The second single released from Sparks new album (The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte) was released on the 20th April 2023.
Entitled “Veronica Lake” it is – unsurprisingly – about Veronica Lake, or rather Veronica Lake’s hair-do.
During WWII, women who worked in munitions and aircraft factories wished to emulate the hair-do of one of their female icons – Veronica Lake. Her peek-a-boo(-y) hairstyle led to many accidents and stopped production lines in the factories, as the poor girls got their hair trapped in the machinery. Eventually, Veronica Lake was asked to change her hairstyle, as it would reduce the number of hair-related accidents.
Which she did – and it did indeed reduce the accidents. Strange, but true.
Of course Ron and Russell had to write a song about it. It wouldn’t be Sparks otherwise, now would it!