Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.In the 1932 cowboy movie The Western Code, a local hoodlum, played by Wheeler Oakman, tells Tim McCoy\u2019s visiting lawman: \u201cThis town ain\u2019t big enough for the both of us and I\u2019m going to give you 24 hours to get out.\u201d Their stilted display of machismo might have been forgotten were it not for two brothers with a love of old cinema, who borrowed the line more than 40 years later.\u201cThis Town Ain\u2019t Big Enough for Both of Us\u201d was the first single on Sparks\u2019 third album Kimono My House, the title of which was a play on \u201cCome On-a My House\u201d, a song made famous by Rosemary Clooney. The band had previously released two LPs in America though sales had been disappointing. And so the Maels, who were committed anglophiles, upped sticks to London where they hoped audiences might better appreciate their absurdist sensibilities.Still, the Maels were aware that, even by their standards, the song was an odd one and were surprised when producer Muff Winwood picked it out as a potential single. When Elton John heard it, he made a bet with Winwood that it wouldn\u2019t be a hit, which he duly lost. After their Top of the Pops performance, Sparks were, in Britain at least, an overnight sensation, tailed by mobs of screaming fans who would invade the stage at concerts and try to rip off Russell\u2019s clothes.Over their 59-year career, Sparks\u2019 star has waxed and waned, though they have never stopped making music. In his 2021 documentary, The Sparks Brothers, filmmaker Edgar Wright wondered how they could be \u201csuccessful, underrated, hugely influential and overlooked all at the same time\u201d. Amid their vast back catalogue, \u201cThis Town Ain\u2019t Big Enough for Both of Us\u201d remains their defining achievement, the purest embodiment of the Mael brothers\u2019 unorthodox, uncompromising and fiercely creative spirit.Let us know your memories of \u2018This Town Ain\u2019t Big Enough for Both of Us\u2019 in the comments section belowThe paperback edition of \u2018The Life of a Song: The stories behind 100 of the world\u2019s best-loved songs\u2019, edited by David Cheal and Jan Dalley, is published by ChambersMusic credits: Universal-Island; Polydor; Lil\u2019 Beethoven\/BMG; The Last Dinner Party\/Universal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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