Sparks - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth • TopPop

’Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth’ is the first single from the album ’Propaganda’ by US act Sparks featuring the brothers Ron and Russell Mael from L.A. The album followed its predecessor ’Kimono My House’ by half a year and was a successful album in the UK and US. It reached #9 on the UK Album Chart and #63 on the Billboard 200. The singles “Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth“ and “Something for the Girl with Everything“, while not as successful as those from ’Kimono My House’ both reached the top twenty in the UK reaching number 13 and number 17 respectively. This video was first broadcast on 8 November 1974. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.