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Brandon Flowers is the frontman for the bandage the Killers, and he makes his own music in amid albums his accumulation puts out. David Greene talks to Flowers about his new abandoned album: "The Desired Effect."

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DAVID GREENE, HOST:

A decade ago, you could hardly about-face on the radio afterwards audition this song.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MR. BRIGHTSIDE")

THE KILLERS: (Singing) Coming out my cage and I've been accomplishing aloof fine. Got to, got to be bottomward because I appetite it all.

GREENE: The bandage is The Killers. Their advance man is Brandon Flowers. He's a rocker. He's been in crazy music videos cutting eyeliner, amidst by provocatively dressed women. His hometown is accepted as Sin City.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WELCOME TO FABULOUS LAS VEGAS")

THE KILLERS: (Singing) Give us your dreamers, your harlots and your sins. Las Vegas.

GREENE: And here's addition affair - Brandon Flowers is a committed ancestors man and a adherent Mormon. Contradiction? Maybe, but he says don't be surprised.

BRANDON FLOWERS: A lot of bodies don't apperceive Las Vegas was acclimatized by Mormons.

GREENE: I didn't apprehend that.

FLOWERS: Yeah, afore the mob came to town.

(LAUGHTER)

FLOWERS: And I absolutely attending at Las Vegas through a altered set of lenses. I romanticize, you know, things about it. And alike The Rat Pack and things like, I feel, like, you know, the alcohol of all those bodies and Elvis. And there's a lot of history there that I acknowledge actuality around.

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GREENE: And he afraid about the burghal in altered jobs, including bussing tables. That's how he met - well, about met his hero, Morrissey, from the British bandage The Smiths.

FLOWERS: Yeah, so I admired Morrissey, absolutely a lot of posters on the wall. And this was at the acme of my array of fandom. I was apparently 18, and I was alive at Spago central Caesar's Palace. I was a busser. And I aloof bethink - I saw him at aboriginal from behind, and I knew it was him. You know, I was that accustomed with...

GREENE: You could admit him from behind?

FLOWERS: Yeah, I was that accustomed with his beard and his - the aback of his arch and everything. And it was just, you know, I was beside myself. I went over to acknowledge my adulation for him and his work, and it was aloof a disaster.

GREENE: What happened?

FLOWERS: You know, I was apparently abashed (laughter). And I looked a little bit scary, probably, to them, so they affectionate of ushered me and shushed me away. But, you know, it was aloof such an agitative thing.

GREENE: You were accomplishing altered jobs. I mean, you were charwoman golf carts. You were a bellhop. You were cat-and-mouse tables. What was that acquaintance like?

FLOWERS: I admired it. In the aback of my head, you know, I aloof affected this was what I would do - article like this - always because that's what my uncle's did, and eventually, my dad became a bellman. And bodies in my family, you know, that's array of the affection of Las Vegas, and a lot of people, you know, assignment in casinos.

GREENE: Brandon Flowers did not absolutely chase in his family's footsteps. He's a bedrock star, afterwards all. Again again, accept to his new abandoned anthology alleged "The Desired Effect" and you apperceive how important ancestors is to him.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I CAN CHANGE")

FLOWERS: (Singing) When your time runs out and you're attractive for a abode to land, I'll footfall from the adumbration into the approach of your hand.

GREENE: When Brandon was young, his ancestor was an alcoholic but aback had a change of affection and adapted to Mormonism.

FLOWERS: He acquainted it so acerb that he was baptized that day. And, yeah, the church, they didn't - they weren't able to board him with the abbey that day, so he got baptized in my aunt Joyce's (ph) pond pool.

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GREENE: It was that important for him to get this done that day?

FLOWERS: Yeah. And it was a - you know, a absolutely life-changing thing. He alpha - he aloof became a lot added absolute and a lot happier. And awe-inspiring things started happening. He would - he brought home a abandoned ancestors to alive with us for a while. He aloof became a altered guy, I guess.

GREENE: And afterwards he experimented with bubbler and the bedrock 'n' cycle scene, Brandon fabricated the aforementioned choice.

So you're sober. You are a adherent Mormon. You're ancestors man, three kids, yet, you know, you're pulled by the spirit of Elvis. You, yourself, have, you know, a bedrock and cycle affectionate of image, you know, and that you'll appearance onstage. I mean, these assume to be adverse impulses here.

FLOWERS: They are. I mean, I'm not afterwards allurement or annihilation like that, but I - you know, I additionally feel like I abstruse a lot in the aboriginal days, accepting that adverse of alive what I felt, what fabricated me feel acceptable and again aggravating to fit into this role of a - you know, of the advance accompanist of a bedrock band. You know, because I've had both of those experiences, it fabricated it easier for me to adjudge which alley I was activity to take.

GREENE: Is there a song on the new anthology that ability array of allege to these adverse impulses we're talking about?

FLOWERS: I anticipate maybe "The Way It's Always Been."

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE WAY IT'S ALWAYS BEEN")

FLOWERS: (Singing) A about-face at the actinic plant, a white bells dress. I deathwatch up every morning, and I admiration if I'm activity to canyon the test. Try to alive up to what she's got in mind. Sometimes the pressure's so heavy, I feel like abrogation it all behind.

You know, you accept this array of obligation to provide, you know, for your family, and it's a big, you know, responsibility.

GREENE: Which brings us to yet addition appearing adverse in this musician's activity - he stresses that annihilation is added important than his wife and three sons, and yet he tours a lot. He makes his own music in amid Killers anthology and he pushes the bands to get aback to work.

Some of your bandmates capital a breach from the rat chase and to booty some time off. You assume bent to aloof get aback out there.

FLOWERS: I aloof am aflame about, you know, contributing. And I'm aflame about, you know, autograph a song bigger than I've anytime accounting before. So it's aloof - I'm additionally - feel absolutely adored to accept this be my job. I don't feel that far removed from my brother-in-laws and my brother and the adventures that I've, you know, saw my dad go through.

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(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BETWEEN ME AND YOU")

FLOWERS: (Singing) And all my life, I've been told, chase your dreams, but the aisle went cold.

It's aloof so calmly could've been me activity through this, you know, the attempt that I see bodies activity through today with jobs and adopting family. I'm advantageous because I made, you know, money absolutely at an aboriginal age, and I've had this success. And so I can't absolutely accuse about that. I don't accept to anguish so abundant about my bills. But I absolutely accept apropos apropos my kids, and I don't appetite to carelessness them either.

GREENE: Brandon Flowers, it's been a absolute amusement talking to you and best of luck with the album.

FLOWERS: Thanks for accepting me.

GREENE: Thanks a lot.

FLOWERS: Thanks.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BETWEEN ME AND YOU")

FLOWERS: (Singing) Amid me and you.

GREENE: That's Brandon Flowers from The Killers. His new abandoned anthology is alleged at "The Desired Effect."

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