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That's the way God planned it
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006 10:12 amAnother sad day for anyone with an interest in good music, played well.
Keyboard player Billy Preston died yesterday. He was aged a measly 59 years and had been in a coma since November last year as a result of kidney failure.
Billy Preston apparently was the only musician to receive a label credit on a Beatles album1, other than The Fabs themselves. A number of people were called, or tried to call themselves the fifth Beatle; but with important, nay essential session playing on The White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be, Billy Preston is perhaps closer than any of the other claimants for the title.
Billy Preston's website.
It occurs to me that while I have a copy of That's The Way God Planned It on vinyl somewhere in Shropshire, I haven't got a copy on CD. I haven't listened to it for years. I shall roll out The Concert for Bangladesh tonight for a nostalgic tip of the hat to a number of those performers who are no longer with us.
1Not even old Slowhand himself managed that feat...
Keyboard player Billy Preston died yesterday. He was aged a measly 59 years and had been in a coma since November last year as a result of kidney failure.
Billy Preston apparently was the only musician to receive a label credit on a Beatles album1, other than The Fabs themselves. A number of people were called, or tried to call themselves the fifth Beatle; but with important, nay essential session playing on The White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be, Billy Preston is perhaps closer than any of the other claimants for the title.
Billy Preston's website.
It occurs to me that while I have a copy of That's The Way God Planned It on vinyl somewhere in Shropshire, I haven't got a copy on CD. I haven't listened to it for years. I shall roll out The Concert for Bangladesh tonight for a nostalgic tip of the hat to a number of those performers who are no longer with us.
1Not even old Slowhand himself managed that feat...
