| "Cool for Cats" | ||||
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| Single by Squeeze | ||||
| from the album Cool for Cats | ||||
| B-side | "Model" | |||
| Released | 9 March 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
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| Length | 3:39 (album version) 3:10 (single version) | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
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| "Cool for Cats" on YouTube | ||||
"Cool for Cats" is a song by English rock band Squeeze, released as the second single from their album of the same name. The song features a rare lead vocal performance from cockney-accented Squeeze lyricist Chris Difford, one of the only two occasions he sang lead on a Squeeze single A-side (the other was 1989's "Love Circles"). The song, slightly edited from the album track, peaked at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart in 1979, making "Cool for Cats" one of the band's biggest hits.
- ^ a b Mason, Stewart. "Cool for Cats - Squeeze". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (17 July 2000). "A Flock of Haircuts: New Wave". Night Moves - Pop Music in the Late 70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-312-19821-3.
- ^ "The 80 Greatest Albums of 1980". Rolling Stone. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
A year after their cockney skinny-tie disco classic "Cool for Cats"...
- ^ "Set to Swing to Squeeze!". Staffordshire Newsletter. 18 September 1987.