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Daily Mirror
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Pop icon crying as crazed fan grabs her and tries to pull off stage
EXCLUSIVE: Suzi Quatro has just turned 75, but she's got the energy and enthusiasm of a twenty-something and tells us about the secret to her three-decade long marriage — and a terrifying encounter with an overzealous fan She's the original queen of rock and roll — a legend who many female stars credit for opening doors to women in music. Suzi Quatro has just turned 75, but she's got the energy and enthusiasm of a twenty-something — and she can still rock a tight leather jumpsuit while wielding her trusty bass guitar. Deliciously straight-talking, the star is as passionate about performing as when she first stepped onto the stage, aged just 14, playing the bongos with her sisters in the trio The Pleasure Seekers. Here, the Detroit native, who has been married to German concert promoter Rainer Haas since 1993, tells us about her 2026 UK tour, the secret to her three-decade long marriage — and a terrifying encounter with an overzealous fan. You turned 75 recently — you look amazing! Ha ha, thank you. I'm still convinced they got the date wrong on my birth certificate. I'm proud to be 75, but I'm young at heart. I had a party but I don't drink much any more. Eventually you get to a point where you say, I've been there, had the monster hangover, and the thrill's gone. Do you ever feel bored not drinking at parties? No, because I'm a people person. I find my way into the conversation. I'm a Gemini. Geminis are ruled by Mercury, the planet of communication, which says it all. And there's no middle ground with me — I'm either crazy up and excited, or I'm down. I never have an even keel. We keep people on their toes. Don't ever second-guess a Gemini, because you won't win. You've been married to husband Rainer for 32 years. What's your secret? We live in separate countries! That is definitely a factor. I was 24/7 with my first husband, who was also my guitar player. Nice as that was, sometimes it wasn't. The main ingredient is trust and respect. We're soulmates, basically. I'm an optimist and he's a pessimist. We balance each other out. You and Rainer work together, too. How do you find that? Yes, he's my manager but I refuse to use the 'M' word in front of him! We enjoy missing each other, then getting together. Some people ask how we make that work, but it works for us. But the main ingredient to any successful relationship is not to expect the other person to 'complete' you. You have to be whole yourself. Tell us about your tour next year. What can fans expect? I'm celebrating 62 years in the business next year. It's a big tour across the UK — an entertaining two-hour rock and roll show with all the hits and a few surprises. I play the piano, drums and a seven-minute bass solo... I take you on a journey through my life. I talk a little, but I don't do Adele. She talks more than she sings, and she's very good at it. You must need to be in peak fitness for a big tour… I'm the rehearsal queen. I rehearse as if it was a live show, running around. If I'm not working, then I make sure I'm going to the gym. It means on stage, I still have that energy. Is life on the road a bit more sedate these days? I've partied, had the odd room wreck — but I was never a sex, drugs and rock and roll girl. I was brought up in a musical family. My dad told me aged 15, 'Suzi, you've found what you want to do in life. This is a profession. If there's 10 people or 10,000 in the audience, everyone's paid to see you, and you owe them.' That's always been embedded in me. You're also working on a new album… I am. Alice Cooper agreed to do a track on it. We recorded it in Detroit last year. I've known him since I was a teenager and he's so different from his stage persona that I can't watch him live. That's not the guy I know! We're close friends, he's a lovely guy. Is there anyone else you'd love to collaborate with? Rod Stewart. He's headed to Glastonbury this summer. They've asked me a couple of times, but the offer was silly. I'm better than that. It's not even about the money — after 61 years, I want the respect that I deserve, but I'd be happy to do it. What are your most memorable concerts? The first gig I did in Germany in 1973 — the first big show where thousands of people had paid to see me and were screaming, going nuts. My 50th birthday at a gig in Berlin was cool — when you hear Happy Birthday sung by 22,000 people, you hear it! That feeling never gets old. It's a legal high. What's a wild fan memory? In Germany recently I had taken my bass off towards the end of a show. Walking along the front, people were high-fiving me — but one girl grabbed my hand and wouldn't let go and tried to pull me off the stage. And she was strong. I was really scared — I was crying. What did you do? I backed up and sat down on the flight case I use, so nobody saw anything. I sang my final song and, as soon as I finished, a sound engineer came on, wrapped a towel around me and walked me offstage. But I was thinking, what kind of person thinks that's OK? I could have broken my neck. Has being a woman in a male-dominated industry changed over the years? I'll take to my grave that I was the first female rock musician to have worldwide success. There are many more female musicians today, but they tend to be too influenced by male opinion. Sometimes, women go out there in outfits close to soft porn. I wore a jumpsuit, but I showed no flesh. You don't have to strip off to be sexy. Work for it, buddy! Your seventh book, Grave Undertakings, came out