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Fab Four.(Brief article)
Byline: LAUREN WATERMAN editor: Valerie Steiker
The Las Vegasbased Killers gamble everything on a new album.
Dressed in dark jeans, a white T-shirt, and a dark Alexander McQueen jean jacket, Brandon Flowers, the stylish 27-year-old lead singer of The Killers, is on a mission. "We have to prove we're still in the game," he says.
One wouldn't think he'd be worried. His Las Vegasbased band's catchy dance-pop 2004 debut, Hot Fuss, went platinum, while its 2006 stadium-rock follow-up, Sam's Town , earned it comparisons to U2. Perhaps he's just being cautious. After all, he famously predicted that their sophomore effort would eventually be seen as "one of the best albums of the past 20 years," an assertion that he hasn't exactly retracted but does seem eager, now, to live down. "It was just a comment that I made off the cuff," he explains, "and it was taken to the ends of the Earth." This ...
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...to a percentage of their income for his services as a manager and a producer." But band members Brandon Flowers, Ronnie Vannucci, Dave Keuning and Mark Stoermer reject the claim. Their lawyer said the case came as a surprise and called the...
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