Ireland In 50 Albums, No 35: Mind Your Own Business, by Henry McCullough (1975) 

The renowned Co Derry guitarist had achieved fame with Paul McCartney and Joe Cocker, but this album gave him a chance to focus on his own material

Mind Your Own Business! by Henry McCullough came two years after the Co Derry guitarist had left Wings. 

Henry McCullough is the only Irish person who played at Woodstock in 1969. McCullough, who was born in Portstewart, Co Derry, in 1943, was lead guitarist for Joe Cocker’s backing group, The Grease Band. It’s McCullough singing falsetto and doing guitar solos during the band’s show-stealing version of With a Little Help from My Friends, with Cocker accompanying him maniacally on air guitar.

McCullough was a gifted guitarist, one of the finest during a time when side streets in London were scrawled with “Clapton is God” graffiti. Eamon Carr, drummer and lyricist with Horslips, and a friend and collaborator with McCullough, remembers going as much as five times a week to watch McCullough’s psychedelic band The People play in venues around Dublin in 1967.