in April. Can you tell us more about it? It did, and people are going crazy! It's caused so much discussion. I was a graveyard dweller as a kid through to adulthood. It's fascinating, reading tombstones. In my twenties I came up with the title and started collecting tombstone inscriptions, and did it for 35 years to assemble a book. Then I realised this would work as a novel. Can you fill us in on the book's plot? I've had a love of psychology my entire life. If you're mad at me, I want to know why. So I came up with a plot about six psychology students. It takes you through their lives, you get 20 lessons in psychology, and the pay-off is the tombstone inscriptions. That's all I can say. So, what would your own tombstone inscription say, Suzi? One side would say, 'Now I get it!' and the other, 'Too many dreams, too little time'. I've certainly thought about my life more over the last few years. I'm not going anywhere yet, though. Do you have any burning ambitions left? I would love my latest book to be made into a movie or a musical. Strictly would be fun — and I can dance! They've asked me before but the time was never right. I wouldn't do the jungle — it feels degrading. I'll watch it, though. I've realised so many dreams and I've still got so much to say. I'm happy as long as there's fire in my belly — and there's still plenty.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Detroit Tigers prospect Bryce Rainer suffers right shoulder injury in Low-A Lakeland
Detroit Tigers prospect Bryce Rainer suffered a right shoulder injury. The injury occurred Tuesday, June 3, in the fourth inning of a game for Low-A Lakeland, when the 19-year-old drove back into first base on a pickoff attempt. After diving, he rolled onto his back in pain. He was helped off the field and into the dugout by a coach and an athletic trainer. Advertisement It's a right shoulder injury. But the Tigers won't have further updates until Rainer is fully evaluated. MORE ABOUT HIM: Bryce Rainer solves Tigers' shortstop problem if available in 2024 MLB draft Rainer — whom the Tigers selected No. 11 overall in the 2024 draft — is hitting .288 with five home runs, 20 walks and 33 strikeouts in 35 games for Low-A Lakeland, getting all of his defensive reps at shortstop. His average exit velocity is 92.1 mph, which would rank among the top 50 MLB players. The Tigers believe Rainer is their shortstop of the future, as he hits the ball extremely hard and features a strong throwing arm. Advertisement Rainer is the Tigers' No. 3 prospect, according to MLB Pipeline. This story will be updated. Contact Evan Petzold at epetzold@ or follow him @EvanPetzold. Listen to our weekly Tigers show "Days of Roar" every Monday afternoon on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. And catch all of our podcasts and daily voice briefing at Order your copy of 'Roar of 125: The Epic History of the Detroit Tigers!' by the Free Press at This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit Tigers prospect Bryce Rainer suffers right shoulder injury
CairoScene
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Rino's Pizza Debuts in Diplo Al Sahel and Cairo is Up Next
Rino's Pizza Debuts in Diplo Al Sahel and Cairo is Up Next 'It all started in my backyard,' Ramy Rainer, founder of Rino's Pizza, tells SceneEats. 'Inviting friends for pizza nights over candle-lit dinners.' For the past three years, Rainer has been buried deep in the world of Neapolitan pizza - reading, researching, even building his own brick oven. What began as a series of cultish Cairo pop-ups has now, somewhat tentatively, found a home. This summer, Rino's is taking up seasonal residency at Diplo 3, Sahel's sun-soaked, see-and-be-seen summer playground. The pop-ups, Rainer admits, always lacked one thing. 'People got the pizza, but not the mood, the full experience of being in the place, feeling the heat of the oven, the energy of the kitchen.' The Diplo branch is an attempt to fix that. 'People have been asking for a 'Rino's place' for so long. I wanted to give them a space, but just for the summer. After Sahel, we'll open in Cairo.' The Diplo space is deliberately pared back: an open-air terrace beneath a vine-wrapped pergola, with Rino's signature terracotta red wrapping the facade and framing the open kitchen - both the physical and emotional centre of the operation. With just six seats, the layout is built for intimacy. A spot for true pizza devotees. Rino's forthcoming Cairo branch, by contrast, will be an entirely different stage. At its centre: a single, hulking brick oven, designed as a kind of live-performance altar where pizza-makers work like theatre actors - flipping dough, coaxing flames, drawing in diners as their audience. 'It's like a movie,' Rainer says. A Neapolitan shrine, of sorts. What's the secret to the perfect Neapolitan dough? Rainer doesn't hesitate. 'Two things,' he says. 'First, fermentation, very specific temperatures, really longgggg time. That's how you get the dough so airy, so light it's almost a cloud.' And the second? 'It's all about the sweet spot, when the crust is just about to burn, but not quite. That's where the flavour lives.' It's not something you time. 'It's in the hands.' And what kind of community does he hope to build at Diplo? 'I just want people who really love Neapolitan pizza, people who get it. It's not about being fancy. It's about quality. The magic is in the details.' That rigour goes far beyond technique. 'We always thrive to use the best ingredients we can get, from the flour, salt, and water in the dough, to the toppings on each pizza. Everything is top-notch. That's what makes the difference.'
