Left us on this day (Sept. 27) in 1979: Scottish guitarist Jimmy McCulloch (heart failure caused by a heroin overdose, age 26), best remembered for playing lead guitar with Paul McCartney & Wings between 1974-77, recording the albums Venus & Mars & Wings At The Speed Of Sound (his guitar work on hit single Juniors Farm is arguably his most memorable moment with Wings); Jimmy was a protege of The Shadows Hank Marvin at age 11; he first came to prominence playing as a teen with late-60s UK band Thunderclap Newman, who scored the 1969 UK #1 hit Something in the Air - Jimmy thus became the youngest guitarist (at 16) to ever play on a UK chart topping single; from 1972-74, he provided stellar work for the under-appreciated Scottish progressive-blues band, Stone the Crows (replacing original guitarist Les Harvey, who had died onstage of electrocution), featuring vocalist Maggie Bell; Jimmy left Wings in 1977 to join the reformed Small Faces for a UK tour & the album 78 In The Shade; in the year prior to his passing, he was a member of Wild Horses, then The Dukes…
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:34:09 +0000