The death of musician Sixto Rodriguez, the star of the 2012 film Searching for Sugar Man, aged 81, has brought new focus on that most vexed of film genres: the rock doc. 

Love them – or consider them insufferable hagiographic tosh – our appetite for music films is apparently insatiable, whether they are fond tributes or damning depictions of pettiness and squalor. In our list, we’ve largely tacked away from straight concert documentaries, in favour of those films which get under the skin of a performer or band. Nonetheless, there’s one or two concert films that are so unmissable, we couldn’t resist. 

Director: Chris Smith 

Glitter! Blonde bouffants! The triumph of naffness over chic, camp energy over icy cool… travel back to the glory days of the Eighties with this Netflix doc. Oddly, the film skates over perhaps the most interesting aspects of the Wham! story – not least, George Michael’s death in 2016, and the post-band life of Andrew Ridgeley after their split in 1986. 

Nonetheless, the heady fervour of their four years in the limelight is well evoked, as is Michael’s paradoxical everyday star quality. And, of course, the songs still bang.