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Singles: 'Space Race' — Billy Preston

Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 20 December 1973

AFTER BILLY Preston's first Number One single last June (and a gold record, too) of 'Will It Go Round in Circles', it was inevitable that his newest would get a lot of airplay. Still, its rapid rise to the Top Five was startling, especially for an instrumental.

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