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Guitarist From Iconic ‘80s Band Shares Proud Moment Involving Late Rock Legend
Guitarist From Iconic '80s Band Shares Proud Moment Involving Late Rock Legend originally appeared on Parade. Cars guitarist took to Instagram on July 15 to share a proud moment involving his former band and the late . 'John Lennon mentions The Cars in his final interview,' Easton posted along with a link to hear the audio from the interview on YouTube and the mention of the Cars song at the 6:57 mark. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 Easton's post also included a photo of a Kindle with the text from that final interview, which was conducted by of RKO Radio on Dec. 8, 1980. Lennon was shot and killed just hours after the interview in the entry way of the Dakota apartments in New York City. In the interview, Lennon talks about the music that he was enjoying at the time. ''s 'Hungry Heart'—which I think is a great record—is to me the same kind of period sound as 'Starting Over.'' Lennon said in the interview. 'I think the Cars' 'Touch and Go' is right out of the '50s. [Sings] 'Uh, uh, oh…' That new wave, a lot of it is '50s stuff. But with the '80s styling, and that's what I think 'Starting Over' is: it's a '50s song made with an '80s approach.'Fans were quick to comment on Easton's post. 'I went to 's grave yesterday…so amazing!!! Love John Lennon and love The Cars ❤️❤️,' one fan wrote, referring to the late Cars singer-bassist who died on Oct. 3, 2000 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. 'That's one of the things I love about the Cars' music - it has flavours of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s,New Wave, Punk & more- so skilfully blended 🙌🔥❤️,' another fan posted. 'Of course, John Lennon listened to the Cars 🔥,' another fan commented. 'Elliot's guitar is instantly identifiable the man has style for miles🔥,' another wrote. '(Just Like) Starting Over' was Lennon's comeback single featured on his collaborative album with wife , Double Fantasy. The album went on to top the charts following Lennon's death. The Cars song 'Touch and Go' appeared on their third album, 1980's Panorama. It cracked the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 37. Easton's late Cars' bandmate singer-guitarist credited him with the song's trademark solo in a 1980 interview with Circus magazine. 'Elliot came into the studio one day during the sessions with the solo for 'Touch and Go' on a cassette. No music, just the solo. He'd recorded it by himself in his hotel room. When we put the solo on top of the track, it sounded great,' he said. Guitarist From Iconic '80s Band Shares Proud Moment Involving Late Rock Legend first appeared on Parade on Jul 16, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 16, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
Express Tribune
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Paulina Porizkova announces engagement to Jeff Greenstein
Supermodel Paulina Porizkova, 60, has announced her engagement to writer and producer Jeff Greenstein. On July 9, Porizkova shared the joyful news on Instagram, posting a video of herself and Greenstein in a car, smiling and holding hands as she proudly displayed her new engagement ring. In the caption, she simply wrote, "He asked." The couple, who went public with their relationship in May 2023, recently celebrated the two-year anniversary of their first meeting. Porizkova reflected on their relationship, sharing heartfelt memories of their early days together. "Tonight, two years ago, we met in person," she wrote in February 2025, adding that she had 'already known' after hours of conversations and a month of connection. Their journey together began as they shared sweet moments, including a trip to Paris where they went Instagram official. Porizkova posted a photo of them in matching outfits at the Eiffel Tower, and described their relationship as filled with laughter, love, and "goofiness." This new chapter in Porizkova's life comes after her lengthy marriage to Ric Ocasek, the late frontman of The Cars. The couple was married for 28 years before announcing their separation in 2018, just months before Ocasek's death. Porizkova has been candid about the difficult emotional journey she faced following his passing, even sharing her struggles with grief and her eventual healing process on social media. In a recent interview, Porizkova shared her personal evolution, expressing how, at 59, she had come to realize what love truly meant. "Being in love means feeling treasured, safe, and equal with your partner," she said during her appearance on the TODAY show in January 2025. Fans were quick to offer their congratulations, with many expressing joy for the couple's happiness. Porizkova's new engagement marks a significant milestone in her journey to love once again, this time with Greenstein by her side.
