Article: The Guardian
The Guardian (December 26, 2013)
Top of the Pops at 50: should the BBC bring it back?
Russell Mael from Sparks recalls waking up to a transformed world the day after his group crash-landed in the public consciousness with This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us: "Nothing could have prepared me for the suddenness of the reaction. That was mindblowing. There's nothing like that in the US, where you appear on TV one evening, then the following morning everyone's talking about it." Interviewed by Guardian writer Ian Gittins for his book Top of the Pops