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Owl City want Hulk Hogan

3rd June 2011

(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Owl City's Adam Young thinks Hulk Hogan would be the ideal addition to his perfect band.

Multi-instrumentalist Adam is best known for fronting electronic group Owl City, whose track Fireflies stormed the charts in America in 2009 and was a major hit across the globe the following year.

Adam has been considering which artists would appear in his fantasy group, and has made some unusual choices including former basketball player and rapper Shaquille O'Neal and professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, whose aggression Adam admires.

"He released a record in 1995 called Hulk Rules. It was really passionate and angry. It was all about pro-wrestling and him being unbeatable very arrogant but in a likeable way. He played bass guitar on that record so I'd like to have him," smiled Adam.

Punk rockers Blink 182 would also play a key role. The band consists of vocalist and bassist Mark Hoppus, guitarist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker, and Adam considered Blink 182's Enema of the State as "the biggest thing in the world" when it was released in 1999. He also thinks Tom is one of the best guitarists around.

"Blink 182's guitarist was a big influence on me growing up in junior high. I'm 24 now so when that record Enema of the State was huge in 1999, that was the biggest thing in the world to me and one of the reasons why I started playing guitar," Adam told British newspaper The Independent. (C) Cover Media

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