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Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
The Simpsons fans are just finding out TV show is behind huge rock band's name
Fans of The Simpsons are only just realising that the TV show is the inspiration for one huge rock band's name. The news was shared on Reddit as many people admitted they didn't know They've scooped seven awards including Grammys, yet many are still clueless about how Fall Out Boy chose their legendary band name. The American rockers, featuring Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley, kicked off in 2001 as a pop-punk side project. The band cycled through several drummers before Hurley came aboard, leading to their debut album Take This to Your Grave in 2003 and catapulting them into stardom. Among their smash hits are tunes like Sugar, We're Goin Down, Dance Dance, Thnks fr th Mmrs, and My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up). Yet, despite their stardom, the origin of Fall Out Boy's name remains a mystery to some fans, with one Reddit user confessing they'd only just discovered the tale behind the name. A Reddit user shared: "Today I learnt the band Fall Out Boy was named after a character in The Simpsons (Radioactive Man's sidekick), when a fan in the crowd, at their second ever show, shouted the name as a suggestion." Further details from American Songwriter reveal: "In the 1990s, Radioactive Man was introduced on the long-running animated series The Simpsons. A movie starring the famous comic book hero was being filmed in Springfield and Bart Simpson's friend, Millhouse Van Houten, auditioned and was chosen to play the role of Radioactive Man's sidekick Fallout Boy." "Several years later, when bassist Pete Wentz and guitarist Joe Trohman were forming a new band, they were reserved to booking shows as 'Pete's New Band,' until something better came along. "In 2001, the name Fall Out Boy was chosen after the band asked the crowd, during their second show together, what they should be called and someone yelled "Fallout Boy. " The name immediately stuck." It went on: "Though the band liked the name, they had no idea at the time that it was referencing a Simpsons character at first. "Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy originally made their first appearance in the real comic book series published by Bongo Comics, in 1994. "Co-founded by Simpsons creator Matt Groening in 1993, the short-lived comic series featured stories centred around the Simpson family and other characters from the show. The comic printed its final issue, Simpsons Comics #245, in 2018." Reacting to this revelation, one Reddit user said: "Now I feel super old. I thought this was common knowledge." Meanwhile another added: "I always thought that was a really good band name." A third user said: "Weird... I've never associated 'Fall Out' in Fall Out Boy to mean radioactive fallout." A fourth person also exclaimed: "Huh... I always assumed it was about something else I wasn't aware of... but I guess it's nice that I was right without knowing it.."
The Hindu
4 days ago
- Health
- The Hindu
More such party convention will be organised in North Karnataka, says Minister
Minister for Textiles, Sugar, Sugarcane Development and Agricultural Marketing and Haveri district in-charge Shivanand Patil has clarified that the Congress convention in Mysuru is not a show of strength in favour of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. Speaking to presspersons in Haveri on Wednesday, Mr. Patil said that similar party convention will be held in North Karnataka also. He said that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has already said that he will be the Chief Minister for the whole tenture and he will not comment on it. On the allegation of corruption in supply of milk power to anganwadi centres in Haveri, he said that at the outset it appears to be no scam but he will get it inquired. On the alleged illegal appointment of medical college staff, the Minister said that he has already spoken to the dean concerned on the issue and it appears to be because of technical issues. But if any illegality is found, action will be taken, he said. On the supply of fertilisers, he said that the Centre is not supplying adequate quantity of urea to the State as there is huge demand because of copious rainfall. 'Already, four cases have been filed against supply of poor quality fertiliser. Their licence has been cancelled and steps will be taken to arrest sellers of spurious fertiliser,' he said. 'No increase' Replying to a query, Medical Education Minister Sharanprakash Patil clarified that there has been no increase in the number of deaths due to heart attacks in the last six months. 'People have been given wrong information. We have inquired into the issue and it is clear that deaths are not due to COVID-19 vaccine,' he said. To another query, he said that the Haveri medical college will soon get cardiologists and also a hi-tech MRI scan centre.
