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| which of ron's moustache styles do you like the most? |
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Lady Is Lingering
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| Alex Robertson wrote: | | Has this conversation ever happened before?...Because,I'm having one hell of a deja vu,all this "married each other" etc is sooooo familiar...for one mad moment I thought someone had bumped up an old thread or was just regurgitating an old topic....Is the sun over the yardarm yet?...I think I need something stronger than tea. |
I think you're thinking of my I Married Myself joke on the photoshop thread:
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| corina wrote: | jillany way, they both look better today,
especially ron, who doesnt look anymore anorectic, like he looked in the early days. |
IMO that skinny appearance was a strong element of their visual stylistics as a band, along with Russell's "scared pidgeon" face and Ron's "scary" gazes & moustache. Sparks as a band of two fat or normal weight guys would make no sense for us just because they were weirdly skinny from the beginning (it really doesn't matter here that I happen to have a very soft spot for Ron's "all eyes and bones" look).
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Lady Is Lingering
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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IMO that skinny appearance was a strong element of their visual stylistics as a band |
Probably best summed up on the cover of this album...
This photo always reminds me of R&R doing modelling as kids... It's seems like their own take on fashion modelling... attractive but weird... well, that's Sparks for ye.
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Yes, this cover reminds me too of them as child models (and the "Plagiarism" cover too). I understand that those catalogues are another mystery, since nobody has yet seen R&R in such pictures. Maybe the members of the fan club know better.
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Lady Is Lingering
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| jill wrote: | | I understand that those catalogues are another mystery, |
I said it before and I'll say it again, ooh those mysteries they're hanging around and around and around and around...
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PETER RAWCLIFFE
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I think Russell is into spinning a lot when he gets back to LA,Its a great fitness thing but very tough. 
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Lady Is Lingering
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| PETER RAWCLIFFE wrote: | | I think Russell is into spinning a lot when he gets back to LA,Its a great fitness thing but very tough. |
"Spinning"? Is that a typo by any chance? Har har har 
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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if we go back to the original subject...i see that the votes for the pimp and hitler styles, are equal at this moment. 
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| Lady Is Lingering wrote: | | "Spinning"? Is that a typo by any chance? |
Nope. Russell was asked about what he does to stay in shape and he answered "a lot of spinning classes". It was in 1998.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| jill wrote: | | Lady Is Lingering wrote: | | "Spinning"? Is that a typo by any chance? |
Nope. Russell was asked about what he does to stay in shape and he answered "a lot of spinning classes". It was in 1998. |
I was just trying to be dirty... It failed miserably though... well, better luck next time.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Lady Is Lingering wrote: | | jill wrote: | | Lady Is Lingering wrote: | | "Spinning"? Is that a typo by any chance? |
Nope. Russell was asked about what he does to stay in shape and he answered "a lot of spinning classes". It was in 1998. |
I was just trying to be dirty... It failed miserably though... well, better luck next time. |
so what was the word instead of spinning?...
(help people like me, who dont know english so well:))
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E-Clect-Eddy
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Please, continue this poll untill Ron has developed another style.
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Lady Is Lingering
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:48 am Post subject: |
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| corina wrote: | | Lady Is Lingering wrote: | | jill wrote: | | Lady Is Lingering wrote: | | "Spinning"? Is that a typo by any chance? |
Nope. Russell was asked about what he does to stay in shape and he answered "a lot of spinning classes". It was in 1998. |
I was just trying to be dirty... It failed miserably though... well, better luck next time. |
so what was the word instead of spinning?...
(help people like me, who dont know english so well:)) |
Good question... I haven't got a clue... I was hoping someone else would be clever enough to think dirty for me but I suppose spanking or swinging would suffice.
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spinning is a power cyling class that lasts for a hour,you set different strengths during the hour,so sometimes you are freewheeling and other times you feel like you are going up a hill. 
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Lady Is Lingering
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| PETER RAWCLIFFE wrote: | | spinning is a power cyling class that lasts for a hour,you set different strengths during the hour,so sometimes you are freewheeling and other times you feel like you are going up a hill. |
Well, that puts pay to that! I thought it might be some form of ballet... pity, I could just see Russell doing some pirouettes.
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PETER RAWCLIFFE
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:40 am Post subject: |
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Lady,Im not sure if Russell still does it(spinning that is!) as it was a few years ago,i think his head must have been spinning after the 21/21 shows! 
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I like the Chaplin/Hitler one, but not the HUGE one, the small one or 'Mini-Hitler' as I call it!
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How about facefungus? Have either of them ever had any?
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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Russell once had some side whiskers... but that was all.
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| E-Clect-Eddy wrote: | | How about facefungus? |
Looking for something else (as usual), I found on Martin Gordon's site a story about Sparks hiring musicians in 1973. There's a funny detail about beards - says Martin Gordon:
"More adverts appear in the Melody Maker. All specify that applicants should be of pleasant appearance and not have beards. Maybe the beardwearers are also illiterates, for they turn up in their tens and twenties, some armed with girlfriends, some with Marshall stacks and some clearly not armed with anything, least of all guitar playing ability."
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