Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night

Kings of Leon are an American alternative rock band. The members of the band are Anthony Caleb Followill, Michael Jared Followill, Ivan Nathan Followill, and Cameron Matthew Followill, however, the band members go by their middle names. After various jobs, the brothers moved to Nashville in 1996. They formed a band in 2000 with their cousin Matthew Followill. The band claims that their music was influenced equally by their religious upbringing and Jack Daniels Whiskey. Caleb recalls listening to “Crimson and Clover” by Tommy James and the Shondells with his uncle, and cites it as the song which really made him pay attention to popular music. This song is later referred to in ‘California Waiting’ with the lyric “crimson and clover pulling overtime”. They were members of the West Tennessee Choir for a short time mainly assigned to falsetto ranged harmonies.

After recording throughout most of 2008, the band released their fourth studio album Only by the Night on September 19, which on subsequently entered the UK Albums Chart at number one and remained there for 4 weeks, with sales of 1,524,185 copies, achieving 5 times platinum status. The album was released on September 23 in the USA and reached number 5. The album was officially named as the UK’s third biggest selling album of 2008 and the biggest selling album of 2008 in Australia.

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