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Time of India
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Jimmy Hart reveals secret behind Shawn Michaels' iconic theme song
Image via WWE WWE legend Jimmy Hart has finally lifted the curtain on a long-standing secret about one of wrestling's most famous entrance themes. In a recent video posted on WWE's official YouTube channel, The Vault, Hart revealed that he actually sang the female vocals on Shawn Michaels' iconic song, 'Sexy Boy. ' The theme, which has been synonymous with Michaels for over three decades, was originally sung by Sensational Sherri, Michaels' manager during the early 1990s. When Sherri took a break from WWE, Hart stepped in to record the female parts, layering his voice multiple times to create the effect of several women singing backup. Jimmy Hart ranks his 5 favorite WWE entrance songs 'Shawn loved the song. Shawn sang the song too. But when Sherri was away, I sang the backup vocals, and we doubled it five times to make it sound like three or four girls going, 'sexy boy,'' Hart explained. This revelation gives fans a fascinating glimpse into the creative process behind one of WWE's longest-running and most recognizable theme songs. Shawn Michaels inspires a new generation of wrestlers Beyond his iconic music, Shawn Michaels continues to be a significant influence on the wrestling world. Current WWE superstar Seth Rollins recently credited Michaels as a key inspiration in his journey to becoming a professional wrestler. Rollins shared that while he was initially drawn to the sport by the larger-than-life presence of Hulk Hogan, it was watching performers like Michaels and Bret Hart that made him realize he could succeed in the business without having to be a giant. 'Shawn Michaels is the guy,' Rollins said, emphasizing how Michaels' style and charisma made wrestling feel accessible to him. Shawn Michaels on John Cena's retirement and career legacy Shawn Michaels on NXT, John Cena and more | #WWE #wrestling In addition to discussing his past, Michaels has also shared his thoughts on John Cena's ongoing retirement tour. As a WWE Hall of Famer and Senior Vice President of Talent Development, Michaels respects Cena's decision to choose his final opponents and appreciates the chance to watch Cena's farewell run. 'He's earned the right to call those shots,' Michaels said in a recent podcast appearance. 'I'm just a fan now, enjoying what John's doing.' Michaels himself remains confident that many of his own legendary matches, including his famous bouts with The Undertaker, deserve recognition in the WWE Hall of Fame 's 'Immortal Moments' category. With only two Hall of Fame rings so far, Michaels joked that he has plenty of room for more honors in the future. Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
Glasgow Times
17-05-2025
- Automotive
- Glasgow Times
'Absolute genius': Glasgow restaurant gives 'parking tickets' out
The Vault, a new Turkish-fusion food hub that opened eight weeks ago, deployed the clever tactic to cars across the city. Southside locals, in particular, panicked at the sight of a yellow square on their windscreens. Speaking with the Glasgow Times, Hassan Qasim, 24, explained the inspiration behind the idea: "I was looking for a way to promote the restaurant, and I don't really have a marketing budget. "The first thing that came to mind was just to do flyers, and then I was like, but everyone does like flyers in the menus, like through doors. "So, I thought, how can I make this more interesting? And I thought about the new parking on the pavement ban." The Vault in Giffnock's clever 'parking fine' flyer (Image: Supplied) READ MORE: 'Celtic can't control them': Furious locals hit out over unofficial title party Under the new powers, penalty charge notices can be issued against vehicles parked on the pavement on some of the city's streets. To be in breach of the rules a vehicle would have one or more of its wheels touching the pavement. The ban came in on January 29 this year and began to be enforced from February 28. The fines are £100 but cut to £50 if paid within two weeks. Hassan capitalised on the new scheme with a particulate focus on the Southside: "There's been a huge increase in people getting tickets in the southside recently, so I jumped on that. "I printed off 6,000 fake parking tickets, which contain information about the restaurant - we've already worked through 1,000 of them." "We generally head out after 10 pm when no one is around, and they discover it on their car in the morning." READ MORE: Diana Ross slashes ticket prices for only Scottish tour date at Glasgow's OVO Hydro One local saw the funny side, they commented on one of The Vault's posts: "Here from a post on the Shawlands page about the 'parking ticket', absolute genius move! "Got everyone talking about your restaurant, I'm booking for this reason only." Another was quick to heap on praise: "Brilliant advertising at Silverburn on every car .. dropped a swear word then found it ingenious." 