Pete Townshend feels guilty over Jimmy McCulloch’s death

The guitarist of Who Pete Townshend Speaking to Variety, he spoke about the role he believes he played in the death of Jimmy McCullochthe former guitarist of Wings died in 1979 at the age of 26.

These are Townshend’s considerations: “I think that if I hadn’t entered Jimmy McCulloch’s life, he might still be alive today. I think the fact that he continued to work with Paul McCartney and Wings (from 1974 to 1977, ed.) was his death.”

Jimmy McCulloch he became famous in 1969 with i

Thunderclap Newman Of Pete Townshend And Kit Lambert. The then sixteen year old guitarist together with the jazz pianist Andy Newman and the drummer John “Speedy” Keen reached number one on the charts with the song “Something in the Air”.

Success and talent led the young guitarist to join the
Wings
Of
Paul McCartney
band in which he played from 1974 to 1977 before dying in 1979 of a heart attack related to massive drug use.
Pete Townshend
said that McCulloch was “not suited to stardom. When I first met Jimmy he was 14, maybe younger, and was in a band with his older brother, Jack, who protected him. Because he was really young we didn’t notice that potentially he was an alcoholic. At that particular moment, despite the fact that Paul and Linda (McCartney’s wife, ed.) tried with all their might to help him, there were no mechanisms that could help him, the same story.” Referring to Keen who wrote
“Something in the Air”
and died of a heart attack in 2002 at the age of 56.

The latest album by

Jimmy McCulloch
with them
Wings
it was
“London Town”
in 1978. The group’s next album,
“Back to the
Egg”
of 1979, featured on guitar
Laurence Juber
. Two years later, the band broke up.