Squeeze (band)

Squeeze
Squeeze performing in 2021
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genres	New wave pop rock post-punk power pop
Years active	1974–1982 1985–1999 2007–present
Labels	A&M I.R.S. Ark 21 Reprise Quixotic Records
Spinoffs	Difford & Tilbrook Glenn Tilbrook & the Fluffers
Members	Glenn Tilbrook Chris Difford Simon Hanson Stephen Large Steve Smith Owen Biddle Melvin Duffy
Past members	Jools Holland Gilson Lavis Keith Wilkinson Paul Carrack Don Snow Paul Gunn Harri Kakoulli John Bentley Chris Holland Andy Metcalfe Matt Irving Pete Thomas Kevin Wilkinson Hilaire Penda Ash Soan Chris Braide Steve Nieve Lucy Shaw Yolanda Charles Sean Hurley
Website	Official Squeeze Website

Squeeze are an English rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording in the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. In the UK, their singles "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction", and "Labelled with Love" were top-ten chart hits. Though not as commercially successful in the United States, Squeeze had American hits with "Tempted", "Black Coffee in Bed", and "Hourglass",^[1] and were considered a part of the Second British Invasion.^[2]

In the vast majority of their material, lyrics are written by Chris Difford and music by Glenn Tilbrook, who are guitarists and vocalists in the band. The duo were hailed as "the heirs to Lennon and McCartney's throne" during the band's initial popularity in the late 1970s.^[3] The group formed in Deptford, London, in 1974,^[4] and first broke up in 1982. Squeeze then reformed in 1985, and disbanded again in 1999.^[5]

The band reunited for tours through the United States and United Kingdom in 2007.^[3] In 2010, they issued Spot the Difference, an album of newly recorded versions of older material. The band's first album of all-new material since 1998, Cradle to the Grave, was released in October 2015,^[6] followed by another album, The Knowledge, in October 2017.^[7]