“I grew up with two passions,” says Tom DeLonge. “One was music, and one was this.” That this he’s talking about is his lifelong obsession with UFOs, of course, a passion that took a back seat for a reasonable chunk of his career in blink-182. But it’s a passion that never left him. After leaving blink the first time in 2005, Tom went on a spiritual journey that involved shutting himself away for weeks, culminating in the launch of Angels & Airwaves, a band he once boasted would be the greatest in the world and bring about a musical revolution. Such enormous, grandiose claims were followed by equally monstrous, sweeping space-opera concept albums, which arguably didn’t quite match his promises, commercially or critically. Some incredibly ambitious plans didn’t come to pass, it se...
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