AllAfrica
20-06-2025
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- AllAfrica
How China got the US over a rare earth barrel
Who's gonna tell you when it's too late? Who's gonna tell you things aren't so great? You can't go on, thinking nothing's wrong, but now Who's gonna drive you home tonight? – The Cars 'Just when I thought I was out,' Michael Corleone lamented, 'They pull me back in.' This column was originally intended to be about the lamentable state of America's rare earths dependency and how decades of delusional thinking – 'Rare earths are not rare!', 'We taught China rare earth processing!' – led to the current predicament. But who cares about rare earths now; the Middle East is once again a conflagration likely to ruin all of US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby's best-laid pivot to Asia plans whether President Donald Trump drops that 30,000-pound bomb on Iran or not. The Persian Gulf and Eastern Mediterranean will tie down US naval assets for another decade. Michael Corleone's fatal flaw was that he did not understand what business he was in. He was a gangster, and there is no escape from murder, death and ruin in that line of work. Karma came for Philip Tattaglia, Barzini, Cuneo, Stracci, Moe Green and Hyman Roth. Why would it be any different for Michael and the Corleone family? Since the end of World War II, the United States has run a maritime empire and there is no escape from entanglement, overstretch and ruin in that line of work. Karma came for the Minoans, Phoenicians, Italian merchant states, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British and Japanese empires. Why would it be any different for America? The reason the US is dependent on China for rare earth elements is that ores with extractable concentrations are, in fact, rare and processing these ores into usable concentrates is, in fact, incredibly difficult. The purpose of maritime empires is to harvest wealth from far-flung imperial possessions – or, more palatably, a rules-based international order. This need not be as self-serving as it sounds. Japan was allowed to have a very nice four-decade-long run between 1945 and 1985. Europe got the Marshall Plan and eight decades of security, allowing the old country (literally) to fund generous pension and welfare programs. Nixon's rapprochement with Mao removed the US Seventh Fleet as a Pacific threat, paving the way for China's coastal industrialization. In return, the US got decades of Middle Eastern oil arguably for free (crude oil paid for in dollars recycled into US investments). America also got manufactured goods from Asia and Europe on the same trade and creamed off the best and brightest from all corners of the world to become the empire's minions. All of the above should be grounds for celebration. It's all America could have asked for as a maritime empire. And yet, we are all familiar with the downsides. Maritime empires contain the seeds of their own destruction, magnifying capitalism's iniquities as wealth concentrates in ever fewer hands. Karl Marx wrote 'Das Kapital'at the height of the British Empire, showcasing brutal exploitation in Britain's own factories. The Trump presidency (both terms) is a reaction to America's neglected working class. The reason the US is dependent on China for rare earth elements is because processing technology has advanced multiple generations in the past two decades. The majority of the world's rare earths are now processed in Baotou Inner Mongolia, largely using third-generation sulfuric acid roasting technology, having long ago abandoned polluting in-situ leaching. Because of unavoidable foreign entanglements, maritime empires are not able to enjoy what should be a major perk of hegemony – to not have to expend resources on the military. The spoils of maritime empires can only be collected with expensive navies and far-flung bases if not occasional (perhaps continual) spillage of blood. And America's collected spoils have, of late, not been well distributed among the citizenry, particularly among those asked to do the bleeding. Mischief is irresistible for empires with forward-deployed militaries. The US has conducted about 200 military interventions since the end of WWII, 50 since the end of the Cold War. The most significant of these have been abject disasters – Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan – draining the empire of blood, treasure, domestic vitality and international goodwill. Mischief is once again at work, enticing America back into the Middle East just a few short years after humiliatingly crashing out of Afghanistan. America's pivot to Asia will never happen, just like Michael Corleone could never extricate the family business from its criminal past. The empire has collected too many barnacles. This is the exact opposite of the domino theory. It does not get easier. At some point, foreign entanglements stop benefiting the empire and become, at best, leeches and, at worst, ruinous distractions. The US, bled dry by two decades of never-ending wars, can only pivot to Asia by abandoning the Middle East and Ukraine. But like bickering concubines, manipulative allies conspire for the emperor's favor. In every stable of concubines, there is always a favorite who outmaneuvers the rest and imposes her will on a besotted emperor. America's Wu Zetian just unleashed a surprise attack on Iran demanding the emperor's total attention, leaving beautiful, faithful, innocent and delicate Taiwan to twist in the wind. The US is dependent on China for rare earth elements because rare earth chemistry programs are offered at dozens of Chinese universities versus none in the US. China has produced over 50,000 rare earth patents in the past two decades versus a de minimis number anywhere else. Cutting-edge science in the field is published in a handful of dedicated Chinese rare earth journals. China does not do foreign