The Shortlisted Magazine | Celebrity Interviews by Silvia Pingitore

Picks of the week

Interview with Dire Straits’ bass guitarist John Illsley

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

Interview with Natalie Portman

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

British Invasion Interviews

Bill Harry presenting the Beatles with their first ever award, the Mersey Beat Shield, 1963 © Bill Harry

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 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...

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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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

Interview with Rowan Atkinson

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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 Monica Bellucci

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

Interview with Natalie Portman

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Remember Boyzone & Notting Hill in the 1990s? Interview with Ronan Keating

Interview with a Banksy exhibits curator who has never met Banksy

Remember that song?

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

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Remember MMMBop in 1997? Interview with Hanson

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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 Happy Days in 1977? Interview with Suzi Quatro

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

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

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

Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 film poster Following the release of Top Gun: Maverick in 2022 as a sequel to the 1986 blockbuster film starring Tom Cruise, Top Gun song Take My Breath Away by American new wave band ...

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...

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

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Highlights

Interview with Franco Nero

Interview with Zucchero ‘Sugar’ Fornaciari

The only interview with Tom Higgenson of Plain White T’s that is not just about Hey There Delilah

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?

The Singing Princess / La Rosa di Bagdad film poster First released in 1949 in Italy and distributed in English-speaking territories under the title The Singing Princess across the version dubbed by the then-17-year-old Julie Andrews, La Rosa di Bagdad by An...

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 in the 1980s and 1990s, she was a testimonial for Dior in the 2000s and worked in films with Mel Gibson and Morgan Freeman; she was directe...

How to meet Take That

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