Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford’s friendship “ended” nearly 50 years in the past.
Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook aren’t shut
The Up the Junction hitmakers nonetheless carry out and make music collectively however they’re now not as shut as they was and don’t have a relationship outdoors of the band.
Glenn admitted to MOJO journal: “Mine and Chris’ relationship successfully ended as a friendship in, I’d say, 1976.
“However as a band, we might nonetheless keep on and be productive.
“I believe Chris and Jools [Holland] had been far nearer than Chris and I had been.
“Throughout that point, I started to really feel the pull of Chris desirous to be doing one thing totally different to what we had been doing. And that was a bit bizarre for me.”
Even after Squeeze break up for the primary time in 1982, Chris and Glenn recorded their Difford + Tilbrook album collectively in 1984, however had been barely on talking phrases.
Chris admitted: “Difford + Tilbrook was a really troublesome interval the place we didn’t speak to one another for a 12 months, however we had been making a file and it was crazily obscure something.”
Glenn added: “Chris was actually horrible to be round at that time. OK, he might effectively say the identical factor about me, I don’t know, however the diploma of any belief that we might have in one another was utterly passed by then.
“I felt D+T was a chance for us to tackle board another kinds of music that Squeeze wouldn’t do. Songs like Love’s Crashing Waves and Hope Fell Down had been incorporating extra of a recent black music affect, however not less than one half of our duo didn’t actually like that.”
Glenn was deeply upset by Chris’ 2017 memoir Some Incredible Place: My Life In and Out of Squeeze however he thinks they’ve a greater relationship now.
He mentioned: “When Chris’ ebook got here out I discovered it actually upsetting.
“I believed, if he may be as disagreeable as he was to me in that ebook, and present no actual contrition, I didn’t wish to work with him any extra.
“I’m unsure how far more I ought to say. I’m unsure I ought to even say that.
“However – mockingly – I believe that our relationship since that time has been markedly modified for the higher.
“I’m unsure he would say the identical although.”
