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Miami Herald
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Why Led Zeppelin's Unexpected Collab With '70s Rock Legend Is Still Dividing Fans 30 Years Later
When it comes to legendary guitar players, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page has been consistently topping the lists of countless music lovers for decades. Also counted among the most iconic axe men in rock history is Neil Young - but the two musicians have drastically different styles of playing. So it makes sense that one epic '90s collaboration featuring Page and Young would result in mixed no one could have predicted that people would still be arguing about the performance decades later. In 1995, when both Led Zeppelin and Young were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they took the stage together to perform a rendition of Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" featuring a particularly unforgettable solo from Young (and a bit of surprise additional shredding by Robert Plant). In keeping with initial reactions to the performance, commenters on a recently shared clip were divided by Young's contribution. "Sigh. Young cannot play solos. Great talents, but not on the guitar. And everyone being polite and pretending, like he's the 4 year old kid brother pretending. This is embarrassing," one person wrote, with another calling the clip "painful." However, others were quick to defend Young. "People saying Neil was bad don't understand this era of music and what this was about. Sorry it wasn't auto tuned for you," somebody argued. "I frigging love Neil Young's guitar solos," someone else declared, adding, "Probably because I usually dislike guitar solos. All these so-called guitar heroes boring us with their 'fret work', yawn. Feel the passion, not the 'technical ability.'" "Boo boo Neil Young can't play, he sucks, boo hoo" - dude sitting at home with his phone, who will never be remembered for his contributions to music, unlike Neil Young," quipped yet another fan. One person who was reportedly thrilled with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame collab was Young himself, who had such a positive experience performing with Zeppelin that he considered recording an entire album with the band, according to Rolling Stone. While that never came to pass, Young did write a song inspired by the experience, per American Songwriter - "Downtown," the lead single on his 1995 album Mirror Ball (recorded with members of Pearl Jam). Related: Legendary Rock Star, 79, Thrills Fans With Rare Throwback Pic on Anniversary of Iconic Performance Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dakota Johnson Reveals New Tattoo After Devastating Family Loss
Dakota Johnson Reveals New Tattoo After Devastating Family Loss originally appeared on Parade. Dakota Johnson is getting ready to add more ink to her tiny tattoo collection — and this one is going to have a very special meaning. The Materialists star, who already has at least 12 tattoos, recently opened up about her plans to get some new ink dedicated to a beloved family member who recently passed away. While sitting down for an interview with MTV, Johnson revealed that her dog Zeppelin passed away in December at age 17 — and she wanted to do something heartfelt to honor his memory. "I did want to get a tattoo while I was here but I haven't had time. My dog who was 17 is no longer with us so I was gonna get a little Zeppelin thing," Johnson explained during the interview. 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 Although she's still workshopping ideas about what the tattoo could be, Johnson is absolutely certain about what she wouldn't get inked. "The cremation place — isn't that crazy that I cremated him? — they gave me a little paw print of his, which I would never get tattooed, but maybe like a little Z or something," Johnson shared. Johnson went on to discussing the passing of her pup, calling the dog the "love of her life," joking that everything is "now bleak" and "nothing matters" without him. Despite the loss of her beloved dog, Johnson recently opened her heart to a new family member. Just days before the interview, she shared that she had adopted a dog named Tokyo. "We rescued her on Saturday from the Santa Barbara pound," Johnson shared on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast. "I didn't plan on it." She continued, "I had a dog for 17 years. He was 17 and died in December. I was like, 'Oh it's going to be a while.' But then I saw her like an angel!" You can hear all that Dakota had to say below. Dakota Johnson Reveals New Tattoo After Devastating Family Loss first appeared on Parade on Jun 13, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 13, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Yungblud Confronts His Insecurities on ‘Idols': This ‘Was Almost My Last Chance'
