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The Killers' Brandon Flowers on Music and Being a Man

The Killers frontman tones down the swagger, but still thinks his band is the best in the world.
Flowers grew up idolizing the battling Gallagher brothers of Oasis, inspiration, perhaps, for his early swagger; of Emo and pop-punk bands, he once remarked, "There's a creature inside me that wants to beat all those bands to death."
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The pre-concert obsessions of rock stars generally revolve around green room snacks or the order of the song list. For Brandon Flowers, the sinuous frontman of Las Vegas band the Killers, it was the color of the confetti. When bits of paper rained down on a crowd of 65,000 fans at London’s Hyde Park in July, they perfectly matched the bubblegum pink of his leather blazer. “I had been planning that for months,”

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