Paul Cook first met Steve Jones at Christopher Wren Secondary School in Shepherds Bush. The pair became good friends and while bunking off school in 1972 decided to form a band along with Wally Nightingale. The rest is history… After the Sex Pistols split in January 1978 Paul – together with Steve Jones – went on to release a series of Sex Pistols singles without John Lydon for use in Malcolm McLaren’s fictionalised satire of the Pistols story ‘The Great Rock n Roll Swindle’. Paul appeared in the movie playing himself and even contributed lead vocals to the version of ‘Silly Thing’ used in the film. Around the same time, Cook and Jones also appeared with Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy as The Greedy Bastards; and guested on the Johnny Thunders album ‘So Alone’.
