I'm Really 'Up the Junction' Trivia Quiz

Answer: Stanley

'I got a job with Stanley,
He said I'd come in handy,
He started me on Monday,
So I had a bath on Sunday'...

'Up the Junction' was Squeeze's third single to be released; 18th May 1979 in the UK. It was first on their second album which was titled 'Cool for Cats'.

Answer: Soldier

'And now she's two years older,
Her mother's with a soldier,
She left me when my drinking,
Became a proper stinging'

'Up the Junction' is one of Squeeze's most well-remembered songs, particularly in the UK, where it hit number two on the UK Singles Chart.

Answer: Bar to street to bookie

'The devil came and took me,
From bar to street to bookie,
No more nights by the telly,
No more nights nappies smelling...'

'Up the Junction' is well known for it's "half-rhymes", for example "kitchen" and "missing".

Answer: Kitchen

'Alone here in the kitchen,
I feel there's something missing,
I'd beg for some forgiveness,
But begging's not my business'

'Up the Junction' got it's name from the title of a book - 'Up the Junction' by Neil Dunn. This book was published in 1963. Chris Difford - singer in Squeeze - said that they make frequent references to the book in the song.

Answer: Clapham

'I never thought it would happen,
With me and the girl from Clapham,
Out on a windy common,
That night I ain't forgotten'

'Up the Junction' is not derived from the TV drama 'Up the Junction', however they do make references to it in the song. During the TV drama, there is an unplanned pregnancy - as there is in the song - however, the song makes the decision to keep the baby whereas in the TV drama they have an abortion.

Answer: I may be

'When she dealt out the rations,
With some or other passions,
I said you are a lady,
Perhaps, she said, I may be'

'Up the Junction' was performed by Chris Difford live at Clapham Junction on Platform 10 in September 2011, and featured on BBC Radio 4's programme 'Lyrical Journey'.

Answer: Some flowers

'I worked eleven hours,
Bought the girl some flowers,
She said she'd seen a doctor,
And nothing now could stop her'

'Up the Junction' was recorded in 1978, first released on a 7" Vinyl record. It lasts approximately 3 minutes 10 seconds and falls into the genre 'New Wave, post-punk'.

Answer: Engagement

'We moved into a basement,
With thoughts of our engagement,
We stayed in by the telly,
Although the room was smelly'

'Up the Junction' was performed on Top of the Pops, where the band members played all the wrong instruments. Squeeze singer Glenn Tilbrook was drumming, where the pianist Jools Holland was playing the guitar.

Answer: Missing

'We spent our time just kissing,
The railway arms were missing,
But love had got us hooked up,
And all our time it took up'

'Up the Junction' appears in the 1982 film entitled 'Brimstone and Treacle', and it also on the official soundtrack for the film.

Answer: Incubator

'This morning at 4:50,
I took her rather nifty,
Down to an incubator,
But thirty minutes later,
She gave birth to a daughter,
Within a year a walker,
She looked just like her mother,
If there could be another'

'Up the Junction' was written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook; produced by John Wood and the whole band Squeeze.