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‘He’s the Only One Who Could Do It.’” — Robert Plant Reveals the 1974 Elvis Moment That Left Led Zeppelin “Stunned” When Presley Sang Their Own Music. Tháng 12 22, 2025 In the mid-1970s, Led Zeppelin was the undisputed heavyweight champion of rock. They flew in a private jet dubbed “The Starship,” sold out stadiums in minutes, and were often referred to in the press as “Rock Gods.” Yet, there was one man who could still make Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones feel like nervous teenagers: Elvis Presley. The 1974 meeting between these two musical dynasties remains one of the most legendary “behind-closed-doors” encounters in music history. It was a night when the architects of heavy metal were reminded exactly where the “fire” of rock and roll truly originated. The meeting took place in May 1974 at a hotel in Los Angeles after Led Zeppelin attended Elvis’s concert at the Forum. Despite their own massive fame, the “Zep” boys were uncharacteristically anxious about meeting the...

Investors are preparing for a very different Federal Reserve in the year ahead. President Trump has signaled that he is closing in on a pick to be the next central-bank chair. He has also doubled down on his demand for lower interest rates and recently told The Wall Street Journal that he expects the new leader to be on board with his agenda. So far, markets have shown few signs of significant concern that the Fed would completely surrender its independence. But investors are still bracing for a central bank marked by unusual division, a potentially weaker chair and the lingering threat of more radical change. Here is a look at how they are assessing the different paths that the Fed could take: The threat to markets Analysts warn that a less independent Fed would pose a major threat to the economy and markets. Although the Fed controls short-term interest rates, borrowing costs in the U.S. are heavily influenced by yields on longer-term U.S. government bonds. And those are...

The prices of gold and silver have skyrocketed over the past year, prompting many monetary experts worldwide to speculate about the reasons behind this trend and what the prices of these rare metals could be at this time next year. Gold has risen about 10% over just the last month and 70% over the last year, while silver has gone up 40% over the last month and 134% this year. As of Monday, the price of just one ounce of gold sat at $4,470. Heightened geopolitical and economic uncertainty has boosted the demand for both gold and silver, which often move independently of many stock prices. Increased volatility in many bond markets, coupled with the devaluation of the U.S. Dollar, has both contributed to the increased demand for gold and silver. Both rare metals are often seen as hedges against hyperinflation and a safe, stable investment. Despite being widely seen as a safe investment, gold and silver carry their own volatility and risk, especially when buyers enter the market at a ...

In the early days of fast-food drive-thrus, Rat Pack legend Dean Martin once destroyed an expensive vintage car trying to get a burger for his girlfriend’s son. Phil Crosby Jr., Bing Crosby’s grandson, told Fox News Digital about how his mother once dated and was even engaged to Martin — who always called him "the kid" — following her "tumultuous" marriage to the "White Christmas" singer’s son, Phil Crosby Sr. "I was almost Dean Martin's stepson," he said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital. "So, if that had happened, I would have grown up with a silver spoon in my mouth, but that didn't happen." Crosby said he was very young at the time his mom, Peggy Crosby, now 85, began seeing the "That’s Amore" singer after meeting him at a club where she worked, following her short-lived marriage to Crosby "And I think my mother, she wasn't really ready [to be married again]," Crosby said of their even...

Researchers in China have developed a smart electromagnetic surface capable of converting ambient electromagnetic waves into electrical power. This development represents an integration of electromagnetic engineering and communication principles. “In the case studies, by jointly optimizing parameters such as transceiver beamforming, robot trajectories, and RIS coefficients, solutions based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning and multi-objective optimization are proposed to solve problems such as beamforming design, path planning, target sensing, and data aggregation,” said the researchers in a new paper. The innovation focuses on a self-sustaining electronic system that combines wireless information transfer with energy harvesting, potentially altering the current methods used in electronic warfare and wireless networking. “Ultimately, it is expected to have a broad impact on 6G communications, the Internet of Things, intelligent stealth and other related fields,” add...

