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Billy Preston

Billy Preston
Personal information
Birth nameWilliam Everett Preston
BornSeptember 2, 1946
Houston, Texas,
United States
DiedJune 6, 2006(age 59)
Scottsdale, Arizona,
United States
GenresR&B, rock, soul, funk, gospel
OccupationMusician, songwriter, bandleader, actor
InstrumentsKeyboards, organ, piano, electric piano, vocals, harpsichord, accordion, drums
Years active1956 � 2005
LabelsDerby, Vee-Jay, Apple Records, Capitol, Buddah, A&M, Motown
Associated actsSam Cooke, The Beatles, Sly & the Family Stone, King Curtis, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton
Notable instrumentsHammond B3 organ

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William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 � June 6, 2006) was an American rhythm and blues musician from Houston, Texas raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy Award-winning career as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Band, Nat King Cole, Little Richard, Eric Burdon, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, George Harrison, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, King Curtis, Sammy Davis Jr., Aretha Franklin, the Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Mick Jagger, Peter Frampton, Phyllis Hyman, Richie Sambora, Sly Stone, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Norah Jones and Ringo Starr. He played the Fender Rhodes electric piano and the Hammond organ on the Get Back sessions in 1969.

Preston and Tony Sheridan are the only two non-Beatles to receive billing as an artist alongside the Beatles (as distinct from receiving credit as a session musician on album packaging) on an official Beatles record release. The label of the "Get Back" single credits the artists on the record as The Beatles with Billy Preston.

Billy Preston Video

They sing "The games people play" after a bit of chat.With the great Billy Preston on keyboard.
5.28 min. | 4.92 user rating		 Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Dhani Harrison and a slew of other friends of ex-Beatles George Harrison perform his hit single "My Sweet Lord" in the Concert for George
5.35 min. | 4.93 user rating		 Billy Preston - Nothing from nothing 1975 William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 -- June 6, 2006) was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. Lyrics: ... nothin' leaves nothin' You gotta have somethin' If you wanna be with me Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' You gotta have somethin' If you wanna be with me I'm not tryin' to be your hero 'Cause that zero is too cold for me, Brrr I'm not tryin' to be your highness 'Cause that minus is too low to see, yeah Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' And I'm not stuffin' Believe you me Don't you remember I told ya I'm a soldier in the war on poverty, yeah Yes, I am (Instrumental) Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' You gotta have somethin' If you wanna be with me Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' You gotta have somethin' If you wanna be with me You gotta have somethin' If you wanna be with me You gotta bring me somethin' girl If you wanna be with me
2.30 min. | 4.95 user rating		 Concert for Bangladesh. Harrison and friends. * Eric Clapton * Bob Dylan * George Harrison * Billy Preston * Leon Russell * Ringo Starr * Ravi Shankar * Ustad Ali Akbar Khan * Ustad Alla Rakha * Kamala Chakravarty
5.12 min. | 4.90 user rating		 Billy Preston and Syreeta Wright
3.88 min. | 4.94 user rating
Studio mix of the song, with Billy Preston on the keyboards. Classic Beatles soul!
3.93 min. | 4.94 user rating		 Nothing From Nothing - Billy Preston from his album "THE KIDS & ME" in 1974
2.62 min. | 4.95 user rating		 Everyone please keep Aretha Franklin and her family in your prayers and remember that God will hear them all. Aretha and Billy Preston again perform from her home in Detroit for the Nightlife show back in 1987. Happy New Year to all.
2.10 min. | 4.72 user rating		 Billy Preston - Will it go Round in Circles 1973 live Midnight Special
3.87 min. | 4.97 user rating		 A Live performance of George Harrison's "Beware of Darkness" from a 1971 benefit performance for UNICEF called "Concert for Bangladesh". It was the first fund raising concert of this kind. The other singer is Leon Russell. The concert also included Eric, Ringo, Billy Preston, Klaus Voorman, Jesse Ed Davis and others. Beware of Darkness can be found on Georges debut and perhaps most successful album "All Things Must Pass"
3.52 min. | 4.96 user rating

