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Brandon Flowers, HMV Forum
Brandon Flowers, HMV Forum
Budding talent... Killers songster temporarily hits the solo trail
Sunday, 17 October 2010
Brandon Flowers: Not going back to his roots
There was a rumour floating around the packed Forum last night that David Cameron was in the audience. I did not spot him on my way in, but he did choose The Killers' “All These Things That I've Done” as a desert island disc in 2006 and I imagine that, being a man of firm convictions, Brandon Flowers still floats his prime-ministerial boat. Clean living, passionate, nothing too controversial – just like the PM before he pulled the knife out and started plotting to slash away at the country's finances.
There was a rumour floating around the packed Forum last night that David Cameron was in the audience. I did not spot him on my way in, but he did choose The Killers' “All These Things That I've Done” as a desert island disc in 2006 and I imagine that, being a man of firm convictions, Brandon Flowers still floats his prime-ministerial boat. Clean living, passionate, nothing too controversial – just like the PM before he pulled the knife out and started plotting to slash away at the country's finances.
The first time I saw Flowers on Top of the Pops sporting a scruffy fringe and singing "Mr Brightside", I would have put all my chips on him being from moist Macclesfield, not sunny Nevada
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