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ALBUMThe Girl Is Crying In Her LatteSparks
Albums by Sparks
ALBUMThe Girl Is Crying In Her LatteSparks
ALBUMAnnette (Unlimited Edition) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]Sparks
ALBUMAnnette (Cannes Edition - Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)Sparks
ALBUMA Steady Drip, Drip, DripSparks
ALBUMHippopotamusSparks
ALBUMThe Seduction of Ingmar BergmanSparks
ALBUMThe Seduction of Ingmar Bergman (Swedish Broadcast Version)Sparks
ALBUMThe Seduction of Ingmar Bergman (Deluxe Edition)Sparks
ALBUMExotic Creatures of the Deep (Deluxe Edition)Sparks
ALBUMHello Young Lovers (Deluxe Edition)Sparks
Sparks's Popular Music Videos
The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
Sparks
So May We Start From "Annette" (feat. Simon Helberg)
Sparks, Adam Driver & Marion Cotillard
So May We Start From "Annette" (feat. Simon Helberg) [Lyrics Video]
Sparks, Adam Driver & Marion Cotillard
We Love Each Other So Much From "Annette" (Lyrics Video)
Sparks, Adam Driver & Marion Cotillard
Vinyl Unboxing: Annette (Cannes Edition - Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Music by Sparks [feat. Simon Helberg]
Sparks, Adam Driver & Marion Cotillard
Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is (Lyric Video)
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Escalator
Sparks
The Existential Threat
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Hippopotamus
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Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me)
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Artist Playlists
Sparks Essentials
More than four decades spent confounding expectations.
Inspired by Sparks
Campy and witty art pop borrowed from the Mael brothers.
Sparks: Deep Cuts
Even as they became glam icons, they were looking beyond rock.
Artist Biography
Spanning over half a century, the history of Ron and Russell Mael’s musical adventures is so full of unlikely twists, no screenwriter could’ve concocted it. (That said, the 2021 documentary The Sparks Brothers proves it makes for a terrific movie.) Born in Culver City, California, in 1945 and 1948, Ron and Russell were teenage devotees of the L.A. club scene that produced The Doors before forming their own band, Halfnelson, in 1968. Though their 1971 debut attracted little attention in the U.S.—even after a name change to Sparks—British fans began their long love affair with one of the wittiest and most inventive rock acts America ever produced. With their 1974 breakthrough, Kimono My House, Sparks supercharged glam rock while forging a template for punk and New Wave. The Maels leapt to pop’s vanguard again when they collaborated with Giorgio Moroder to create the prophetic blend of dance music and synth-pop on 1979’s No. 1 In Heaven. In later years, the Maels’ inimitable body of work expanded to include quasi-classical marvels like 2002’s Lil’ Beethoven and the score for 2021’s Annette, a movie musical that’s as weird as any Sparks fan could’ve hoped.
Hometown
Pacific Palisades, CA, United States
Genre
Pop