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Beatles tribute show playing at the Neil Simon Theater NYC - Seek4media Tweet this news
Seek4media---...- Curtolo as Paul McCartney, Ralph Castelli acts as Ringo Star, Joe Bithorn as George Harrison, and Mark Beyer will be on the keyboards as -Billy Preston-. ... - Date : Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:57:29 GMT+00:00
Richards hasn't 'forgotten any of it' - Belleville Intelligencer Tweet this news
Belleville Intelligencer--As are tales of setting fire to the Playboy Mansion, pulling a knife on -Billy Preston-, watching Charlie Watts punch Jagger, making his young son Marlon his ... - Date : Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:10:45 GMT+00:00
SNL goes to the gals - Vancouver Sun Tweet this news
Vancouver Sun--Janis Ian was SNL's first musical guest, with -Billy Preston-, when SNL debuted at New York City's Rockefeller Center's historic Studio 8H on Oct. 11, 1975. ... - Date : Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:44:20 GMT+00:00
Apple Records To Open Their Vaults - antiMUSIC.com Tweet this news
antiMUSIC.com---...- label launched by the Fab Four also gave the world an impressive array of releases from artists ranging from James Taylor to Badfinger to -Billy Preston-. ... - Date : Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:47:12 GMT+00:00
I Read The News Today... For July 7, 2010 - ChartAttack Tweet this news
ChartAttack---...- reissued and remastered, which means you'll soon be able to download good quality versions of albums by James Taylor, -Billy Preston-, Badfinger (oooooh! ... - Date : Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:31:11 GMT+00:00
Grace Potter sees the light - Colorado Springs Independent Tweet this news
Colorado Springs Independent--When asked about her B-3 role models, Potter cites a wide range: "Initially it was -Billy Preston-," she says. "And I love Ray Charles. ... - Date : Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:30:35 GMT+00:00
7/1: Show Up and Sit Down - NBC Dallas-Fort Worth Tweet this news
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth--Over the past twenty years, Rigsby has performed or shared the stage with such greats as Johnnie Taylor, Kirk Whalum, and -Billy Preston-. ... - Date : Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:29:53 GMT+00:00
The fab five Get Back to London, Ontario as young pupils and fans turn musicians - London Free Press Tweet this news
London Free Press--Get Back adds a keyboard player in Ben Spiller of St. Thomas, 16, filling in for American star -Billy Preston-, and underlining the band's name from a ... - Date : Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:19:49 GMT+00:00
Music lessons now available at Hubbadaddy's - Signal Tweet this news
Signal---...- Kevin Cloud and Jerry Best, who have all previously played with other performers and bands such as -Billy Preston-, The Rascals and Courtney Love. ... - Date : Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:26:14 GMT+00:00
No Kids dive headlong into vintage funk on Judy at the Grove - Straight.com Tweet this news
Straight.com--“I Want to Be Around” pairs blaring horns with -Billy Preston--style keyboards as Krgovich gasps and coos, “A weakness for pretty things never hurt nobody. ... - Date : Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:53:30 GMT+00:00

