I’ve been very lucky in that, for most of my life, I have known what I wanted to do, job-wise. Not exactly born with the knowledge, but laser-focused on it once I realised, some time in the mid-’80s,

How many of the staff and unruly pupils of Fenn Street secondary school do you remember?

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BACK IN THE BAND WE PREDICT A RIOT ...

SINÉAD KEENAN, CAOILFHIONN DUNNE and ROÍSÍN GALLAGHER on piecing together the past in a dangerous quest

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.