The Elephant Ride

"The Elephant Ride" is a song by the British new wave band Squeeze. It was written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, and it appeared on their 1982 album Sweets from a Stranger.

Background

Glenn Tilbrook said, "This is one of my favorite songs. It's beautiful and very much influenced by The Beach Boys in its arrangement, if not the tune. I'd been listening to Pet Sounds an awful lot at the time and this was one of the songs where rather than oppose the mood of the lyric, I tried to reflect it."^[1]

Chris Difford said, "This comes from a set of songs with "elephant" in the title. It was a story I came up with about a skinhead who had fallen in love with an Indian girl in Charlton. They couldn't hang out with each other because their parents wouldn't go along with the cross-pollination of their relationship. I thought it would make a good musical, because it was a racial story."^[1]

Reception

AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine said in his review of Sweets from a Stranger that "The Elephant Ride" was "shimmering" and "gorgeous."^[2]

References

1 2 Tillbrook, Glenn; Difford, Chris; Drury, Jim. Squeeze: Song by Song. Sanctuary.
↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/sweets-from-a-stranger-mw0000193270

Squeeze

Chris Difford Glenn Tilbrook Stephen Large Simon Hanson Lucy Shaw Paul Gunn Harry Kakoulli Jools Holland Gilson Lavis John Bentley Paul Carrack Don Snow Christopher Holland Keith Wilkinson Andy Metcalfe Matt Irving Pete Thomas Kevin Wilkinson Ash Soan Hilaire Penda Steve Nieve Nick Harper

Management & producers	Miles Copeland III John Cale John Wood Roger Bechirian Elvis Costello Dave Edmunds Nick Lowe Phil McDonald Alan Tarney Laurie Latham Eric "ET" Thorngren Pete Hammond Steve Forward Tony Berg Peter Smith Andrew J. Jones

Studio albums	Squeeze Cool for Cats Argybargy East Side Story Sweets from a Stranger Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti Babylon and On Frank Play Some Fantastic Place Ridiculous Domino Spot the Difference Cradle to the Grave

EPs	Packet of Three

Singles	"Take Me I'm Yours" "Bang Bang" "Goodbye Girl" "Cool for Cats" "Up the Junction" "Slap and Tickle" "Christmas Day" "Another Nail in My Heart" "If I Didn't Love You" "Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)" "Farfisa Beat" "Is That Love" "Tempted" "Labelled with Love" "Messed Around" "Black Coffee in Bed" "When the Hangover Strikes" "I've Returned" "Annie Get Your Gun" "Last Time Forever" "No Place Like Home" "Hits of the Year" "Heartbreaking World" "King George Street" "Hourglass" "Trust Me to Open My Mouth" "The Waiting Game" "853-5937" "Footprints" "If It's Love" "Love Circles" "Sunday Street" "Satisfied" "Crying in My Sleep" "Third Rail" "Everything in the World" "Some Fantastic Place" "Loving You Tonight" "It's Over" "This Summer" "Electric Trains" "Heaven Knows" "This Summer (Remix)" "Down in the Valley"

Other songs	"I Think I'm Go Go" "In Quintessence" "The Elephant Ride"

Related articles	Discography Difford & Tilbrook

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