Remember Lemon Tree in 1995? Interview with Fools Garden’s Peter Freudenthaler
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by Silvia Pingitore
2w ago
Lemon Tree – videoclip by Fool’s Garden, 1995 Once upon a time, 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. You’d form high-school bands, you’d do gigs at the local pub, you’d send out demos and waited to break up with your college sweetheart to finally write your guitar solo masterpiece. The posters in your room were a perpetual reminder that you would never be as good as Nirvana, Guns N’ Roses, The Rolling Stones, The Cranberries, R.E.M and counting – and you wouldn’t scratch them off because they just gave yo ..read more
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Interview with Oscar Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland
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by Silvia Pingitore
2M ago
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 that he himself and in spite of himself would have not only mirrored the Victorian era but also the whole time up to today. In a writing career spanning just a couple of decades from the late 1870s until his death in 1900, the Irish wit, poet, dramatist and literary genius penned legendary theatre plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband and A Woman of No Importance ..read more
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Interview with Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov
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by Silvia, not Sylvia
1y ago
  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 you’ll want to be all ears even if you are too young or too old to remember just how cool was it to play Tetris for hours on a Game Boy when the Twin Towers were still standing but the Berlin wall had just fallen. This true tale begins in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. At the time, the future Tetris creator Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov was employed at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centr ..read more
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EXCLUSIVE interview with Monica Bellucci
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by Silvia, not Sylvia
1y ago
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 with Mel Gibson and Morgan Freeman; she was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Giuseppe Tornatore and was memorable in Malèna and The Matrix just to became a Bond girl at the age of 51 in the 2015 James Bond film Spectre: the one and only Monica Bellucci is a creature unlike any other. Monica Bellucci in The Matrix, 2003 After a terrific career in the fashion industry ..read more
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Soul & blues superstar Joss Stone about her 20 years in music: interview with the UK’s Aretha Franklin
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by Silvia, not Sylvia
1y ago
Joss Stone performing in Wales, UK © to the owners More than two decades following her 2001 debut in music aged 13 which led to amazing songs like You Had Me and Right to be Wrong entering the UK charts, soul & blues singer and songwriter Joss Stone is still on top: she scored one Grammy Award and two Brit Awards over five nominations throughout her career, she released her ninth studio album Merry Christmas, Love in September 2022, and her popular Auddy podcast A Cuppa Happy exploring the nature of human happiness has now reached its third season. Merry Christmas, Love, by Joss Stone ..read more
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Remember Forever Young in 1984? Interview with Alphaville’s Marian Gold
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by Silvia, not Sylvia
1y ago
Forever Young by Alphaville, 1984 The weird thing about certain songs is that they give you nostalgia of times, places and hairstyles you don’t know anything about because you weren’t there yet, or else you were just too small and insignificant to realise how good the music actually was back in the day. Forever Young by the 1980s German synth-pop band Alphaville is one of these melodies. It was released in 1984 and achieved worldwide success, and its famous refrain Let us die young or let us live forever, We don’t have the power, but we never say never became a sad but true generational mani ..read more
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Mr Bean to Man vs Bee: the shortest interview ever with Rowan Atkinson
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by Silvia, not Sylvia
1y ago
Man vs Bee by Netflix 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 the well-remembered cameos in films like Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral have been entertaining millions of people all over the world for decades – and counting. The programme landed on Netflix UK on 24 June 2022, and presents Rowan Atkinson’s new character Trevor Bingley, a clumsy first-time housesitter being challenged by an unbearably annoying bee which will lead him to completely des ..read more
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Remember High and Postcard from Heaven in the 1990s? Interview with the voice of Lighthouse Family Tunde Baiyewu
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by Silvia, not Sylvia
1y ago
High videoclip by Lighthouse Family Especially acclaimed for their worldwide hit High which reached the top 10 in 16 countries becoming a worldwide success in 1997, Lighthouse Family were a British duo from Newcastle made up of songwriter Paul Tucker and singer Tunde Baiyewu which disgracefully split right while we were in the process of arranging this interview with Tunde. High by Lighthouse Family Thousands of fans are still heartbroken and the ticket holders of the hometown festival the pair was supposed to headline in July 2022 were left bitterly disappointed that the band broke up jus ..read more
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Interview with The Vamps about 10 years in music
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by Silvia, not Sylvia
1y ago
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 reached the top 3 in UK charts, the famous British band made up of Bradley Simpson, Connor Ball, James Brittain-McVey and Tristan Evans is celebrating 10 years in music. The Vamps’ stellar career is studded with a series of remarkable achievements which include two UK-chart-topping number-one albums and two number-twos, over 6 billion streams and two billion YouTube views. The Vamps are als ..read more
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Notting Hill, Boyzone and the 1990s: EXCLUSIVE interview with Ronan Keating
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by Silvia, not Sylvia
1y ago
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 soundtrack of any 1990s screaming teenager in her right mind, including those who were also crazy for Take That like the one who’s writing this right now. Boyzone’s reach in Ireland, the UK and everywhere else in Europe was monumental back then; each and every single they released from 1994 to 1999 – and there were 16 of them in total – went straight to the top five in UK charts, which made t ..read more
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