OVER A CAREER THAT HAS LASTED MORE than 50 years, Sparks, the Los Angeles-based art-rock/pop outfit of brothers Ron and Russell Mael, have released 25 studio albums, scoring occasional chart success in various parts of the world and influencing countless other musical acts. Their idiosyncratic yet ruthlessly catchy music has encompassed various genres, among them glam rock, power pop, synthpop, techno and classical, with quirky and ironic lyrics, Russell’s vocals and Ron’s keyboards the only constants. On stage, they’ve cultivated two of the weirdest and most distinct personas in rock.
One thing they’ve aimed for that has eluded them till now: bringing their vision to the silver screen. The brothers had started out as film fans who studied cinema as students at UCLA during the late 1960s but their subsequent collaborations with directors Jacques Tati and Tim Burton never bore fruit (Sparks’ only notable film credit was a cameo appearance in the 1977 disaster movie Rollercoaster). Russell recalls working with Tati over a period of several months in the 1970s. “At the time we were incredibly excited,” he tells Newsweek. “Now looking back, it would have been even more of an amazing thing because Tati’s legacy is so amazing. But c’est la vie.”
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