A Hazy Shade of Winter song as "one of [Simon and Garfunkel's] best songs, and certainly one of the toughest and more rock-oriented". In 1987, the Bangles were approached to record a song for the soundtrack of the film "Less Than Zero". They chose to record a cover of "A Hazy Shade of Winter", which they had been performing live since at least as far back as March 1983. Their cover, simply titled "Hazy Shade of Winter", was a harder-edged rock song that removed most of the bridge section. The record, like the rest of the soundtrack album, was produced by Rick Rubin. After a
Shade Sheist he became label mates and recorded with "Biggie Smalls" (the artist who caused the late Christopher Wallace to change his stage name to The Notorious B.I.G.) As a teen he appeared in several music videos including 2Pac's "So Many Tears" and South Circle's "Attitudes." Sheist graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in 1997. He first performed commercially as "Shade Sheist" in 2000 on the song "If You Were My Bitch" from the gold-selling compilation "Irv Gotti Presents: The Murderers". That year, he also appeared on the song "It's Your Life" from Ja Rule's triple platinum-selling album "". Additionally, Sheist met