Yungblud initially tried to make Idols right after his album 2020 Weird! hit Number One — but it didn't come together at the time. Instead, he ended up working on Yungblud, his self-titled record from 2022 that, in his view, came together partially by 'letting too many opinions in.' 'I was always discouraged from making [Idols] because Weird was so commercially successful,' he tells Rolling Stone. 'Everyone was like, 'No, we need to keep the momentum going.' When Yungblud came out, I stood on top of a hotel room in New York and I went, 'Fuck, I've repeated myself.' I almost made an album with the poster boy of what people said Yungblud was.' More from Rolling Stone Yungblud Really Really Really Swings Big on the Charmingly Overwrought 'Idols' Lola Young Sets Release Date for New Album 'I'm Only F-cking Myself' The Band Camino Preview New Album 'NeverAlways' With Double Song Release After some much-needed self-reflection, he finally completed Idols, out Friday, at a 'really pivotal time' in his life. 'I really asked myself, 'Am I fucking happy?'' he recalls. 'I was falling into a cycle of giving a fuck what people thought.' Idols is his attempt at making 'something classic,' not a record you'll overplay and then move on from but something you'll 'put on once a week for the rest of your life.' It pushes his sound into new sonic territory and introduces a more mature Yungblud who looks inward. 'If it sounded like the past, I failed. Fuck that. There are so many pastiche rock bands out there. That's why rock's been dead for so long,' he says. 'I didn't want to adhere to a time period… If it felt too specific to this moment, then I failed. And it would cringe me out.' As a young artist, he says, 'you want to be the photograph on the wall,' pointing to icons like Freddie Mercury and Mick Jagger. The album, instead, reflects a journey of self-fulfillment and the realization that 'we never give ourselves enough credit for our own individuality.' 'This album was almost like my last chance,' he says. 'If I hadn't been sure of what I was making, I don't think there would've been a way back for me. I made a fucking incredible album when I was 19 — 21st Century Liability. I got so much bigger than I ever expected to get. And then the mainstream finds you and you become insecure about things you didn't know existed.' The cover is intentionally 'statementless,' showing Yungblud in a submissive pose, with his body pulling away from title Idols. 'I've been too wounded by this shit. I don't want to be up front and center anymore, for the time being,' he says. 'I want to get out of the line of fire, I want protect myself.' From London, Yungblud breaks down five songs from his new album Idols I was listening to a lot of theater and a lot opera. If you look at Zeppelin, the Who, the Rolling Stones, it is all derivative from Bach and Vivaldi and Chopin but on electric guitars. If you listen to Zepplin melodies, it's classical music and John Bonham's drumming is classic percussive shit mixed with the blues, but from a perspective of theater that tell a story through music. In the video, I start with 'hello, is there anyone there?' and it goes through this journey of self-discovery and one step into heaven and a reclamation — but first you have to go through all this bullshit… and I arrive at the end of the mountain. I'm not questioning shit. It's very religious, but in discovery and a search for meaning. This album is about the idea of idolism, and this song came from me facing people leaving the fanbase. If you know Yungblud, it's a tight community, and I would see people almost outgrow it. I really wrote this as a love letter to my fanbase. And people who have left been like, you were once a part of the greatest parade, and you can go, you can come, but I will think of you. I will dream of you, I will do this for you every day until I am not here anymore. It was a really gutting song. It's about how we lift something up onto a pedestal and rip it down and then lift it up and rip down again because it's entertainment. We like to build fairy tales to enhance our own lives. I looked at what everyone had to say. 'I can't like Yungblud anymore, I'm not 17.' It's interesting because I hadn't grown. That's why I needed space. I needed to fucking grow. I stagnated in time. I'm frozen in a statue of what I as for the first iteration of my career. I just started getting singing lessons to hit those notes at the end. If I didn't call the album Idols, I would call it Change, because it's been the biggest transition point as a human being in my life. I remember writing this song at nighttime, about 2 a.m. The song came out, and I remember just crying my fucking eyes out to my producer Mati Schwartz, We were having a conversation about how every point in my life, when I feel happy about how I feel in my head, everything fucking changes again. Why does someone die? Why do I have to leave my house? Why do I fall out of love? Why does everything change? I learned through this song that there is beauty in the uncomfortable and that there's something to learn more than ever in the uncomfortable. The more uncomfortable you can be, the harder you feel anything. At the time, I wreaked of insecurity, because I took people saying, 'Your music's shit.' All I had cared about was the one guy in the fucking pub who believes I'm inauthentic, and it was dimming my light. I was allowing these people to make me quieter, to make me more insecure, to make me more hesitant… On the song, I was talking to a 19-year-old, going like, you ain't fucking ready for this shit. And 'Why, at 26, are you so confused and insecure? You get to do what you love,' and by the end of the song I check my fucking chest, and I go, 'Does that look like a good shot? You missed.' I'm still here. I'm still around, and I got my spunk and bite back. Fuck, I love this song. I was walking down the banks of the River Thames in London, and I was wondering: how many people have walked where I have walked? How many ghosts have walked where I have walked? It was this image of ghosts passing me, or someone in 20 years or 100 years passing me. 