Billy Preston
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The Rolling Stones, Plastic Ono Band et al: New Singles
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 July 1969
ROLLING STONES: 'Honky Tonk Women'/'You Can't Always Get What You Want' (Decca). An important single for the Stones, but a disappointment for us . ...
Billy Preston: Billy's a Natural
Profile by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 12 July 1969
IF EVER there was a "natural" for the charts, Billy Preston's 'That's The Way God Planned It' — which enters this week at No. 19 ...
Billy Preston: Forget The Rumours — Billy Will Be Back
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 2 August 1969
ONE OF the few sure things about the music business is that rumours will fly around it. ...
Profile by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, September 1969
DISCOVERED IN our own backyard! ...
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 7 January 1971
BILLY PRESTON'S first album, That's the Way God Planned It, was almost all gospel-oriented, and the second side was generally good. But the material that ...
Live Review by Nancy Lewis, New Musical Express, 7 August 1971
GEORGE CREATES GREATEST ROCK SPECTACLE OF DECADE ...
Billy Preston: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 December 1971
Billy Preston Show Opens at Troubadour ...
Billy Preston: The Troubadour, Los Angeles
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, January 1972
IT'S NOT EASY to be uncompromisingly religious in a den of drugs, drink and iniquity like the Troubadour, but Billy Preston has both the Power ...
Billy Preston: I Wrote A Simple Song (A&M AMLH 63507, £2.29)
Review by David Hancock, Disc, 15 January 1972
SOLO BILLY AT HIS FUNKIEST ...
Billy Preston: I Wrote A Simple Song (AM AMLH 63507).
Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 22 January 1972
WARMTH ...
Billy Preston: Billy's Feelin' Real Good
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 29 January 1972
A BROOKLYN friend of mine who had this uncanny knack of being able to spot a rising star at 100 yards said to me a ...
Billy Preston: Working The Way God Planned It!
Report and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 4 February 1972
BILLY PRESTON has been here all the time, yet he's only just arrived; and after many years of building his way up the bumpy road ...
Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 12 February 1972
ONE OF THE MOST ADVENTUROUS BILLS EVER ...
Concert for Bangla Desh (Dir. Saul Swimmer; 20th Century Fox)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Nancy Lewis, New Musical Express, 1 April 1972
BANGLA FILM RELEASED ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 29 July 1972
THE FORMIDABLE hand of fate has moved in to give Billy Preston his first American No. 1 hit — something he's clamoured for since turning ...
Billy Preston: The Way Billy Planned It
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 September 1973
When The Stones hit the road this month BILLY PRESTON goes with them. Here, he talks to MM's MICHAEL WATTS in Los Angeles ...
Billy Preston: God Planned It Good
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 22 September 1973
AFTER YEARS spent as a session man for an astonishing roster of star names the Beatles, the Stones, Barbra Steisand, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Sam ...
Billy Preston: Rainbow Theatre, London
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 November 1973
AFTER A shaky start, Billy Preston tore London's Rainbow Theatre apart on Thursday last week, with a little help from his friends. ...
Behind The Scenes With J.W. Alexander
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 December 1973
J.W. is the man who took Sam Cooke from his gospel background and helped mould him into the very first Soul superstar. He performed a ...
Singles: 'Space Race' — Billy Preston
Interview by 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 ...
Interview by Wayne Robins, Creem, May 1974
In Which This Jack-Of-All-Jams Remembers The Stones, Beatles, Little Richard ...
Billy Preston: The Busiest Soul In Showbusiness
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 14 September 1974
THANKS TO his prodigious session-work, as well as his own tours, Billy Preston is one of the most frequent American soul visitors to our isle; ...
Hard Rock in Hawaii: "Like an Army Zone"
Report by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 10 October 1974
HONOLULU — BACKSTAGE violence erupted before an August 31st concert at Hawaii Raceway Park which starred War, Black Oak Arkansas, Billy Preston and Brownsville Station. ...
Interview by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 27 February 1975
LOS ANGELES – "I've never asked anyone to help me or give me a break," declared Billy Preston adamantly. "Whatever I don't have now I ...
Billy Preston: Like a Rolling Stone
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 2 August 1975
"We're a family," says Billy Preston of his current tour of the U.S. with the Stones. And in addition to that, he's just released a ...
Billy Preston: No Longer Going Round In Circles!
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 9 October 1979
B&S talks to Billy about his early days with Little Richard and Ray Charles, his development as a solo talent and his recent pacting with ...
Billy Preston & Syreeta: Rebirth? A Fast Break is all it Takes...!
Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Blues & Soul, 29 January 1980
Lloyd Bradley talks to Billy Preston and Syreeta, the latest in a select line of classic hit pairings ...
The blazing talent – and heartbreaking decline – of "fifth Beatle" Billy Preston
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 26 November 2021
The revered keyboardist saved Let It Be and put his fingerprints on countless rock classics. But he kept his true self hidden to the end. ...
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