Paul McCartney’s life as a Beatle has been intensively documented. Peter Jackson’s Get Back took us deeper inside their writing and recording process, and their break-up, than ever before, while next

Revisionist account of Macca’s post-Beatles ’70s as he tries to make a band out of his family and a family out of his band.

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.

Martin Barre MCNIDDER & GRACE

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.

Retracing Our Steps (2007–2014) KSCOPE