Business Recorder
05-05-2025
- Business
- Business Recorder
Euro zone yields edge up before Fed and BoE policy meetings
FRANKFURT: Euro zone government bond yields edged up on Monday with investors on the sidelines ahead of a week packed with policy meetings at central banks including the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. A public holiday in Britain contributed to thin trade volumes. Germany's 10-year yield, the euro area's benchmark, rose 0.5 basis points (bps) at 2.51%. The benchmark yield rose around 5 basis points last week, a more modest increase compared with the volatility of early March when it jumped above 2.9% following Germany's dramatic spending plans. Bund yields lost ground afterwards on concerns about the adverse economic impact of US tariffs. 'Bunds are unable to defy the US headwinds, and the curve is steepening as European Central Bank expectations for two more rate cuts remain better anchored,' Rainer Guntermann, rate strategist at Commerzbank, said. US Treasury yields edged up - with the 10-year rising 1.5 bps to 4.31% - after climbing to a one-week high on Friday as data showed that employers added more jobs than economists had expected in April. 'Downside in oil prices should help Bunds to stabilise today after the sharp sell-off on Friday, but the long-end appears vulnerable with 10y yields having broken above the 2.5% mark,' Commerzbank's Rainer added. Money markets priced in an ECB deposit facility rate at 1.65% after falling to below 1.55% in mid April after the ECB suggested it was ready to cut rates in response to the potential adverse impact of US tariffs. Crude prices fell more than 1% on Monday after OPEC+ decided over the weekend to further speed up oil output hikes.
Telegraph
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
I'll get German children eating meat again, vows butcher minister
Germany's new agriculture minister, a Bavarian butcher, says he will take on the country's vegetarian movement and put more meat on school menus. From the Rhineland to the Polish border, schoolchildren have suffered ever more plates of potato salad and cabbage rolls in recent years – with primary schools in Freiburg even banning meat products entirely. But that is set to change under Alois Rainer's incoming regime, with the master sausage-maker declaring that meat is part of a balanced diet and should be served regularly, 'especially in kindergartens and schools'. The 60-year-old politician, from the conservative CDU's Bavarian sister party the CSU, has also vowed to block more meat taxes after the outgoing Green agriculture minister called for a levy of 10 cents on every kilogram. Mr Rainer's government appointment delighted Markus Söder, the CSU leader, who commented: 'Now we'll have Leberkäse (a German meatloaf) again instead of tofu.' Cem Özdemir, the outgoing Green minister, introduced vegetarian-only days in his ministry's canteen, which reportedly led to hungry bureaucrats going next door to get their fix of traditional meat dishes. Rejecting Mr Özdemir's proposed tax increases on meat, Mr Rainer told the Bild newspaper: 'Meat prices are not set by the minister, but by the market. 'Farmers are not children who need to be patronised.' Mr Rainer said he believed that meat prices could even fall under Germany's new government, which will be led by Friedrich Merz. A gastronomic rallying cry Eating meat has become a gastronomic rallying cry for Germany's centre-Right, with Mr Söder frequently posting pictures of classic meat dishes such as bratwurst and Wiener schnitzel online. The 58-year-old party leader has also frequently taunted his Green opponents, such as outgoing vice-chancellor Robert Habeck, who is openly vegetarian. Despite Germany's meat-loving reputation, around 1 in 10 Germans now eat plant-based meat replacements daily. The country consumed 4.44 million tons of meat in 2024, an average of 53.2 kg per person, according to the agriculture ministry. This was up slightly from the previous two years but still much lower than seven years ago, when Germans ate around 61 kg per person.
