Adam Levine has confessed he ‘Googles’ his own name. The Maroon 5 frontman regularly types his name into the popular internet search engine and was upset to discover he has at least one hater.

He told Grazia magazine: “The last thing I googled was myself. Anyone who says they haven’t Googled themselves is lying. I found out there is a guy in Los Angeles who’s also called Adam Levine. He gets all these messages from Maroon 5 fans, which he posts on his website, imnotthatadamlevine.org. He really hates my guts!”

The handsome star also admitted he cried when he thought he was going to miss his friends’ wedding.

He said: “I last cried because two of my best friends are getting married to each other and I thought I was going to have to miss the wedding because of a show. I was so stressed out. In the end I said to the band, ‘Guys, I really need to be at this wedding.’”

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There’s a hippy, a party dude, a family man, a lapsed Mormon… and a Lothario who’s rarely out of the tabloids. Maroon 5 are a strange mix, but somehow it works. ‘Having a notorious sex symbol in the band is a bit annoying,’ they tell Sylvia Patterson.

‘Today, I’m talking to the Daily Star,’ says Adam Levine, the singer with the Californian pop-soul minstrels Maroon 5, who has forged a reputation as one of pop’s most enthusiastic Lotharios.

‘So it’ll be, “No, I’m not dating her or her, and the reason I live in Hollywood is because I was f—ing born there.” I mean, we’re playing music tonight for the first time in three days and everything else is Paris Hilton and photo-shoots and make-up and talking and smiling and waving and it’s just so stupid!

‘This is a very chaotic situation these days, so we’re all a bit cuckoo-pants. But we love what we do and that’s why we do these things. Because they help get the record out there. It’s a necessary evil.’

For the newly risen pop sensation, life these days is always ‘cuckoo-pants’.

The young men of Maroon 5 are finding out what it means to sell 10 million copies of their debut album, ‘Songs About Jane’ (2002), and to return this year with a follow-up, ‘It Won’t Be Soon Before Long’, which is to say they must submerge their souls inside global promotional bedlam for ever.

Last month, three months into their second album’s worldwide press tour, Maroon 5 found themselves in Weston-super-Mare, for the pop TV cavalcade, T4 On the Beach.

They rose this morning at seven for rehearsals for Channel 4’s The Chart Show and, when I meet up with them, they are on the roof of the north London pub that is our photo studio for today.

This is where the five members of the band, now one of the biggest on the planet, are cutting an unlikely jib.

Levine, an alarmingly self-assured, caustic, 28-year-old middle-class Jewish boy, is booming the word ‘extraneous!’ during a lengthy argument over a forthcoming video.

Rock bands have been known to argue about almost anything. Maroon 5 are different. They argue about everything. Sometimes the debates are substantive. They had a heated battle over where their second album, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, should fall in the sonic spectrum between polished R&B and the chaos of energetic rock. (They compromised, and the record includes both — part of why it debuted at Number One.) More often, their arguments are meaningless turf wars between five highly opinionated, stubborn men. “It’s a high-ego band,” says lead singer Adam Levine.

Among the disputes that continued on Maroon 5’s tour bus for far too long (sometimes months): the pop-punk influence on Pink’s first album; the prospects of Howard Dean before he screamed; whether the movie Wild Things had a sense of humor; whether psychedelic mushrooms provide an escape from reality or a different perspective on it.

The most epic quarrel, however, centered on Lenny Kravitz’s “Where Are We Runnin?’” video. The band saw it on TV in a Brazil hotel; Levine and guitarist James Valentine proceeded to argue for hours about whether Kravitz sheds a tear in the final shot. “I have never seen two people get more into it about something so completely unimportant,” says bassist Mickey Madden. The clash extended from the hotel lobby to the venue, paused long enough for an acoustic performance, and then continued through a meet-and-greet session, climaxing with the statement “Star Wars was not filmed in space.”

Finally, Levine and Valentine bet $500; the wager wasn’t settled until the group visited German MTV and got them to roll the video. No tears: Valentine won the bet, although Levine never actually paid up. “In my twisted mind, I am always right,” Levine says.

To argue with that intensity, you need to be with your worst enemies or your closest pals. Maroon 5 are a group of best friends: Three of the five started playing together at age twelve. “Adam and I would talk on the phone all night about Pearl Jam and Nirvana,” says keyboardist Jesse Carmichael. Fifteen years later, the band draws less on grunge and more on R&B, especially Prince, and on pop rock, especially the Police.

From a distance, Maroon 5’s music can seem like it’s all surface: catchy melodies and R&B production that lets the band fit on pop radio seamlessly between Rihanna and the Black Eyed Peas. Up close, Levine’s pained, yearning vocals give the music more emotional weight, as does the fact that the band is a gang of friends living childhood dreams. That makes the battles more intense, the victories sweeter, the celebrity encounters more surreal. And it made losing a founding member taste just like a mouthful of ashes.

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