Flowers wrote the lyrics to the single "All These Things That I've Done" and its popular refrain "I Got Soul, But I'm Not A Soldier" that numbered among the "100 Greatest Songs of All Time" by The Daily Telegraph and earned one of the band's seven Grammy nominations. Between 20, they released four consecutive chart-topping albums and have sold over 22 million records worldwide. After several short-lived bassists and drummers, Flowers and Keuning were joined by bassist Mark Stoermer and drummer Ronnie Vannucci, and the line-up became official in August 2002. Without Las Vegas, I would be a wreck." Career The Killers (2001–present)įlowers responded to an ad that Dave Keuning had placed in the Las Vegas Weekly in late 2001, whereupon they became The Killers. The things that go on, the lights, it's the ultimate rock and roll stage. The alt-rock singer often says that growing up in Las Vegas as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints helped prepare him for the world of rock and roll: "Really, being a Mormon in Las Vegas prepared me for the lion's den. He moved to Las Vegas to live with his aunt and graduated from Chaparral High School in 1999. Flowers lived in Nephi until his junior year at Juab High School. His family lived in Henderson until Flowers was eight, when they moved to Payson, Utah, for two years before moving to Nephi, Utah, at which time he was in the sixth grade. His older siblings are his brother Shane and four sisters April, Shelly, Amy, and Stephanie. He has topped the UK Albums Chart six times, including work by the Killers, and is a recipient of the Q Idol Award.īrandon Richard Flowers, the youngest of six children, was born on June 21, 1981, in Henderson, Nevada, to Jean Yvonne (née Barlow) and Terry Austin Flowers. In addition to his work with the Killers, Flowers has released two solo albums, Flamingo (2010) and The Desired Effect (2015). He is best known as the lead singer, keyboardist and occasional bass guitarist of the Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers, with whom he has recorded four studio albums. The other two Junior Houses are named after former pupils Lieutenant F Tonkin and Reginald Trease, who both served with distinction in World War One and died of their wounds.Įvery year on 11 November, the whole school attends a Remembrance Day service and lays wreaths in front of the School War Memorial, which stands prominently within the grounds.Brandon Richard Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. When he finally persuaded the authorities to send him to France he won the DSO, the MC and then the VC for acts of bravery as he took great risks giving comfort and support to soldiers on the frontline.
He was fifty when the war began, but that didn't deter him from volunteering as an army chaplain. During his time in Nottingham he was ordained a priest at Southwell Minister and served a curacy in Burton Joyce alongside his teaching job. The other VC winner, Theodore Bayley Hardy had been a Master at the school for sixteen years. By his death in 1917, not long before his twenty-first birthday, he had shot down more than forty enemy planes and won the Military Cross for bravery, three Distinguished Service Orders and after his death, the Victoria Cross. He joined up at the beginning of the war and went on to become one of the most famous fighter pilots. They’re not only remembered on the School War Memorial, but as two of the House names in the Junior Department.Ĭaptain Albert Ball attended the High School for two years from 1907. Among those commemorated at the Nottingham High School are two who were awarded the Victoria Cross the Flying Ace Albert Ball and an Army Chaplain, Theodore Bayley Hardy. One of the county’s most historic schools lost more than two hundred old boys and masters to the Great War.
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