PAUL COOK Of The PROFESSIONALS / SEX PISTOLS Interview

THE PROFESSIONALS (Live at The Riverside, Newcastle, U.K., February 21, 2019) — Photo: Mick Burgess

After the implosion of the Sex Pistols Paul Cook and Steve Jones quickly formed The Professionals heading in a harder albeit Punk direction. Despite rave reviews the band folded after a single album. Fast forward 25 years later and they are back. Mick Burgess caught up with drummer Paul Cook to chat about the tour with Ruts DC, the formation and dissolution of the band and its resurrection a quarter of a century later as well as their plans for the future.

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Mick Burgess

Mick is a reviewer and photographer here at Metal Express Radio, based in the North-East of England. He first fell in love with music after hearing Jeff Wayne's spectacular The War of the Worlds in the cold winter of 1978. Then in the summer of '79 he discovered a copy of Kiss Alive II amongst his sister’s record collection, which literally blew him away! He then quickly found Van Halen I and Rainbow's Down To Earth, and he was well on the way to being rescued from Top 40 radio hell! Over the ensuing years, he's enjoyed the Classic Rock music of Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, and Deep Purple; the AOR of Journey and Foreigner; the Pomp of Styx and Kansas; the Progressive Metal of Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, and Symphony X; the Goth Metal of Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Epica, and a whole host of other great bands that are too numerous to mention. When he's not listening to music, he watches Sunderland lose more football (soccer) matches than they win, and occasionally, if he has to, he goes to work as a property lawyer.
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