Gerry and the Pacemakers, You’ll Never Walk Alone and Liverpool FC: interview 28th September 2021 Michael Owen - © to the owners The story of how I started supporting Liverpool Football Club in the UK whilst remaini...
The band chosen over The Beatles in 1962: The Tremeloes’ interview with Len “Chip” Hawkes 28th September 2021 The Tremeloes in (Call Me) Number One, 1969- © to the owners The Tremeloes are primarily remembered for having had an ...
The Cavern Club, The Beatles and the 1960s British Invasion: interview with The Merseybeats’ Tony Crane 28th September 2021 The Merseybeats in 1964 © to the owners The Merseybeats were a Liverpool band formed in the late 1950s by today's inte...
The only interview with Tom Higgenson of Plain White T’s that is not just about Hey There Delilah 11th November 2021 Hey There Delilah by Plain White T's Hey there, Delilah What's it like in New York City? I'm a thousand miles away ...
Interview with The Offspring: Dexter and Noodles talk punk again 7th November 2021 The Offspring by Daveed Benito © One of the bands that made the history of American punk-rock in the 1990s alongside G...
Il Volo sings Ennio Morricone: exclusive interview with the Italian trio 24th October 2021 Il Volo: Gianluca Ginoble, Ignazio Boschetto and Piero Barone - © to the owners The Britons, who are notoriously proud...
Notting Hill, Boyzone and the 1990s: EXCLUSIVE interview with Ronan Keating 1st June 2022 Boyzone in the 1990s © to the owners Songs like Love Me For A Reason, No Matter What, You Needed Me, Picture of You, B...
From the 1997 world hit MMMBop to 30 years in music: interview with Hanson 19th May 2022 MMMBop by Hanson Anyone who's old enough to remember the summer of 1997 will smile at hearing the tune MMMBop by Hanso...
Interview with Prince’s musical director Morris Hayes 26th November 2019 Prince by The Prince Estate © Any human with a passion for music will remember with great sadness the bastard leap yea...
The shortest interview ever with Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson 5th July 2022Man vs Bee is a 9-short-sized-episode Netflix series starring the much-loved British actor Rowan Atkinson whose legendar...
Interview with Dire Straits’ bass guitarist John Illsley 26th January 2022 Christmas Concert '85 by Dire Straits With their 120 million albums sold, their iconic songs Brothers in Arms, Romeo a...
Exclusive interview with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh 19th November 2021 Crime TV series by Irvine Welsh by ITV © This may have started with some hardcore punk quotes that only Trainspotting ...
From Elvis Presley to Speedy Gonzales, from Ronald Reagan to cancel culture: the world’s longest interview with 1950s superstar Pat Boone 22nd December 2021 I'm in Love with You by Pat Boone This is not for starters, so if you don’t have like three days to finish reading thi...
To the 1980s New Romantic and back: interview with Spandau Ballet’s Steve Norman 20th June 2021 Spandau Ballet - © to the owners Steve Norman is one of the five members of the UK band Spandau Ballet that made the h...
The Lumineers interview: Wesley Schultz & Jeremiah Fraites 5th February 2021 Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz of The Lumineers by Bruce Broadway © More than a decade after the worldwide succes...
From the British Invasion to John Lennon’s mellotron: interview with The Zombies’ Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone 5th March 2023 The Zombies in the 1960s - © to the owners These two men and the British Invasion band they formed in 1961 have made h...
The day the music died: interview with Don McLean about 50 years of American Pie 4th October 2021 Mr 'American Pie': Don McLean © to the owners There are certain men out there who– as soon as you meet them – they ins...
Interview with the queen of 1970s rock ‘n’ roll and Happy Days star Suzi Quatro 8th March 2021 Leather Tuscadero (Suzi Quatro) & Fonzie in Happy Days © to the owners The acclaimed role as a bass player Leather...
The House of the Rising Sun & the 1960s British Invasion: interview with The Animals’ John Steel 28th April 2021 The Animals in 1965 © to the owners An interview I recently ran with Imelda May about her duets with Ronnie Wood of Th...
50 years from Yellow River, the song from Jeff Christie that sounds like The Beatles: interview 1st November 2020 Christie playing Yellow River in 1970 in London © to the owners Certain songs, like Mrs Robinson of Simon & Garfun...
