Tom DeLonge

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blink-182 (Tom DeLonge far left)
Chart positions
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Albums
To the Stars - Demos, Odds and Ends
  UK 96 05/02/2015 (1 week)
  US 70 05/09/2015 (1 week)
Live performance for US Navy soldiers and their families in Bahrain; Tom DeLonge in front of blink-182 s drummer Travis Barker

Thomas Matthew "Tom" DeLonge (born December 13, 1975 in Poway , California ) is an American musician. He was a guitarist , singer, songwriter and co-founder of the punk bands blink-182 and box car racer . In spring 2005 he founded the rock band Angels & Airwaves .

Life

Tom DeLonge attended Poway High School in California. He was excluded from this for a year because he had appeared drunk to a basketball game. During this time he attended Rancho Bernardo High School. He returned to Poway High School after his "one-year ban" and was voted Homecoming King by his friends at the prom . This action was intended to give the school directors a lesson. After school, DeLonge worked at Gary's Chicken and Ribs in his hometown of Poway. DeLonge appeared as a fast food clerk in the movie Idle Hands . Here he is wearing a sombrero and just says "Alright". DeLonge got his first guitar from a friend at the age of 15. It was broken, but he used it to teach himself to play the guitar.

After school, DeLonge had several part-time jobs. In 1992 Anne Hoppus introduced him to her brother Mark Hoppus . Both wanted to start a band, but had difficulty finding members. When they first met, Hoppus and DeLonge wrote the song Carousel .

In 2002 blink-182 took a break, which Delonge and Travis Barker used creatively. Together with David Kennedy and Anthony Celestino they recorded the album Box Car Racer by their band of the same name and toured America. In early 2003, blink-182 went back to the studio to record the last blink-182 album before it was broken up.

In the summer of 2004 DeLonge became politically active. By his own admission, he detests wars and is an opponent of George W. Bush . In the election for President of the United States, DeLonge campaigned for the Democrat John Kerry . His fans should help bring John Kerry to power and thus stop the Iraq war. DeLonge's older brother Shon is in the army and has also been on duty in Iraq (blink-182 played a concert for the soldiers in 2003).

On the blink-182 tour in 2004, due to differences of opinion within the band, they split up. In England the three decided to take a break of six months (which then became the hiatus). He then worked on new songs and with friends from Taking Back Sunday . DeLonge produced the video for the song This Photograph Is Proof . In spring 2005 DeLonge spoke up again musically, he founded Angels & Airwaves . This consists of musicians from the rock scene such as Adam Willard (now replaced by Ilan Rubin), Ryan Sinn from The Distillers (now replaced by Eddie Breckinridge, now Matthew Wachter) and David Kennedy from his side project Box Car Racer. The first album We Don't Need to Whisper was released in the USA on May 23, 2006, in Germany on June 30, 2006. With Angels & Airwaves he played parts of the announced world tour, they were touring America and Europe. The managers of Angels & Airwaves are Rick DeVoe and Chris Georggin , who also act as managers of blink-182.

On February 8, 2009, blink-182 announced at the 51st Grammy Awards that they would be making music together again. After their reunion tour in 2009, they came to Europe in the summer of 2010 and played at the Highfield Festival , among others .

In January 2015, blink-182 and DeLonge split again, this time due to a dispute over the new album. Shortly after the split, he announced a solo release that was released in April 2015 under the name To the Stars (Demos, Odds and Ends) . He previously published the song New World from it .

Also in 2015, DeLonge founded the multimedia franchise company To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences , which among other things deals with research into extraterrestrial life. In 2018, the SEC published a report that the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences had a debt of $ 37,432,000 as of June 30, 2018.

Private

On May 25, 2001, DeLonge married his longtime girlfriend, Jennifer Jenkins. One of his favorite bands, Jimmy Eat World , played at the wedding. They have a daughter, Ava Elizabeth DeLonge (born July 15, 2002), and a son, Jonas Rocket DeLonge (born August 16, 2006). Both live in San Diego, California .

The couple split on December 10, 2017, and Tom filed for divorce in September 2019.

