Chris Difford is a Grammy nominated and double Ivor Novello Award winning lyricist. As part of legendary band, ‘Squeeze,’ Chris has co-written some of the most enduring and best-loved songs of our time such as ‘Up The Junction’, ‘Cool For Cats’ and ‘Labelled With Love’, ‘Tempted’ and many others.

Chris hosts songwriting retreats and has done so for over 30 years, some in Prisons, some in Rehabs, but mostly in Somerset with the Buddy Holly Foundation and The Cutting Edge Group at Pennard House Somerset. He is one of the country’s most respected songwriters and has co-written with a host of musicians and performers that reads like a veritable who’s who of the music industry.

His autobiography ‘Some Fantastic Place’ was released in 2017 and found some wonderful praise in the UK press and with fans around the World who recognised his journey into recovery while touring with his friends in Squeeze.

Squeeze wrote new songs in 2023 and completed a successful tour of the USA with the Psychedelic Furs. Meanwhile Chris is somehow finding the time to still run his beloved songwriting workshops for the charity Help Musicians as well as recording series three of his highly acclaimed Podcast ‘I never thought it would happen’. As well as being a Trustee for Music Support, Chris is an ambassador for Help Musicians and Music Minds Mater.