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While going on to be made into a play and a film, it was the subsequent 1965 TV adaptation by Ken Loach that is said to have inspired the song. The song’s title, also its final lyric, loosely translates to “up shit’s creek.” The title is borrowed from a 1963 short story collection by Nell Dunn which dealt with similar themes: working class life in Clapham Junction, casual sexual encounters, birth, abortion and poverty. More recently, astute listeners might’ve noticed it playing in the background in the final scenes of “Gliding Over All,” the eighth episode of season 5 of the American TV series “Breaking Bad.”
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2 on the U.K., making it one of the highest-charting singles of the group’s long career. Squeeze's Greatest Hits Best Songs of Squeeze - Full Album Squeeze NEW Playlist 2017 'Music can change the world because it can change people.' Bono. Co-songwriters Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook have cited Bob Dylan’s “Positively Fourth Street” as an influence on “Up the Junction.” The song peaked at No. It’s unique in that it doesn’t have a chorus, and instead uses key changes to its base progression to mirror the dramatic arc of its story.
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“Up the Junction” is the eighth track and third single from Squeeze’s second LP, 1979’s “Cool for Cats,” A slice-of-life vignette set in the band’s native South London.