Highlights from the sessions included the aggressive “Sex Master,” the Velvets-esque “Strong In Reason” and the Eastern-influenced “Take Me, I’m Yours,” which provided the band with a Top 20 hit and their first appearance on Top Of The Pops. The fledgling band quickly laid down their self-titled debut LP (recently reissued on vinyl, along with 1980s Argybargy) with one of their heroes, ex-Velvet Underground star John Cale, producing. Selling a highly respectable 25,000 copies and significantly raising the band’s profile (they were invited to record a coveted Peel session on August 17), Packet Of Three led to Squeeze signing to major label A&M late in ’77.
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Featuring the fierce, atypically punky “ Cat On A Wall,” their initial Packet Of Three EP was released through Deptford Fun City, the independent imprint formed by Alternative TV frontman/ Sniffin’ Glue fanzine founder Mark Perry and the band’s manager Miles Copeland (brother of The Police’s Stewart). Squeeze made their vinyl debut in July 1977. After some line-up changes and a fanbase-building residency at The Bricklayers Arms in Greenwich, the band settled into their “classic” line-up, with Difford and Tilbrook supplemented by powerhouse drummer Gilson Lavis, bassist Harri Kakoulli (later replaced by John Bentley), and prodigiously gifted pianist Jools Holland. Hailing from Deptford, in southeast London, budding teenage singer-songwriters Difford and Tilbrook founded the band in 1974, taking their name from The Velvet Underground’s obscure final LP, recorded after the departure of mainstays Lou Reed and John Cale.
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