"In September 1974, when they were hopeful teenage unknowns in Deptford, Squeeze created a concept album, Trixies, set in a fictional south London nightclub. Believing they had come up with a substantial work, they recorded the 10 tracks on a borrowed Revox tape machine and expected the world to fall at their feet. But nothing happened. All our friends liked it, says singer and lead guitarist Glenn Tilbrook, who turned 17 just before the recording."
"When Chris and I met in 1973, he started giving me lyrics, says Tilbrook. We'd write eight or nine songs in a few days and just kept popping them out. We grew as songwriters at such a rate because we had nothing else to do. We weren't getting gigs or getting signed. But somewhere in ourselves we had the ability to produce stuff of the highest quality from virtually the moment we met."
In September 1974 Squeeze recorded Trixies, a concept album set in a fictional south London nightclub, using a borrowed Revox tape machine to capture ten tracks. The band expected immediate recognition but received only praise from friends and shelved the project. Within five years they achieved major success with hits like Cool for Cats and Up the Junction, earning songwriting praise for Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook. After fifty years of career achievements, Difford and Tilbrook have rerecorded Trixies to fulfill their teenage vision, releasing a taster track that reveals early hallmarks of melody, romance and storytelling. Early prolific songwriting grew from having little else to do, while musicianship matured over decades to better realize the songs.
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