”, "Tempted", "Labelled With Love" and "Black Coffee In Bed".

Squeeze is a new wave band from Deptford, South London. The group formed in 1974 when Glenn Tilbrook answered an advertisement Chris Difford posted looking for a guitarist and bandmate. The two began writing music together, and were soon recording and publicly performing. Their first hit came in 1978 with "Take Me, I’m Yours". The band experienced great success, at least in the U.K., with songs that followed, including "Cool For Cats", "Up The Junction”, "Tempted", "Labelled With Love" and "Black Coffee In Bed".

The group broke up for the first time in 1982 due to artistic and personal tensions in the band, especially between main songwriters Difford and Tilbrook. Realizing that their songwriting partnership was too valuable to be scrapped, Difford and Tilbrook collaborated again in 1984 to release a Squeeze-unaffiliated album (aptly titled ''Difford &Tilbrook'') before reforming in 1985 as Squeeze once again. Further chart success followed, including the US hit “Hourglass” in 1987. The band continue to tour and record today.

* ''Cool For Cats'' (1978)

* ''Sweets From A Stranger'' (1982)

* ''Babylon And On'' (1987)

* ''Spot The Difference'' (2010)
* ''Cradle To The Grave'' (2015)

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Difford on "Love Circles" and "Cool for Cats". Keyboardist (and later vocalist for Mike + the Mechanics) Paul Carrack on "Tempted."

!!Cool for Tropes

* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Gilson Lavis had this said about him prior to sobriety

* {{Homage}}: to ''Series/TheSweeney'' in ''Cool For Cats''

* RevolvingDoorBand: Those that aren't Difford or Tilbrook tend to change, although Gilson and Jools both came back post break up

* VisualPun: In the logo on the front cover of ''East Side Story'', the second "e" in "Squeeze" is printed much smaller than the rest of the word - thus, the middle of their name is being "squeezed".

-->"I’m always touching myself"

For the final Music/VelvetUnderground album of the same name, see ''[[Music/{{Squeeze1973}} Squeeze]]''.

* BreakupBreakout: Jools Holland went on to have a very successful career as a television presenter with his show ''Later...with Jools Holland'' while also having a solo career which produced two platinum selling albums.

Glenn Tilbrook and and Chris Difford have remained the two constants in the band’s lineup through their many years together. Other notable and long-standing members in the band include keyboardists Jools Holland and Paul Carrack, bassists John Bentley and Keith Wilkinson, and drummer Gilson Lavis. The current line-up consists of Tilbrook, Difford, keyboardist Stephen Large, basist Yolanda Charles, drummer Simon Hanson and percussionist Steve Smith.

Glenn Tilbrook and and Chris Difford have remained the two constants in the band’s lineup through their many years together. Other notable and long-standing members in the band include keyboardists Jools Holland and Paul Carrack, bassists John Bentley and Keith Wilkinson, and drummer Gilson Lavis. The current line-up consists of Tilbrook, Difford, bassist Lucy Shaw, keyboardist Stephen Large and drummer Simon Hanson.