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The Professionals/The Price/The Satellites
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NOW aged 67, Paul Cook remains fighting fit as the leader behind the drumkit with The Professionals, the band he set up with fellow former Sex Pistol Steve Jones in 1979.
Although they split up in 1982, they’ve been back on the road — minus Jones — on a sporadic basis since reforming in 2015, and have even released a couple of albums over the past nine years.
While Cook’s star quality no doubt adds numbers to their gigs, The Professionals also have a proper following in their own right, as was shown at this well attended Human Punk night shared with two equally aged west London-ish bands, The Satellites, from Acton, and The Price, from Uxbridge.
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