Elvis Presley and his immediate family share a heartbreaking pattern of premature deaths. The King's mother passed away at 46, while three of his uncles succumbed to heart, kidney, and liver complications during their forties and early fifties. The legendary performer himself was merely 42 at the time of his passing, with many believing his prescription drug dependency played a role. Nevertheless, Sally A. Hoedel, who penned Elvis: Destined to Die Young, presents compelling evidence in her thoroughly researched work that the fatal heart attack stemmed from hereditary and birth-related conditions he carried throughout his life, potentially linked to cousin marriages within his ancestral lineage. This year brought fresh heartbreak when the icon's sole offspring, Lisa Marie Presley, passed away in January following cardiac arrest at the age of 54. Recently released autopsy findings disclosed that her death resulted from intestinal blockage connected to bariatric surgery ...

Iran has declared "total war" on America, Europe and Israel, with the Islamic Republic looking to rapidly rebuild its nuclear capabilities. The country's president made the inflammatory remarks in an interview published by state media on Saturday as he warned Tehran was in a position to launch attacks on the West and on Israel. “In my opinion, we are at total war with the United States, Israel and Europe. They want to bring our country to its knees,” Masoud Pezeshkian said before comparing the current situation to Iran's war in the 1980s with Iraq. He continued: "This war is worse than the one launched against us by Iraq. "On closer inspection, it is far more complex and difficult." He added: "In the war with Iraq, the situation was clear. They fired missiles, and it was clear where we would strike back. "But here, they are now besieging us in every respect, putting us under pressure and in tight corners, creating problems—economic...

Ukraine attacked a major Russian oil refinery using British Storm Shadow missiles, Kyiv’s military said on Thursday. Kyiv’s air force “successfully struck” the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov region bordering eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said in a statement. Why It Matters Kyiv has frequently attacked infrastructure connected to Russian oil and energy exports to cut Kremlin off from funds used to support its war effort. Ukraine carried out a record number of attacks on oil facilities in November, striking 14 times, Bloomberg reported at the start of December, as Moscow doubled down on its own assaults on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. What To Know Officials said the strike triggered “numerous explosions” and damage at the targeted oil refinery was still being assessed. The Novoshakhtinsk plant is one of southern Russia’s largest producers petroleum products and supports Moscow’s armed forces, Ukraine’s military said. It is particularly important ...

Silver rose 9% to hit a record high on Friday, bolstered by multiple factors including a market deficit and increasing industrial demand. The white metal was at a record high of $78.53 an ounce. Other precious metals also gained on Friday, with spot gold at an all-time-high of $4,549.71/oz and platinum at a record high of $2,454.12/oz after a 10% climb. Spot palladium registered a more than 14% gain on Friday, and was last at $1,924.03/oz. Hon Brian Scavo

For more than sixty years, the story of Elvis Presley and Debra Paget lived quietly in the shadows—half-whispered rumors, knowing glances, and questions no one ever answered out loud. It was a love story that never became official, never made headlines, and never needed publicity to feel real. Until now. At 92 years old, Debra Paget finally broke her silence with a simple sentence that carried the weight of a lifetime: “I loved him.” They met in 1956 on the set of Love Me Tender, Elvis’s first motion picture. He was only beginning to understand what fame meant; she was already a Hollywood star, graceful, poised, and deeply protected by her family and the strict moral codes of the era. On screen, their chemistry was immediate. Off screen, it grew into something far more personal—something both of them felt but neither was truly free to pursue. Those who were there noticed it. Elvis was drawn to Debra in a way that felt different from his other infatuations. Around her, he ...

In late 1959, inside a Los Angeles hospital room stripped of comfort and noise, something happened that does not sit neatly inside a medical chart. Louis Armstrong, the man whose trumpet could lift a crowd into celebration, was no longer performing, speaking, or responding in any ordinary way. According to those close to the situation, he was physically stable yet unreachable, caught in a baffling state that left even experienced professionals searching for an explanation that would not arrive.Armstrong had not simply taken time away from the public eye. He had, in effect, vanished. The image was unsettling for anyone who understood what he represented to American music. This was Satchmo, a performer whose very presence was often described as energy made audible. Yet he lay still, his body intact, his mind elsewhere, and the distance between the two seemed to widen with each day.The silence, as those around him later framed it, did not begin in the hospital. It began weeks earlier at t...

