Glenn Tilbrook, of course, is most well known for his work in Squeeze, with whom he has been singing, playing and writing songs for many years.  Squeeze has recorded 13 albums to date, and many, many singles - most of which have been hits of some kind: some very big, some very small. More than this, however, Glenn Tilbrook and Squeeze have become synonymous with a particularly London oriented style of high quality pop song that bears comparison with the classic songs of Ray Davies and The Kinks - not to mention more recent contenders such as Blur and Supergrass. Everything Glenn Tilbrook does has class and style, and a distinctively unpretentious quality of good humour coupled with strong melody.

Born in Woolwich, South East London, Glenn Tilbrook has been smitten with music ever since his Mum took him to see Cliff Richard in the film "Summer Holiday". As he describes it: "Any ideas I may have had of pursuing the more traditional career options of a 5 year old, such as a policeman or fireman, went out of the window. Being in a band, travelling around in a double-decker bus, stopping at a beach somewhere and being surrounded by adoring fans as you played a tune or two looked too good to me to consider anything else. Fortunately, I never changed my mind."

Growing up in the 60s with an older brother who was a keen fan of the Rolling Stones, The Who and the Small Faces, the young Glenn had to take a different position and so favoured the Monkees and the Beatles. Later there was some common ground with Motown and Stax. Undoubtedly, the music that Glenn absorbed throughout this most fertile period in pop history has served as his biggest influence as a songwriter.  Growing up in a musical culture where writing original songs was what pop musicians did, Glenn formed Squeeze with writing partner Chris Difford in 1973. The first hit single, "Take Me I'm Yours", came in 1978 and was followed by a steady stream of hits, many of which have passed into the canon of pop folklore and will surely be sung in pub singalongs as long as pub singalongs exist.

Outside of Squeeze, Glenn has played and sang on records by Elvis Costello and Aimee Mann and on Mark Knopfler's current solo album.  Songs he has co-written with Chris Difford have been covered by the likes of Sting, Joe Cocker and Grandmaster Flash. He produced the "Smithereens" album for Nick Harper in 1997, which was released on Glenn's newly formed Quixotic Records label, and this year executively 
produced the widely acclaimed "Harperspace" for Nick, also on Quixotic.

And now Glenn Tilbrook has finally decided the time is right for some solo records. The first of these, a single titled "Parallel World" will be released on November 13th. This will be followed by an album that has still to be named, At the time of writing, Glenn Tilbrook is touring the UK on his "Solo and Exposed" tour which will continue through to December 5th. A second single is scheduled for release in early 2001, followed by the album itself and a full band tour of the UK in early Spring.