The Killers Show Their Rock & Roll Hearts on Acoustic Cover of Petty’s “The Waiting”

Brandon Flowers has always worn his love and fandom for the artists that have influenced him on his sleeve. He and The Killers have performed countless covers of his particular idols over the years, and his speech inducting The Cars into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 was genuinely moving. Flowers and bandmate Ronnie Vannucci Jr. played a short set on CBS This Morning’s Saturday Sessions last week and, in addition to performing two new tracks. threw in a cover of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ snarling, gloriously pent-up anthem “The Waiting.”

Flowers belts it out with such passion and conviction that it feels less like watching rock star and more like watching a kid in the audience at singing along at a Heartbreakers show in 1981, trying to act cool but unable to contain his absolute, unbridled joy.