The 45 didn’t even have a sleeve with a picture. “This was long before the Internet and YouTube, when you could instantly check out every band you were interested in. “I had no idea what they looked like,” Kapranos said. But he vividly remembers stumbling onto Sparks’ 1974 single “Amateur Hour” among a stack of 45s he picked up in the mid-1990s at a Glasgow, Scotland, flea market when he was 22. in the mid-’70s,” Kapranos said separately. “I was just a bit too young, so I kind of missed out on Sparks when they had their huge impact in the U.K.
Kapranos joined them for a couple of numbers at that show. In the ‘70s, Sparks released the widely acclaimed “Kimono My House” album, which the Maels performed in its entirety this year at the Theatre at Ace Hotel downtown. “There’s not a similarity in the sounds, there’s not a similarity in the singing, but there’s kind of a shared idea of ambition and a love of the form of pop music and trying to have that be expanded as much as possible within the constraints of it.”įranz Ferdinand leader Alex Kapranos was born in 1972, when the Maels were already a couple of albums into the career of a band that began as Half-Nelson and was later renamed Sparks.
“Both bands have a real respect for each other’s music,” said Sparks keyboardist and songwriter Ron Mael, who was sitting a few feet away from his younger brother Russell in the latter’s Beverly Hills home, where they do much of their recording.
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