'Choose life and don't forget to live. Don't forget to feel the air on your face. Don't forget to fucking enjoy every experience you feel.' It's really cool to be alive — it's confusing and it hurts, but it's a beautiful thing. I wanted to stay there in London forever. It's the point in the album where I start to win as the protagonist. I'm gonna get through it. The end is a three-and-a-half-minute outro inspired by The King and I… the music had this waltzing, temptress thing. I wanted to make stadium rock [at the end of 'Ghosts,'] so I said fuck it — I put all my mates in the studio, and I wanted to [imagine] Wembley Stadium, River Plate Stadium. I wanna get something that's gonna make people move, and then it's gonna build musically. It's an insane rock outro to get a stadium shaking. I want to envision that stadium with me when you have your headphones in. When you are in a room full of 25,000 people outdoors, and you're all there for a mutual reason, I have never felt calmer — even if the music is sporadic and mental. I felt calm. That's why we did that with the outro. Part two is the dark and downward spiral to the inevitable realization that I'm not going to be here forever. Mortality. So when you find yourself, when you love yourself… Who are you going to share that with? Part two talks about my mother, it talks about my family, it talks about the love of my life that I broke up with in pursuit of myself. Part two is almost contradictory to part one's idea. This is a massive moment for me because this is the first song I've ever put on an album that I didn't write. Mati had written this song for me seven years ago when he met me. And he saw me starting to take off, and he knew. It's probably been the most understanding thing about myself I've ever read, and I didn't even write it. It made me fucking cry my eyes out because no one has ever understood me more in my entire life. When you make art from your soul or your heart, it can never be intellectualized, because it pours from that thing—you don't know why it's there, what makes you feel. It's yours. He basically just said to me, 'All you are is a self-fulfilling prophecy, a product of your temptation. You live in your imagination… All you are is the self-filling odyssey. Tell me what inspired you lately, and maybe I'll remember you vaguely.' Everyone's always asked me, 'Who are you, what are you?' And always my answer to them is, 'When?' Instead of being afraid of the change, I've embraced it and used it as inspiration. It was mental that he wrote that. On this album, I had to alleviate my ego. It was more of an artistic statement to include it, and I don't want to change anything about it. The song was perfect as it was written. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked
Copts Today
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Copts Today
What skills does regular gaming develop?
Leveling Up IRL: Skills Gamers Learn From Online Worlds Over the past decade, gaming has gained immense popularity around the world. While the appeal of slots and tabletop games lies in the potential for winning, they also provide a unique opportunity for personal growth and the development of valuable skills. Regular gaming activities can bring tangible benefits in various areas of life, including business and personal endeavors. If you are a newbie to the online gambling industry, you can choose one of the reliable online casinos at You can read helpful guides, tips, and industry news on this site. Below, we will tell you about the skills and qualities that can be successfully developed or improved by playing slots and tabletop games at online casinos. The top skills that can be developed by playing in an online casino People play slots and live games in online casinos for different reasons. Some do it to feel the adrenaline, and some to get a solid win. At the same time, most gamblers do not realize that even playing for fun trains their minds and improves attentiveness and cognitive skills. Here are the TOP qualities that can be trained by playing in an online casino: Strategic thinking. Success in gambling depends on thinking strategically and making rational decisions under changing circumstances. Regularly playing in an online casino teaches a person to think critically and correctly assess the likelihood of various outcomes. The ability to reason under pressure. Online players have only a few seconds to decide during each gaming session. The more often you gamble, the more confident you will feel in non-standard life situations. To check this pattern, you must only log in to the online casino website, top up your deposit, and start the game. Mathematical abilities. Some gambling games, such as poker and blackjack, require mathematics and probability theory knowledge. These games teach you to calculate chances and evaluate the ratio of risk and successful combinations. Thus, playing tabletop games in an online casino improves your logical thinking and ability to analyze. Emotional stability. During the game, the gambler experiences various emotions, from joy and delight to excitement and disappointment. By regularly playing slots in an online casino, you can learn to manage your own emotions when making important decisions. You will learn to stay cool and collected, be able to confidently predict moves, and emerge victorious from the game. Ability to adequately assess risks. If you want to succeed in gambling, you need to learn to predict the potential outcomes of your decisions and find a balance between caution and risk. Online casinos help develop this skill. It can bring considerable benefits to business. With its help, you will learn to minimize