Get ready to witnessImagine Dragonslike never before.
On Wednesday, PEOPLE is exclusively premiering the trailer for the upcoming Hulu concert documentary film,Imagine Dragons Live in Vegas, which offers fans a glimpse at the excitement to come.
“Far from the days of playing in dive bars and casinos across the Las Vegas Strip, Imagine Dragons returns home to perform at the city’s largest stage, Allegiant Stadium, in a triumphant concert film that showcases the band’s rise to fame and the city that helped shape their sound,” the film’s synopsis reads.
Meanwhile, the trailer opens with frontmanDan Reynoldspreparing to take the massive stage.
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“I feel like for many years, it was I don’t really know who we are. But this tour is the first time that I knew — we are Imagine Dragons,” he says, with their hit song “Believer” playing in the background.
Reynolds, 35, adds, “Our goal was to be a self-sustained indie band that could make enough money to pay rent and have food. No idea that it would be this big. That’s one in a billion.”
The trailer also includes film of the band in their early days, footage from the concert and one-on-one interviews with the band as they open up about their rise to success.
“It’s a bigger stage, but nothing’s really changed,” Daniel Wayne Sermon concludes.
Night Visions (Expanded Edition)features all 11 tracks from the original album and nine songs previously released on various deluxe editions, plus demos of “Love of Mine” and “Bubble,” two songs recorded during theNight Visionssessions but never shared with listeners
“There are a lot of songs that get left off that are a point of contention amongst the band. We have had many late-night arguments about what makes the record,” Reynolds told PEOPLE at the time.
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Looking back on the album, which Reynolds said “changed his life forever,” allowed the frontman to reflect on some intense personal experiences he was going through at the time of its creation. “It’s hard for me to even recall many memories during that time,” he explained. “I think I was shell-shocked to the extreme.”
Reynolds continued, “I was a Mormon missionary who had just gotten home from the mission and was very lost, losing my own faith and religion and kind of scrambling. Then, suddenly I was married and had a child and was broke.”
After tying the knot with fellow musicianAja Volkmanin March 2011 and welcoming their first child, now-10-year-old daughter Arrow, in August of the following year, Reynolds said the couple was struggling to make ends meet as Imagine Dragons craftedNight Visions. (Volkman has sincefiled for divorcefrom Reynolds.)
“It was like, ‘When you have a show, bring the money, and we’ll go to Trader Joe’s and buy some groceries for the week. And then when I have a show, vice versa,'” he recalled. “It was a scary time and then suddenly, the band just blew up so quickly and it changed everything for me.”
source: people.com
