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'n'roll when their parents divorced in 1997. Moving to Nashville, they recruited cousin Matthew and in 2003 released 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, more sonically ambitious sound of Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004) and Because Of The Times (2006) to crack the US. Steadily growing in stature and creeping up the festival bills, Only By The Night in 2008 propelled them to the next level. Lead single Sex On Fire was their first UK Number 1 single and headline slots at Glastonbury 2008 and Reading/Leeds 2009 confirmed them as one of the world's leading bands. They won Grammy Awards for Sex On Fire (2009) and Use Somebody (2010).