“Paul went, ‘What are you gonna’ play?’ ‘I don’t know.’ There’s George Martin in the control room, a 50 piece orchestra waiting on me in the studio”: How Wings guitarist Henry McCullough recorded his one take solo on My Love

Henry McCullogh solos on his ES-335 in 1971.

Sometimes you can be over rehearsed. You know the material too well. Sometimes you just have to embrace the panic of not knowing what you are going to play, to just go with it.

The late Henry McCullough could testify to that. He had enjoyed a stellar career, jamming with Jimi Hendrix, working his magic in the Grease Band, playing in Spooky Tooth and alongside Denny Laine as Paul McCartney’s six-string lieutenant in Wings.