entanglements. Historically, China expanded organically by incorporating different polities into the Chinese state. That is what makes China China. Unlike maritime empires, the entire purpose of the Chinese state is to harness the major perk of hegemony– not having to waste resources on the military and, instead, deploy them on public works projects, from Yellow River dykes to high-speed rail. In the early 15th century, after commissioning seven magnificent imperial treasure voyages over three decades, reaching as far west as the east coast of Africa and establishing China as the world's pre-eminent seafaring nation, the Ming Dynasty court suddenly turned its back on maritime power. Historians have asked why ever since. Whether it was economics, Confucian conservatism or banal power struggles, abandoning maritime power set China up for European and Japanese predation in the 19th and 20th centuries. In a full accounting of history, maritime empires have not fared much better. Competition for overseas assets led to the slaughter of two World Wars, immolating much of Europe's accumulated wealth. Imperial possessions, acquired over a span of four centuries, evaporated in the blink of a few decades. The reason the US is dependent on China for rare earth elements is because of a maddening inability to concentrate. The US has known of its risky reliance on China for rare earths for two decades. In 2010, China weaponized its rare earth stranglehold on Japan during an East China Sea border dispute. In 2019, after President Trump launched a trade and tech war, China State Television not so subtly broadcast President Xi Jinping's visit to a rare earth processing plant. And somehow, in 2025, China has become an even more dominant supplier of rare earth elements. In all these instances, the exact same narratives were parroted by the English media – rare earths are not actually rare, China dominates rare earth processing because it is polluting, the US transferred rare earth processing technology to China. These shibboleths, which fall apart on close scrutiny, have tied America's hands for two decades. Halfhearted efforts to resolve the problem fell by the wayside when China refrained from pulling the rare earth trigger – until now, in 2025, when China is putting the squeeze on rare earth exports for military use just as strategic competition with the US is entering its most intense phase and right when conflicts in Israel and Ukraine are consuming an inordinate amount of military hardware. Like Michael Corleone, the US tried to convince itself that it was in a different business. 'The Godfather' is a tragedy worthy of – and rhyming with – both 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear.' Michael was blinded by ambition, thought of himself as more than a gangster and ultimately brought ruin onto himself and the Corleone family. The US consciously chose to be a maritime empire, stationing troops in 800 bases across the world, and then convinced itself that it was more than just an extractive empire, above the nitty-gritty, dirty work of resource extraction and immune from manipulation by vassals. Let us hope that this does not end in a Godfather-esque tragedy.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
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Tony Hawk's Recommended Albums and THPS Soundtrack Influences
If you're not up on this great video series from the world-famous Amoeba Records, episode 900 with Tony Hawk is a good place to start. Roll, and kickflip, through the aisles with Tone as he lets us all know which records he grew up listening to, which ones are good start to finish, and which bands he knew he wanted on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtracks. Plug in and tune out: "Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is our very special guest for our 900th "What's In My Bag?" episode! The king of the 900 himself goes record shopping at Amoeba Music in Hollywood. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 will be available July 11. Check out his picks: The Cars - Shake It Up (LP) The Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos (LP) Penelope Spheeris - The Decline Of Western Civilization (BLU-RAY) Alex Cox - Repo Man (DVD) The Clash - The Clash Hits Back (LP) Pixies - Doolittle (LP) A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (LP) Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (LP) Ministry - The Land Of Rape & Honey (LP) Joe Dante - The Burbs (DVD) David Lynch - Wild At Heart (DVD) Björk - Debut (LP) Nouvelle Vague - Bande A Part (LP) Tom Waits - Mule Variations (LP) 💻🛹 🛹💻Tony Hawk's Recommended Albums and THPS Soundtrack Influences first appeared on Skateboarding on Jun 3, 2025
Forbes
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Roy Thomas Baker: Remembering The Legendary Record Producer In 7 Albums
LOS ANGELES - DECEMBER 9: Rock producer Roy Thomas Baker poses for a portrait at The Village ... More Recording Studio in Los Angeles, California on December 9, 2005. (Photo by Jim Steinfeldt/Michael) If there were a record producer who became the go-to guy for musicians wanting a distinct hard rock sound, it would be Roy Thomas Baker. His list of production credits reads like a who's who of classic rock from the 1970s and 1980s — among them were Queen, the Cars, Foreigner, Cheap Trick, Journey, Ozzy Osbourne and Yes. Additionally, he worked on records by Devo, the Stranglers, the Smashing Pumpkins and Mötley Crüe. In his works, Baker brought the best out of the artists he collaborated with through state-of-the-art techniques and atmospherics that defined the stadium rock aesthetic. The U.K.-born Baker died at the age of 78 on April 12, his publicist announced on April 22. Following the news of Baker's death. Queen guitarist Brian May wrote on Instagram: 'Roy was a part of our production team from the very beginning up to and including the album 'A night at the Opera'. We then parted company for 'A Day at the Races', but reunited for the 'Jazz' album. 