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	Sparks - Hello Young Lovers
		Sparks held a world tour in February 2006, to coincide with the release of the new single and album.
		L.A. brothers Ron and Russell Mael released their 20th album "Hello Young Lovers" in early 2006.
		To achieve enormity and expansiveness, Ron and Russell worked in a limitless vacuum for the best part of 18 months.
	sparks-mael-brothers.blogspot.com (504 words)

	Russell Mael - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russell Mael (born Dwight Russell Day on 5 October 1953 in Santa Monica, California) is the younger of the two brothers in the band Sparks.
		His most notable vocal trait is a far-reaching falsetto, especially evident on songs like "Equator" from Kimono My House.
		Russell Mael and his brother Ron continue to be perceived as trailblazers, historic in their influential style and artistic vision.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russell_Mael (108 words)

	Ron Mael - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ron Mael (born J Ronald Day on August 12, 1947 in Culver City, California) is the elder of the brothers in the popular band Sparks.
		When the band hit the peak of its popularity in the 1970s, he was well-known for his strange appearance, especially his Adolf Hitler-like moustache.
		Ronald Mael and his brother Russell continue to be perceived as trailblazers, historic in their influential style and artistic vision.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ron_Mael (151 words)

	Russell Mael
		Ron Mael, the deadpan mustachioed keyboard-player, was the one that grabbed our attention - well, scared the shit out of us, to be honest - but in retrospect his brother was equally crucial to the presentation: a camp, quasi-Queen frontman whose flamboyance reflected the extravagance of the songs and set off the immobility of Ron.
		Mind you, Russell was well aware of his brother's position as a unique selling-point: 'Ron really genuinely frightened people, and to know you're having that effect on a nation, a modern industrial nation, is a pretty powerful tool in your hands'.
		Their contribution can be measured by the proliferation of singer/synthesiser double-acts in the 80s, most of whom had grown up on Sparks and wore their influences on their album-sleeves.
	www.loadofold.com /boots/mael_hits.html (698 words)

	Ron Mael and Russell Mael Biography
		Later The Maels had play baseball at Palisades Park, trying to impress the local girls with their batting prowess and golden summer tans, and Russell Mael was quarterback for his Palisades High School Dolphins Football Team.
		So the Maels were definitely more in spiritual kinship with the British bands and Russell Mael had have given anything to have been the young Pete Townshend from the Who doing the windmill thing with his arm.
		At time Russell Mael finishing high-school was the regular beach blanket bingo, though he tended to wear a T-Shirt on the hot sand in a paranoid attempt to preserve a skin of lily white.
	graphikdesigns.free.fr /halfnelson-ron-russ-mael.html (1011 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Sparks of a revolution
		Ron and Russell Mael may be the most restlessly original act California ever produced, but their unflinching oddness alienates as many as it attracts.
		The warmth comes from Russell, who appears bashfully at the door, fusses over my wet jacket and leads the way to their recording studio, a jumble of hi-tech computers and microphones, impossible-to-clean white sofas, South Sea art, retro Barbie dolls and framed gold albums.
		Russell has chopped back his corkscrew curls but still generates the ethereal surprised-pigeon look that teenyboppers adored (although they might have problems squaring his soft-spoken shyness with his swashbuckling stage ego).
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=1882202005 (2039 words)

	New York Press (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was certainly a relief when the Maels showed up for the new century with a surprisingly solid collection of pop tunes on Balls.
		That’s perfectly okay with Ron, the Mael best known for spending the 70s and 80s as the Songwriting One with The Hitler Mustache (and is now just the Songwriting One with the Thin Mustache and the Creepy Smile).
		After years of being maligned and dismissed, you’d expect the Brothers Mael to at least be reveling in some genuine smugness.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=8629 (1513 words)

	Sparks Albums
		In 1968, Ron and Russell Mael met Earle Mankey.
		Ron and Russell, who was also quite active as a composer in these days supplied the perfect melodies and lyrics for Earle to put into weird arrangements and several over-dubs, speed-up guitars and more refreshing recording gimmicks.
		Russell played bass on many of the tracks, as Oswald joined in later on in the recordings, while Ron's use of organ as a key instrument was much more prominent.
	www.xs4all.nl /~cvbreuke/records.htm (3632 words)

	Sparks
		By the way, Ron and Russell had dumped the Mankey brothers and the drum player after moving to England, and all of their subsequent replacements, while some of them were listed as official band members, really only mattered as random session musicians; from now on, it was the Mael show all the way through.
		Russell just lets his vocal flow throughout, with hook after hook after hook, extolling the virtues of 'my family' that is gonna be 'manufacturing many many me's', before bringing it all to the unexpected finish of 'gonna hang myself from my family tree'.
		Russell is in good vocal form, and the erection-dedicated lyrics are mildly fun, but that's like praising the Lord that you're still alive even if you've just been run over a car and lost all your limbs.
	starling.rinet.ru /music/sparks.htm (9058 words)

	PopMatters Music Interview \| Looking for a Spark: An Interview with Russell Mael
		Russell Mael shows why Sparks have lived on the fringes of musical culture for the better part of their 25-plus-year career.
		This seems to be the trap brothers Ron and Russell Mael have fallen into over and over again throughout their 25-plus-year career.
		Russell Mael: One of the channels must be missing on your stereo: the right channel of Lil' Beethoven contained all of the organic, non-computer sounding orchestrations that you obviously missed.
	www.popmatters.com /music/interviews/sparks-060206.shtml (1349 words)

	SPARKS/HALFNELSON - Ron Mael and Russell Mael, Earle Mankey and Jim Mankey, Harley Feinstein
		Russell Mael was finishing high school among cheer leaders, football and body surfing, while Ron Mael was entering college and becoming involved with Cinema and graphic design.
		Ron and Russell Mael had all the training - TV commercials, modelling, good wardrobes, and musical ability.
		Ron and Russell's parents had already moved to London, so the Mael brothers went to England and Sparks relocated to the UK, but unfortunately, without the Mankey brothers and Harley Feinstein...
	graphikdesigns.free.fr /sparks-ron-russell-mael.html (1271 words)

	THE MOTHERSHIP
		RUSSELL: He was a real eccentric character who was on Virgin Records and I don’t know what he had done prior to when we worked with him (Sparks produced one single by this artist in 1979).
		RUSSELL: Well there was talk of releasing the “Live In London” concert from the “Balls” tour (2000) as a CD too but we thought if people already had the DVD it was kind of a cheat.
		RUSSELL: In the past, Ron would mostly write stuff at his place and not even be around the studio and then bring it in and we’d start working it up.
	www.mother-superior.com /sparks_interview.html (4713 words)

	No. One In Heaven : Sparks : www.sparks-fanatics.com
		Russell Mael made an important announcement to the music press:- Sparks had abandoned guitars FOREVER.
		This metamorphosis proved to be short-lived, however, as a few years later, Ron and Russell were again working with a guitar-based rock band.
		The first half of the song is slow and angelic sounding and is separated from the faster, hypnotic second half by an arresting drum break.
	www.sparks-fanatics.com /sparks-albums/no_one_in_heaven.html (343 words)

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