“I ain’t no Freud, I’m from L.A.” sings Russ Mael whilst flouncing about in tiny shorts. Why Sparks never caught on in America I can’t imagine. Maybe because Americans like their pop stars less flouncy? Then there’s another one where the shorty shorts are different color. Throughout, Russ looks cherubic and fey, Ron looks like an Springtime For Hitler understudy. And fey. In 1975 the world desperately needed a parody of all those horny glam rock sagas, with a lesson about salmon tossed in. Sparks made their name with glam rock parodies, then went on to parody disco and electronica. With the distinction that everything they did could easily stand on its own, and was in fact frequently much better than whatever it was making fun of in the first place.
Lady Garfunkel's Song of the Day 