Squeeze’s first Top 10 hit, Cool For Cats reached No.2, kept from the top by Art Garfunkel’s Bright Eyes. The way Glenn and I weave in and out of our lives, it’s a love story.” Ultimately, there’s an underlying current of admiration – from my end, at least – for Glenn as a writer and performer. It’s been a difficult coming and going with him. Chris, as befits a lyricist, chooses his words with care, his conversation more intense and serious than Squeeze’s melody writer.Ĭhris: “Glenn and I have got divorced three or four times, but we’ve never figured out who’d get to keep what from our record collections. Glenn is roughly as you’d expect from Squeeze’s songs: jovial, talking in a good-natured stream of consciousness, affectionately teasing his songwriting partner while also making clear both his frustrations and admiration. Over the course of two lengthy phone calls with the pair – Chris at his home in rural Sussex, Glenn from his studio on an industrial estate in Charlton – Chris seems right about those complications. “ Glenn and I have a complicated relationship – I think that’s why our songs are so brilliant,” says Chris Difford, summing up his and Glenn Tilbrook’s partnership that’s lasted for 46 years, with the occasional gap, since Glenn was the only person to answer Chris’ advert in a South London newsagent’s window looking for band members. In 2019, we spoke to Squeeze songwriters Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook as they revealed the stories behind some of the band’s mightiest songs…
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