


Kings of Leon

The band is composed of brothers Anthony Caleb Followill (b.
September 10, 1984, lead guitar, backing vocals).The band's early music was an upbeat blend of Southern rock and blues influences, but it has gradually expanded throughout the years to include a variety of genres and a more alternative, arena rock sound.
Their sixth album, Mechanical Bull, was released on September 24, 2013.Early years: 1999–2002The three Followill brothers (Matthew is their cousin) grew up in Oklahoma and Tennessee with their father, Ivan Leon Followill, a United Pentecostal Church preacher, and their mother, Betty-Ann.
Caleb, Jared, and Nathan were born in Mt.
Juliet, Tennessee, and attended Mount Juliet High School, while Matthew was born and reared in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Except for a five-year period when they settled in Jackson, Tennessee, the Followills' childhoods were spent driving through the southern United States in a purple 1988 Oldsmobile, camping for a week or two wherever Ivan was scheduled to preach.When the boys' father resigned from preaching and their parents divorced in 1997, Nathan and Caleb relocated to Nashville and embraced the rock music and lifestyle they had previously been denied, attempting to break into the music industry in the process.
While there, they met songwriter Angelo Petraglia who helped the siblings hone their songwriting skills and introduced them to the musical influences of Thin Lizzy, The Rolling Stones and The Clash in particular.
Their youngest brother, Jared, who had briefly attended public school, was more influenced by the music of the Pixies and The Velvet Underground.
When he and their cousin Matthew also moved to Nashville in 1999, Kings of Leon was formed.Signing in and first EP: 2002–2003By 2002, Nathan and Caleb had received interest from a number of music labels and eventually signed with RCA Records, which initially insisted on putting a band together for the two of them.
My mom would bring us food down", added Nathan.
"And at the end of that month the label people came and we had "Molly's Chambers", "California Waiting", "Wicker Chair", and "Holy Roller Novocaine".The band's first record, titled the Holy Roller Novocaine EP, was released on February 18, 2003.
The EP also contains the song "Wicker Chair", while a track called "Andrea" was discarded before its release.First albums and critical recognition: 2003–2006The Followills' debut album, Youth and Young Manhood, was released in the UK in July 2003 and in the United States later that August.
It was produced by Angelo Petraglia and Ethan Johns.
The album became a sensation in the UK and Ireland, where NME declared it "one of the best debut albums of the last 10 years" and The Guardian described the band as "the kind of authentic, hairy rebels The Rolling Stones longed to be".
The album still failed to make any significant impact in the U.S., where reviews were generally lukewarm and the modern rock audience was generally uninterested.
In the United States, Youth and Young Manhood sold only 100,000 copies, compared with the 750,000 copies it moved abroad.The band's second album, Aha Shake Heartbreak, was released in the UK in October 2004 and in the United States in February 2005.
The album was again produced by Angelo Petraglia and Ethan Johns.
"Taper Jean Girl" was also used in the 2007 movie Disturbia and the movie Cloverfield in 2008.
The band garnered accolades from several of their rock peers, including Elvis Costello, and also toured with Bob Dylan and Pearl Jam during 2005 and 2006.Major commercial success: 2006–2009The band's third album was titled Because of the Times and was released on April 2, 2007 in the UK, and a day later in the United States, preceded by the single "On Call", which became a hit in the UK and Ireland.
Although it was lauded by some critics others found the album inferior to their previous efforts.In 2008, Kings of Leon released its fourth studio album, Only by the Night, on September 19, which subsequently entered the UK Albums Chart at number one and remained there for one more week.
In the United States, the album reached number four on the Billboard Charts.
The album was officially named as the UK's third-biggest-selling album of 2008 and the biggest-selling album of 2008 in Australia.
The song became the band's most successful as it peaked at number one in the UK and in Ireland.
In 2008, Kings of Leon headlined the Glastonbury Music Festival, and in 2009, the band headlined a number of music festivals, including Reading & Leeds, Rock Werchter, Oxegen, T in the Park, Gurtenfestival and Open'er Festival in Poland, Europe, along with Sasquatch, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits in the United States.The band released its first DVD, Live at the O2 London, England, on November 10, 2009.
In an interview with, drummer Nathan stated, "England is really the first place we broke (...) We figured what better place to make a live DVD than where the fans have been the craziest for the longest." The show featured songs from all four of the band's albums, and Nathan continued by saying, "We just put the cameras in the back of our minds and acted like they weren't even there."In 2009 Kings of Leon founded Serpents and Snakes Records, a record label including such bands as The Features, Snowden, Turbo Fruits, and The Weeks.On January 31, 2010, Kings of Leon took home the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Rock Song for "Use Somebody" at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards.Come Around Sundown: 2010–2011The band's fifth album, called Come Around Sundown, was released on October 18, 2010 in the UK, and October 19, 2010 in the U.S.
Following the release of Come Around Sundown in Australia, the band released all the tracks from the new album on their website.In June 2010, the band embarked on a tour visiting more than 50 cities in North America and Europe.
The tour dates ran from June 5 to September 23.
On August 1, 2011, the band announced through their website that the remainder of their U.S.
tour would be canceled with no reschedules due to dates they already have scheduled.On October 31, 2011, the band announced that after the conclusion of their Australian tour in November that they would be going on hiatus.
Nathan stated that the band's hiatus should not take any longer than six months.Mechanical Bull: 2012–presentOn August 22, 2012, Jared and Nick Brown from Mona revealed their song "No Tell" under the name Smoke & Jackal.
Working on album six very soon".
Kings of Leon bassist Jared Followill confirmed that the band had finished recording their sixth LP, which should see release September 2013, NME reports.
The album title Mechanical Bull was revealed on June 7, and the album released on September 24.


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