Miami Herald
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Ron Dante, voice of the Archies, now sings with the Turtles: ‘Honor the songs'
SAN DIEGO - Few singers have been as widely heard but remain as little known as Ron Dante, who is now on the "Happy Together Tour" as the lead singer in the Turtles. Fewer still scored their biggest successes - completely uncredited - in the 1960s as the fictional lead singer in the highest-rated Saturday morning cartoon TV series in history, then became the voice of Coca-Cola, Campbell's Soup, Dr Pepper, McDonald's and Budweiser in ubiquitous national TV jingles. That series, "The Archie Show," debuted in 1968 as an adaptation of the popular comic book, "Archie." Both iterations featured the titular teenage character and his pals Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie, who were also the members of the animated band the Archies. The nonexistent group's frothy 1969 song, "Sugar, Sugar," was the biggest-selling single of the year in the U.S., topping the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women," Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary," the Beatles' "Get Back" and a slew of other classics. The song was later recorded by Wilson Pickett, Ike & Tina Turner and Bob Marley, among others. Dante was the lead singer on nearly all the singles and albums released under the Archies' moniker, including "Sugar, Sugar." It also rose to No. 1 in Mexico, Norway, South Africa, Brazil and 10 other countries. "Sugar, "Sugar" did so, even though the Archies only existed in cartoon form and never performed a single concert or even a single song live. "It's very interesting when your song goes No. 1 and they play it on TV on 'The Ed Sullivan Show,' and all they play is the cartoon!" said Dante, who will celebrate his 80th birthday on Aug. 22. He is performing with the current iteration of the Turtles, who headline the annual Happy Together Tour's 2025 edition. The lineup also includes Little Anthony and the current iterations of Jay and the Americans, the Vogues, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap and the Cowsills. "I was a journeyman singer and went where the work was," he explained. "I was fine with the anonymity. When I took on the job with the Archies, it was right up front that I would not be credited or promoted as having anything to do with them. But all in all, it's been great for my life." Was it easy or difficult for Dante to create a musical personality for cartoon characters? "I was well-versed with the Archies because I'd read all the 'Archie' comics and I knew what they were going for with the TV series," he replied, speaking from his Los Angeles home. "The show had two new songs each week and was produced by Don Kirshner, who had achieved great success with 'The Monkees.' He had a great team with (songwriter) Jeff Barry, and I knew what voice to bring to 'Sugar, Sugar,' 'Bang-Shang-A-Lang' and the other Archies' songs." Dante laughed. "I knew we were not Led Zeppelin!" he said. 'We were going for a younger market, a 9- to-13-year-old bubblegum market, of kids who were just discovering pop music. So, I put myself in that mindset and I knew I had to be respectful and sound clean cut." In 1969, the year the Archies peaked, Dante also did all the vocals - again uncredited - on "Tracy," a No. 9 hit that was credited to another nonexistent group, the Cuff Links. To cash in on the song's success and a subsequent album for which Dante recorded all his parts in barely two days, a band called the Cuff Links was hastily assembled and sent out on tour without him. Dante was all of 23 when the Archies hit it big. But he was already a music-biz veteran who had written songs recorded by Jay and the Americans ("Raining In My Sunshine") and Gary Lewis & the Playboys ("Ice Melts in the Sun"). He went on to co-produce all of Barry Manilow's albums between 1973 and 1980, as well as albums by Ray Charles, Cher and others. He also contributed backing vocals to albums by Steely Dan and the hard-rocking power trio Mountain. 'Caravan of Stars' Dante was just 18 when he co-founded a short-lived trio, the Detergents, which made one album. The group's lone hit, "Leader of the Laundromat" - a parody of the Shangri Las' 1964 chart-topper, "Leader of the Pack" - rose no higher than No. 19 on the national Billboard charts. But before they washed out, the Detergents did a national Dick Clark "Caravan of Stars" concert tour. It also featured Little Richard, the Animals and Little Anthony and the Imperials, whose lead singer, Anthony Goudine, is part of this year's Happy Together Tour and, at 84, the oldest artist in the lineup. "Anthony is four years older than me and he still sounds like his 20-year-old self," Dante said. "We played cards together on the 'Caravan' tour bus in 1965. Now, we've come full circle and we're on the bus together again." The Happy Together Tour debuted in 1984 and was named after the Turtles' chart-topping 1967 hit, "Happy Together." The tour ran through 1987 with a rotating cast of artists and the Turtles as the headliners. It resumed in 2010, again with