[Mael-list] Some pro-Sparks propaganda

[Richard Miller]

In message <4086500D-011A-1000-8037-8DC801B9B8DA-Webmail-10018 at mac.com>, 
Will vigar <willv23 at mac.com> writes
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>On Wednesday, May 21, 2008, at 08:41AM, "Richard Miller" 
><richard at seasalter0.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>CBut when they got going,
>>it was *so* worth the wait. At the opening a capella strains of
>>Propaganda, the place erupted, and after a 13 year wait, the crashing
>>guitar chords at the start of At Home At Work At Play gave me one of
>>those girly screaming moments ((c) Will).
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>I assume the royalty cheque is in the post? ;-)

I e-mailed it. :-)

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>BC was one of the girly screaming moments i had in Stockholm, btw......

There's a lot to be had on Propaganda. I have to say that Indiscreet 
didn't do quite as much for me, but I still had a silly grin on my face 
for Looks Looks Looks, Get In The Swing and Miss The Start Miss The End. 
It struck me last night that the latter has  a very similar intro to 
Mother Earth. I had said to Cathi a little earlier that Gone With The 
Wind would fit in with the general feel of the Indiscreet set, and was 
very pleased to see that.

Finally, to AD who said that thanks are not due, it is all just a 
commercial approach: what they are doing caters for their existing fans 
as well as trying to generate new ones. Have you ever before heard of a 
band offering free live streaming of a concert - let alone a whole 
series? I hadn't. As others have said, Sue has done a fantastic job of 
getting Sparks' profile to its highest at least since Gratuitous Sax and 
probably since the 1970s. She is not just going through the motions, she 
is doing a fantastic job.

As for the boys, four months of rehearsal and a marathon, when they 
could have just been putting their feet up. Sure, they do it in part 
because they enjoy it and in part because it pays the bills, but they 
also do it because *we* enjoy it.

So yes, in my view thanks are extremely well deserved, and it seems 
churlish in the extreme to deny it.
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Richard Miller