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Directed by Brian Grant

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This film unveils the untold story of Peter Grant, the greatest rock manager of all time. Until now, no-one has fully explained who this brilliant, intuitive but flawed and sometimes dangerous man really was. For the first time this film will tell the complete, in-depth, and uncensored story of a music industry giant.

With unprecedented access to a unique archive curated by director Mike Figgis, the film features rare interviews with Peter Grant from the mid-90s, including a candid conversation with Malcolm McLaren, the Sex Pistols manager. Alongside these, personal recollections from music industry legends such as Chris Wright, founder of Chrysalis Records, “Peter was my mentor” and Ed Bicknell, manager of Dire Straits and Peter’s close friend in his later years, offer a rich, insider perspective on this larger-than-life figure.

This is an intimate portrait of a man who spent most of his working life on the road,  in tour buses, planes, and limousines.  He worked with the greats of rock and roll, including Little Richard, Eddie Cochrane and Chuck Berry. A drunken Gene Vincent once tried to run him over—“Silly boy, I opened the car door and helped him out by his lapels.” He even sat on Elvis’s father, much to the hilarity of Elvis himself.

Peter learnt to protect his artists and ended up helping to form then manage the biggest and greatest rock and roll band the World had ever known. He was its fifth member and reinvented the music business forever.