Talk:Squeeze
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[edit] Singles
I've been taking on the project of doing articles for each of the band's singles for the last few months -- haven't done anything on Wikipedia prior to that, so if there's anything I can do to polish / improve my work here, feel free to let me know! Mrmctorso
They are known for their hit songs "Cool For Cats," "Up The Junction," "Tempted," and "Hourglass," among many others.
Black Coffee in Bed should be listed there. I watched MTV a lot back in the day and here in the US I saw it on MTV more than any other Squeeze song.
Also info should be added about the VH1 Bands Reunited thing.
[edit] Removed ludicrous statement
"The two main writing partners in the band, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, are widely considered to be among the finest melodic pop songwriters of their generation and have often been compared with the legendary Lennon-McCartney partnership, although unlike The Beatles, Difford and Tilbrook's direct collaboration on songs continued through most of the group's career."
Do ya think perhaps a Squeeze fan wrote that? Damiancorrigan 11:22, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah I've thought about cutting that one myself. There are plenty of citations you could make from the early 80's about critics and A&M pushing to get the band labeled as "the new Lennon & McCartney" (the label even put that on a sticker on the first pressing of Sweets from a Stranger). The band hated being labeled as such, though, and blame a lot of their mediocre mid-'80s material on that ridiculous amount of pressure. So, in context, we could keep some of that in the article, but as it was, it came across as pure fan gushing. Mrmctorso 21:39, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Removed dangling sentence re Kevin Wilkinson's suicide
Kevin Wilkinson did in fact hang himself at his home, but he was not a member of Squeeze at the time, and it's not really relevant to the band's history. Plus, the position of the sentence in the article was extremely awkward, and not realy connected to anything before it.
Of course, if you click on the Kevin Wilkinson link, details of his death are there, as they should be.
