Pendant des décennies, Les Sparks Brothers, Ron et Russell Mael, ont réussi à bluffer la scène pop par leur son baroque et totalement inventif. Pas forcément hyper connu du grand public, le groupe a démarré sa carrière à la fin des années 1960 dans l'univers pop-rock avant d'évoluer vers le glam rock, la synthpop et la new wave. Edgar Wright, le réalisateur de Shaun of the Dead et Hot Fuzz, interroge des fans célèbres comme Flea, Jane Wiedlin, Beck, Jack Antonoff, Jason Schwartzman, Neil Gaiman, et d'autres. Chacun parle de l'influence des deux musiciens excentriques et de l'héritage qu'ils laisseront...
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00:30Frequently asked questions about Sparks.
00:34How many albums are there?
00:3525 albums.
00:37Are you brothers?
00:39We are brothers.
00:40How did you first meet?
00:41We are brothers.
00:43Music at its best.
00:44You hear it and you go, oh my God, what is that?
00:46It's insane, but it's fantastic.
00:49Each time you'd go to the rehearsal,
00:51there'd be something new there.
00:53Like, that's good.
00:54It wasn't like anything else.
00:57All pop music is rearranged Sparks.
00:59That's the truth.
01:03There are throwaway riffs that other bands
01:05have built whole careers out of.
01:08One of my favorite moments is John Lennon
01:10ringing up Ringo Starr.
01:11You won't believe what's on the television.
01:16It was the sound of the future.
01:19Sparks is way more prolific than all of the artists
01:21we consider to be the greatest in the world.
01:27They saw a sad template.
01:28That a Beatle would pretend to be Ron.
01:30That's amazing.
01:33They were taking all their creative juices
01:35and putting it into something that they loved.
01:37They were a bit much for most people.
01:39The culture just wasn't there yet.
01:41Is there anybody out there at all right now?
01:46They've reinvented themselves several times.
01:48The thing that marked them was their unwillingness to give up.
01:52That sounds like the scene from our biopic.
01:57Our time has come.
01:58Here we are.
02:02They may have given birth to other bands
02:04who don't even know that the lineage goes back to them.
02:10Still are waiting to get paid back for that.
02:13Why have you resisted doing a documentary until now?
02:15We didn't want to do the standard documentary
02:17full of talking heads.
02:19It would become too dry.
02:26To be continued...