McLean began working as a
session musician in the 1970s, as guitarist in the groups the RHT Invincibles (along with
Ansell Collins,
Lloyd Parks, and
Sly Dunbar), The
Randy's house band The Impact All Stars,
The Revolutionaries, and
Skin, Flesh & Bones, and playing on albums by artists including
Earth & Stone,
Culture, and
Jimmy Cliff. He also released solo material including the "Toy" single. Primarily a guitarist and bass guitarist, he also plays keyboards. Throughout the 1980s he was in demand as a
studio musician, joining Cliff's backing band Oneness and writing songs for Cliff such as "Rub-A-Dub Partner" and "Roots Woman", recording with
The Clarendonians and
Sadao Watanabe, and playing on the soundtrack to films
Club Paradise and
Rockers, in which he also had small roles. He died on 14 November 2012 at the University Hospital of the West Indies after a long illness. ==Notes==