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| - Eric_Clapton
- George_Harrison
- King_Curtis
- Little_Richard
- Ray_Charles
- Ringo_Starr_&_His_All-Starr_Band
- Sam_Cooke
- Sly_and_the_Family_Stone
- Syreeta_Wright
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| - American rock singers
- American expatriates in the United Kingdom
- 21st-century American singers
- LGBT singers
- Grammy Award winners
- LGBT songwriters
- Songwriters from California
- A&M Records artists
- 21st-century American male actors
- African-American male actors
- 2006 deaths
- 20th-century American singers
- African-American Christians
- American male film actors
- African-American composers
- American keyboardists
- American male singer-songwriters
- American pop pianists
- American rhythm and blues keyboardists
- American rhythm and blues singers
- Burials at Inglewood Park Cemetery
- Rhythm and blues pianists
- 20th-century American male actors
- Gay actors
- LGBT people from California
- Motown artists
- 1946 births
- African-American rock musicians
- African-American singer-songwriters
- American Pentecostals
- American funk keyboardists
- American pop singers
- American rock songwriters
- American session musicians
- American rock keyboardists
- American organists
- American soul keyboardists
- Apple Records artists
- Deaths from renal failure
- Gay musicians
- LGBT Christians
- LGBT African Americans
- LGBT musicians from the United States
- LGBT people from Texas
- Male actors from Houston, Texas
- Male actors from Los Angeles, California
- Members of the Church of God in Christ
- Musicians from Los Angeles County, California
- Musicians from Houston, Texas
- Organ transplant recipients
- People from Topanga, California
- Plastic Ono Band members
- Singers from Los Angeles, California
- Songwriters from Texas
- Sue Records artists
- Vee-Jay Records artists
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| - Soul musician, born September 2, 1946, Houston, Texas. He died June 6, 2006, Scottsdale, Arizona.Preston 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, George Harrison, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, King Curtis, Sammy Davis Jr., Aretha Franklin, the Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Mick Jagger, Richie Sambora, Sly Stone, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, the Red Hot Chili Peppers 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.
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| - William Everett %22Billy%22 Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American musician whose work included R&B, rock, soul, funk and gospel. A virtuoso keyboardist, particularly on Hammond organ, Preston was recognized as a top session musician in the 1960s, during which he backed artists such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and the Beatles. He then went on to achieve fame as a solo artist, with hit pop singles including %22That's the Way God Planned It%22, %22Outa-Space%22, %22Will It Go Round in Circles%22, %22Space Race%22, and %22Nothing from Nothing%22. In addition, Preston co-wrote %22You Are So Beautiful%22, which became a number 5 hit for Joe Cocker and Stephen Stills asked Preston if he could use his phrase %22if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with%22 and created the hit song.. Preston was the only other musician to be credited on a Beatles recording: the group's number-one hit %22Get Back%22 billed as %22The Beatles with Billy Preston%22. Preston continued to record and perform with other artists, notably George Harrison after the Beatles' break-up, and Eric Clapton, and he played keyboards for the Rolling Stones on many of the group's albums and tours during the 1970s.
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- Billy E. Preston
- Billy P.
- Billy Presstud
- Preeston
- R. Preston
- R. Vann
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- W. Preston
- William E. Preston
- William Everett Preston
- William Preston
- Билли Престон
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