Squeeze Grantham Tickets

“Squeeze” is the English group of the new wave, in which punk, pub, glam, and rock art themes were combined with classic pop traditions of the 60s. Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook (the first one wrote the lyrics, the second – music) never concealed the fact that their idols were Lennon and McCartney. The band's history began when Chris Difford placed on the window of a music store an ad and the other aspiring author and guitarist Glenn Tilbrook answered it. In March 1974, they signed up the keyboardist Jools Holland and the drummer Paul Gunn. The quartet called itself “Squeeze” – in honor of the album of “Velvet Underground” and soon, they gained fame on the London pub scene, though, they played music soft and frilly with little resemblance to a typical pub-rock. Read more