{"id":1219,"date":"2008-10-21T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2008-10-21T00:35:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T23:35:05","slug":"squeeze-deptford-fun-city-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/squeeze-deptford-fun-city-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Squeeze – Deptford Fun City Records – 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Night Ride \/ Back Track<\/a><\/p>\n

Debut release on Deptford Fun City Records, also the first 12\u2033 offering from Squeeze to hit the public during the height of the new wave boom in 1977. Squeeze who were active in the mid 1970\u2019s\u00a0got a fair amount of\u00a0inspiration from bands like The Count Bishops, Dr Feelgood and Kilburn\u00a0And The High Roads.<\/p>\n

Squeeze were soon\u00a0to experience critical acclaim and high chart positions from the following releases for A & M Records after this introduction on the small independant record label Deptford Fun City.\u00a0Miles Copeland of Deptford Fun City managed to\u00a0hustle John Cale down to Pathway Studios to produce the tracks on this 12\u2033 record which was a bit of a coup.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Text below courtesy of wikki\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The band\u2019s founding members in March 1974 were Chris Difford (guitar, vocals, lyrics), Glenn Tilbrook (vocals, guitar, music), Jools Holland (keyboards), and Paul Gunn (drums). The group played under several names, most frequently \u201cCaptain Trundlow\u2019s Sky Company\u201d or \u201cSkyco\u201d, before selecting the band name \u201cSqueeze\u201d as a facetious tribute to The Velvet Underground\u2019s oft-derided 1973 album of the same name.<\/p>\n

Gilson Lavis replaced Gunn on drums and Harry Kakoulli joined on bass in 1976.<\/p>\n

Squeeze\u2019s early career was spent around Deptford in SE London, where they were part of a lively local music scene which included Alternative TV and Dire Straits. The group\u2019s early singles and debut EP, 1977\u2019s Packet of Three, were released on the Deptford Fun City Label.<\/p>\n

Squeeze\u2019s first EP and most of its self-titled debut album (1978) were produced by John Cale for A&M Records. However, the debut album\u2019s two hit singles (\u201cTake Me I\u2019m Yours\u201d and \u201cBang Bang\u201d) were produced by the band themselves, as the label found Cale\u2019s recordings uncommercial.<\/p>\n

In the United States and Canada, the band and album were dubbed U.K. Squeeze<\/em> due to legal conflicts arising from a contemporary American band called \u201cTight Squeeze\u201d. The \u201cU.K.\u201d was dropped for all subsequent releases. In Australia, the same name change was used due to legal conflicts arising from an existing Sydney-based band also called \u201cSqueeze\u201d. Albums in Australia were credited to U.K. Squeeze<\/em> up to and including Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s second album, Cool for Cats<\/em> (1979), contained the band\u2019s two highest charting UK singles in \u201cCool For Cats\u201d and \u201cUp The Junction\u201d, both of which peaked at #2. John Bentley replaced Harry Kakoulli on bass in 1979 following the release of the LP.<\/p>\n

Argybargy<\/em> (1980), the band\u2019s third album, was also a UK hit. It was additionally a mild breakthrough in North America, as the single \u201cAnother Nail In My Heart\u201d was a #56 hit in Canada, and second single \u201cPulling Mussels From The Shell\u201d received airplay on US Rock stations.<\/p>\n

Keyboardist Jools Holland left the band for a solo career in 1980. Keyboard duties were taken over by highly-rated singer-keyboardist Paul Carrack, a former member of British soul-pop band Ace, who scored a major international hit with the song \u201cHow Long.\u201d Carrack had also been a member of Roxy Music.<\/p>\n

In 1981 the band cut perhaps their best-known album, East Side Story<\/em>. It was produced by Elvis Costello and Roger Bechirian, and featured Carrack\u2019s lead vocals on the radio hit \u201cTempted\u201d. Carrack himself left after the release of East Side Story<\/em>, and was replaced by Don Snow. This line-up recorded the Sweets From A Stranger<\/em> LP in 1982. Negative reviews, the stresses of touring, and conflict between band members led Difford and Tilbrook to break up the band later that year, after releasing a final single, \u201cAnnie Get Your Gun\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cat On A Wall Night Ride \/ Back Track Debut release on Deptford Fun City Records, also the first 12\u2033 offering from Squeeze to hit the public during the height of the new wave boom in 1977. Squeeze who were active in the mid 1970\u2019s\u00a0got a fair amount of\u00a0inspiration from bands like The Count Bishops, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}