I’ve made a lot of films about young people trying to figure out what the hell they’re doing in the world. Although I’m still wondering that myself. It’s so interesting looking back – I realised from

Louisiana soul man ROBERT FINLEY overcame his hardscrabble origins, loss and blindness to finally find success in his later life. Amazingly, he believes he still has much to prove. “Most people retire at 65,” he tells Kevin EG Perry. “Hell, I came alive at 65.”

I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro

From Black Sabbath awakening to jam band to Hanoi Rocks to decades-straddling solo artist, via Finland, London, NYC and beyond, he’s been up, down and up again, through thrills, spills, triumph and tragedy. You could say he’s really lived the rock’n’roll life, but that would be an understatement.

Best books… Roy Foster The emeritus professor of ...

WHETHER PLAYING MALEVOLENT MANIACS OR GARDEN GNOMES, THE SCOTTISH ACTOR HAS CONSTANTLY REINVENTED HIMSELF. AND NOW, WITH HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN’ , HE’S REALLY CHANGING THINGS UP