Vlog 041 - SqueezeIn mid-2010 Squeeze made another of their musical comebacks, releasing an album called "Spot The Difference" and playing a series of high profile gigs in Europe and North America. It took a while to make it to the trading community, but when we received a DVD copy of their NYC Bryant Park concert a few weeks back, filmed as part of PBS's Artist Den series, we knew it was time for a retrospective of one of England's best loved and most literate post-punk bands.
We set up the Squeeze story with some choice interview clips from the Sky Arts show "Songbook". Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, two musical friends â one providing lyrics, the other melody â swap cassettes by mail, sign to a label and suddenly find themselves heralded as the next Lennon and McCartney. After a disastrous initial recording session with John Cale (their debut album yields only one memorable track â "Take Me I'm Yours") but they find their way with their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th records which are rightly considered pop rock ...
