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Famous Sparks fans.
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From: "Bob Shoggoth" <Imman...@gmail.com>
To: "Sparks" <sparks-mael-brothers@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Famous Sparks fans.
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:00:41 -0800
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Franz Ferdinand are huge fans. The lead singer (whose name I
temporarily forgot) did a full page article in NME on how he'd been
influenced by Sparks.....
Billy MacKenzie (R.I.P.) ws also a fan as are VInce Clarke, ANdy Bell
(both of Erasure), Martin Gore (of Depeche Mode he covered Never Turn
Your Back on Mother Earth), Justin Hawkins (ex- of the Darkness)
covered This Town...as 'British Whale'. On top of the Siouxsie Sioux
(she of Banshees fame) is on record as being a fan (if I recall, they
did a fairly awful cover of This Town, too). Then theirs Faith No
More....look for a song by Weird Al Yankovic called 'Virus Alert' which
sounds very much like Sparks and features a strangely familiar
mustachioed keyboard player in the (cartoon) video....it's on Youtube.
Is that enough for now? :-)
Bob
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