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After the demise of the Pistols, Cook and guitarist Steve Jones, initially worked on the soundtrack to the Pistols film The Great Rock N'Roll Swindle . Becoming disillusioned with Malcolm McLaren's antics, the pair started a new band, the Greedy Bastards , linking up with several members of Thin Lizzy inclusing Phil Lynott. The band released only one single under the name The Greedies , entitled "A Merry Jingle". They performed several live shows but the band split within a year.
Cook and Jones later teamed up with a number of acts as freelance musicians, playing on Joan Jett's debut album. A proposed partnership with Jimmy Pursey and Dave Treganna of Sham 69 failed to materialise, so the pair formed their own band. The Professionals were formed with Andy Allen , who was replaced soon after by Paul Myers of Subway Sect together with Ray McVeigh . The group released two albums, but following a car crash in the U.S. the band split in 1982.
Cook then went on to appear with the group "The Chiefs of Relief" after a period out of the music industry, played with Edwyn Collins in the nineties and reunited with the Pistols in 1996 for the "Filthy Lucre" world tour.