Sparks

Ron and Russell Mael – better known as Sparks – have been making music for five decades, but this year has been all about the movies for them. First came Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brothers, an affectionate, expansive primer on their career featuring a whole host of famous faces paying tribute to their pioneering musical endeavours, and now comes the release of their long-awaited musical epic Annette, which was first announced in 2016. Directed by French auteur Leos Carax, the rock-opera tells of a stand-up comedian (Adam Driver) and revered soprano (Marion Cotillard) whose young daughter is born with an incredible gift.

Russell Mael: Yeah we met him initially at Cannes just to thank him for using one of Sparks’ songs from an older album (‘How Are You Getting Home?’) in . He expressed that he’d been a big fan of Sparks since he was young and we got along really well with him.