idyllic story of proletarian happiness: the couple's courtship swiftly moves into living together; they have a child; the man gets a job, saves money. But by the end of the song, he has fallen into alcoholism, she is with another man, his machismo is such that he cannot beg forgiveness, and "so it's [his] assumption, [he's] really up the junction"that is, both "up the junction" in the sense of living in the area of Clapham Junction, and in that of having comprehensively wrecked his own life. The video showed the band playing inside a flatactually the kitchen of John Lennon's old house, where Lennon had made the promotional film for "Imagine." One of the two girls in the background was Michelle Collins. Also, similar to the "Cool for Cats" music video, even though Harri Kakoulli played bass in the recording, he had left the band, and John Bentley takes his place in the music video. Difford and Tilbrook explained their calmer performance in the video saying that they recorded the "Up the Junction" music video the same day as "Cool for Cats", and they were drunk and exhausted. The band made a tongue-in-cheek performance of Up the Junction on British chart show Top of the Pops in which band members play the 'wrong instrument', with singer Glenn Tilbrook drumming and Jools Holland (normally a pianist) making minimal attempts to look at all proficient at the guitar. The song is briefly heard playing on a hairdresser's radio in the 1982 film Brimstone and Treacle and its soundtrack album. It also appears in the TV series Breaking Bad, in the season five episode Gliding Over All. Difford's performance of the song live on Platform 10 at Clapham Junction railway station was featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme Lyrical Journey in September 2011. The song's "girl from Clapham" made an appearance on the later song "A Moving Story", from the band's 1998 album Domino. Track listing "Up the Junction" (3:10) "It's So Dirty" (3:10) References External links Squeeze discography at Squeezenet 1979 singles Songs about London Songs about pregnancy Songs written by Chris Difford Songs written by Glenn Tilbrook Squeeze (band) songs