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How to meet Take That

Interview with Monica Bellucci

Remember Lemon Tree in 1995? Interview with Fools Garden’s Peter Freudenthaler

Interview with The Lumineers

British Invasion Interviews

The Beatles arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport on 7th February 1964 © The United States Library of Congress’ Prints and Photographs division

The man who introduced The Beatles to Brian Epstein in 1961: interview with Mersey Beat founder Bill Harry

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Who played alongside The Beatles at The Cavern Club? Interview with The Merseybeats’ Tony Crane

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Remember She’s Not There in 1964? Interview with The Zombies

The Zombies in the 1960s - © to the owners Formed in 1961 in St. Albans, England, The Zombies have made history as a British Invasion band along with The Tremeloes, The Merseybeats, Gerry and the Pacemakers, ...

Remember The House of the Rising Sun in 1964? Interview with John Steel of The Animals

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Remember the band chosen over The Beatles in 1962? Interview with The Tremeloes’ Len “Chip” Hawkes

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Gerry and the Pacemakers on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 New York by Paul Schumach © public domain

Remember You’ll Never Walk Alone in 1963? Gerry and the Pacemakers’ interview

Michael Owen - © to the owners The story of how I started supporting Liverpool Football Club in the UK whilst remaining an AS Roma fan in Italy is not a very honourable one. It was 1998, and Italy had miser...

Literature Interviews

Interview with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh

Interview with George Orwell’s son

Oscar Wilde in 1882 by Napoleon Sarony © Public domain

Interview with Oscar Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland

Film Interviews

Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid, 1921

Interview with Charlie Chaplin’s son Michael J Chaplin

"We have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into m...

Interview with Back to the Future creator Bob Gale

Back to the Future film poster Bob Gale is Back to the Future's co-creator and co-producer, and a true living legend f...

Interview with Natalie Portman

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Interview with Monica Bellucci

Monica Bellucci by Manfred Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0 © She walked the catwalk for Dolce & Gabbana and made Vogue covers...

Remember Lemon Tree in 1995? Interview with Fools Garden’s Peter Freudenthaler

Remember Forever Young in 1984? Interview with Alphaville’s Marian Gold

Remember that song?

Remember Kingston Town in 1989? Interview with UB40’s Robin Campbell

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Remember Everytime You Go Away in 1985? Interview with Paul Young

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Remember The Neverending Story in 1984? Interview with Limahl

The Neverending Story, movie poster Christopher 'Chris' Hamill, aka Limahl, is the voice of The Neverending Story from the 1984 movie of the same name, a timeless song that is still very much loved and treasu...

Remember Walking on Sunshine in 1985? Interview with Katrina of Katrina and the Waves

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Remember This is the Life in 2007? Interview with Amy Macdonald

This is the Life by Amy Macdonald Scottish singer and songwriter Amy Macdonald reached global success in 2007 with the hit song This Is the Life which entered the top 10 charts in 16 countries, achieving mult...

Remember Happy Days in 1977? Interview with Suzi Quatro

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Remember American Pie in 1971? Interview with Don McLean

Mr 'American Pie': Don McLean © to the owners There are certain men out there that – as soon as you are a girl and you meet them – they instantly make you want to get a flat tyre on the motorway. That's beca...

Remember Top Gun’s Take My Breath Away in 1986? Interview with Berlin’s John Crawford

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Remember MMMBop in 1997? Interview with Hanson

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Remember Forever Young in 1984? Interview with Alphaville’s Marian Gold

Forever Young by Alphaville, 1984 The thing about certain songs is that they give you nostalgia for times, places and hairstyles you don't even remember because you weren't there yet - or else, you were just ...

Remember Lemon Tree in 1995? Interview with Fools Garden’s Peter Freudenthaler

Lemon Tree - music video by Fool's Garden, 1995 Once upon a time in the 1990s, you would live, love and breathe rock 'n' roll all day in all places, and you would do all sorts of things in the name of it. Yo...

Highlights

Interview with Il Volo

Princess Zeila, La Rosa di Bagdad / The Singing Princess

La Rosa di Bagdad vs Cinderella: was Walt Disney inspired by an Italian film you never heard of?

Remember Four Weddings and a Funeral’s song in 1994? Interview with Wet Wet Wet’s Graeme Clark

Remember Speedy Gonzales in 1962? Interview with Pat Boone

Speedy Gonzales by Pat Boone single cover Pat Boone, I'm in Love with You, from Pat Boone's private collection and archives © to the owners In a music and film career spanning over 70 years, Tennessean performer Pat Boone has made the history of American...

Interview with Moby

Moby by Travis Schneider © Richard Melville Hall, best known as Moby, is one of the most celebrated electronic music icons ever, with 20-plus-million records sold in a career spanning over 30 years. He is also an advocate for animal rights and veganism, a t...

Interview with Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli by Giovanni De Sandre © The first time I heard the voice of Andrea Bocelli was in the late 1990s at my cousin's holiday place in Southern Italy. We are 16 years apart, I was a teenager and the cousin owned something that everybody my age was l...