'Absolute genius': Glasgow restaurant gives 'parking tickets' out (Image: Supplied) This is Hassan's first venture into business, and he said he was nervous about how people would react, but says it's been 'mostly positive'. He said: "It's been mixed, on my own pages it's been pretty good and loads of people have been saying that they're booking us because of it. "Some people think it's a bit of a laugh, but others didn't see the funny side. "There were quite a few one-star reviews on Google, but they've been taken down now." READ NEXT: Dog walker rushed to hospital after being seriously assaulted by three men The gamble has clearly paid off for the fledgling business, as Hassan proudly stated that the restaurant was fully booked this weekend. The Vault is located on Fenwick Road and offers bring your own bottle with no corkage charge, but Hassan told us that he's waiting on an alcohol license being approved. The Turkish eatery serves traditional dishes but also offers fusions, such as bao buns and tacos. They've also just launched a takeaway menu. Hassan also wanted to offer something to anyone who'd had a scare: "For anyone that's had a parking ticket, if they bring it with them, they'll get 10% off—my way of saying sorry for any panic caused!"
Forbes
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Don Felder's Decades-Old Demos Inspire His Latest Solo Album ‘The Vault'
Don Felder. When former Eagles guitarist Don Felder was in the process of moving to Beverly Hills after living in Malibu, California, for nearly 30 years, he put away his recording equipment and tapes of unreleased music (going back as far as 1974) into a storage locker in 2000. It was only a few years ago that Felder returned to the locker and rediscovered the contents that he had almost forgotten about. 'I started looking around, and there were these 24-track tapes of all the albums that I had worked on in storage there,' he says. 'There were tapes of all the demos that I made when I had a 16-track machine. And Eagles things that we recorded live when they were working at my studio — we would rehearse out there and I put it on a tape and record so we could hear great ideas if something kind of ran by.' Felder grabbed some cassettes, brought them to his home studio and transferred them to digital. The rediscovery of those demos inspired Felder to rerecord them that now appear on his latest solo album The Vault: Fifty Years of Music, which comes out Friday. 'I had all these ideas that I had completely forgotten about over the decade,' he says. 'I found a couple from the '70s, a couple from the '80s, some in the '90s. And then finally, I think I had six [tracks] One of the earliest songs from The Vault is 'Move On,' which dates back to 1974 when Felder first hooked up with the Eagles; he would later co-write some of the band's most notable songs including 'Victim of Love,' 'Those Shoes' and the iconic 'Hotel California.' 'After I joined the band, I made the very first demo for my submission,' he says. 'But I didn't have any instruments. I took a cardboard box, put a microphone on it, and played a drum beat. And then I played a little rhythm guitar and a bass part. Then I started playing slide on it. 'When I submitted it to [Don] Henley, he said, 'I like that slide part. Let's write a song called 'Slide On." I went, (laughs) 'It sounds a little corny to me.' Anyway, I had been in a relationship with somebody for five years. It was done. It was time to move on. And I went, 'That's what that song should be about. But instead of 'Slide On,' let's write 'Move On.'' So that's the track from 1974 that's on the album – that idea.' Another demo revisited for the new collection is the reflective 'Hollywood Victim,' whose origins go back to the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour in 1994. 'I thought it would be a really nice, kind of cool, laid-back look at L.A. and the ugly underbelly of Hollywood in that song,' Felder explains. 