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Anarchy in the EU: the Sex Pistols’ drummer on why Brexit isn’t punk

Paul Cook on fame and notoriety, patriotism and the EU

12 March 2016

9:00 AM

12 March 2016

9:00 AM

It is 40 years since the band in which Paul Cook banged the drums, the Sex Pistols, detonated a bomb called punk in post-war Britain. The shards are still visible. ‘We didn’t have a manifesto, but we wanted to shake things up,’ he says. ‘We didn’t know how much we would shake things up.

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