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Lädt ... Talent Is An Assetvon Daryl Easlea
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So, it’s taken RC’s old deputy editor and long-serving contributor Daryl Easlea to unpick the threads with any degree of confidence. More than that, his mastery of the story makes Talent Is An Asset that rare kind of page-turning biography that nips along like any bestselling novel. Any chronology of a band’s history would be boring if it merely focused on chart positions, statistics, and tour dates. In addition to the opinions of those who have worked with Sparks over the years, Easlea peppers his text with his own opinions, which do not overshadow the stories, but serve to illustrate that he is actually a Sparks fan, and not some hired hack.
When LA musicians Russell and Ron Mael moved to Britain in 1973, they hit the pop world as Sparks and looked like Oddballs, even in the context of the Glam Rock movement that made them welcome. Soon defined by their weird and wonderful 1974 single This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us from the Kimono My House album, Sparks went on to release 21 albums over four decades, each record inhabiting a bizarre world of it's own. Their songs were peppered with puns and pop culture nods, as well as nostalgia and jokey images, all mixed up in a kaleidoscope of musical references ranging from rock to glam to disco. The paperback edition of the critically acclaimed biography. The Sparks story is now celebrated in this book, Daryl Easlea's exploration of their extraordinary career drawing on hours of new interviews and research. Talent is an Asset comes as close as possible to pinning down the quicksilver nature of two gifted musicians who have gone out of their way to remain unpredictable and elusive, forever entrenched behind a dazzling gallery of jokes, impersonations and musical eccentricities. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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