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| Length = 35:30 | Label = Columbia (US), Island (UK) | Producer = Rupert Holmes Jeffrey Lesser for Widescreen Productions | Last album = ''Indiscreet'' (1975) | This album = ''Big Beat'' (1976) | Next album = ''Introducing Sparks'' (1977) | Misc = }} ''Big Beat'' is the sixth album by American rock band Sparks, released in 1976. ==History== ''Big Beat'' was recorded at Mediasound studios, New York in August 1976. The album was the group's first album after breaking away from their English backing band. Instead the Mael Brothers used session musicians and hired Roxy Music contributor (''Viva!'') Sal Maida on bass, Tuff Darts guitarist Jeffrey Salen and Hilly Boy Michaels on drums. The release was their first for Columbia Records in the US. The album employed a much heavier and harder rock sound. Initially the Mael brothers had returned to work with the early Sparks member Earle Mankey. Together, they recorded the song "England", a song which bore much in common with the jaunty home-made and unusual sound that the three musicians had made together in the early 1970s. Conversely, Rupert Holmes and Jeffrey Lesser's production on the album was slicker and more direct and the resulting album displayed a more "American" AOR sound. This new "West Coast" sound was deemed a failure as Sparks felt the results were "bereft of personality". The final track on the album was a re-recording of "I Like Girls". The song had been a live favourite from their pre-1974 days. Versions of the song had previously been recorded in 1973 and again in 1974, but both takes were deemed unsatisfactory.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Russell Mael : "The song was written at the time of the original L.A. band. On returning to America, after our 1972 European tour, we jetted to Bearsville studios in up-state New York (Woodstock) to record the stage favourite "I Like Girls". Nick James produced the song but it didn't come as well as expected )〕 The 1973 recording of "I Like Girls" was later included on the 1991 Rhino Entertainment compilation ''Profile: The Ultimate Sparks Collection''. The lead single, "Big Boy", and its B-side, "Fill-er-up", were performed for a cameo appearance in the 1976 disaster film ''Rollercoaster'', after Kiss turned down the role. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Beat (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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