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The Scottish musician Ian Bairnson, who performed guitar for the Alan Parsons Project and Kate Bush, has died at 69. In an Instagram put up<\/a>, his spouse mentioned that he handed away after \u201ca long battle with dementia.\u201d <\/p>\n Bairnson was born in Shetland in 1953. After working as a session musician for a number of years, he joined the band Pilot in 1973, staying with them for 4 years and 4 albums. Alongside another Pilot members, he additionally began performing with the Alan Parsons Project \u2014 Parsons produced the band\u2019s debut album \u2014 and he\u2019d play with Parsons for the following few a long time. <\/p>\n He additionally often collaborated with Kate Bush, and carried out on her first 4 albums: 1978\u2019s The Kick Inside<\/em> and Lionheart<\/em>, 1980\u2019s Never For Ever<\/em>, and 1982\u2019s The Dreaming<\/em>. He performed the guitar solo on \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d Throughout his profession, he additionally performed on albums by Joe Cocker, Mick Fleetwood, and Yes\u2019 Jon Anderson, and toured with Sting and Eric Clapton.<\/p>\n \u201cIan was the sweetest, kindest, loving husband I could ever have wished for and I take comfort that he is resting now up there in his very own piece of \u2018Blue Blue Sky,’\u201d his spouse wrote in her Instagram put up. \u201cAlthough Ian has left us, his musical legacy stays with us and will continue to delight and brighten our lives, as it did his, forever.\u201d<\/p>\n Parsons additionally paid tribute to Bairnson in a Facebook put up<\/a>, writing: \u201cI have always considered Ian a musical genius \u2026 He was a true master of the guitar \u2013 he knew every possible playable guitar chord and how to describe it.\u201d<\/p>\n