Talk:Squeeze (band)

message: I've been taking on the project of doing articles for each of the band's singles for the last few months -- haven't done anything on Wikipedia prior to that, so if there's anything I can do to polish / improve my work here, feel free to let me know! Mrmctorso
:Looking forward to it!   PitShig | @   22:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Singles

message: "The two main writing partners in the band, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, are widely considered to be among the finest melodic pop songwriters of their generation and have often been compared with the legendary Lennon-McCartney partnership, although unlike The Beatles, Difford and Tilbrook's direct collaboration on songs continued through most of the group's career."
Do ya think perhaps a Squeeze fan wrote that? Damiancorrigan 11:22, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah I've thought about cutting that one myself. There are plenty of citations you could make from the early 80's about critics and A&M pushing to get the band labeled as "the new Lennon & McCartney" (the label even put that on a sticker on the first pressing of Sweets from a Stranger). The band hated being labeled as such, though, and blame a lot of their mediocre mid-'80s material on that ridiculous amount of pressure. So, in context, we could keep some of that in the article, but as it was, it came across as pure fan gushing. Mrmctorso 21:39, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Although the songwriting methodology might be worthy of a mention, provided their songs are still collaborations and not just credited as such. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 06:33, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed ludicrous statement

message: Kevin Wilkinson did in fact hang himself at his home, but he was not a member of Squeeze at the time, and it's not really relevant to the band's history.  Plus, the position of the sentence in the article was extremely awkward, and not realy connected to anything before it.
Of course, if you click on the Kevin Wilkinson link, details of his death are there, as they should be.
Date of birth is missing. It is written more like a fan story than factual.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.232.132 (talk) 01:45, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed dangling sentence re Kevin Wilkinson's suicide

message: Just want to congratulate whoever did those fantastic band member graphs. This is the kind of thing that makes Wikipedia great!!!
Xzqx (talk) 15:36, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Then I noticed that the yellow "additional keyboards" bit of the legend is cut off on the middle graph. I tried to fix it by increasing the width of the graph but that completely borked it. It's a shame -- would be nice if someone more familiar with wikipedia graphs could try and fix -- or is it a bug in the wiki software? Xzqx (talk) 15:45, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great graphs 

message: This seems to be causing some controversy.  My vinyl copy has Bentley as the bassist on the album but the CD lists the bassist as Kakoulli as well as having what appears to be a photo of Kakoulli.  Bearing in mind the CD has a year of 1991 I assume that the CD has it wrong and the vinyl is correct.  It is also Bentley who appears in the videos for all the singles from the Cool for Cats album.  Just to complicate matters further both the "Singles, 45s and Under" vinyl and CD list Kakoulli as the bassist and the book "Squeeze song by song" refers to the first recording made by the Bentley lineup as November 1979.
I think that A&M records made the original mistake and that everyone else has followed suit.  I think Kakoulli was ousted after the FIRST album (Squeeze) NOT the second album (Cool for Cats).  Anyone know for sure before I change it?89.241.47.244 (talk) 19:22, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Pretty sure Kakoulli did play bass on CfC for all the reasons you listed above, along with the fact that my vinyl copy does in fact name Kakoulli. I believe he was ousted after the album was recorded but prior to album promotion and touring, etc. Mrmctorso (talk) 22:56, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harry Kakoulli or John Bentley played bass on Cool for Cats album? 

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message: The first sentence says that "Squeeze are a British band.." but the article later says Squeeze disbanded in 1999. Should this not say, therefore, that Squeeze were a British band? Vorbee (talk) 09:16, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: No — they disbanded in 1999 but re-banded 2007 and released their latest album only a couple of months ago, as the next paragraph makes clear. Qwfp (talk) 09:21, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: If the band is disbanded...

message: He gets a mention in the story but is not included in the Timeline. Nick's own page describes him as a past band member, coming here I found it all a bit ambiguous & hard to get at. Just saying...86.148.15.250 (talk) 18:42, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Harper may have felt as if he were a band member, but he explicitly appeared as a guest at shows (and on one track on Domino).  He was never actually an official member of the group.  His Wikipedia entry says he was a touring member of Squeeze, which seems accurate.  70.29.86.232 (talk) 23:34, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nick Harper 

message: It's doubtful that even D&T's parents could have cared about the mountain of trivialities in this entry. Can someone pare this down about 70 percent so it is as long as it deserves to be? No offense to Squeeze, not Squeeze, sort of Squeeze, actually not really Squeeze, and Squeeze again. Nicmart (talk) 01:31, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Details, details, and more details