the Turtles topping the bill each year. After he toured as an opening act on the 2017 Happy Together tour, Dante returned the next year to replace the ailing Howard Kaylan as the lead singer in the Turtles. He has retained that role on each subsequent tour, singing alongside Turtles' co-founder Mark Volman, who continued touring after being diagnosed in 2020 with Lewy body dementia. The same disease afflicted comedian Robin Williams before he died by suicide. A number of bands that rose to fame in the 1960s continue to tour. But few of them still have any original members left in their current iterations. "People don't really know who is in the Association or the Grass Roots. They know the songs," said Dante, who performs several Archies' hits during the Turtles' Happy Together Tour sets. "When Mark called me in 2018 and asked me to be the lead singer in the Turtles, he said: 'You have to be true to the music. You're not Howard; we're not going to dress you up in costumes and have you do comedy. So, honor the songs and do them the way we recorded them.'" Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
Time of India
12-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
K-Drama Star Hwang Jung-eum's ₹32 Crore Crypto Scandal - From Company Funds to Personal Card Bills
K-drama star Hwang Jung-eum The Shocking Details Behind the Embezzlement Case The entertainment world was rocked when details emerged about actress and former K-pop group Sugar member Hwang Jung-eum 's massive embezzlement scandal. What started as a crypto investment gone wrong has revealed a web of financial mismanagement that would make even the most dramatic K-drama plot seem tame. According to prosecution findings, Hwang Jung-eum siphoned off a staggering ₹32.17 crore (43.4 billion Korean won) from her own entertainment company, Hunminjeongeum Entertainment , where she held 100% ownership. But here's where it gets really messy - she didn't just use this money for crypto investments. The 41-year-old actress also used company funds to pay her personal credit card bills worth ₹3.29 lakh (4.44 million won) and even covered stock loan interest payments of ₹77,000 (1.04 million won). The whole scheme began in July 2022 when Hwang initially tried to open cryptocurrency accounts under her company's name in Jeju Island. When that didn't work out, she decided to take a different approach - withdrawing company funds under the guise of "advance payments" and funneling them into her personal accounts for crypto trading. Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like An engineer reveals: One simple trick to get internet without a subscription Techno Mag Learn More Undo by Taboola by Taboola From Company Loans to Personal Expenses What makes this case particularly eyebrow-raising is how systematically Hwang Jung-eum used company resources for personal gain. She took out an 8 billion won loan (approximately ₹5.93 crore) in the company's name, then immediately transferred 7 billion won to her personal account for cryptocurrency investments . The prosecution discovered that between July and October 2022, she repeated this pattern 13 times, each time moving company funds to fuel her crypto trading addiction. Out of the total ₹32.17 crore embezzled, she spent ₹31.24 crore on cryptocurrency investments and other ventures. But the personal expenses didn't stop at crypto. The card payments she made using company money were specifically for paying property taxes and local taxes - essentially using her business as a personal piggy bank. This kind of financial mixing would be familiar to many young entrepreneurs who sometimes blur the lines between personal and business expenses, though rarely to this extreme extent. The Road to Redemption and Legal Consequences Despite the serious nature of the charges, there's a silver lining to this story. Hwang Jung-eum has taken full responsibility for her actions and, more importantly, has completely repaid all the embezzled funds. Her agency, Y1 Entertainment, announced in June that she had liquidated her personal assets to repay the entire amount in two installments. The actress appeared in court in May 2025 for her first hearing, where she admitted to all charges against her. She explained that around 2021, she was encouraged by acquaintances to invest in cryptocurrency to grow her company's funds, leading to her "immature judgment". Her legal team emphasized that while the funds were technically company money, they were earned through her personal activities as an entertainer. The case has had immediate consequences for her career - she was dropped from variety shows and lost advertising contracts. Her next court hearing is scheduled for August 21, 2025. This scandal resonates with the broader conversation about financial literacy and the crypto craze that swept through Asia in recent years. Just like how many young people got caught up in the cryptocurrency boom and bust cycles, Hwang's story serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of mixing business finances with high-risk investments, regardless of how promising they might seem.
