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Exclusive Video: The Boys of Maroon 5 Share the Love

By Rolling Stone
April 13, 2007 4:56 PM ET

Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine and guitarist James Valentine dropped in to the Rolling Stone offices for lunch and gave us the inside dirt on recording their new, danceable album It Won't Be Soon Before Long, touring with the Stones, aspiring to be Bono-like and more. Check it out -- along with the video for their new single, "Makes Me Wonder" -- right here.

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