Interview: We Owe It To The Beatles Interview: We Owe It To The Beatles Brandon Flowers tells Jade Wright about The Killers latest album and his love of Liverpool WHEN The Killers announced their ECHO arena date, tickets sold out in minutes. With record sales of more than 15 million, the Las Vegas rockers remain one of the biggest bands of recent years. After a succession of solo projects, the quartet reconvened in October last year to start work on fourth album Battle Born, and the result is a chart-topping collection of arena-filling songs that take on both electronic pop and classic Americana. The Killers are well and truly back, and frontman Brandon Flowers says he can't wait to play at the ECHO arena tonight. "I owe everything to The Beatles," says the dad of three. "When I was in Liverpool last (for the MTV Awards in 2008) I went on a real tourist pilgrimage. It blew me away, seeing the houses they lived in. Just being in Liverpool was a humbling experience for me. "The UK was the first place to open their arms to us and we are still grateful for that. In a lot of senses it's home for us musically. A lot of the music we heard that made us want to be in a band came from the UK. "To be welcomed in the way we are is just an honour. We didn't grow up together but we all love different types of British music;