If a man is known by the company he keeps then Jools Holland is up there with the very best. The former Squeeze man has worked with the likes of George Harrison, Bono, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Tom Jones and Mark Knopfler, while as the host of Later…, and before that, The Tube, he has provided a platform to the past, present and future of music for more than three decades.

Given his unofficial status as the face of music ...