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    Dave Keuning Confirms He's Back With The Killers After Four Years of Break

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    The lead guitarist of the Brandon Flowers-fronted band is reuniting with his bandmates, four years after he took a step back to spend time with his family.

    Apr 25, 2021

    AceShowbiz –
    The Killers co-founder Dave Keuning has confirmed reports he’s back with the band after stepping away from the spotlight in 2017 to focus on his family.

    The guitarist featured in a video the band posted from the studio earlier this year (21), leading fans to believe Dave was working with the group again after sitting out The Killers’ last album “Imploding the Mirage and opting not to tour, and now he reveals he’s back with his former bandmates while insisting life on the road is over for him.

    Keuning tells Rolling Stone magazine he quit the group because he was “sick of the touring, which is the other 22 hours of the day, when you aren’t onstage,” and wanted to be home with his young son.

    “I was done with that, just travelling and going back to the hotel or going back to the bus and going to the next town,” he explains. “I’ve done that a lot. Some people aren’t very sympathetic. But everyone’s situation is different at home, or how much they can take. Sometimes I felt like I was under a little, unnecessary microscope.”

    “It was like, ‘Why don’t you want to tour?’ I’d be like, ‘You mean why don’t I want to be gone 11 months out of the year? Do I need to come up with a detailed explanation? Are you gone 11 months out of the year?’ ”

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    “Everyone has a different threshold or motivation or personal situation… I really do miss the shows… and the fans and the crowds and all that stuff. But I did it a lot for 10 years. After a while, I just wanted to experience something else. I was fortunate to get a house, but I was never there. I wanted to actually live in it and have a normal life… I got tired of constantly feeling guilty because I was never home and I have a son.”

    Dave insists the break from the band has served him well, because he has been able to use a bunch of songs that never made it onto The Killers’ albums for his own solo project, adding, “At least it gives me a finished sense of satisfaction. And I’m happy that some of these songs are seeing the light of day instead of never being finished.”

    He admits the COVID pandemic brought the band back together again. “They were about to go on tour before the pandemic and that tour was cancelled,” he explains. “And then they reached out. They were working on a record because they had all this time on their hands, and they asked if I wanted to be a part of it… It hasn’t actually been super easy to get all four of us in a room because of the pandemic, but it got me talking to them again and recording with them again.”

    Keuning admits he’ll even consider touring with The Killers again – if he’s not away from home for 11 months of the year.

    “I’ll do 100 (shows),” he laughs. “What people don’t understand is that I’m only in their town one night of the year, but there were some years where (we did 200 shows) a year.”

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      The Killers Channel Donald Trump as They React to 2021 Grammy Nomination Snub

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      The rock band fronted by Brandon Flowers poke fun at the MAGA leader as they respond to the Recording Academy after being snubbed in the 2021 nominations.

      Nov 26, 2020
      AceShowbiz – The Killers poked fun at U.S. President Donald Trump while addressing their lack of Grammy nominations.
      The rockers failed to pick up any nods for their 2020 album “Imploding the Mirage” when the nominations were announced on Tuesday (24Nov20), prompting the group to take to Twitter with a tongue-in-cheek response.
      Jokingly mirroring the American leader’s unwillingness to concede the U.S. election following Joe Biden’s victory earlier this month, as well as his unfounded accusations of voter fraud, they quipped, “OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS.”

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      “WE WON THE GRAMMYS, GOT LOADS OF LEGAL VOTES,” they added. “BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.”
      “DOZENS OF BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM,” concluded The Killers, adding the hashtags “#RIGGEDGRAMMYS #WEWON.”
      The “Mr. Brightside” stars weren’t the only ones left disappointed by the Grammy nominations – Canadian star The Weeknd has demanded answers after he failed to be nominated for a single prize, despite landing critical and commercial success with album “After Hours” and one of the biggest-selling songs of 2020, “Blinding Lights”.
      After The Weeknd accused the Grammys’ organisers of being “corrupt,” officials responded by insisting they are “surprised” he wasn’t recognised. They also noted there are “fewer” nominations to award than there are “deserving artists.”

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      The Killers Make History With Latest No. 1 Album

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      The Brandon Flowers-fronted rock band rules U.K. Albums chart with ‘Imploding the Mirage’, becoming the only international group ever to debut at No. 1 with six consecutive albums.
      Aug 30, 2020
      AceShowbiz – The Killers have trounced their competition in the U.K. albums chart and landed their sixth number one with “Imploding the Mirage”.
      The project racked up 50,000 chart sales to outsell the rest of Friday’s (28Aug20) top five combined to reach the top spot.
      “Imploding the Mirage” extends the band’s record unbroken run of number one studio albums – the rockers are now the only international group ever to have six consecutive chart-toppers from its debut.
      At two is rapper Pop Smoke’s posthumous release, “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon”, ahead of Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” in third place. Synth-pop legends Erasure are at four with “The Neon”, ahead of tragic Juice WRLD’s “Legends Never Die” at five.
      In the singles chart, “Head & Heart” by Joel Corry is on top for a sixth week, keeping Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s controversial hit “WAP” at two. In at three is this week’s highest new entry, K-pop superstars BTS’ first English language track, “Dynamite”.
      Expressing their delight at their first-ever U.K. top five hit, BTS tell OfficialCharts.com, “We feel humbled and honoured to have earned a new personal best on the UK Official Singles Chart. First and foremost, we give all credit to ARMY (their fans) – without their support and love from Day 1, we wouldn’t have come this far.”
      “Dynamite was created in the hopes of bringing some vibrant energy that the world needs right now more than ever. If it made one person happier, then that’s more than enough for us.”
      U.K. rappers Headie One, AJ Tracey, and Stormzy’s collaboration “Ain’t It Different” is a new entry at four while Nathan Dawe and KSI’s “Lighter” rounds out the top five at five.

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      Brandon Flowers Bans His Kids From Listening to Morrissey's Songs Due to His Racist Views

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      The Killers frontman, who’s also The Smiths superfan, says he won’t encourage his children to listen to Morrissey’s music because of the latter’s support for far-right groups.
      Apr 18, 2020
      AceShowbiz – The Smiths superfan Brandon Flowers won’t play Morrissey’s music to his kids due to the singer’s allegedly racist views.
      The Killers frontman is such a huge Smiths fan he once kept a cup Morrissey drank from in a cafe, and invited their former guitarist Johnny Marr on stage to perform with him at Glastonbury last year 2019.
      However, although he still listens to The Smiths due to his admiration for Marr, Brandon doesn’t plan to convince his three kids, aged between nine and 12, to share his obsession due to the “Panic” singer’s support for far-right groups.
      “I don’t think Marr should be held back because of Morrissey, so I don’t regret it,” he tells British newspaper The Times of his The Smiths fandom. “It is difficult to separate it (the band) from him, and I’m not going around playing the music in front of my kids.”
      However, he says that if the band’s songs did pop up on the radio, he’d still listen.
      “If What She Said came on the radio (when I was) with my kids, I wouldn’t change it,” the American rocker adds. “It’s still an amazing song, so I’m not that serious, where I would change the station. I don’t agree with him, but I’m not going to burn my CDs by The Smiths or anything.”
      Flowers previously said he still regarded Morrissey as “a king” because of his musical achievements, but confessed to having forgotten about the controversy over his comments supporting the far-right For Britain party and other comments on race.

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