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Mandatory read for any Wings fan.
Beatles/Wings fans think they know everything. This book proved to me that I really did not know the truth about Jimmy McCulloch. His career was tragically short but began way before Thunderclap Newman. He also did so much on the side and had huge dreams. God only knows what would have become of Jimmy ..Paul Salley knocked it out of the park with this book. Its visually gorgeous with hundreds of photos ive never seen. His writing style is easy to digest. The interviews are well done and help the reader truly understand how Jimmy affected all around himLong live the legacy of Jimmy McCulloch!
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Beatles/Wings fans think they know everything. This book proved to me that I really did not know the truth about Jimmy McCulloch. His career was tragically short but began way before Thunderclap Newman. He also did so much on the side and had huge dreams. God only knows what would have become of Jimmy ..
Paul Salley knocked it out of the park with this book. Its visually gorgeous with hundreds of photos ive never seen. His writing style is easy to digest. The interviews are well done and help the reader truly understand how Jimmy affected all around him
Long live the legacy of Jimmy McCulloch!
Paul Salley knocked it out of the park with this book. Its visually gorgeous with hundreds of photos ive never seen. His writing style is easy to digest. The interviews are well done and help the reader truly understand how Jimmy affected all around him
Long live the legacy of Jimmy McCulloch!
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Michael Lamont
Detailed and informative biography.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2021
Michael Lamont
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2021
I've held off saying anything about the book until I had some time to take it in.
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.
As you may have figured out, I do heartily recommend it.
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