John McCurry (born June 24, 1957) is an American musician, songwriter and composer based in New York City.
He has worked with many well-known musical artists, including Chicago, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Joel, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, John Waite, Belinda Carlisle, Julian Lennon, Joss Stone, Katy Perry, The Jonas Brothers, and Elliott Yamin.
As a performer, all through his younger years, McCurry was visually distinctive because of his naturally bright red hair.
Lennon also said, about writing the album's title track, "Help Yourself": "John McCurry and I sat around thinking, 'Well, where are we going to go with this?'
In a review of John Waite's album Rovers Return, about the track "Wild One", Brian McGowan commented that the spirit of the song was "defined in stark relief by John McCurry’s freewheeling, razor sharp axework".