![]() ![]() So perfectly realised was The ’59 Sound, an album taking in influences from The Clash, Bruce Springsteen and The Replacements which played out like a soulful, sepia-tinged and romantic Generation X rewrite of Born To Run, that this writer, then the editor of Kerrang!, decided to give the band their first ever cover feature after hearing just the first four songs: the cover line of the issue in question declared the young punks to be ‘The Best New Band You’ll Hear In 2018’. ![]() “When we played the last show of that run, in Asbury Park, we played The ’59 Sound itself as the last song of the set, and I truly thought: ‘Okay, this is the last time I’ll ever play this song in this band again.’ I never thought in a million years that we would play again, ever. “To be honest, we thought that was it,” Fallon admits to Classic Rock today, in his dressing room at Manchester Apollo, during his latest solo UK tour. And although the four musicians had regrouped in the summer of 2018 and played a series of triumphant, victory-lap shows celebrating the tenth anniversary of The ’59 Sound, their breakthrough album, there were no hints that this reunion might be a precursor to something more permanent. The New Jersey quartet – Fallon, guitarist Alex Rosamilia, bassist Alex Levine and drummer Benny Horowitz – had announced in July 2015 that they’d be taking an “ indefinite hiatus” upon completion of touring commitments for their fifth album, 2014’s Get Hurt.
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