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Sparks: Forum, London

Tim Cooper, The Independent, 5 October 2006

MORE THAN three decades after their child-scaring Top of the Pops debut with 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us', Sparks remain one of the oddest and most inventive pop groups in the history of popular music. And the oddball double act of Ron and Russell Mael remain two of the unlikeliest pop stars ever.

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