RIP Big Jim Sullivan, 71, session guitarist

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Big Jim Sullivan, 71, session guitarist on hundreds of British rock & pop songs
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20121005,0,2843387.story

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Big Jim Sullivan, 71, session guitarist on hundreds of British rock & pop songs
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20121005,0,2843387.story

wow. per Wiki:

Sullivan became one of the most sought-after guitarists throughout the 1960s and the 1970s, due in part to his flexibility in playing different styles of music. He gave guitar lessons to Ritchie Blackmore, and, with Blackmore and Pete Townshend, persuaded Jim Marshall to make amplifiers. He played on at least one thousand UK chart entries, and averaged three recording sessions a day. He played on the first records in the UK to use a wah-wah effect - Krewkat's 1961 "The Bat", Michael Cox's 1961 "Sweet Little Sixteen" and Dave Berry's 1964 hit "The Crying Game". He also played uncredited guitar the 1962 Alexis Korner's and Blues Incorporated's album R&B from the Marquee, and played on the first record in the UK to use a fuzzbox, which he had borrowed from Jimmy Page, on P.J. Proby's 1964 hit "Hold Me". In the early 1960s he also played on hits by Billy Fury, Frank Ifield, Adam Faith, Frankie Vaughan, Helen Shapiro, Freddie and the Dreamers, Cilla Black, Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Dusty Springfield and many more. He played on Georgie Fame's first album Rhythm & Blues at the Flamingo in 1964, Bobby Darin's 1966 live album Something Special, Little Richard's 1966 album Get Down With It: The OKeh Sessions and Del Shannon's 1967 album Home and Away. He was also the resident guitarist at Top of the Pops and Ready Steady Go!, and helped out at Saturday Club.
 
Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Sullivan continued to play on a succession of hit records including those by The Walker Brothers, Donovan, David Bowie, Engelbert Humperdinck, Benny Hill, The New Seekers, Thunderclap Newman, Love Affair, Long John Baldry, Marmalade, Small Faces, The Tremeloes, and Rolf Harris. In 1968 he played on George Harrison's Wonderwall. He directed and played on Amazing Blondel's first album in 1969, and in the same year played on the album Sound of Sunforest, the overture from which was used in the film A Clockwork Orange. In 1971 he played in the Jean-Claude Vannier Orchestra for Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson, and also played on Frank Zappa's 200 Motels.

also per Wiki he was on everything from "Itchykoo Park" to "Alone Again (Naturally)"... from "Where Do You Go To My Lovely" to "Something in the Air"

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Yes, interesting to learn about such a behind the sounds person.  Per Wiki, some of the #1 UK singles on which he is heard, many of which also charted in the US -
1960 Frankie Vaughan - "Tower of Strength"
1961 Petula Clark - "Sailor"
1961 Eden Kane - "Well I Ask You"
1961 Danny Williams - "Moon River"
1962 Mike Sarne - "Come Outside"
1962 Frank Ifield - "I Remember You"
1962 Frank Ifield - "Lovesick Blues"
1963 Jet Harris and Tony Meehan - "Diamonds"
1963 Frank Ifield - "Wayward Wind"
1963 Frank Ifield - "Confessin'"
1963 Brian Poole and the Tremeloes - "Do You Love Me"
1964 The Bachelors - "Diane"
1964 Cilla Black - "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
1964 Peter & Gordon - "A World Without Love"
1964 The Four Pennies - "Juliet"
1964 Cilla Black - "You're My World"
1964 Georgie Fame - "Yeh Yeh"
1965 The Seekers - "I'll Never Find Another You"
1965 Tom Jones - "It's Not Unusual" (not the main guitar)
1965 Jackie Trent - "Where Are You Now (My Love)"
1965 Sandie Shaw - "Long Live Love"
1965 The Walker Brothers - "Make It Easy On Yourself"
1965 Ken Dodd - "Tears"
1965 The Seekers - "The Carnival Is Over"
1966 The Overlanders - "Michelle"
1966 The Walker Brothers - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"
1966 Dusty Springfield - "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"
1966 Chris Farlowe - "Out of Time"
1966 Tom Jones - "Green, Green Grass of Home"
1967 Engelbert Humperdinck - "Release Me"
1967 Petula Clark - "This Is My Song"
1967 Sandie Shaw - "Puppet on a String"
1967 The Tremeloes - "Silence Is Golden"
1967 Engelbert Humperdinck - "The Last Waltz"
1967 Long John Baldry - "Let The Heartaches Begin"
1968 Love Affair - "Everlasting Love"
1968 Esther and Abi Ofarim - "Cinderella Rockafella"
1968 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - "The Legend of Xanadu"
1968 Des O'Connor - "I Pretend"
1968 The Scaffold - "Lily The Pink"
1968 Marmalade - "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
1969 Peter Sarstedt - "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)"
1969 Thunderclap Newman - "Something in the Air"
1969 Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg - "Je t'aime... moi non plus"
1969 Rolf Harris - "Two Little Boys"
1970 Dana - "All Kinds of Everything"
1971 Middle of the Road - "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"
1971 Benny Hill - "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)"
1971 New Seekers - "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"
1972 Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Clair"
1973 Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Get Down"