(UK) Squeeze – “Goodbye Girl”, “Cool For Cats”, “Up The Junction”, “Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)”, “Tempted”, “Black Coffee In Bed” and “Annie Get Your Gun”

Squeeze are a UK band (I always thought they were called UK Squeeze) who began charting in the late Seventies with songs like “Goodbye Girl”, “Cool For Cats” and “Up The Junction” and continued to record in the Eighties and Nineties.

Actually I’ve just seen that they were called UK Squeeze initially outside the UK to avoid legal conflicts with other bands in North America and Australia, this must have been the time when I first became aware of them.

I don’t know any of the songs from their first album, “Squeeze”, but I do recognise numbers from the second, “Cool For Cats”.

Two tracks from this one reached Number 2 on the UK charts, “Cool For Cats” and “Up The Junction”.

I remember the live band at the Majestic Hotel in Palmerston North, New Zealand, playing “Cool For Cats” in 1979.

Most of their other songs I know I actually taped off a live show in Germany a few years later.

Here’s the 1978 track “Goodbye Girl”:

“Cool For Cats”, from the album of the same name, went to No. 2 in the UK and 5 in Australia:

Many Squeeze songs tell a story, and the 1979 track “Up The Junction”, another No. 2 hit, is no exception (if you’ve heard of the big railway junction just south of London, you’ll get the play on words in this one) :

The following year Squeeze again had a number of singles, one of them was “Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)”, sung here live on TV a few years later in 1985:

Another Squeeze favourite from around this time is “Tempted”:

And “Black Coffee In Bed”:

“Annie Get Your Gun” is a typical Squeeze track:

And this is “Annie Get Your Gun” live in 1982:

I hear Squeeze are together and touring again, must keep an eye out for them…

Paul

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