Old music: Squeeze – Up the Junction

Not a line is wasted in Squeeze's kitchen sink narrative about a boy, a girl and a baby This song opens with a keybaord phrase from Jools Holland that comes to an abrupt stop. Then the drums clump a tattoo and the first begins. Squeeze's 1979 hit single Up the Junction takes you straight from the street, via a couple of bangs on the feet at the doormat, into a living room. Chris Difford's lyrics for Up the Junction tell a two-minute story, the title a nod to the 1963 novel of the same title by N...

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