FLOWERS’ MOTHER DIES
THE KILLERS’ recent concert cancellations have been explained - frontman = BRANDON FLOWERS’ mum has died after a two-year battle with cancer.
Jean Flowers passed away last Thursday (11Feb10) aged 64, after she was= diagnosed with brain cancer in 2008.
The band had cited the "severity of the illness of a close family membe= r" for scrapping several concerts in Australia earlier this month (Feb10)= ..
They pulled out of a show in Sydney on Friday night (12Feb10), as well = as an appearance at the Good Vibrations music festival in Sydney and Pert= h over the weekend (12-14Feb10).
It came just weeks after the band axed its January (10) tour of Asia du= e to "unforeseen" circumstances.
Flowers had not commented on his mother’s passing as WENN went to press= ..
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