I love #thekillers and this article by #GQ is just awesome. Pumped for whatever those guys are creating next!

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The Survivors: Brandon Flowers

GQ’s Sean Fennessey sits down with The Killers’ Brandon Flowers, “arena rock’s sexiest walking contradiction”, and talks to him about his sartorial inspiration (rhymes with Bavid Dowie), being a Mormon rock star, and the band’s next project. You can read the full interview here.

GQ: What did you learn about yourself being on the road alone?

Brandon Flowers: I guess I learned that I really love to sing. I wasn’t the greatest when we first started and I’ve taken some lessons. The songs on my solo record are not the easiest to sing and they’re melodic—more in the singer-songwriter vein—but they were really fun to sing. It was something I grew to love every night and it wasn’t so much about the bombast I had with The Killers. Hopefully I can take some of that into the next tour.

GQ: What have you been listening to in preparing the new record?
Brandon Flowers: I’m awful! I got this car, and it doesn’t have a CD player! I didn’t realize until a week after I got it! I have 200 CDs in the backseat just melting in the sun. So I listen to a lot of classic rock radio stations and there’s a new station that plays an eclectic mix of stuff and they are constantly playing songs I’ve never heard of, like “Eminence Front” by The Who. I’ll listen for a lyric so that I can Google it. Things like that have been exciting.

GQ: You’ve been noted for taking risks with your personal style. Where does that come from?
Brandon Flowers: Confusion! [laughs] I’m searching for something. When we came out, we were wearing suits. My dad didn’t wear stuff like that, but I was into David Bowie. It was a combination of him and the whole Vegas thing of wanting to put on a show. That started and then we began writing rock songs that went down a different road, and, I don’t know, things keep evolving. I keep trying things. I really would be happy to just find one thing and stick with that. I’m getting closer! [laughs] The more I work out and the more I feel comfortable in my own skin, the more simple it becomes and the more comfortable I feel onstage.