Squire was born on 4 March 1948 in the north west London suburb of Kingsbury to Peter and Joanne Squire, He grew up there and in the nearby Queensbury and Wembley areas. His father was a cab driver and his mother a secretary for an estate agent, As a youngster Squire took a liking to Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald records belonging to his father, though his main interest was church music. At age six he joined the church choir at St Andrew's in Kingsbury as a treble with Andrew Pryce Jackman, a friend of his who lived nearby, The choir got to perform at Saint Paul's Cathedral. Their choirmaster Barry Rose was an early influence on Squire, He made me realise that working at it was the way to become best at something. Squire also sang in the choir at his next school Haberdashers Aske's Boys School, then located in Hampstead, He played the harmonica on his way home from school. Squire did not consider a music career until the age of sixteen when the emergence of The Beatles and the Beat music boom in the early 1960s inspired him to be in a group that don't use music stands. A school friend recommended that Squire take up the bass after pointing out his tall frame and large hands, thinking they were ideal for playing the instrument. Squire then purchased his first bass a Futurama, which he described as very cheap, but good enough to learn on.
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