Silvia, not Sylvia, Author at The Shortlisted

Interview with The Vamps about 10 years in music

30th June 2022

James Brittain-McVey, Bradley Simpson, Connor Ball and Tristan Evans are The Vamps © Nearly a decade following the smashing success of their 2013 singles Can We Dance, Wild Heart and Last Night, which all rea...

Notting Hill, Boyzone and the 1990s: EXCLUSIVE interview with Ronan Keating

1st June 2022

Boyzone in the 1990s © to the owners Love Me For A Reason, No Matter What, You Needed Me, Picture of You, Baby Can I Hold You: these, and many other smashing hits by the Irish band Boyzone made the life sound...

Interview with Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film movie director Bruno Bozzetto

23rd May 2022

Bruno Bozzetto © to the owners The time-consuming and demanding research carried out in April 2022 to put together the long-form feature La Rosa di Bagdad vs Cinderella, cartoon mystery & similarities: wa...

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 calling up the massive global phenomenon started by the pop-rock trio Hanson with the smash song MMMBop which reached numb...

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 tale Nineteen Eighty-Four and its disturbing predictions of a dystopian future of totalitar...

La Rosa di Bagdad / The Singing Princess by The Shortlisted ©

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 territories under the title The Singing Princess across the version dubbed by the then-17-year-o...

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