Discography

blink-182

Box car racer

  • 2002: Box Car Racer

Angels & Airwaves

  • 2006: We Don't Need to Whisper
  • 2007: I-Empire
  • 2008: Start the Machine (DVD)
  • 2010: Love
  • 2011: Love (the movie)
  • 2011: Love Part II
  • 2013: Stomping the Phantom Brake Pedal (EP)
  • 2014: The Dream Walker
  • 2015:… Of Nightmares (EP)
  • 2016: Chasing Shadows (EP)
  • 2017: We Don't Need to Whisper Acoustic (EP)

solo

  • 2015: To the Stars - Demos, Odds and Ends

swell

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK / US
  2. ↑ Biography on allmusic.com (English). Retrieved November 29, 2012
  3. ↑ Biography of Angels & Airwaves on laut.de. Retrieved November 29, 2012
  4. ^ Brea Young: A look at Poway's most successful and famous alumni. From: powayiliad.com (English) April 29, 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2012
  5. ↑ Profile on tripod.com (English). Retrieved November 29, 2012
  6. ↑ Idle Hands. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  7. ↑ a b Thomas DeLonge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  8. ↑ Box Car Racer on allmusic.com (English). Retrieved November 30, 2012
  9. ↑ Jon Wiederhorn: Box Car Racer, The Used Rev Up For Fall Tour. From: mtv.com (English), August 8, 2002. Retrieved November 30, 2012
  10. ↑ blink-182 on allmusic.com (English). Retrieved November 30, 2012
  11. ↑ Austin Scaggs: Blink-182 Stump for Kerry. From: rollingstone.com (English), May 10, 2004. Retrieved November 30, 2012
  12. ↑ Gavin Edwards: Uncle Sam Wants Punk: Blink-182 in the Mideast. Rulefortytwo.com (English) October 30, 2003. Retrieved November 30, 2012
  13. ↑ Final shutdown for Blink 182.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: oe3.orf.at. Retrieved November 30, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / oe3.orf.at  
  14. ↑ James Montgomery: Blink-182's DeLonge Directs Video For Taking Back Sunday. From: mtv.com (English), October 29, 2004. Retrieved November 30, 2012
  15. ↑ Angels & Airwaves on discogs.com (English). Retrieved November 30, 2012
  16. ↑ We Don't Need to Whisper on discogs.com (English). Retrieved November 30, 2012
  17. ↑ Andreas Bättig: Imagine all Blink 182 songs as ballads. On: laut.de. Retrieved November 30, 2012
  18. ^ Angels & Airwaves to Tour. On: spin.com (English), September 20, 2006. Retrieved November 30, 2012
  19. ↑ Mitchell Peters, Angels & Airwaves' DeLonge Talks Free Album. From: billboard.com (English), January 25, 2012. Retrieved November 30, 2012
  20. ↑ Blink-182 announces reunion at Grammys. On: reuters.com (English), February 9, 2009. Retrieved November 30, 2012
  21. ^ William Goodman: Blink-182 Announce Reunion Tour! On: spin.com (English) May 15, 2009. Retrieved November 30, 2012
  22. ↑ BLINK-182 European tour in summer 2010. On: slam-zine.de. Retrieved November 30, 2012
  23. ↑ Robert Nößler: Blink 182 crown Highfield weekend - festival temporarily interrupted due to storms.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: lvz-online.de, August 23, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lvz-online.de  
  24. ↑ Aurelia Kanetzky: Read here: The exclusive ROLLING STONE interview about the dispute between blink-182 and Tom DeLonge . Rolling Stone . January 27, 2015. Accessed January 27, 2015.
  25. ↑ Without Blink-182: Tom DeLonge introduces the new song "New World" . Music Express . March 10, 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  26. ^ To The Stars Academy. October 10, 2017, accessed October 18, 2018 .
  27. ↑ United States Securities and Exchange Commission .: 25-09-2018Form 1-SA / Semiannual Report Pursuant to Regulation A / For the fiscal semiannual period ended: June 30, 2018 / To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science Inc (Report). September 25, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018 .
  28. ↑ After 18 years: Ex-Blink-182-Star Tom DeLonge wants a divorce. September 17, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .

Web links

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Blink-182
Tom DeLonge (until 2015) • Scott Raynor (until 1998)
Studio albums

Cheshire Cat • Dude Ranch • Enema of the State • Take Off Your Pants and Jacket • Blink-182 • Neighborhoods • California • Nine

Extended plays

They Came to Conquer… Uranus • Dogs Eating Dogs

Live albums

The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!)

Compilation albums

Greatest Hits • Icon

personal data
SURNAME DeLonge, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeLonge, Thomas Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American guitarist, singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Poway , California , USA