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Flowers responded to an ad that Dave Keuning had placed in the Las Vegas Weekly in late 2001, whereupon they became the Killers. 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. Between 2003 and 2021, they released seven consecutive chart-topping studio albums and have sold over 22 million records worldwide. The Killers are among those artists who have spent more than 1,000 weeks on the UK music charts during their career. Flowers wrote the lyrics to the single ” All These Things That I’ve Done ” that numbered among the “100 Greatest Songs of All Time” by The Daily Telegraph and earned one of the band’s seven Grammy nominations. He is also the lyricist of ” Mr. Brightside ,” which is the third biggest selling/streaming song of all time in the United Kingdom and also holds the record for most weeks spent on the UK singles chart , at over 450 weeks. Their second album Sam’s Town , paid homage to Flowers’ hometown and family, and earned the band their first BRIT Awards (Best International Album and Group), and included the chart-topping single ” When You Were Young “. Before releasing their first Billboard 200 No. 1 album Wonderful Wonderful (2017) and chart topping single ” The Man “, the band took a one-year hiatus during which Flowers released his second and most favorably reviewed solo album to that date.