Squeeze: Local Boozers Make Good
Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 6 August 1977
HEY JOHN, take a look at this. When did this happen last in the Hope, eh? There's two bodies stretched out straight in the tiny dressing room, the damp stone floor their mattress and guitar cases under their heads.
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