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Interview with a Banksy exhibits curator who has never met Banksy

Di-faced tenner by Banksy © From Kissing Coppers to Girl with Balloon, from Brace Yourself to the Di-Faced Tenner dedicated to Diana, Princess of Galles in 2004 - when The Banksy of England printed over a mil...

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...

Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid, 1921

Interview with Charlie Chaplin’s son Michael J Chaplin

"We have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery tha...

Interview with Oscar Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland

Oscar Wilde in 1882 by Napoleon Sarony © Public domain When, in the 19th century, Oscar Wilde famously wrote He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best, he could hardly have imagined tha...

Interview with Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov

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, what's more, it has even more unbelievable ways of bei...

Interview with George Orwell’s son

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell If you have ever put your hands on George Orwell’s 1949 novel and cautionary tale Nineteen Eighty-Four and its disturbing predictions of a dystopian future of totalitaria...

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-...

This is for 1990s Take That screaming fans

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How to meet Take That

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Interview with Franco Nero
Franco Nero in Django Unchained, 1966 © to the owners He was memorable as Django in 1966 and then again in 2012 in Dja...
Remember The House of the Rising Sun in 1964? Interview with John Steel of The Animals
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Interview with Natalie Portman
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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...
Remember Speedy Gonzales in 1962? Interview with Pat Boone
Speedy Gonzales by Pat Boone single cover Pat Boone, I'm in Love with You, from Pat Boone's private collection and ...
Interview with Moby
Moby by Travis Schneider © Richard Melville Hall, best known as Moby, is one of the most celebrated electronic music i...
The only interview with Tom Higgenson of Plain White T’s that is not just about Hey There Delilah
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 ...
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 '...
Interview with Charlie Chaplin’s son Michael J Chaplin
"We have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into m...
Interview with Oscar Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland
Oscar Wilde in 1882 by Napoleon Sarony © Public domain When, in the 19th century, Oscar Wilde famously wrote He who st...
Interview with Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov
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’ Glen Matlock
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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...
Remember MMMBop in 1997? Interview with Hanson
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Interview with George Orwell’s son
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell If you have ever put your hands on George Orwell’s 1949 novel and cautionary tal...
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-speaki...
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 blockbu...
The man who introduced The Beatles to Brian Epstein in 1961: interview with Mersey Beat founder Bill Harry
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Interview with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh
Crime TV series by Irvine Welsh by ITV © This article may have started with some hardcore punk quotes that only Trains...
Interview with The Offspring’s Dexter and Noodles
The Offspring by Daveed Benito © The Offspring are one of the bands that made the history of American punk-rock in the...
Who played alongside The Beatles at The Cavern Club? Interview with The Merseybeats’ Tony Crane
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Remember Happy Days in 1977? Interview with Suzi Quatro
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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...
Interview with Prince’s musical director Morris Hayes
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