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AUDIO: Sparks' Russell Mael (1990)

Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, July 1990

The pretty half of the eccentric duo looks back to their time as Halfnelson, on food stamps and playng American Bandstand; their Anglophilia; moving to England and signing to Island. Then he takes us through their extensive discography — the songs and associated stories.

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