'But we just literally had no time to record a fifth song. We barely got four songs done and the live shoot and the mixing and rehearsals and out on the road. So it fell to the wayside. Anyway, I kept thinking about that. And when I heard the demo that I had written, I went, 'I'm going to finish that. I like that track.' It was refreshing to look at some of my old ideas and go, 'Not bad. Let's take this and try to do something with it.'' Like his 2019 album, American Rock 'n' Roll, The Vault contains a bevy of A-list guest musicians such as guitarist Steve Lukather, keyboardist David Paich and singer Joseph Williams of Toto; bassists Nathan East and Matt Bissonette; keyboardist Greg Phillinganes; and drummers Todd Sucherman (Styx), Gregg Bissonette and Jim Keltner. 'All of those musicians are friends,' Felder says. 'So we have a great time making records and hanging out together…It's fun to work with great people that it's easy to work with and you have fun with. That's what it's all about. ' In addition to the unearthed material, The Vault unveils newer material such as the anthemic 'Free at Last' and 'Digital World,' a reggae-influenced commentary about society's obsession with smartphones and other electronic devices. Another new song written for the new album is the uptempo 'I Like the Things You Do,' inspired by Felder's romantic partner Jaden. 'We go to the gym quite often and we run right next to each other,' he says.'She runs faster than I. I'm running at the same tempo as that song, not knowing it. And I start hearing, 'I like the things you do,' that chorus running over in my head. 'I picked up my phone,' he continues. "I'm running on the treadmill. I start singing it into my phone so I don't forget it. And the guy next to me looks over like, 'What the hell are you doing?' But if I didn't record a little bit of it, it would just be gone. I came back later and I said, 'That's a good idea. I'm going to start that.' So I put together a little drum loop, played bass on it, and put together the progression, and started working on the track.' Predominantly consisting of guitar-fueled rockers, The Vault closes with 'Blue Skies,' a poignant acoustic number featuring a string quartet. It's a tribute to Felder's former Eagles bandmate Glenn Frey, who died in 2016. 'I had been tinkering around with an instrumental acoustic guitar piece,' he says. 'And I've been working on the idea that I could sit down, put a mic on it, and play something that was a really pretty acoustic guitar… I went, 'What if I took one of these acoustic ideas I've got and I put a string quartet?' 'They [the string musicians] came in, played on it. And it was a really beautiful little idea. While we're there, all the girls in that quartet, I had them saying, 'I'll forever be wishing you blue skies.' And if you listen to it, it's really, really, very low in the very last couple of progressions there. I thought it was a lovely way to give Glenn a big hug and a kiss goodbye, 'And I wish you nothing but blue skies.'' The most well-known song on the album is an updated version of the rocker 'Heavy Metal (Take a Ride),' which originally appeared on the soundtrack of the 1981 animated cult movie of the same name. It's regarded as Felder's most well-known track as a solo artist. 'It was all analog,' he says of the original recording. 'And the mastering techniques were limited. So I kept hearing it and going, 'I'd sure like to take that song and make a fresh 96K Pro Tools with high-end mastering, great microphones, and redo it so it sounds like 2025.' There's no way you can go back and get an old mixtape and make it sound right. It is what it is. So I thought, 'I'll freshen that thing up, give it a facelift.' And it was fun to do it.' Following the release of The Vault, Felder will be sharing the bill this summer with Styx and former REO Speedwagon singer Kevin Cronin for the Brotherhood of Rock tour starting May 28. Those three acts have previously shared the same stage in what has become almost an annual tradition. 'We've toured together a whole lot,' says Felder. 'The best part of that whole thing is that we all know each other so well. All the crew members and the front of house guys — it's a big family. And there are no divas. There's no hissy fits. There's no ego. We're just having a great time on stage and off stage, playing music with a lot of people that you like. So why not do that if you can instead of having to deal with other parts of the music business that aren't quite so enjoyable?' Felder says he plans to continue to 'rock 'til I drop,' but jokingly adds: 'Hopefully, it won't be during 'Tequila Sunrise.' Maybe during 'Hotel California' or 'Life in the Fast Lane' or something that's more of a rocking song — but as long as I can get up and do it, and people are loving it. And by the end of my set, everybody's standing up. They got their iPhones out. They're filming me playing 'Hotel' and dancing and rocking. How do you get a better, exciting life than doing that?'