'Roy's production contribution along with Mike Stone's engineering for 'Bohemian Rhapsody' will never be forgotten,' May continued. 'Thank you, Roy for all the great work you did for us, and all the fun we had. Rest in Peace.' 'I am very sorry to hear of Roy Thomas Baker's passing. He played a big part in our early years. RIP,' wrote Queen drummer Roger Taylor also on Instagram. In tribute to Baker, here are seven of the many hit albums that he worked on. 8th September 1976: British rock group Queen at Les Ambassadeurs, where they were presented with ... More silver, gold and platinum discs for sales in excess of one million of their hit single 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. The band are, from left to right, John Deacon, Freddie Mercury (Frederick Bulsara, 1946 - 1991), Roger Taylor and Brian May. (Photo) A Night at the Opera (1975) Queen's tour de force fourth album is the British group's signature work; it is also the crowning achievement for Baker, who had previously co-produced Queen's first three albums (Queen, Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack). Among such notable tracks as 'You're My Best Friend," 'I'm in Love With My Car' and 'Love of My Life,' the record's centerpiece is unquestionably 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' the six-minute operatic epic that catapulted Queen to major stardom. In an interview with the New York Times in 2005, Baker said of the iconic song: "I thought it was going to be a hit. We didn't know it was going to be quite that big. I didn't realize it was still going to be talked about 30 years later." The Cars 1978 Greg Hawkes, David Robinson, Ric Ocasek Benjamin Orr and Elliot Easton (Photo by ... More Chris Walter/WireImage) The Cars (1978) Baker's relationship with Boston-based New Wave band the Cars began with their 1978 self-titled debut album, which contained several of the Cars' most beloved songs in 'Just What I Needed,' 'Good Times Roll,' 'My Best Friend's Girl,' 'You're All I've Got Tonight' and 'Moving in Stereo.' Following the success of The Cars, Baker worked with the band on their next three albums. In the news release about Baker's death, Cars guitarist Elliott Easton said of the late record producer: 'Roy was one of the pieces of the puzzle that made The Cars what they became. He didn't belabor anything or take things overly seriously. He was fun to work with, a mirthful guy whose affect was kind of Monty Pythonesque and, as it happens, a great cook.' (L-R) American rock guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist, Neal Schon, English drummer, Aynsley ... More Dunbar, American singer and keyboardist, Gregg Rolie, American singer and songwriter, Steve Perry and American musician, Ross Valory, of the American rock band Journey, pose for a group portrait circa August, 1978 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by) Infinity (1978) Journey's fourth album from 1978 is notable for two things: it marked the debut of singer Steve Perry and Baker's first collaboration with the band. Infinity became Journey's commercial breakthrough album with the classic songs 'Lights' and 'Wheel in the Sky,' and Baker would return for Journey's follow-up hit record, 1979's Evolution. 'We did Infinity with the infamous Roy Thomas Baker,' said Journey guitarist Neal Schon in a press statement, "and we did so many different things on that record that I'd never tried, or even thought about doing. I learned a lot from Roy.' (MANDATORY CREDIT) Foreigner photographed for Music Life Magazine, ... More California, United States in March 1978. (L to R) Ian McDonald, Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, Ed Gagliardi, Mick Jones, Dennis Elliott. (Photo by) Head Games (1979) Foreigner's hit streak continued with the group's third album Head Games, which also became Baker's first and only credit with that band. Among the record's popular songs were the title track, 'Dirty White Boy' and 'Women'; Head Games peaked at number five on the Billboard album chart and has since sold 5 million copies in the U.S. Cheap Trick 1982 Bun E Carlos, Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander and Jon Brant (Photo by Chris ... More Walter/WireImage) One on One (1982) Baker also brought his hit-making magic to Cheap Trick's One on One, a transitional record as it was the group's first album without longtime bassist Tom Petersson (he was replaced by Jon Brant). The record transformed the Rockford, Illinois, power pop group into an arena rock outfit, buoyed by such tracks as 'She's Tight,' 'If You Want My Love' and 'Lookin' Out for Number One.' Singer Ozzy Osbourne (Photo by Bill Marino/Sygma via Getty Images) No Rest for the Wicked (1988) It seemed inevitable that Baker and Ozzy Osbourne would collaborate, given their backgrounds in hard rock and metal. The pairing finally occurred for 1988's No Rest for the Wicked album, which featured 'Miracle Man' and 'Crazy Babies.' The double-platinum success of this driving and sweeping record extended the former Black Sabbath singer's popularity during the 1980s. Portrait of the members British Rock band the Darkness, circa 2005. Pictured are, from left, Ed ... More Graham, Dan Hawkins, Justin Hawkins, and Frankie Poullain. (Photo by) One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back (2005) In some way, Baker's work on British rock group the Darkness' second album represented a full-circle moment for the producer, as the band's glam-influenced sound recalled the best of early Queen. 'We wanted to get the best of both worlds, of old and new,' Baker said in a 2006 interview with Sound on Sound. 'I think we ended up succeeding, because it sounds like it was done last week, and yet there are aspects where you go 'Wow, I recognise that from the '70s or '80s.'"
