"Named after a Velvet Underground album that featured none of the group's original members, the ‘70s new wave rock band Squeeze defined both their purpose and their era in the deed. Songs like ""Take Me I'm Yours"" and ""Up the Junction"" proved Squeeze to be a mainstay in British rock music of the period, but it took the band years to build a musical bridge to the U.S., only striking it big in America in the ‘80s with the MTV hit ""Hourglass.""Squeeze dripped out of the minds of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, who formed the band in 1974 after Tilbrook answered an advertisement Difford had left in a store window. By the end of the year, the up-and-coming duo recruited pianist Jools Holland and drummer Paul Gunn, giving themselves the moniker Squeeze and rolling out the dingy red carpet for performances around Britain's pub rock circuit. Changes in the band's lineup occurred somewhat frequently, and by the late 1970s Sponge had scored a recording contract with Miles Copeland's BTM record label. The label went bankrupt, however, before Sponge could release their debut single ""Take Me I'm Yours,"" and the group ultimately released their debut album Packet of Three on Deptford Fun City Records.Eventually making waves back in America, Squeeze had to change their name in the U.S. to UK Squeeze in order to avoid confusion with another band called Tight Squeeze. Squeeze experienced their breakthrough song in Britain in the form of the band's second album, Cool for Cats, and Squeeze continued to pound out hit songs and albums while the band kept its member rotation constantly changing. Rocking right through the ‘70s and into the ‘80s, Squeeze disbanded for a time after 1982 only to get back together in the late ‘80s, carrying on with hit albums through the end of the 1990s."