The Shortlisted is an entertainment magazine and an approved Google News publisher founded in 2015 by an Italian writer and owned by The Shortlisted Media Ltd.
It campaigns for press freedom and media integrity and specialises in pop culture features like:
– La Rosa di Bagdad vs Cinderella, cartoon mystery & similarities: was Walt Disney inspired by an Italian movie you never heard of?
– How to work for Santa Claus in Finland
– All the rules I broke to meet Take That
– How to organise Banksy exhibits without ever getting to meet Banksy
… and insightful, long-form and sometimes controversial exclusive interviews with prominent personalities of music, cinema, literature, culture and activism like:
– George Orwell’s son
– Back to the Future creator Bob Gale
– Andrea Bocelli
– Paul Young
– Moby
– Ronan Keating
– Zucchero
– Il Volo
– Dame Vivienne Westwood in defence of Julian Assange
– Pat Boone (remember Speedy Gonzales?)
– The man who introduced The Beatles to Brian Epstein: Bill Harry of Mersey Beat
– The author of Trainspotting Irvine Welsh
– Genesis‘ legendary guitarist Steve Hackett
– Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson
– Dire Straits‘ John Illsley
– The Offspring
– Mr ‘American Pie‘ Don McLean
– Suzi Quatro
– Plain White T’s (remember Hey There Delilah?)
– Hanson (remember MMMBop?)
– The Vamps
– Prince’s musical director of 20 years Morris Hayes
– David Bowie’s pupil Ozark Henry
– Katrina and the Waves of Walking on Sunshine
– Berlin (remember Top Gun’s song Take My Breat Away?)
– Lighthouse Family
– Academy Award nominee movie director Bruno Bozzetto
– Lina Wertmüller
– The Animals
– The Sex Pistols
– Amy Macdonald
– The Jam
– The Prodigy
– Spandau Ballet
– Skunk Anansie
– UB40
– Giorgio Armani
– Jeff Christie
– The Tremeloes
– The Merseybeats
– Gerry’s Pacemakers
– Jah Wobble
– Maggie Bell of Stone the Crows
– Limahl
– The Lumineers
– Morcheeba
– Passenger
– The Brand New Heavies
– Imelda May
– Basil Brush
– The Zombies
– Alice Merton
– Ludovico Einaudi
– and counting…
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