Lived Fast, Died Young: Wings, Thunderclap Newman’s Jimmy McCulloch

Lived Fast, Died Young: Wings, Thunderclap Newman’s Jimmy McCulloch

He may have been the epitome of the “live fast, die young” philosophy, but Jimmy McCulloch was also a prodigious guitarist who packed more into his 26 years than many people do in a much longer lifetime. Jimmy was born in Dumbarton, in the Scottish Lowlands, on June 4, 1953. As the teenage prodigy with Thunderclap Newman, the guitarist in the mid-1970s line-up of Wings, member of the latter-day Small Faces or anything else in his all-too-short c…