Billy Preston
Written by Bobby Hebb
Produced by Steve Douglas
45 RPM Capitol #5730
Digitially remastered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_dlU7Ty6ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee0LtINHtfc
Sunny by Billy Preston - instrumental with vocal intro - The Beatles had asked Bobby Hebb to play keyboards with them after the 1966 tour, but Bobby was more into the guitar at the time and suggested Billy Preston ...the rest is history... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee0LtINHtfc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Preston
Relationship with the Beatles
Preston first met
the Beatles as a 16-year-old in 1962, while part of Little Richard's touring band, when their manager
Brian Epstein organized a Liverpool show, at which the Beatles opened. The
Washington Post explained their subsequent meeting:
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They'd hook up again in 1969, when the Beatles were about to break up while recording the last album they released, Let It Be (they would later record Abbey Road, which was released prior to Let It Be). George Harrison, a friend of Preston, had quit, walked out of the studio and gone to a Ray Charles concert in London,
where Preston was playing organ. Harrison brought Preston back to the
studio, where his keen musicianship and gregarious personality
temporarily calmed the tension.[4] |
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Preston is one of several people referred to by commentators as the "
Fifth Beatle". At one point during the "
Get Back" sessions,
John Lennon proposed the idea of having him join the band (to which
Paul McCartney countered that it was difficult enough reaching agreements with four).
[5] Preston played with the Beatles for several of the
Get Back sessions, some of the material from which would later be culled to make the film
Let it Be and its companion album. Preston also accompanied the band for
its rooftop concert; the group's final public appearance.
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