Maels still kicking up Sparks after 45 years
by By Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times
Sep 15, 2017
4 minutes
More than 45 years into their musical partnership, the siblings Ron and Russell Mael attempt to wrangle new creatures each time they commit to a new Sparks project.
In their underground hit, "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us," vocalist Russell bellowed about "the thunder of stampeding rhinos, elephants and tacky tigers." In "Here in Heaven" they describe an afterlife with "many, many sheep - and the people only sleep."
Some mysterious thing even hijacks "Strange Animal," a work in which the titular creature sneaks into the recording studio to critique the song at hand.
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