Silvia Pingitore, Author at The Shortlisted

Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov ©️ to the owners

Interview with Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov

20th March 2023

The legendary Nintendo Game Boy Tetris on a Game Boy The story of this world-famous video game is unbelievable in such a lot of fascinating ways and has so many unbelievable ways of being fascinating that...

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 music, unearned self-entitlement and ridiculous flood pants, it may well be that you regr...

Getty Images Embed: Group portrait of The Zombies walking down a street arm in arm in Chiswick, west London, 1965. L-R Rod Argent, Paul Atkinson, Colin Blunstone, Chris White, Hugh Grundy. (Photo by Stanley Bielecki/ASP/Getty Images)

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 history; together with The Tremeloes, The Merseybeats, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Animal...

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 in the 1980s and 1990s, she was a testimonial for Dior in the 2000s and worked in films w...

Joss Stone performing Northern Ireland © to the owners

Soul & blues superstar Joss Stone about her 20 years in music: interview with the UK’s Aretha Franklin

24th October 2022

Joss Stone performing in Wales, UK © to the owners More than two decades following her 2001 debut in music aged 13 which led to songs like You Had Me and Right to be Wrong entering the UK charts, soul & b...

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 hairstyles you don't know anything about because you weren't there yet, or else you were j...

The shortest interview ever with Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson

5th July 2022

Man vs Bee is a 9-short-sized-episode Netflix series starring the much-loved British actor Rowan Atkinson whose legendary comedy series Mr Bean and Johnny English and memorable cameos in films like Love Actuall...

Remember High and Postcard from Heaven in the 1990s? Interview with the voice of Lighthouse Family Tunde Baiyewu

4th July 2022

High videoclip by Lighthouse Family Internationally acclaimed for the worldwide hit High which reached the top 10 in 16 countries in 1997, Lighthouse Family were a British duo from Newcastle, England, made up...

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 © A decade following the smashing success of their 2013 singles Can We Dance, Wild Heart and Last Night, which all reached th...

Ronan Keating at the Summarfestivalur in 2012 by SuperDopeBass CC BY-SA 3.0 ©

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, Baby Can I Hold You and many other smashing hits by the Irish band Boyzone made the life so...

Author Silvia Pingitore