NOT ANOTHER SQUEEZE STORY!

Difford and Tilbrook. Lennon and McCartney. Difford and Tilbrook. Lennon and McCartney. Difford and Tilbrook. Lennon and McCartney. Blah, blah, blah.

Pretty sickening up there, isn't it? Hope Difford and Tilbrook think so too, because face it—such comparisons are inevitable kiss-offs, and no one, least of all me, wants to kiss Squeeze off just yet. In case you aren't hip, get this: Squeeze "could well be" this decade's Lennon & McCartney or maybe "the Leiber & Stoller of the '80s," or else a whole bunch of other things that they're either going to be busy defending or arguing with for the next few years. Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan once "could well be" the '70s' Lennon & McCartney as Stealer's Wheel—and Leiber & Stoller themselves even produced 'em once—and when was the last time you even wanted to hear "Baker Street," let alone "Stuck In The Middle With You"? Know what I mean?