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Kings Of Leon, a Nashville, Tennessee USA-based Alternative-Rock band,
were formed in 2000, by three brothers: lead singer + guitarist Caleb
Followill, bass player Jared Followill and drummer Nathan Followill plus
their first cousin, guitarist Matthew Followill.
The three brothers grew up on the road, in between Oklahoma City and
Memphis, travelling with their father who was a United Pentecostal evangelist.
By 2001 the band was ready to the Rock scene, they signed a deal with
RCA and released an EP entitled "Holy Roller Novocaine".
Their debut full-length album, "Youth & Young Manhood",
followed two years later, it cracked The Billboard Top 200 chart reaching
#118 and earned the band major success in Great Britain, where the record
hit #3 on the Official Albums chart; the main single, "Molly's Chambers",
broke into the top 30 of the U.K. Pop chart.
After 18 months of constant touring, the Southern rockers began working
on their second album, "Aha Shake Heartbreak", which was released
in Europe in November 2004; the record shot to #3 on the British Albums
chart and reached the #55 position on The Billboard 200 upon its U.S.
release; the lead single, "The Bucket", barely missed the top
20 of The Modern Rock Tracks and "Four Kicks" reached #32 on
the U.K. Singles chart.
In April 2007 Kings Of Leon released its third full album, "Because
Of The Times", a darker, less Pop-oriented and somewhat cerebral
affair than their previous outings. It was a commercial success and greatly
expanded the band's popularity worldwide reaching #25 in the States, breaking
into the top 5 in Australia and rocketing to the top of the U.K. Pop chart;
the album included two U.K. top 20 hit singles: "On Call" and
"Fans".
But if critics thought that "Because Of The Times" was the
work of a band “at the peak of its powers”, as the Los Angeles
Times put it, they may want to reconsider that assessment after hearing
the quartet's next album "Only By The Night", due from RCA Records
in September 2008. The disc picked up where "Because Of The Times"
left off, continuing Kings Of Leon's shape-shifting evolution and cementing
their status as a world-class Rock band.
"Only By The Night" hit #1 in U.K. and Australia and quickly
ascended into the top 5 in U.S. and Canada spawning two massive smashes:
"Sex On Fire" and "Use Somebody"; both of these songs
shot to #1 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock chart and zoomed to #1 and
2, respectively, on the British Pop Singles chart.
As 2009 unfolds the Tennessee-bred troupe scored their first Grammy in
the category of Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for
"Sex On Fire"; the third single released off the album, "Notion",
easily broke into the top 10 of The Hot Modern Rock chart.
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