The first single from the first Killers album in four years is an Eighties-rock fever dream that’s crazily big, even by their grandiose standards: a Vesuvian gusher of Springsteen mythos, Toto-Journey power hooks and singer Brandon Flowers’ unmistakable commitment to unmistakable commitment. Flowers leans into this tale of doomed American romance like he’s the first rock & roll dreamer – or maybe the last – who ever thought it’d be a cool idea to describe blond hair blowing in the summer wind or to compare sex to a car engine. Kind of cool, kind of ridiculous, and Vegas all the way.

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“Tonight's the Night”

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."