The Rolling Stones

UK studio albums
1964 �1967		The Rolling Stones (1964) * The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965) * Out of Our Heads (1965) * Aftermath (1966) * Between the Buttons (1967)
US studio albums
1964 �1967		England's Newest Hit Makers (1964) * 12 X 5 (1964) * The Rolling Stones, Now! (1965) * Out of Our Heads (1965) * December's Children (And Everybody's) (1965) * Aftermath (1966) * Between the Buttons (1967)
Studio albums
1967 �present		Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) * Beggars Banquet (1968) * Let It Bleed (1969) * Sticky Fingers (1971) * Exile on Main St. (1972) * Goats Head Soup (1973) * It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (1974) * Black and Blue (1976) * Some Girls (1978) * Emotional Rescue (1980) * Tattoo You (1981) * Undercover (1983) * Dirty Work (1986) * Steel Wheels (1989) * Voodoo Lounge (1994) * Bridges to Babylon (1997) * A Bigger Bang (2005)
UK EPsThe Rolling Stones (1964) * Five by Five (1964) * Got Live If You Want It! (1965)
Live albumsGot Live If You Want It! (US only) (1966) * Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert (1970) * Love You Live (1977) * "Still Life" (American Concert 1981) (1982) * Flashpoint (1991) * Stripped (1995) * No Security (1998) * Live Licks (2004) * Shine a Light (2008)
CompilationsBig Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (1966) * Flowers (US) (1967) * Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (1969) * Made in the Shade (1975) * Time Waits for No One: Anthology 1971 �1977 (1979) * Sucking in the Seventies (1981) * Rewind (1971 �1984) (1984) * Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones (1993) * Forty Licks (2002) * Rarities 1971 �2003 (2005) * Exile on Main St. (Rarities Edition) (2010)
Post-contract
ABKCO albums		Hot Rocks 1964 �1971 (1971) * More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) (1972) * Metamorphosis (1975) * Singles Collection: The London Years (1989) * The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996) * Singles 1963 �1965 (2004) * Singles 1965 �1967 (2004) * Singles 1968 �1971 (2005) * Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (2007)
Post-contract
Decca albums		Stone Age (1971) * Gimme Shelter (1971) * Milestones (1972) * Rock 'n' Rolling Stones (1972) * No Stone Unturned (1973) * Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (1975) * Solid Rock (1980) * Slow Rollers (1981)
Miscellaneous albumsJamming with Edward! (1972)
Box setsThe Rolling Stones Box Set (2009)
DVD releasesStones at the Max (1992) * The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge Live (1995) * Bridges to Babylon Tour '97 �98 (1998) * Four Flicks (2003) * The Biggest Bang (2007)
DocumentariesGimme Shelter (1970) * Cocksucker Blues (1972) * Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1974) * 25x5 � The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones (1989) * Shine a Light (2008) * Stones in Exile (2010)
ToursEuropean Tour 1967 * American Tour 1969 * European Tour 1970 * UK Tour 1971 * American Tour 1972 * Pacific Tour 1973 * European Tour 1973 * Tour of the Americas '75 * Tour of Europe '76 * US Tour 1978 * American Tour 1981 * European Tour 1982 * Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour * Voodoo Lounge Tour * Bridges to Babylon Tour * No Security Tour * Licks Tour * A Bigger Bang Tour
CollaboratorsBlondie Chaplin * Lisa Fischer * Bernard Fowler * Nicky Hopkins * Darryl Jones * Bobby Keys * Chuck Leavell * Ian McLagan * Billy Preston * Jim Price
Producers and managementAndrew Loog Oldham * Allen Klein * Jimmy Miller * The Glimmer Twins * Steve Lillywhite * Chris Kimsey * Don Was
Related articlesDiscography * Jagger/Richards * Nanker Phelge * Rolling Stones Records * Altamont Free Concert * Rolling Stones Mobile Studio * The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus * The Mick Jagger Centre * Peter Meaden

