12 August 2023

The brothers Ron and Russell Mael, famously known as SPARKS are
around since 1966, yes, that’s 57 years and no sign of calling it a day.
On the contrary. They released their 25th LP. It’s titled The Girl
Is Crying In Her Latte.

And today they will definitely have a party to celebrate RON‘s
78th birthday. He was born in Culver City, California
on 12 August 1945.

Russ about Ron: “When he wrote “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us”,
Ron could only play it in that key. It was so much work to transpose the song and one
of us had to budge, so I made the adjustment to fit in. My voice ain’t a “rock” voice. It’s not soulful, in the traditional rock way; It’s not about “guts”. It’s untrained, unschooled, I never questioned why I was singing high. It just happened, dictated by the songs. Ron has always written Sparks’ lyrics and never transposed them into a rock key for me to sing. He always packed each line with words and I had to sing them as they were.”

I suppose today the town will be big enough for the both of them.

NEW ALBUM

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