Interviews

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...

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 ...
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...
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...
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 hearing the tune MMMBop by Hanso...
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 t...
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 territ...
Remember Top Gun’s song “Take My Breath Away” in 1986? Exclusive interview with John Crawford of Berlin
1st April 2022
Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 film poster After the sequel of the 1986 blockbuster film starring Tom Cruise was released in ...
The man who introduced The Beatles to Brian Epstein: EXCLUSIVE interview with legendary 1960s Mersey Beat founder Bill Harry
8th January 2022
Bill Harry presenting the Beatles with their first-ever award, the Mersey Beat Shield, 1963 © Bill Harry Bill Harry is...
From Elvis Presley to Speedy Gonzales, from Ronald Reagan to cancel culture: the world’s longest interview with 1950s superstar Pat Boone
22nd December 2021
I'm in Love with You by Pat Boone This is not for starters, so if you don’t have like three days to finish reading thi...
Exclusive interview with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh
19th November 2021
Crime TV series by Irvine Welsh by ITV © This may have started with some hardcore punk quotes that only Trainspotting ...
The only interview with Tom Higgenson of Plain White T’s that is not just about Hey There Delilah
11th November 2021
Hey There Delilah by Plain White T's Hey there, Delilah What's it like in New York City? I'm a thousand miles away ...
Interview with The Offspring: Dexter and Noodles talk punk again
7th November 2021
The Offspring by Daveed Benito © One of the bands that made the history of American punk-rock in the 1990s alongside G...
The Cavern Club, The Beatles and the 1960s British Invasion: interview with The Merseybeats’ Tony Crane
28th September 2021
The Merseybeats in 1964 © to the owners The Merseybeats were a Liverpool band formed in the late 1950s by today's inte...
Interview with electronic music legend Moby which is way too short but I’m happy anyway
28th May 2021
Moby by Travis Schneider © I'm not a fan of press conferences. It must come down to the fact that I'm not a fan of the...
The House of the Rising Sun & the 1960s British Invasion: interview with The Animals’ John Steel
28th April 2021
The Animals in 1965 © to the owners An interview I recently ran with Imelda May about her duets with Ronnie Wood of Th...
Interview with the queen of 1970s rock ‘n’ roll and Happy Days star Suzi Quatro
8th March 2021
Leather Tuscadero (Suzi Quatro) & Fonzie in Happy Days © to the owners The acclaimed role as a bass player Leather...
Why The NeverEnding Story will never end: interview with Limahl
29th May 2020
The Neverending Story, movie poster Christopher Hamill, aka Limahl, is the voice of the timeless hit The NeverEnding S...
EXCLUSIVE interview: Dame Vivienne Westwood & Joe Corré in defence of Julian Assange
30th April 2020
Dame Vivienne Westwood died in December 2022, aged 81. Shortly before she passed away, she said: "Julian Assange is a h...
Interview with Prince’s musical director Morris Hayes
26th November 2019
Prince by The Prince Estate © Any human with a passion for music will remember with great sadness the bastard leap yea...
The day I didn’t interview Lord Sugar
20th June 2019
We both stand behind his office door in silence, waiting for him to let us in. We don't even bother acknowledging each...

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