FP Series #180 - Billy Preston Traditional Cache
FP Series #180 - Billy Preston
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One Hundred Eightieth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Billy Preston
William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas.
Although Preston is one of several people sometimes credited as a "Fifth Beatle", he is one of two non-Beatles to receive label performance credit on any Beatles record. Preston first met the Beatles in 1962 as part of Little Richard's touring band when their manager Brian Epstein organized a Liverpool show, for which the Beatles opened. The Washington Post explained their subsequent meeting:
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, always Preston's best Beatles buddy, had quit and 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.
Preston played with the Beatles for much of the Get Back sessions, some of the material from which would latter be culled to make the film Let it Be and its companion album, during which he joined the band for its rooftop concert, its final public apperance. "Get Back", one of the album's singles, was credited to "the Beatles and Billy Preston", only the second time such a joint credit had been given (the first was the MGM re-issue of "My Bonnie", credited to "The Beatles with Tony Sheridan" [the original Polydor release credited Tony Sheridan and "the Beat Brothers"]). Preston also worked (in a more limited role) on the Abbey Road album, contributing to the track "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".
Years later, he appeared as Sgt. Pepper in the film version of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Signed to the Beatles' Apple label, in 1969, Preston released the album That's the Way God Planned It. The cache is located in the New Oakwood Cemetery, about the size and color of a Beetle and somewhat in a place where a Beetle might even be. He followed up with the #1 hits "Will It Go Round In Circles" and "Nothing From Nothing", and the #4 hit "Space Race". American Bandstand host and executive producer Dick Clark enjoyed "Space Race" to the extent that he used the instrumental for the mid-show break for virtually the remainder of its run.
Preston made his last public appearance in late 2005 at the Los Angeles press junket for the re-release of the Concert for Bangladesh movie. Afterwards he played a three song set of "Give Me Love", "My Sweet Lord" and "Isn't It a Pity", featuring Dhani Harrison on guitar and Ringo Starr on drums.
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