Thursday music corner: Squeeze are a British rock band formed in London in 1974, which first came to prominence in the new wave era. The band, which formed around the nucleus of Chris Difford and Glen Tilbrook, released fifteen studio albums from 1978 to 2017, four of which reached the top twenty of the UK album charts. From 1978 to 1996 Squeeze scored eleven UK top 40 singles, plus a US pop chart success peaking with Hourglass (number 15 in 1987).
Tempted is a Difford and Tilbrook 'blue-eyed soul' composition, sung at producer Elvis Costello's suggestion by the band's new keyboardist Paul Carrack. (An earlier version produced by Dave Edmunds featured Tilbrook singing). It was the second single released from the band's East Side Story album. While it only reached number 41 on the UK charts at the time, it grew in stature, was covered by many artists, and now remains one of the band's best-loved songs. They recorded a remixed and overdubbed version for the Reality Bites soundtrack in 1993.
Squeeze - Tempted (1981)
No comments:
Post a Comment