Happy 40th Birthday to Brandon Flowers, the brilliant singer-songwriter who joined a new band called
The Killers after answering a newspaper ad. The band released five consecutive chart-topping studio albums between 2003 and 2017, selling over 22 million records worldwide.
The keyboardist, who is a devout Mormon, said growing up in Las Vegas—
Sin City—helped prepare him for the world of rock and roll.
Flowers released two solo LPs, including the 2010 gold album
Flamingo. He wrote the lyrics to
All These Things That I've Done with its popular refrain ‘I Got Soul, But I'm Not A Soldier’, which earned The Killers' one of 7 Grammy nominations for their 2004 debut LP.
He also wrote the 2017 Killers chart-topping single
The Man, as well as
Mr. Brightside, which holds the record for most weeks spent on the UK Singles Chart (5 years or 260 weeks and counting). Their second LP
Sam's Town, about youth and family was compared to Springsteen’s
Born to Run—one of Brandon’s musical idols. During the pandemic the two teamed up remotely to do a cover of
Dustland.
WATCH their incredible collab.... (1981)