The Jam’s legacy is alive: interview with Bruce Foxton & Russell Hastings 26th April 2020 From The Jam: Bruce Foxton & Russell Hastings © to the owners Once upon a time, there was a legendary English punk...
EXCLUSIVE interview with Monica Bellucci 15th January 2023 Monica Bellucci by Manfred Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0 © She walked the catwalk for Dolce & Gabbana and made Vogue covers...
Remember Forever Young in 1984? Interview with Alphaville’s Marian Gold 12th September 2022 Forever Young by Alphaville, 1984 The thing about certain songs is that they give you nostalgia for times, places and ...
The man who introduced The Beatles to Brian Epstein: EXCLUSIVE interview with legendary 1960s Mersey Beat founder Bill Harry 8th January 2022 Bill Harry presenting the Beatles with their first-ever award, the Mersey Beat Shield, 1963 © Bill Harry Bill Harry is...
Interview with legendary Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett 30th September 2021 Steve Hackett in Genesis Revisited – Selling England by the Pound 2020 Tour in Englewood, NJ, USA, by Michael Aarons © ...
40 years in music: interview with pop legend Paul Young 27th May 2020 Everything Must Change by Paul Young, 1985 Paul Young is one of the most influential UK pop artists of all time and a ...
Interview with Zucchero ‘Sugar’ Fornaciari 12th March 2020 Zucchero by Daniele Barraco ©️ Italian blues legend Zucchero 'Sugar' Fornaciari is a man who has done plenty of extrao...
Interview with The Sex Pistols’ bass player Glen Matlock 8th March 2023 Sex Pistols Live 2 CD If you were born in the 1980s and have not bought into the following generation's despicable rap...
Interview with electronic music legend Moby which is way too short but I’m happy anyway 28th May 2021 Moby by Travis Schneider © I'm not a fan of press conferences. It must come down to the fact that I'm not a fan of the...
Why The NeverEnding Story will never end: interview with Limahl 29th May 2020 The Neverending Story, movie poster Christopher Hamill, aka Limahl, is the voice of the timeless hit The NeverEnding S...
EXCLUSIVE interview with George Orwell’s son 12th May 2022 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Nobody who's ever put their hands on George Orwell’s 1949 novel and cautionary t...
La Rosa di Bagdad vs Cinderella, cartoon mystery & similarities: was Walt Disney inspired by an Italian movie you never heard of? 16th April 2022 The Singing Princess / La Rosa di Bagdad film poster First released in 1949 and distributed in English-speaking territ...
Remember Top Gun’s song “Take My Breath Away” in 1986? Exclusive interview with John Crawford of Berlin 1st April 2022 Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 film poster After the sequel of the 1986 blockbuster film starring Tom Cruise was released in ...
EXCLUSIVE interview with Back to the Future creator Bob Gale 24th August 2021 Original movie poster of Back to the Future The second-last time I watched Back to the Future at the time of writing w...
Let Her Go… again: interview with Mike Rosenberg, aka Passenger 8th January 2021 Mike Rosenberg / Passenger by Mila Austin © British singer-songwriter Mike Rosenberg - known as Passenger, reached glo...
Andrea Bocelli: an EXCLUSIVE interview 16th November 2020 Andrea Bocelli by Giovanni De Sandre © The first time I heard Andrea Bocelli's singing was in the late 1990s at my cou...
Il Volo sings Ennio Morricone: exclusive interview with the Italian trio 24th October 2021 Il Volo: Gianluca Ginoble, Ignazio Boschetto and Piero Barone - © to the owners The Britons, who are notoriously proud...
Interview with the queen of 1970s rock ‘n’ roll and Happy Days star Suzi Quatro 8th March 2021 Leather Tuscadero (Suzi Quatro) & Fonzie in Happy Days © to the owners The acclaimed role as a bass player Leather...
EXCLUSIVE interview: Dame Vivienne Westwood & Joe Corré in defence of Julian Assange 30th April 2020Dame Vivienne Westwood died in December 2022, aged 81. Shortly before she passed away, she said: "Julian Assange is a h...