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Sparks Asks ‘So May We Start?’ in a Disney Hall Gig That Shows How Far They Are From Finished: Concert Review

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Chris Willman Music WriterNot many bands can claim they’re having the best year of their career exactly 50 years into their run.

All right — not any bands can make such a claim, historically, except for Sparks, which saw its star rise dramatically in 2021 due not to any recording or touring activity but as film creators and stars, with “Annette” and “The Sparks Brothers,” respectively.

A resumption of the sibling duo’s day job was destined to be quite the victory lap, and the Mael brothers got off to quite a sprinting start in that regard with a rousingly celebratory homecoming show Monday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, a town that is definitely big enough for both nights of a two-night stand that sold out instantaneously last fall. “What’s it gonna be?

A symphony tonight?” asked singer Russell Mael in reciting the vaunted lyrics of “Music That You Can Dance To,” a rhetorical question to which the answer is no, although it wasn’t completely clear when Sparks booked Disney Hall last year for this one-off two-nighter whether it might involve strings, as so many shows by slumming rockers at the formal venue do (including Damon Alborn’s recent headlining appearance).

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