Evolve (Imagine Dragons album) album "Smoke + Mirrors" and a ten month long world tour, the members of Imagine Dragons vowed to take time off from the band. In an interview with "Billboard", lead singer Dan Reynolds stated that the group would be on hiatus for the remainder of the year, explaining "We [Imagine Dragons] haven't stopped in, like, six years, so we've forced ourselves to at least take a year off." Throughout 2016, the band contributed songs to the soundtracks for "Me Before You", "Suicide Squad" and "Passengers", as well as playing at several shows. The band first began teasing their third album
Dan Hicks (singer) equivocal stance toward rock music (lauding the early recordings of Elvis Presley and The Byrds while retrospectively maintaining that "rock has never really been my thing"), Hicks joined seminal San Francisco psychedelic rock band The Charlatans on drums in 1965. In this capacity, he participated in the group's celebrated summer 1965 engagement at the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada. After the band failed to secure a long-term recording contract, he switched to rhythm guitar in 1967 and briefly performed his original material as the group's frontman before leaving in 1968. In 1967, Hicks formed Dan Hicks and His