The Stone Roses have received support from an unlikely source this week – with American wrestler Hulk Hogan declaring his ‘love’ for the recently reformed Manchester band.
“I love the Stone Roses. They’re getting back together, right? That’s cool man, ” he said during an interview with The Sun newspaper. “I used to work out to some of their songs.”
Later, Hulk Hogan also revealed he was once offered a path into Metallica by the band’s drummer Lars Ulrich, during a period when he used to dabble with the bass guitar before making it big in the world of wrestling, but said the plan ‘didn’t work out’.
“I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler,” he said. “I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn’t work out.”