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Born December 13, 1975 in Poway, California. He grew up with a Mother, father, older brother, and younger sister.
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Tom Delonge receives his first guitar from friend for his birthday. Age 15
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The bands highest selling album.(over 15 million sold world wide) It was the album that really made them rock stars. It is considered a landmark rock album.
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September, 11 and the following wars effected everyone in the country. Tom Delonge has been active in politics and even campaigned for John Kerry in 2004. He believes the government was involved witht he terrorist attacks.
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Box Car Racer was a band started by two members of Blink-182 in 2001. It was never a full time thing because of Blink-182 and last until 2003. Tom says it really affected Blink-182 because after he experimented with Box Car Racer his Blink-182 songs were darker.
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Blink-182 breaks up after 13 years of playing together. The video is a video of the band talking about their breakup and how it was good for them.video
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Tom Delonge relases his first record after leaving Blink-182 with his new band Angels & Airwaves.
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Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker both were in Blink-182 and stay together to start a new band called +44.
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Jerry Finn was a great friend of the members of Blink-182 and produced multiple albums for them. His death along with Barkers plane crash were huge factos in the band getting back together.
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Travis Barker was in a plane accident that killed 4 peoople in Columbia, South Carolina. Barker suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns on his body and took a year to recover. Tom Delonge stated that the band would not have gotten back together had the plane crash not occurred.
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Tom Delonge says that The Edge who is the guitarist in U2 is a huge influence for him. He said Blink-182's old music was influnced a lot by punk music but now his influences were much different when writing Blink-182's latest album.
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Wishing Well VideoThe bands first studio album in over 8 years, Neighborhoods is released. The album debuted at No.2 on the Billboard 200 and sold 151,000 in the first week. Age 35
