Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June 06)

06 Jun 06 - 01:31 PM (#1754245)
Subject: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies...
From: Anonny Mouse

...Billy Preston. Did a lot of work with the "Fab Four" and a song that hit the charts pretty well--"Nothin' from Nothin' Means Nothin." Hope I get this blue clicky thing correct. If not here's a copy&paste:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198353,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198353,00.html

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06 Jun 06 - 01:33 PM (#1754249)
Subject: RE: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies...
From: Leadfingers

Just heard that on Beeb Radio Four !

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06 Jun 06 - 01:46 PM (#1754256)
Subject: RE: Obit:'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston(June 2
From: Anonny Mouse

(Thanks to whomever added the "Obit" and date--someday I'll get the hang of posting correctly here! ;>) )

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06 Jun 06 - 02:42 PM (#1754298)
Subject: RE: Obit:'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston(June 2006)
From: fat B****rd

Great Jazz Organist. RIP Mr. Preston.

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06 Jun 06 - 02:59 PM (#1754314)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June 06)
From: Steve Latimer

Damn, sorry to hear this. He was something. He also toured with the Stones, he was with them the first time I saw them in the Mid-Seventies.

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06 Jun 06 - 03:03 PM (#1754322)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June 06)
From: Kenneth Ingham

That's The Way God Planned It

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06 Jun 06 - 03:05 PM (#1754324)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June
From: pdq

He was on a US game show back in the mid 1950s. I think it was Groucho's "This Is Your Life". He proudly announced "I'm Bill Preston" and proceeded to play a little bit of piano. He must have been about 7 or 8 at the time.

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06 Jun 06 - 03:11 PM (#1754329)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June 06)
From: GUEST,wordy

Sorry to hear this, but what the hell is a "medical insult"?

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06 Jun 06 - 05:21 PM (#1754447)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June 06)
From: Scoville

From KHOU TV news, Houston, Texas (his hometown, and mine).

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06 Jun 06 - 05:41 PM (#1754469)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June
From: khandu

"You are so beautiful to me, can't you see?"
                                 Billy Preston

RIP

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06 Jun 06 - 05:55 PM (#1754482)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June
From: GUEST,Sori

Also played with gospel great Mahalia Jackson as a kid (according to the AP obit I read).

And many other greats, like Aretha, Sly Stone, etc.

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06 Jun 06 - 08:05 PM (#1754573)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June 06)
From: Bobert

Yeah, what khanny said... That perhaps was Billy's best song...

RIP, Billy and Godspeed

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06 Jun 06 - 09:53 PM (#1754625)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June 06)
From: Peter T.

He did a great job at the "Concert for George" -- probably his last gig. Gone to join George, I guess.

yours,

Peter T.

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06 Jun 06 - 10:05 PM (#1754630)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June 06)
From: GUEST

You Brits REALLY have a thing for stealing - the guy helps out on four or five tracks - and is given credit on three Beatles - and you xenophobits want to adopt a "N" into your cultural heritage? Let the man's glory live with the Blacks and not Liverpool. Little Richard, Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, Sly and the Family, and his own original work.

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06 Jun 06 - 10:53 PM (#1754654)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June 06)
From: Margret RoadKnight

Sad news - one of the great musicians and entertainers, and a delightful person.
Billy Preston toured Australia in the '60s with Ray Charles, and in the '70s as a solo act (absolutely solo, just him and a Hammond Organ with two Leslie Speakers).
I also saw him with James Cleveland in Detroit in '77, and finally met him in New Orleans in 2000 (pic at my website, access though Google)

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07 Jun 06 - 02:53 PM (#1755120)
Subject: BS: Obituary Billy Preston
From: Divis Sweeney

Sadly the death of keyboard player Billy Preston has just been announced. One of the greats.

May he rest in peace.
That's the way God planned it.

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07 Jun 06 - 03:03 PM (#1755126)
Subject: RE: Obit: 'Fifth Beatle' Dies..Billy Preston (June 06)
From: fat B****rd

And he played the young W.C.Handy in a biopic. I believe Nat "King" Cole played the adult role.

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