potential losses. Reaction speed. Fast and dynamic crash games such as Aviator, Balloon, Cricket X, Pilot, Zeppelin, etc. teach instant response, develop spatial thinking and the ability to concentrate. Players get used to analyzing their actions and strive to improve results. If something doesnt work out, you can always try again. This helps to become patient and persistent. Ability to predict patterns. Pattern recognition skills are in demand in many professions, such as medicine, science, psychology, and law. Gambling develops these qualities. By playing slots, you will learn to analyze data quickly and make complex decisions promptly. Although online casinos are associated primarily with excitement and drive, they provide ample opportunities for personal and professional development. What social skills does gambling develop? Regular online casino play develops not only personal skills but also social skills. Here are some of them: You can use all these skills to solve everyday problems and achieve career goals. They improve your productivity and increase your chances of long-term success. What does science say about the effects of gambling on a person and their brain? According to scientific research from US universities, playing online casinos benefits human brain activity. In their experiments, scientists from Duke University used the latest technology - special microwave scanners with a narrow spectrum of action. The experiments essence was as follows: While players played a simplified version of online poker, sensors recorded their brain reactions at various points in the game. According to the experiments results, the parietal-temporal region of the brain was involved in playing poker. This allowed the researchers to conclude that players actively develop all cognitive functions of the brain, which minimizes the likelihood of developing mental disorders with age. It has been scientifically proven that playing virtual poker can reduce the risk of developing neurodegenerative pathologies such as dementia and Alzheimers disease. American professor of neurology Jeffrey Cummings has proven this fact in his research. He confirmed that poker stimulates mental activity and preserves memory. His research is based on the thesis that gambling constantly requires high concentration and involves areas of the brain responsible for memory. These two factors slow down brain aging and form new neural connections. Playing online casinos will help you improve your skills and succeed in the virtual world and in everyday life. Remember: each gaming session teaches valuable lessons that can be applied in business, relationships, and personal development.
Newsweek
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Woman Picks Up Dog From Groomer—Discovers They Gave Up Halfway Through
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Dog grooming is an art, but one first-time groomer may have underestimated the challenge of styling a particularly fluffy goldendoodle. The result? A viral TikTok moment that has gained over 11 million views, as Zeppelin was left with just his head shaved. Zeppelin's owner, Preslea Wilson, from Manhattan, New York, recalled the amusing ordeal, which took place in November 2022. "She was a new groomer, it was her first week so she wasn't very experienced. She said he had too much hair for her to finish on time, so she just left him with only the head shaved," Wilson told Newsweek. The sight of Zeppelin—a fully fluffy body with a neatly groomed head—was too hilarious not to share. In the TikTok video, she wrote: "Throwback to when the groomer gave up because my dog had too much hair so she just left him like this..." Pictures of Zeppelin the dog after the grooming mishap. Pictures of Zeppelin the dog after the grooming mishap. @pr1ncesspres/TikTok Although Zeppelin's unfinished look lasted only overnight, Wilson knew the internet would appreciate the moment. "He got the rest shaved the next morning so he did not have to look like that forever," she explained. "I thought that it was a very funny video that other people could get a laugh in." Goldendoodle dogs like Zeppelin require regular grooming to maintain their coat health and appearance. Experts recommend brushing goldendoodles at least two-three times a week to prevent matting and tangles, while professional grooming should be done every six to eight weeks to keep their coat manageable. As the video gained more attention on TikTok, people shared their reactions to Zeppelin's hilarious haircut. "She literally did the hardest part (face/ears) first," said viewer jetttt1010. While lndngirlie joked: "That's a lawsuit." Others said that the cut had left Zeppelin looking like a certain Pokémon character. Viewer Ainadg said: "It looks like that one Pokémon, Dracozolt." Some even shared similar experiences with grooming mishaps. "I had the opposite happen to me, got back a bobble head," said maddybay16. Zeppelin isn't the first dog to come back from the groomers in an unexpected state. Last week, Cavapoo Louie returned from a grooming session looking like a completely different dog. In a now-viral picture, the owner joked that Louie himself "didn't seem too thrilled about his new do." In 2022, another goldendoodle had a less-than-perfect groom. Scout gained viral attention when he came home looking like a "new dog" after a cut at his local groomers. Do you have funny and adorable videos or pictures of your pet you want to share? Send them to life@ with some details about your best friend, and they could appear in our Pet of the Week lineup.
