If you've ever heard the elegant solo on the Wings song "My Love" or the reggae-like riffs of "Live and Let Die," then you are familiar with the work of Henry McCullough. The former member of Paul McCartney's post-Beatles band Wings and veteran session musician died Tuesday (June 14) at age 72 after a long illness, his longtime agent Nigel Martyn told the Belfast Telegraph.
Born in Portstewart, Ireland in 1943, McCullough spent years playing blues, rock, pop and psychedelic bands in London -- touring in support of Jimi Hendrix and playing on Joe Cocker's breakthrough 1969 album With a Little Help From My Friends -- before getting tapped to join Wings for 1973's Red Rose Speedway. During sessions for that album he also made his way onto a Pink Floyd album when he waltzed to an adjacent studio and contributed a spoken word bit ("I don't know, I was really drunk at the time") to the Dark Side of the Moon track "Money."