1. The Future Is Unwritten - £19.99
Joe Strummer: punk prophet, political activist. Julian Temple's hugely emotive film follows the late Clash frontman from King's Road rebel to middle-aged fatherhood via a host of A-list contributors.
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2. I Told You I Was Trouble - £17.99
Whether the “troubled” songstress is self-mythologising or not, there’s no denying Amy Winehouse is one of the most engaging talents to emerge in a long time. This documentary and concert serves only to prove that fact.
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3. Beautiful World Live - £19.99
The reformed boy band takes their recent Beautiful World album on tour and the result is surprisingly good. Whether their original break up left you sobbing or not, this will please all Take That fans.
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4. The Song Remains The Same - £18.99
This concert film centres around Led Zeppelin’s electrifying performance at Madison Square Garden in 1973. With backstage footage, this is as close to the bizarre world of Seventies rock superstardom as you get.
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5. Late Orchestration - £15.99
Kanye West is backed by an all-female orchestra for this concert shot in front of a select audience of just 300 people at the legendary Abbey Road studios. An intimate glimpse of the high priest of hip-hop.
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6. The Beatles Anthology - £49.99
The oft-told story of the lads from Liverpool who changed the world deserves retelling. This eight-documentary set was produced by The Beatles themselves and, in terms of band’s history, it is absolutely authoritative.
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7. The Last Waltz - £19.99
Forget Shine A Light, this is Martin Scorcese’s real rock’n’roll masterpiece. The Band’s final concert featured Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters and Neil Young. It is a landmark in music history.
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8. Nirvana Unpluggled in New York - £19.99
Quite why Nirvana Unplugged in New York has taken so long to arrive on DVD is a mystery, although this iconic, stripped-down, acoustic concert filmed just months before Kurt Cobain’s suicide is worth the wait.
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9. The Stone Roses - £16.99
As one of the Nineties most influential bands, the Stone Roses brought anarchic tom foolery to the dance-pop formula. This mix of archive television and concert footage displays that chaos in all its sugar-spun glory.
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10. Dusty Springfield Live at the BBC - £15.99
Despite all Duffy’s counter claims, there is only one Dusty Springfield. Swooping from soul to folk to purest pop with understated ease, this DVD focuses on salvaged footage from Dusty’s mid-Sixties television show.
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16 April 2008, Chosen by John Hall
