Its commercials (like the video above) are filled with heart-tugging images: beaches and bayous, the arches of Utah, a fin-tailed convertible cruising a neon-lit street, a girl running through a field of goldenrod, a New Orleans brass band and a biker heading toward the Golden Gate.
And few bands in recent years have experienced as much source material when it comes to personal turmoil: The tragic death of a former band member and a current member's hospitalization after kidney failure helped inspire the band's 2007 album Asleep at Heaven's Gate, one of the decade's most profoundly sad and moving rock records.
Welcomed by about 1, 000 well-wishers, a military band and tri-service guard of honour, the Queen was given a porcelain model of the Brandenburg Gate and the duke a wristwatch by President Kohler and his wife, Eva Luise.