Difford & Tilbrook are the songwriting team of Chris Difford

Chris Difford

Chris Difford is a singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer....

 and Glenn Tilbrook

Glenn Tilbrook

Glenn Martin Tilbrook is the lead singer and guitarist of the English band Squeeze, a band formed in the mid 1970s who broke through in the new wave era at the decade's end. He generally wrote the melody for Squeeze, while his writing partner, Chris Difford, wrote the lyrics...

, known for their work as the principal writers for the New Wave

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

 rock band Squeeze. In addition to playing guitar

Guitar

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 for the band, they are responsible for the group's many hits

Hit record

A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...

, including "Cool for Cats

Cool For Cats (song)

"Cool for Cats" was the second single released from Squeeze's Cool for Cats album. It featured a comparatively rare lead vocal performance from Squeeze lyricist Chris Difford, one of only two occasions he sang lead on a Squeeze single A-side...

, "Up the Junction," "Another Nail in My Heart

Another Nail In My Heart

"Another Nail in My Heart" is a 1980 song by the new wave band Squeeze. Written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, it was released on the album Argybargy, received positive critical reviews, and charted in the United Kingdom and Canada...

," "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)

Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)

"Pulling Mussels " is a new wave song by the band Squeeze. First released on the 1980 album Argybargy, it received positive critical reviews, peaked at #44 on the UK Singles Chart, and became one of Squeeze's most popular songs...

," "Tempted," and "Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun (song)

"Annie Get Your Gun" was a single released by the New Wave band Squeeze in 1982. It was not featured on any studio album, but has been included on a number of compilations, including Singles – 45's and Under...

." They have both written independently outside the band, and together wrote the music for the British sit-com Girls on Top

Girls On Top

Girls On Top was a British television sitcom on ITV from 1985 to 1986. It was conceived by and starred French & Saunders - their first high-profile writing for television - and despite a low budget and poor critical reception received high ratings. It was made for the ITV network by Central.The...

starring Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress. She has won two BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a Peoples Choice Award.She first came into...

, Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax is a BAFTA nominated American comedian who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s.-Early life:...

 and Tracey Ullman

Tracey Ullman

Tracey Ullman is a British stage and television actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author ....

.

Difford & Tilbrook was also the name under which the songwriters recorded and toured following the temporary break-up of Squeeze in 1982. That band reunited in 1985 after only one self-titled album

Difford & Tilbrook (album)

Difford & Tilbrook is the only studio album released by Difford & Tilbrook. Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook were the main songwriters in the New Wave band Squeeze until their 1982 breakup. The duo continued to write songs together, and in 1984 released this self-titled effort. When Squeeze...

 had been released from the pair. Having been issued during this brief three-year hiatus, many fans consider Difford & Tilbrook to be the "lost" Squeeze album. By 1993 Difford and Tilbrook were the only original members left in Squeeze, and like Steely Dan

Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...

 with Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen

Donald Jay Fagen is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the rock band Steely Dan ....

 and Walter Becker

Walter Becker

Walter Carl Becker is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bassist and a co-writer of Steely Dan.-Career:...

, Squeeze continues to be whatever rotating band membership assembles around the two songwriters.

Singles

• 1984 "Love's Crashing Waves
  Love's Crashing Waves
  "Love's Crashing Waves" was the first single released from Difford & Tilbrook's self-titled debut album. It was the act's only charting single in the UK , and by 1985 Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook had re-formed their previous band, Squeeze.-Track listing:7"# "Love's Crashing Waves" # "Within...
  
  " #57 UK
• 1984 "Hope Fell Down
  Hope Fell Down
  "Hope Fell Down" is the second single released from Difford & Tilbrook's self-titled debut album.-Track listing:7"# "Hope Fell Down" # "Actions Speak Faster" 12"# "Hope Fell Down" # "Hope Fell Down "...
  
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• 1984 "Picking Up The Pieces"