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Difford & Tilbrook are the songwriting team of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, known for their work as the principal writers for the New Wave rock band Squeeze. In addition to playing guitar for the band, they are responsible for the group's many hits, including Cool for Cats, Up the Junction, Another Nail In My Heart, Pulling Mussels (From the Shell), Tempted, and Annie Get Your Gun. They have both written independently outside the band, and together wrote the music for the British sit-com Girls on Top starring Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax and Tracey Ullman.

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 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 with Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Squeeze continues to be whatever rotating band membership assembles around the two songwriters.

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 re-formed in 1985, they took Keith Wilkinson with them to become the band's official bassist. The album received a very limited pressing as a CD in Japan only, and these have become valuable collector's items.

Because Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook have always been the songwriters and only constant members of Squeeze, Difford & Tilbrook is often considered to be a Squeeze album in all but name.[1] Several remastered tracks from this album have been included on Squeeze compilations such as Piccadilly Collection and Excess Moderation (both released in 1996). Additionally, the track Hope Fell Down has been played frequently during Squeeze's 2010 tour, among many other songs originally released under the Squeeze name.[2]