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