Cd of the Week: Brandon Flowers: Vegas-Flavoured Solo Debut That Could Be a Winner

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Some artists just can't take a break. After seven years of constant activity, the Killers announced earlier this year that they were going on hiatus. Fair enough. But their peacock of a frontman, Brandon Flowers, had other plans for his recreation time.

This first stab at a solo career came about more as an excuse to keep working on the batch of new songs he had written on tour, supposedly for the Killers' next album. Although ambivalent at first about making a solo record, the existence of Flamingo was eventually confirmed after a countdown on the Killers' website.

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Cd of the Week: Brandon Flowers: Vegas-Flavoured Solo Debut That Could Be a Winner

Flowers has subsequently been disarmingly honest about the making of his solo debut. Although he was apparently pleased with the results, it was not the liberating experience he had anticipated. He lost his...

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