Squeeze Box

Squeeze Box is a song of the British group The Who, published with the third track of the album The Who By Numbers in 1975.

Characteristics

The song is rather simple, the agreements are connected without complexity. One observes several tracks of guitar, mixing like often at Who acoustics and the electric one. However, in this song, one hears more exotic instruments, like a Accordéon ( squeeze box in English) and a Banjo (played by Pete Townshend).

The words of this song are grivoises, l'" accordéon" in question being a metaphor for the sex act or the female chest. The refrain repeats unceasingly in and out and in and out (" inside, outside, inside, dehors"). One can also see embarrassing allusions to several other occasions: Mama' S got has squeeze box, Daddy never sleeps At night (" Mom has an accordion, Papa does not sleep about it more the nuit"). Pete Townshend, author of the song, described his genesis in these terms: Created like an embarrassing joke without claims. I bought an accordion and learned how to play about it in one afternoon. The rate/rhythm of hammer which I composed with given rise to this song. Superbly recorded by the Who with my incredulity. I soothsayers even more incrédule when this song became a tube for us in the United States.

Squeeze Box at the beginning was written for a television program having to be diffused in 1974; the group was to play the song accompanied per hundred women with the naked chest. The song left into individual at the time of the American round of 1975, reaching the sixteenth place in this country and it tenth in Great Britain. When the group played this song, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey moved the basin of before behind, leaving only few doubts about the real significance of the song

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