Mr Brightside was the first complete song The Killers wrote - and the only track to survive from the original version of their debut album, Hot Fuss. All the other songs were scrapped after The Strokes released Is This It, a record that redefined US guitar music at the start of the millennium.

The Killers' debut single 'Mr Brightside' has been in the UK Charts Top 100 for eight years straight, but it has never reached number one.

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Though it never produced a chart crown, The Killers’ “Mr Brightside” is a record-breaker in the U.K. Two decades after release, the U.S. alternative rock act’s signature song is anointed as the biggest-ever single which didn’t snag a U.