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Kings of Leon
After a childhood travelling around the Deep South with their Pentecostal
Preacher father Ivan ‘Leon’ Followill, the three brothers, Nathan, Caleb and
Jared, were finally allowed to embrace rock and roll when their parents divorced
in 1997. Moving to Nashville, Tennessee, they recruited cousin Matthew and, in
1999, formed Kings of Leon. in 2003, they released their debut album Youth and
Young Manhood to rave reviews. Dubbed the ‘Southern Strokes’ due to the country
twang accompanying their fiery garage rock, the band kicked up a storm in the UK
and Europe, but it took the grander...
