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This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us

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858: 381:, Daryl Easlea reports that this was a "great tale" propagated by the Mael brothers but contradicted by Winwood himself. Winwood said that he was unsure of how commercial the track would be, so he played it to John, who told him, "Listen, I'll bet you a hundred quid that that makes the Top 3". Winwood's wife agreed, and his doubts were allayed. 2558: 401:
When he wrote "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us", Ron could only play it in that key. It was so much work to transpose the song and one of us had to budge, so I made the adjustment to fit in. My voice ain't a "rock" voice. It's not soulful, in the traditional rock way; It's not about "guts".
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It's untrained, unschooled, I never questioned why I was singing high. It just happened, dictated by the songs. Ron has always written Sparks' lyrics and never transposed them into a rock key for me to sing. He always packed each line with words and I had to sing them as they were.
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said the song "was like a three-minute warning that Sparks were a band different from any other: octave-leaping vocals, gunshots, incomprehensible lyrics and an unrelenting sense of drama."
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The song was written without any regard for the vocal style of Russell Mael. Songwriter Ron Mael has explained:
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in their concerts performed a live version, mashing it with "O Corpo É Que Paga" by Portuguese 1980's icon
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which reinstated a verse that Winwood had cut from the original. The other was as a collaboration with
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released a rendition of the song as the first single from the expanded version of their album
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An acoustic version of the song was recorded in 1985 for the B-side of the "Change" single.
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and that John, saying it would not, lost the bet. However, in his Sparks biography
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performed the song regularly during live performances beginning in 1987.
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In 1997, Sparks recorded two new versions of the song for their album
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The Maels frequently told the story that Winwood had bet his friend
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The original Sparks version of the song is heard in the 2010 movie
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In live concerts, the Los Angeles/San Francisco glam rock band
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The original idea for the song was that after each verse
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in a scene with a confrontation between two characters.
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Index


Single
Sparks
Kimono My House
Plagiarism
Faith No More
B-side
Genre
Glam rock
progressive pop
Label
Island
Songwriter(s)
Ron Mael
Producer(s)
Muff Winwood
Sparks
Amateur Hour
Faith No More
Stripsearch
I Started a Joke
"This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us"
YouTube
pop
Sparks
Ron Mael
Kimono My House
Billboard Hot 100
UK Singles Chart
The Rubettes

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