It was supposed to be a routine awards ceremony. A formal night of polite applause and carefully timed speeches inside the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. Elvis Presley sat in the audience under strict orders not to perform. His manager Colonel Tom Parker had drawn a firm line. Elvis could attend. He could wave. He could smile. But he would not sing. What followed was not a performance. It was a personal reckoning captured on film and then hidden away for nearly three decades. On the evening of April 3 1971 the annual Gospel Music Association awards brought together sacred music and celebrity under one roof. The air inside the auditorium was thick with hair spray cigarette smoke and nervous anticipation. Onstage the industry celebrated itself. In the third row a man in dark sunglasses sat quietly trying not to be seen. Elvis was there as a guest only. By that point he was the King of Rock and Roll and a Las Vegas headliner. His voice was considered an asset not to be given away fre...

The US says its military has carried out a "massive strike" against the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria, in response to a deadly attack on American forces in the country. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Operation Hawkeye Strike was aimed at eliminating IS "fighters, infrastructure, and weapons sites". Fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery hit multiple targets in central Syria, US officials told CBS, the BBC's media partner in the US. Aircraft from Jordan were also involved. Last week, Washington said two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter were killed in the central Syrian city of Palmyra Syria in an IS ambush, with President Donald Trump vowing a "very serious retaliation". In a post on X late on Friday, Hegseth wrote: "This is not the beginning of a war - it is a declaration of vengeance. The United States of America, under President Trump's leadership, will never hesitate and never relent to defend our people. ...

In an op-ed for the Washington Post in late November, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te declared, "I will boost defense spending to protect our democracy." Calling out "an unprecedented military buildup by Beijing"-which has vowed to bring Taiwan under its control, without ruling out the use of force-Lai announced that his government would introduce a historic supplemental defense budget of 1.25 trillion Taiwan dollars, or $40 billion. Citing foundational texts of U.S.-Taiwan relations, including the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act and the 1982 Six Assurances, Lai underscored the importance of collaborating with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to "uphold the cross-strait status quo." The proposed new special defense budget is a sea change in Taiwan's strategic posture. It aims to address decades of chronic underinvestment in its own defense by raising its military budget from next year's 3.3 percent of GDP to a 5 percent baseline by 203...

The Copa Room at the Sands Hotel was electric on August 12, 1962. The Rat Pack—Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop—traded jokes and songs with effortless cool. It was the third week of their summit at the Sands, and every night had been magic. Tonight would be different. Tonight would test what brotherhood really meant. Sammy was mid-solo, performing “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” with breath-stealing intensity. He danced, sang, and poured his soul into every note. The audience was mesmerized—Sammy at his absolute best. Raw talent, full command, undeniable presence. You understood why he was one of the greatest entertainers alive. At a front-row table sat Victor “Vic the Blade” Duca, a capo in the Chicago Outfit. Thick-necked, heavy-set, with cold eyes and a smile that never reached them, Vic had a reputation for cruelty that unsettled even other mobsters. He’d come to Vegas with six men, drinking heavily and treating the entertainment like it ...

For decades, the idea of “boldly going” across the stars has been confined to the flickering screens of science fiction, dismissed by many as a mathematical impossibility. But a groundbreaking new study has flipped the script on the cosmos, unveiling a physically plausible model for bending spacetime that sidesteps one of the biggest roadblocks in warp-drive theory: the need for exotic negative energy that doesn’t exist. Read on for an overview of this new model and discover why it may hold the key to the collective dream of faster-than-light space travel. Why faster-than-light travel matters more than you think The idea of a “warp drive” comes straight from science fiction, most famously Star Trek. In the show, Starfleet ships travel faster than light by colliding matter and antimatter, then turning that massive burst of energy into propulsion. According to the series, that raw power alone is enough to push a ship beyond light speed. In the real world, scientists have been explori...

In 1962, Frank Sinatra was not merely a singer or a movie star. He was the most feared man in Hollywood. His approval could make careers overnight and his anger could end them just as fast. When Sinatra lost his temper, rooms froze, conversations died, and powerful people suddenly remembered appointments elsewhere. That reality was understood by everyone inside Villa Capri on one particular night. Everyone except Dean Martin. Villa Capri was not just another Italian restaurant on Sunset Boulevard. It was an inner sanctum of Hollywood power. Deals were implied without contracts, reputations were tested over dinner, and hierarchy mattered. On that night, the air was thick with cigarette smoke and post show bravado. At the back table sat the core of the Rat Pack. Sinatra. Martin. Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford. Laughter was loud. Drinks flowed freely. The staff moved carefully, knowing exactly who occupied that table. For Michael Romano, a 22 year old waiter still learning how to na...