What A Difference The Days Made: Sparks Look Back
Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, Summer 2003
FOR OVER 30 YEARS, Sparks have always been a glorious musical anachronism. To think that their genesis is on the American West Coast at the end of the 60s makes them even more unusual.
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