The Rolling Stones singles discography

Decca/London singles1963: "Come On" / "I Want to Be Loved" * "I Wanna Be Your Man" / "Stoned"
1964: "Not Fade Away" / "Little by Little" (UK) * "Not Fade Away" / "I Wanna Be Your Man" (US) * "It's All Over Now" / "Good Times, Bad Times" * "Tell Me" / "I Just Want to Make Love to You" * "Time Is on My Side" / "Congratulations" * "Little Red Rooster" / "Off the Hook" * "Heart of Stone" / "What a Shame"
1965: "What a Shame" / "Heart of Stone" * "The Last Time" / "Play with Fire" * "Play with Fire" / "The Last Time" * "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" / "The Under-Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" (US) * "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" / "The Spider and the Fly" (UK) * "Get Off of My Cloud" / "I'm Free" (US) * "Get Off of My Cloud" / "The Singer Not the Song" (UK) * "As Tears Go By" / "Gotta Get Away"
1966: "19th Nervous Breakdown" / "As Tears Go By" (UK) * "19th Nervous Breakdown" / "Sad Day" (US) * "Paint It, Black" / "Stupid Girl" (US) * "Paint It, Black" / "Long Long While" (UK) * "Mother's Little Helper" / "Lady Jane" * "Lady Jane" / "Mother's Little Helper" * "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" / "Who's Driving Your Plane"
1967: "Let's Spend the Night Together" / "Ruby Tuesday" * "Ruby Tuesday" / "Let's Spend the Night Together" * "We Love You" / "Dandelion" * "Dandelion" / "We Love You" * "In Another Land" / "The Lantern" * "She's a Rainbow" / "2000 Light Years from Home"
1968: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" / "Child of the Moon" * "Street Fighting Man" / "No Expectations" *
1969: "Honky Tonk Women" / "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Rolling Stones/Atlantic
singles		1971: "Brown Sugar" / "Bitch" / "Let It Rock" (live) (UK) * "Brown Sugar" / "Bitch" (US) * "Wild Horses" / "Sway" * "Street Fighting Man" / "Surprise, Surprise"
1972: "Tumbling Dice" / "Sweet Black Angel" * "Happy" / "All Down the Line"
1973: "You Can't Always Get What You Want" / "Sad Day" * "Angie" / "Silver Train" * "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" / "Dancing with Mr. D"
1974: "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" / "Through the Lonely Nights" * "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" / "Dance Little Sister"
1975: "I Don't Know Why" / "Try a Little Harder" * "Out of Time" / "Jiving Sister Fanny"
1976: "Fool to Cry" / "Crazy Mama" * "Hot Stuff" / "Fool to Cry"
Rolling Stones/Virgin
singles		1978: "Miss You" / "Far Away Eyes" * "Beast of Burden" / "When the Whip Comes Down" * "Respectable" / "When the Whip Comes Down" * "Shattered" / "Everything Is Turning to Gold"
1980: "Emotional Rescue" / "Down in the Hole" * "She's So Cold" / "Send It to Me"
1981: "If I Was a Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)" / "If I Was a Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)" * "Start Me Up" / "No Use In Crying" * "Waiting on a Friend" / "Little T&A" * "Little T&A" / "Waiting on a Friend"
1982: "Hang Fire" / "Neighbours" * "Going to a Go-Go" (live) / "Beast of Burden" (live) * "Time Is on My Side" (live) / "Twenty Flight Rock" (live)
1983: "Undercover of the Night" / "All the Way Down"
1984: "She Was Hot" / "Think I'm Going Mad" * "Think I'm Going Mad" / "She Was Hot" * "Too Tough" / "Miss You" * "Brown Sugar" / "Bitch" * "Too Much Blood" / "Too Much Blood"
1986: "Harlem Shuffle" / "Had It With You" * "Winning Ugly" / "Winning Ugly" * "One Hit (To the Body)" / "Fight"
1989: "Mixed Emotions" / "Fancy Man Blues" * "Sad Sad Sad" / "Sad Sad Sad" * "Rock and a Hard Place" / "Cook Cook Blues"
1990: "Almost Hear You Sigh" / "Break the Spell" (US) * "Almost Hear You Sigh" / "Wish I'd Never Met You" (UK) * "Paint It, Black" / "Long Long While" * "Terrifying" / "Wish I'd Never Met You"
1991: "Highwire" / "2000 Light Years from Home" (live) * "Ruby Tuesday" (live) / "Play with Fire" (live) * "Sex Drive" / "Sex Drive"
Virgin singles1994: "Love Is Strong" / "The Storm" * "Love Is Strong" / "So Young" * "You Got Me Rocking" / "Jump On Top of Me" * "Out of Tears" / "I'm Gonna Drive" / "So Young" * "Out of Tears" / "I'm Gonna Drive" / "Sparks Will Fly"
1995: "Sparks Will Fly" / "Sparks Will Fly" * "I Go Wild" / (remixes) * "Like a Rolling Stone" (live) / "Black Limousine" / "All Down the Line"
1996: "Wild Horses" (live) / "Live with Me" (live) / "Tumbling Dice" (live)
1997: "Anybody Seen My Baby?" / (remixes) * "Flip the Switch" / "Flip the Switch"
1998: "Saint of Me" / "Gimme Shelter" / "Anyway You Look At It" * "Out of Control" / (remixes) * "Gimme Shelter" (live) / "Gimme Shelter" (live)
2002: "Don't Stop" / "Miss You" (remix)
2003: "Sympathy for the Devil" (remix) / (remixes)
2005: "Streets of Love" / "Rough Justice" * "Oh No, Not You Again" / "Oh No, Not You Again" * "Rain Fall Down" / (remixes)
2006: "Biggest Mistake" / "Dance Pt. 1" (live) / "Before They Make Me Run"
2007: "Paint It, Black"
2008: "Gimme Shelter" * "Sympathy for the Devil" * "She's a Rainbow"
2009: "Wild Horses"
2010: "Plundered My Soul" / "All Down the Line"



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