The Story of the Streets - in pictures

“Living the dream in my head. I had it all planned out”: Skinner as a boy, listening to the Beastie Boys on his dad’s stereo Photograph: Courtesy Mike Skinner

"You can’t fuck with double denim." Photograph: publisher

"Rich Bitch studios on some down-time. The times were mostly down." Photograph: courtesy Mike Skinner

Mike Skinner at his uncle's house, where he was staying when he first moved to London. Photograph: Ewen Spencer

"My sister made my barbed-wire bracelets and I went through a few of them. The Local Crew T-shirt is the result of having no clean clothes but shit loads on sale in the foyer." Photograph: Rod Doyle

"This really hurt. It pretty much ended my career in balcony jumping, which was long and eventful. I couldn’t laugh for days." Photograph: Rod Doyle

"This was at one of those American service-stations-on-steroids places where they have a full casino and all-you-can-eat buffet. My cousin won a grand that night on the fruit machines." Photograph: Rod Doyle

"Filming the video for ‘OMG’ on one of the last big tours. I was pretty damn good at surfing at this point. I could read a crowd and know what I could get away with." Photograph: Rod Doyle

"Apparently, I was right on trend with the Miami Vice look. I just liked Miami Vice, and part of the campaign for the Hardest Way album was to play with things a bit and with the ideas of what I thought success looked like. It was hard to manage bodily heat onstage with jackets." Photograph: Miles Willis/Getty Images

"This is what rock ’n’ roll is all about. Forget the drugs and the parties. It’s about doing things you’ve always dreamed of. Like drawing your face in a field next to Glastonbury." Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

“On the steps of Marylebone registry office – where every Beatle did the business”: marrying his partner Claire Photograph: Ben Cannon

"Amelia telling me what to do. She’s the first person to really do that in a style I respond to. I think it’s because she always knows what she wants." Photograph: courtesy Mike Skinner

Mike Skinner photographed in February 2012 outside Kestrel House in London, which is on the cover of the Streets first album Original Pirate Material. Photograph: David Levene