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SQUEEZE: PERFECTING THE FINE ART OF ARGYBARGY

argybargy (arr-gee-bar-gee): “If you’re in a crowded bar and the barman says ‘Drinks are free for the next 30 seconds,’ what you get is argybargy...lots of argybargy... shoulders knocking into each other...” Defined by Gilson Lavis and related by Glenn Tilbrook In fishing about for a good premise, one can easily cast the Squeeze story in the charming mold... A sort of modern-day rock ’n’ roll Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

July 1, 1980
Rob Patterson

SQUEEZE: PERFECTING THE FINE ART OF ARGYBARGY

Rob Patterson

argybargy (arr-gee-bar-gee): “If you’re in a crowded bar and the barman says ‘Drinks are free for the next 30 seconds,’ what you get is argybargy...lots of argybargy... shoulders knocking into each other...”

Defined by Gilson Lavis and related by Glenn Tilbrook

In fishing about for a good premise, one can easily cast the Squeeze story in the charming mold... A sort of modern-day rock ’n’ roll Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

The curtain opens with three plucky, likable, and occasionally stammering British schoolboys. They have their school rock band and dream of success. But more importantly they are earnest, and by seizing whatever chances they could to play, they get quite good at it.

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...Pop music isabitof a dirty word over here.

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Of course you know that the curtain drops after Act Three with our heroes big DOD stars, and that the real meat of the plav is what happens in between those two points. Otherwise this might just be Beatlemania, or that hit British stage show—John, Paul, George, Ringo and Whatshisname. (I think it may have been Harry?).

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