Watch Squeeze 'The Place We Call Mars' Video
(Republic) Squeeze release a music video for 'The Place We Call Mars', the latest track to be taken from their critically acclaimed album Trixies. The release comes as Squeeze return from a major 27-date run across North America which took the band to some of the continent's most celebrated venues, including New York's Radio City Music Hall and a landmark performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
One of the darker corners of the world of Trixies, 'The Place We Call Mars' is a vivid crime-scene vignette, another example of the extraordinary storytelling instincts that Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook were already developing when they first wrote the songs for the album as teenagers.
It is a song whose journey stretches back more than half a century. Trixies was conceived in 1974, when Difford was 19 and Tilbrook just 16, at the very beginning of one of British music's most enduring songwriting partnerships. Set in and around a fictional nightclub, its cast of characters and interlocking stories were imagined years before Squeeze would make their first record.
At the time, the pair had the songs and the ambition but not yet the musical experience to realise what they could hear in their heads. As Difford explained: "We fully committed ourselves to songwriting but this was three or four years before we even got to make our first record. Long story short, these were songs that we just didn't have enough musical experience to record properly."
More than 50 years later, after pulling out the old cassette, Squeeze finally returned to those songs. Produced by Squeeze bassist Owen Biddle (The Roots, John Legend, Al Green), Trixies became both the band's first studio album in eight years and, remarkably, the first album they ever wrote.
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