SIGNED BILLY PRESTON ["THAT'S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT"] 45 record APPLE LABEL

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For Sale is one (1) Autographed Billy Preston 45rpm record "That's The Way God Planned It" b/w "What About You?” Produced by: The Beatles George Harrison. Apple Records 1808 ~ WITHOUT/APPLE SLEEVE

I have two pictures of the 45 record; the record is in Ok/Fair condition it does have a scratch on it. But the signature is in excellent condition signed on the Apple record label on side 1 of the song "That's The Way God Planned It"... Also, pictured is my program guides with copies of the tickets showing that Billy was at the 2005 Fest for Beatle Fans, which I attend every year and where I obtained this signature... Attaching these for authenticity purposes for the signature on the record... As a side note this was a year before his untimely death in 2006. If placed in a frame, this legendary record that bears his signature, would add a piece of musical history to your wall.

Again, you are mainly bidding and hopefully buying this record for the signature of a legendary artist and not for the record being in mint condition or any other condition other than what is stated above.

BillyPreston:

It's well known that he played keyboard with the Beatles on Let It Be, but Billy Preston is also associated with the history of the Beatles in many ways over the years.

Billy Preston was born on September 2, 1946 in Houston Texas. At age twelve he had a cameo role in a film about W.C. Handy, St. Louis Blues, in which he played the composer as a child. Already an established keyboard session player in America, then fifteen year old Billy Preston first met the Beatles in 1962 in Hamburg while he was touring with Little Richard. Because of their closeness in ages, he and George Harrison became close friends. Billy got to spend much time with the Beatles and see them perform during this exciting time.

Billy went on to play keyboards for Sam Cooke, and also in the band on the Shindig TV show. His first charting record was an instrumental gospel album, The Most Exciting Organ Ever, for Vee Jay records in 1966. This is another interesting parallel in the careers of Billy Preston and The Beatles, as Vee Jay was also still releasing Beatles records in the U.S. at this time.

The next time he toured Britain, this time with Ray Charles, heand George met up again, and the Beatles decided to buy his recording contract from Vee Jay and sign him to their new Apple label.

At the time, the Beatles were heavily into the making of Let It Be, which was becoming a very unhappy chore because of tensions in the group. George brought Billy in to play keyboards on some of the tracks, as the original idea of Let It Be was to be a "live" recording with no overdubbing, which left none of them to add things like a keyboard part. But, George also hoped that bringing in an outsider would make the others behave nicer and make the Let It Be set a happier place to be, and it worked, albeit temporarily. The Get Back single was credited as "The Beatles with Billy Preston", the first time another artist was credited on a Beatles record, gaining him the title in some circles as "the fifth Beatle". In addition, although you can barely see it in the Let It Be movie, Billy played with the group on the famous "Rooftop Concert", the Beatles last live appearance together.

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