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Author:Paul Salley
Title:Little Wing: The Jimmy McCulloch Story
Publisher:  Lotown Publishing
Country:USA
Date:23 Jul 2021
Format:Hardcover
Genre:Non-Fiction, Music, Biography
ISBN-13:9780578943848
Total Editions:2
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270 pages. Book dimensions: ‎ 21 cms x 2.4 cms x 26.2 cms.

A biography of Jimmy McCulloch's life and career. Jimmy was a gifted guitarist known for his work with Wings, Stone The Crows, Thunderclap Newman and The Dukes, among others.

Over the past 11 years or so, Paul Salley has been compiling a visual archive of Jimmy McCulloch's musical career and seeking out people who personally knew him. Paul has been in touch with people from each stage of McCulloch's life including his family, and has interviewed, among others, Pete Townshend and John Mayall.

A special limited edition of 100 hardcover copies of Little Wing: The Jimmy McCulloch Story will be available. Each copy includes a hand signed and individually numbered book plate by author Paul Salley. The book is print on demand so the author will drop ship the book and send out the personalized and signed limited edition book plates separately, so one will be received before the other. To order see here.

From the back cover:

Mentored by Pete Townshend.
Number one at 16 with Thunderclap Newman.
Toured with Paul McCartney’s Wings, John Mayall, Stone the Crows and Small Faces.
His life cut short at 26.

The authorized biography of Jimmy McCulloch, Little Wing is the first book to detail the Scottish guitarist’s astonishing life and music career.

Featuring over 200 rare images and exclusive interviews with close relatives, musicians, friends, and fans, McCulloch’s story is traced from his humble roots to his rise to international prominence, and his untimely passing in 1979.





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10th Aug 2021
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25th Jul 2021
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Becky Olenchak (from Facebook):

Jimmy McCulloch accomplished much more in his 26 years than most of us do in a lifetime; he was playing lead guitar in bands that opened for The Who and Pink Floyd when he was barely in his teens. As 16 year old guitarist for Thunderclap Newman, he had a number one hit record. After performing with the likes of John Mayall and Stone The Crows, Jimmy became the lead guitarist for Paul McCartney and Wings and together they became the biggest rock band in the world. Still only in his early 20s, he had achieved so much and his potential remained beyond belief.

In “Little Wing: The Jimmy McCulloch Story” (fully authorized by the McCulloch family), Paul Salley shares details about Jimmy’s life from early childhood and his fascination with guitars and music at a very young age, throughout the onset of his career and on through the heady days of Wings and afterwards. Included are many lovely personal recollections from brother Jack McCulloch, who played drums in early bands The Jaygars and One In A Million as well as Thunderclap Newman and many others. Throughout the book, there are also memories shared by other family members and friends, plus a ton of incredible visual treats in the form of original newspaper and magazine articles and interviews and lots of photos, many coming from the family archive. Salley enables the reader to get a real glimpse of what Jimmy must have been feeling and thinking, from early days as a young Beatles fan learning guitar when not attending to his studies at Cumbernauld High School outside Glasgow, to later on when he was touring the world and playing enormous stadiums with Paul McCartney and Wings. It’s truly special indeed.

I wish I could rate this book more than 5 stars! In a nutshell, Paul Salley and Mark Cunningham (editor and designer) have produced the best rock bio I have read in years. "Little Wing" truly takes flight and soars!

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Mick Lamont (from Facebook):

My copy of "Little Wing: The Jimmy McCulloch Story" arrived earlier this week. I've held off saying anything about the book until I had some time to take it in. This is because the author, Paul Salley, is a friend of mine - and I'm in it.

I am now able to say that it is my considered opinion that this book is a remarkable piece of work. The research that Paul Salley has undertaken is quite frankly unbelievable. He has interviewed a vast number of people from every period in Jimmy's incredible career: The Jaygars, One in a Million, Thunderclap Newman, John Mayall, Wings, Small Faces and more. His pursuit of witnesses has been assiduous: from megastars to school friends in Cumbernauld. (Paul even tracked me down and I am a very obscure and minor footnote in Jimmy's story). Most of the narrative comes from these interviewees. Paul lets the people who were there tell the story.

The photographs in the book (603 of them!) are an astonishing record not just of Jimmy's life but of the rock world in the sixties and seventies that he inhabited. Many come from the McCulloch family archives and have never been seen before. We have the wee boy with the guitar - that is bigger than he is - up to the last known photo of him in September 1979.

I was already pretty well-versed in the details of Jimmy's life and times but I learned many gobsmacking things from this book: One in a Million played at the legendary 14 Hour Technicolor (sic) Dream at Alexandra Palace in 1967 with Pink Floyd; Pete Townshend's father, Cliff, had a hit in 1941 as a member of The Squadronaires with a tune called "There's Something in the Air".

The depiction of life in a Scottish rock band in the early sixties is detailed and vivid: for me it exerts an almost visceral - if morbid - fascination!

The sheer volume of research is staggering. The amount of information jaw-dropping. As biography, it is a startling achievement.

The book is available from Amazon.

As you may have figured out, I do heartily recommend it.

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20th Jul 2021
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By Amy Hughes at Beatles Freak Reviews.

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By Angie Moon, the founder of the blog The Diversity of Classic Rock.

See Little Wing: The Jimmy McCulloch Story by Paul Salley

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