The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has revealed how he nearly lost an eye one Christmas after an accident with an air-pellet gun. Speaking in this week's special festive edition of NME, the singer described how the dark incident turned into his most memorable Christmas. "I got a BB gun once – it's a gun that shoots little pellets," he said. "It was during the first Gulf War and my dad brought back pictures of Saddam Hussein for me to shoot at. So I was shooting at one of them and I ran forward to it immediately after I'd fired to see how good a shot I was, but it ricocheted off the shed and came back at me square in the head. I learnt my lesson. I almost lost my eye that Christmas." The singer said he now really appreciates Christmas and deliberately changed the name of the band's charity single to a "A Great Big Sled" to make it sound more festive. "I realise now that I probably should have called it 'A Great Big Sleigh' because that's what Santa rides, but it doesn't sound very Christmassy at all," he declared. "It sounds like you're going on a killing spree! Besides, 'sleigh' doesn't rhyme with 'red', which is the next line!"