Scottish Sun
17-05-2025
- Automotive
- Scottish Sun
Hundreds of cars hit by ‘parking tickets' in Scots city but there's a twist
The restaurant boss revealed the scheme has been a great success IT'S FINE FUN Hundreds of cars hit by 'parking tickets' in Scots city but there's a twist A RESTAURATEUR has pranked customers with a hilarious marketing stunt - but people are divided. Hassan Qasim, 24, slapped fake parking tickets on cars in Glasgow's south side, with details of his new Turkish fusion restaurant. Advertisement 4 A restaurant boss has left locals divided with his parking ticket marketing stunt Credit: Supplied 4 The Vault in Giffnock opened eight weeks ago and serves Turkish food Credit: Facebook / The Vault Giffnock 4 The reverse side provides details about the dishes on offer and a picture Credit: Supplied The former accounts student was forced to think outside the box after admitting his advertising budget for The Vault in Giffnock was low. The business owner told us: "Fliers are the cheapest way to do it but they can be boring and everyone does it. "There's been a huge increase in people getting tickets in the southside recently with the pavement ban so I jumped on that. "I printed off 6,000 fake parking tickets which contains information about the restaurant - we've already worked through 1,000 of them. Advertisement "Myself and my sister have been out every night sticking the tickets on cars in the area - she thought it was a great idea too. "We generally head out after 10pm when no one is around and they discover it on their car in the morning." Hassan's Turkish restaurant offers a selection of mouthwatering meats, tasty breads and lip-smacking sides. And the parking ticket prank has been a success with the restaurant securing increased bookings and positive social media publicity. Advertisement The yellow flyer reads: "It is a criminal offence for any person to not book a table at the vault in Giffnock." On the back is a menu for the new eating spot including pictures of the grub. However the stunt has left a handful of punters upset with some rushing online to blast the business. Hassan laughed: "The reaction has been 50/50, some people think it's a bit of a laugh, but others didn't see the funny side. Advertisement "It's been a success, we've secured a few bookings for the weekend from people who have found our fake parking tickets. "There have also been lots of people talking about it on Facebook, so this also helps to riase our profile. 4 Student-turned-restaurateur Hassan Qasim pictured with the flyer Credit: Supplied "We ended up getting 12 one-star reviews on Google because of it but thankfully they've been taken down now." Advertisement The Vault is located on Fenwick Road and offers bring your own bottle with no corkage charge.
Mint
13-05-2025
- Business
- Mint
Donald Trump brings home $600 billion investments from Saudi Arabia: $20B for AI centers, $142B in defense, $80B in tech
US President Donald Trump, in an announcement from Riyadh, unveiled a historic $600 billion economic partnership with Saudi Arabia, declaring it a cornerstone of his 'America First' trade and investment strategy. The deal, described by the White House as 'transformative,' cements a new era of strategic cooperation between Washington and Riyadh across critical sectors such as AI, defense, energy, infrastructure, and healthcare. Leading the package is a $20 billion commitment by Saudi data infrastructure giant DataVolt to build AI data centers and energy facilities across the United States. A further $80 billion in joint investments will be made by US tech majors including Google, Oracle, Salesforce, AMD, and Uber, aimed at advancing next-generation technologies in both countries. American engineering firms Jacobs, Parsons, AECOM, and Hill International are set to spearhead projects such as King Salman International Airport, Qiddiya City, and The Vault, boosting US services exports by over $2 billion. Meanwhile, GE Vernova has secured deals for $14.2 billion in gas turbines and energy systems, and Boeing will deliver 737-8 aircraft worth $4.8 billion to Saudi leasing firm AviLease. In a boost to US domestic manufacturing, Shamekh IV Solutions will invest $5.8 billion, including in a new Michigan-based facility to produce high-capacity IV fluids. Topping the announcement is a $142 billion defense agreement, the largest of its kind, covering air and missile defense, space capabilities, naval and coastal security, and military modernisation. Over a dozen American defense companies will benefit, with added provisions for training and capacity-building within the Saudi military. Five priority categories define the defense pact: Air force and space advancement, Missile and air defense systems, Maritime and coastal protection, Border security and land force upgrades, and Information and communications modernisation. Three sector-specific investment funds will also be launched: $5 billion Energy Investment Fund $5 billion New Era Aerospace and Defense Fund $4 billion Enfield Global Sports Fund Each is designed to channel capital into US industries, foster innovation, and generate high-quality jobs nationwide. The announcement marks the largest-ever set of commercial agreements between the US and Saudi Arabia, reinforcing America's role as a preferred partner for the Kingdom's Vision 2030 modernisation goals.
