Sparks gay
BAFTA-nominated British filmmaker Edgar Wright’s debut feature documentary, The Sparks Brothers, about his favourite band, Sparks, which opens in theaters Friday June 18th, offers a fascinating insight into the lives of the enigmatic bandmates and siblings, Ron and Russell Mael and their creative process, which has resulted in 25 albums over their five decade career so far. Among the 80 interviews conducted for the production are appearances from former bandmates and fellow musicians like Beck, Björk, Andy Bell, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea, Duran Duran, Heaven 17, Modern Order, music journalist Paul Morley, famous admirers favor Mike Myers, and a devoted, stage-invading fan. Over the course of the doc, Wright seeks to answer how it’s workable for a single band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the matching time.
At one show during the film, the late Rhino Records veteran and friend of the band, Gary Stewart, comments on Sparks’ “huge lgbtq+ following”. When The Lgbtq+ Review’s editor James Kleinmann had a chance to speak with Sparks and filmmaker Edgar Wright ahead of today’s release he asked them
SPARKS 2023
Sparks are a pop rock duo consisting of brothers Ron and Russell Mael. Ron Mael is gay and has been in a relationship with filmmaker Charles de Lauzirika since 2012
January 24th 2023, London. Most other musicians, when they’ve been working for over half a century, are resting on their laurels, basking in the warm glow of their heritage, accepting the odd Lifetime Achievement Award, playing the odd Greatest Hits tour and concentrating on shifting their back catalogue. But Sparks are not most other musicians. They are utterly unique.
With the release of their 26th album, The Lady Is Crying In Her Latte, on May 26th Ron and Russell Mael continue on that unique and uncompromising path. And, in a travel that is as unexpected as it is unsurprising, the new bold, genre defying, modern masterpiece will be released by Island Records, the label that released their astonishing breakthrough record Kimono My House in 1974.
To coincide with the album release Sparks will take to the road for a world tour that will contain 2 sold out headline shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall and, in America, the soon-to-be-announ
| View previous topic :: View next topic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Author | Message | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| corina Sparkologist Joined: 28 Jun 2008 Posts: 645 Location: israel |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Back to top | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jill Sub-Deity Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1284 |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||