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Paul Weller: a life in photographs

Paul Weller Timeline: The Jam in Carnaby Street in 1977
Weller and his Jam colleagues, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler, in a record shop in Carnaby Street in 1977.
Photograph: Ray Stevenson/Rex
Paul Weller Timeline: Paul Weller performing live onstage with The Jam
On stage in America on 15 October 1977.
Photograph: Ebet Roberts/Getty
Paul Weller Timeline: Paul Weller portrait in Los Angeles in 1978
The 20-year-old Weller, looking typically intense, in Los Angeles in 1978.
Photograph: Chris Walter/Getty
Paul Weller Timeline: Paul Weller performs with the Jam in 1978
At the Friars in Aylesbury, 17 June 1978.
Photograph: Sheila Rock/Rex
Paul Weller Timeline: Portrait of Rick Butler, Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton in 1979
Promoting the Jam's third album, All Mod Cons, in June 1979.
Photograph: Steve Joester/Rex
Paul Weller Timeline: Paul Weller performing in July 1981 at The Guildford Civic Hall
No jacket required: on stage in Guildford, July 1981.
Photograph: Virginia Turbett/Getty
Paul Weller Life on Pics: John Weller with his son, Paul Weller
With his late father and manager John in December 1982.
Photograph: Virginia Turbett/Redferns
Paul Weller Timeline: Paul Weller, D C Lee and Mick Talbot
With his ex-wife Dee C Lee and Mick Talbot, his Style Council sidekicks, in 1984.
Photograph: Kerstin Rodgers/Getty
Paul Weller Timeline: The Council Collective appearing on The Tube
The Style Council offshoot, the Council Collective, performing their single for striking miners, Soul Deep, on The Tube in 1984.
Photograph: Rex
Paul Weller Timeline: Mick Talbot and Paul Weller reading Rock newspaper
Weller and Mick Talbot reading Rock newspaper in 1984.
Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex
Paul Weller Timeline: Band Aid recording session with Bob Geldof and Paul Weller
With Bob Geldof at the Band Aid recording session, 26 November 1984.
Photograph: Steve Hurrell/Getty
Paul Weller Timeline: Launch of 'Red Wedge' at the House of Commons in 1985
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
Paul Weller Timeline: Boy George and Paul Weller at a Style Council party
Boy George at the Style Council's aftershow party with Weller and Mick Talbot in Nagoya, Japan, August 1985.
Photograph: Andre Csillag/Rex
Paul Weller Timeline: Paul Weller of The Style Council reading an Italian newspaper
The Cappuccino Kid years: reading an Italian newspaper in 1986.
Photograph: Stefania Bochicchio/Rex
Paul Weller Timeline: Paul Weller performing at the Glastonbury Festival in 1994
At Glastonbury festival in 1994, the year after his much-acclaimed solo album Wild Wood.
Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
Paul Weller Timeline: Paul Weller performing with Noel Gallagher on Later with Jools Holland
Weller and Noel Gallagher on Later… with Jools Holland in 2001.
Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex
Paul Weller Timeline: Ronnie Lane and Paul Weller perform at The Royal Albert Hall
With Ronnie Wood at the Ronnie Lane memorial concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, 8 April 2004.
Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex
Paul Weller Timeline: Paul Weller backstage before a concert in February 2005
Backstage before a concert in February 2005.
Photograph: Getty
Paul Weller Timeline: Paul Weller performing at the Glastonbury Festival in 2007
At Glastonbury in 2007, where he finished his set with the Jam's 'Town Called Malice'.
Photograph: James McCauley/Rex
Paul Weller Timeline: Musician Paul Weller and his children Leah and Nat
Flanked by his children Leah and Natt at the O2 silver clef lunch, Park Lane Hilton, London, 29 June 2007.
Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty
Paul Weller Timeline: Paul Weller in March 2010
Photographed outside London club Blacks for the Observer's The New Review, March 2010.
Photograph: Suki Dhanda
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