Brandon Flowers- vocals and keyboard
Dave Keuning- guitar and backing vocals
Mark Stoermer- bass guitar and backing vocals
Ronnie Vannucci Jr- drums
Initially, The Killers played at small clubs in Las Vegas, Nevada, where they often played at drag shows. They began to send demo tapes to major record labels in the US, all the record labels turned them down but the band caught the eye of Alex Gilbert, a British representative for Warner Bros. Though Warner did not like the band, Gilbert took the demo back with him, showing it to friend Ben Durling, who worked at UK indie label Lizard King Records. When label head Martin Heath was asked in an interview with HitQuarters what appealed to him about the band he said, "Great and interesting original-sounding songs. When we met Brandon Flowers for the first time it was very clear to me that he was a major star. He had huge charisma. He completely believed in what he was doing. He just stood out and carried the music. The Killers signed with the British label in July 2003 and the grounps debut album "Hot Fuss", released in 2004 was the bands first mainstream success and reached number 1 in the UK album chart.
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