Sparks

The provocateurs of pop return. Masters of reinvention, with an unappeasable ambition and a ravenous hunger for the now, Sparks - Californian brothers Ron and Russell Mael - have been creating eye-poppingly brilliant pop music for more than 50 years.

An immaculate lesson in how to stay consistently interesting for fifty years, the forerunners of art rock, inventors of the synth duo, masters of new wave pop, Europop experimentalists and self-revisionists, who, in the 21st century pioneered the electronic opera, are best known for the 1970's Top 10 masterpieces "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us", "Amateur Hour" and "Beat The Clock".