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Paul Thomas Cook (born 20 July 1956 in
Hammersmith, London) is an English drummer and member of the punk rock band the
Sex Pistols.
Cook was raised in Hammersmith and
attended the Christopher Wren School, now Phoenix High School, London in White
City Estate, Shepherds Bush, where he met Steve Jones. In 1972–1973, Cook and
Jones, along with their school friend Wally Nightingale, formed a band, The
Strand. 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. Within the next three
years The Strand evolved into the Sex Pistols.
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock
band formed in London in 1975. Although they initially lasted just two and a
half years and produced only four singles and one studio album, “Never Mind the
Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols”, they are considered one of the most
influential acts in the history of popular music, having initiated a punk
movement in the United Kingdom, and inspired many later punk rock, thrash metal
and alternative rock musicians.
