Exclusive Video: Mumford & Sons Live at 'Rolling Stone'

Fast-rising British combo Mumford & Sons are renowned for their folk-inflected melodies and soaring four-part harmonies. They're both on display in undistilled form in this exclusive live performance at Rolling Stone's New York offices.

The group serves up "Timshel," from their debut LP, Sigh No More, and a track — one of the first they wrote together — called "Sister," off their second EP.

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The group also sits down for an interview, in which they talk about their songwriting process (or lack of one), reveal that they'll begin recording their next LP early next year and insist they're "not a part of any scene!"

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Song Stories

“Truly Madly Deeply”

Savage Garden | 1998

"Truly Madly Deeply" is one of the earliest songs written by this Australian duo, but if not for a clever rewrite, Savage Garden's biggest worldwide hit may never have seen the light of day. "'Truly Madly Deeply' was originally a slightly different song that Daniel Jones and I had written and recorded on our first-ever demo cassette that we shopped to labels back in 1994," Darren Hayes recalled. "The verses were exactly the same, but I'm rather embarrassed to admit the chorus did not exist." The Australian duo tweaked the song, and it set a record by staying on the Billboard singles chart for 123 weeks.

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