Sparks: Nouveau Riche Sweet Young Brats Strike Sparks
Nick Kent, NME, 25 May 1974
TALK ABOUT BEING short changed! The way I heard it, these Sparks whizz-kids take great pride in escorting the press cognoscenti to the finest hostelries and five-star bistros that the teeming metropolis of London has to offer. I mean, had not a French writer acquaintance of mine and his wife been entertained by the brothers Mael just two weeks previously at the Hilton, where gargantuan breakfasts had been ordered especially for the occasion.
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