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Released via Transgressive Records, Sparks Live On the Moon, the band’s first full live album, captures Sparks at the very peak of their live powers. The 20-track album recorded at the end of their 2025 tour, in the moon’s Taruntius Crater, comes complete with an introduction and closing narration by Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett.
The songs on the live album cover material from Sparks albums as early as A Woofer in Tweeter’s Clothing (1972) up to their most recent album Mad! (2025), and it includes a notable songs such as “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us”, “The Number One Song in Heaven” and “When Do I Get to Sing My Way'”.
Louder Than War described the 2025 show as “a hundred minutes of energetic, thrilling…

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Pop’s rainbow would be significantly less colourful without Sparks. Sibling rivalry’s cooperative and prolific inverse, Ron and Russell continue to concoct songs that are distinctively, resolutely Mael. On MAD!, synth-pop, art-rock and a programmed Shostakovich vibe (see paean to Californian interstate highway I-405 Rules) all feed into their skewed, self-contained universe, the arrangements as unpredictable as the subject matter.
Who else but Ron would write ‘In Daylight’, its magic unspooling from the simple notion that “Everybody looks great at night”, and what 76-year-old but Russell could pilot mission statement ‘Do Things My Own Way’ with such a hale and hearty countertenor? As ever it’s the small details they alight upon which resonate,…

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