Martin Barre MCNIDDER & GRACE

Fondly remembered this month...

There was a band who enjoyed the kind of critical reverence today’s crop of triers can only dream about, whose songwriting partnership of Robert Forster and the late Grant McLennan easily rivalled Mes

Retracing Our Steps (2007–2014) KSCOPE

So Paul McCartney said to Danny Francis in 1974. Francis, who passed away last year, spent the best part of 40 years putting himself between rock stars and trouble – and keeping them out of trouble. But, working with some of the rock world’s biggest names, he was more than just a bodyguard.

EVAN STANLEY AND Nick Simmons have known each other since they were babies. After all, their fathers — Kiss co-founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons — have been bandmates since the early Seventies. C