As the Killers release a new album, their frontman recalls his youthful love of Cheers, the Goonies and bonding over Bowie in Las Vegas
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I grew up in Henderson, just outside
Las Vegas. When I was eight, we moved to Nephi, this rural town in
Utah. So at the same time I was falling in love with
music, I was also being introduced to rodeos and farming. I didn’t realise the impact, but now if I hear the right song, I’m instantly transported back to the clouds, woods and mountains of the
American west.