Scottish Sun
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
US rock star drops out of huge band's gigs for the rest of the year to have surgery to stop ‘permanent damage'
He previously took a break in 2023 to protect his mental health OFF STAGE US rock star drops out of huge band's gigs for the rest of the year to have surgery to stop 'permanent damage' A US rock star has dropped out of his band's gigs for the rest of the year to undergo career-saving surgery. Fall Out Boy guitarist and founding member Joe Trohman, 40, revealed he is stepping back from touring in a bid to prevent permanent damage to his hand. 3 Fall Out Boy's Joe Trohman is stepping down from live gigs for the rest of the year Credit: Getty 3 The guitarist needs surgery on his hand Credit: Getty He wrote on Instagram, "After years of managing ongoing issues with my right hand, it's become clear that I need surgery to avoid permanent damage. 'Unfortunately, this means I'll have to take the rest of the year off from playing with the band. 'The silver lining is that I'm on track for a full recovery. The band will still be playing all scheduled shows. 'I'm looking forward to recovering so I can get back out there with the guys. Thanks so much for the love and support.' The band is playing in Calgary, Canada tonight and have festival dates in Japan and Brazil over the summer. Fans sent their well wishes, with one writing, "It's okay Joe, we love you and I hope everything goes well, take all the time you need." Another said, "I just fell to my knees in Walmart. Wishing you luck Joe." In 2023, Trohman took several months off the road to focus on his mental health. His guitar tech Ben Young stepped in on that occasion. Speaking at the time, Trohman said, "Neil Young once howled that it's better to burn out than to fade away. But I can tell you unequivocally that burning out is dreadful. Without divulging all the details, I must disclose that my mental health has rapidly deteriorated over the past several years. 'So, to avoid fading away and never returning, I will be taking a break from work which regrettably includes stepping away from Fall Out Boy for a spell. It pains me to make this decision, especially when we are releasing a new album that fills me with great pride (the sin I'm most proud of).' Listen to Fall Out Boy's single Sugar, We're Goin Down The guitarist spoke of his "severe" mental health issues in his 2022 memoir, None of This Rocks. Trohman has been in and out of therapy since the age of 10 and said he often sees things "through dark-tinted lenses a little bit". Fall Out Boy achieved underground success in 2003 after they released their debut album, Take This to Your Grave. They skyrocketed to worldwide fame in 2005 after the release of the album From Under the Cork Tree, with its lead single Sugar We're Goin' Down reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. In 2006, the band was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards. A year later, their third album, Infinity On High, topped the Billboard 200. The band went on an indefinite hiatus in 2009, citing exhaustion as the key reason. "We were being pushed too hard, we were working too often, and I think we had no grounding. There was no, 'This is where I live, this is my family, this is my house, here's where I get mental health assistance, I take my medication this many times a day,'" Trohman shared in an interview with Kerrang. "None of that stuff was happening, it was all just go go go, different places, different things, if you have to succeed you've gotta do this. "And it got to a point where — I can only speak for myself here — but I thought, 'I think we've succeeded… can we stop for a minute? I need to go to my house.'" They reunited in 2013 with the release of the album Save Rock and Roll.
