Scottish guitarist Ian Bairnson, who carried out the solo on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, and collaborated with the likes of Paul McCartney, Sting and Mick Fleetwood, has died aged 69 following a battle with dementia.
The information was introduced by his spouse, Leila Bairnson, on social media.
In an announcement she wrote: ‘It's with deep disappointment and remorse that I let you recognize that my loving husband Ian Bairnson has handed away on Friday seventh April.’
‘Ian was the sweetest, kindest, loving husband I might ever have wished for and I take consolation that he's resting now up there in his very personal piece of Blue Blue Sky.
‘Though Ian has left us, his musical legacy stays with us and can proceed to thrill and brighten our lives, because it did his, ceaselessly.’
Within the put up she additionally thanked the medical doctors and nurses at Frimley Park Hospital and the managers and carers at Lynwood Care House, in addition to their households and shut pals ‘for the love and help they've offered us throughout these difficult years of Ian’s lengthy battle with dementia’.