Paul Weller: a life in photographs

Weller and his Jam colleagues, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler, in a record shop in Carnaby Street in 1977.
Photograph: Ray Stevenson/Rex

On stage in America on 15 October 1977.
Photograph: Ebet Roberts/Getty

The 20-year-old Weller, looking typically intense, in Los Angeles in 1978.
Photograph: Chris Walter/Getty

At the Friars in Aylesbury, 17 June 1978.
Photograph: Sheila Rock/Rex

Promoting the Jam's third album, All Mod Cons, in June 1979.
Photograph: Steve Joester/Rex

No jacket required: on stage in Guildford, July 1981.
Photograph: Virginia Turbett/Getty

With his late father and manager John in December 1982.
Photograph: Virginia Turbett/Redferns

With his ex-wife Dee C Lee and Mick Talbot, his Style Council sidekicks, in 1984.
Photograph: Kerstin Rodgers/Getty

The Style Council offshoot, the Council Collective, performing their single for striking miners, Soul Deep, on The Tube in 1984.
Photograph: Rex

Weller and Mick Talbot reading Rock newspaper in 1984.
Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex

With Bob Geldof at the Band Aid recording session, 26 November 1984.
Photograph: Steve Hurrell/Getty

With Labour leader Neil Kinnock and Ken Livingstone at the launch of Red Wedge at the House of Commons, 21 November 1985.
Photograph: Richard Young/Rex

Boy George at the Style Council's aftershow party with Weller and Mick Talbot in Nagoya, Japan, August 1985.
Photograph: Andre Csillag/Rex

The Cappuccino Kid years: reading an Italian newspaper in 1986.
Photograph: Stefania Bochicchio/Rex

At Glastonbury festival in 1994, the year after his much-acclaimed solo album Wild Wood.
Photograph: Eamonn McCabe

Weller and Noel Gallagher on Later… with Jools Holland in 2001.
Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex

With Ronnie Wood at the Ronnie Lane memorial concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, 8 April 2004.
Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex

Backstage before a concert in February 2005.
Photograph: Getty

At Glastonbury in 2007, where he finished his set with the Jam's 'Town Called Malice'.
Photograph: James McCauley/Rex

Flanked by his children Leah and Natt at the O2 silver clef lunch, Park Lane Hilton, London, 29 June 2007.
Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty

Photographed outside London club Blacks for the Observer's The New Review, March 2010.
Photograph: Suki Dhanda