2011年10月26日星期三

The boys religious mandate was strict: no movies

"The doctor told me not to play guitar for nine months, but within a week Id popped my Rosetta Stone language sling off." His stitches had immobilized his left arm, restricting his movement, so when Caleb picked up a guitar again for the first time he could only articulate chords high on the neck in the upper frets. "The first thing I did," he says, "was come up with that riff and sing the melody for Sex on Fire." In February, the song earned the Kings — brothers Nathan, Caleb and Jared, and their cousin Matthew, 24, on guitar — their first Grammy, and in the past eight months the band has checked a handful of career goals off the list, including performing on Saturday Night Live and selling out Madison Square Garden. "Sure as fuck never thought thatd happen," says Nathan. After four stellar albums, the song has helped earn the Followill foursome the overdue respect that has eluded them in the U.S. since their 2003 debut, Youth and Young Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 Manhood. Only by the Night — full of the Kings dirty brand of Southern rock roll, as well as arena anthems as grandiose as anything by U2 or Pearl Jam — has gone gold in the U.S., and in the U.K. the quartet have sold a staggering 1.8 million copies (more than the last Coldplay record). Down under in Australia — where I lived the life of a King for seven days, in Sydney and Newcastle — the album has been certified eight times platinum. Six years ago, the Kings were four scraggly, wasted kids who could barely play their instruments, and now theyre rolling through a life of uninterrupted luxury, traveling in private planes, performing in sold-out arenas and making more money than they could ever imagine. "We feel blessed," says Caleb. "There have been too many talented bands who have gone down the toilet to think that there isnt Rosetta Stone German someone smiling down on us."

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