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Big Jim Sullivan

real name James George Thompkins

Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Big Jim Sullivan is credited on 719 releases across 180 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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719

Credits

180

Albums

8

Decades active

144

In collections

Biography

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Prolific session guitarist (born 14 February 1941, in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, died 02 October 2012) whose career started in 1959 after meeting Marty Wilde in a coffee bar.
Launched, with Derek Lawrence.
He played on fifty nine number one UK hit singles, and his lengthy career included stints with Tom Jones and the James Last Orchestra.

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Credited work

719 releases · 180 albums · active 1958–2025

  • Performance · 805
  • Production · 123
  • Other credits · 97
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: Olympic Studios · Wally Heider Recording Studio, Los Angeles · Wessex Sound Studios · Royal Albert Hall

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