Jimmy McCulloch

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Jimmy McCulloch
Born	4 June 1953
Died	27 September 1979
Genre(s)	Rock
Affiliation(s)	Wings Thunderclap Newman Stone the Crows Small Faces
Years active	1967 - 1979

Jimmy McCulloch (4 June 1953 – 27 September 1979) was a Scottish musician, born in Glasgow, who was best known for playing lead guitar in Paul McCartney's Wings from 1974 to 1977. Before that, McCulloch had been a member of Thunderclap Newman (at the age of 15) and Stone the Crows. He made appearances on a number of albums, most notably John Entwistle's Whistle Rymes in 1972 and as lead guitarist playing alongside a young Peter Frampton on two tracks — Apron Strings and I Feel Better. Jimmy was a friend of The Who, and his band Thunderclap Newman was discovered and produced by Pete Townshend.

In 1976, while rehearsing for the first concert of the Wings Over America Tour at the Fort Worth Convention Center, McCulloch was wrestling in a backstage dressing room with David Cassidy, and broke his wrist. This delayed the tour by weeks, and McCartney was not pleased.

McCulloch's rig normally consisted of a Gibson SG, Gibson Les Paul, and occasionally played bass when McCartney was at the piano or acoustic guitar.

After leaving Wings, he briefly joined a reunited Small Faces for a club tour and had minimal participation in the band's two comeback albums. McCartney alledgedly phoned Steve Marriott and said "You Can Have Him".

McCulloch died from a heroin overdose in 1979 in London. Hed was 26. He had composed of the anti-drug song Medicine Jar on the Wings album Venus and Mars, and the similar Wino Junko on Wings at the Speed of Sound.