Top 10 Dads Who Rock: Brandon Flowers

BRANDON FLOWERS

Elton John listed Flowers as one of his top-five heroes while editing The Independent’s World Aids Day special edition (see how this list all comes together?), he and his melodic The Killers reclaimed synths from the 80s and back onto radio through Somebody Told Me and Mr. Brightside. He’s usually jittery with nervous energy and looks more like a geeky student than a rock hero, and once described himself as “a golf-addicted chubby kid from Utah who had never been kissed until I moved to Las Vegas.” It’s that self-conscious of where he came from that gets him on the list. He’s one of the few Mormons to reach superstardom in music (there’s Donny Osmond, Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of Low, and…umm..Donny Osmond,) which I’m positive kept him from losing the plot entirely throughout his dizzying success. Ammon (named after a Book of Mormon prophet), Gunnar, and Henry, just tell your dad to lose the moustache. Other than that, he’s stylishishly perfect.