Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The following is a comprehensive discography of Sparks, an American rock and pop music band formed in Los Angeles in 1970 by brothers Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals), initially under the name Halfnelson.
Ken Sparks (February 25, 1944 – March 29, 2017) was an American football coach and player. He served as the head football coach at Carson–Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee from 1980 until his retirement at the end of the 2016 season.
It should only contain pages that are Sparks (band) albums or lists of Sparks (band) albums, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Sparks (band) albums in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
Ken was the original host of Nine Wide World of Sports Formula 1 broadcasts. Until his death Sparkes hosted ‘Jukebox Saturday Night’, a viewer request program which screens music video clips from the 1950s through to 1980s. The show screens on cable in Australia on Foxtel’s Aurora Channel 183. [11]
The album followed its predecessor Kimono My House by half a year and was a successful album in the UK and US. It peaked at No. 9 on the UK Album Chart [6] [7] (which would remain their second highest album chart position in the UK for nearly 43 years until pushed down into third place by Hippopotamus in 2017) [7] and No. 63 on the Billboard 200 (and remains their highest peak in that country).
Together this line-up would record the next four Sparks albums concluding with Music That You Can Dance To in 1986. Haag, Bohem and Kendrick also recorded on their own under the name Gleaming Spires. The group recorded three studio albums in the early eighties and had a minor novelty new wave hit, "Are You Ready for the Sex Girls?", in 1981.
Hippopotamus is the 23rd studio album by American rock group Sparks.It was released on September 8, 2017, through BMG Rights Management and The End Records, their first record issued on a major label for decades.
Big Beat was reissued by Island in 1994 and remastered in 2006. The first issue by the Island Masters subsidiary added "Tearing The Place Apart" and Russell Mael's "Gone with the Wind", both of which were recorded during the sessions for the Indiscreet album but went unreleased until "The Best of Sparks" compilation LP in 1978.