A LIFE IN PIICTURES

The Cook report: a Pistol’s shots.

1 Blond ambition: “I always had a great love for music from a young age.” Paul’s first school photograph, aged six.

2 With Steve Jones (left) in proto-Pistols band The Strand, circa 1974.

3 ”We were totally in touch with what the kids wanted”: the Sex Pistols, 1976, (from left) Glen Matlock, Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Cook.

4 On the dotted…: the band (with manager Malcolm McLaren, far right) sign their A&M record deal outside Buckingham Palace, March 10, 1977. Moments earlier Cook had a fight with Sid Vicious (third right) in the limo taking them there. “That was funny,” remembers Paul.

5 “Beer, anyone?”: the re-formed Sex Pistols announce the Filthy Lucre Tour at London’s 100 Club, March 18, 1996.

6 Touring the world with “tough cookie” Edwyn Collins (second right), 1995.

7 He bangs the drums: Cook leads The Professionals from the back, October 2021.

8 We are family: (from left) Jeni, Hollie and Paul Cook in 2012.

9 Cook in September 1976: “We knew we could shake things up a bit.”