Up the Junction soundtrack by Manfred Mann. The television version of the play was the inspiration for the 1979 Squeeze hit "Up the Junction". Up the Junction Up the Junction is a 1963 collection of short stories by Nell Dunn that depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham Junction. The book uses colloquial speech, and its portrayal of petty thieving, sexual encounters, births, deaths and back-street abortion provided a view of life that was previously unrecognised by many people. The book won the 1963 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. In 1965 it was adapted for television by the BBC
Up the Junction (song) from Roxy Music's "Virginia Plain", in which the title also appeared only at the end. Glenn Tilbrook has said that the music was partly inspired by the Bob Dylan song "Positively 4th Street", and the lack of a chorus was due to Tilbrook feeling that a repeated section would upset the flow of Difford's narrative lyrics. The phrase 'Up The Junction' is London slang for being in deep trouble, as in the American 'Up the creek without a paddle'. It is also, like other lines in the song, a reference to the working-class area of Clapham Junction in Battersea in