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Billy Preston Documentary
« Thread Started on Jan 13, 2012, 9:50pm »
Documentary is called 'unsung'

it's here-
http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Preston,_Billy/




I'm suspicious that Billy Preston may have been a ghost writer of "Let it Be" and maybe "Get Back" and "Blackbird", just a gut feeling. Basically he was a church guy, and Let it Be is a typical church song, untypical of The Beatles, and his billing as "The Beatles with Billy Preston" on records seems to be an over compensation for his piano solo on Get Back- he gets "Billing" instead of a performance credit

"I Wrote A Simple Song"


I wrote a simple song

With simple words and harmony

Wasn't very long

Before a star, I was bound to be



I didn't care if it made the charts

I only wrote it for you and me

They think they're so smart now

They're not as smart as they want to be



They took my simple song, yes, they did

They changed the words and the melody

Made it all sound wrong, yeah

Now it sounds like a symphony



Who told them to mess with my?

Oh, now, who gave them the right?

I wanna know now, that song was personal

Because I wrote it for you, it's yours and mine, girl



I don't care if it makes the charts y'all, no

I only wrote it for you and me

They think they're so smart, yes they do

They're not as smart as they want to be



Who told them to mess with my?

Oh, now, who gave them the right?

I wanna know that song was personal

I wrote it for you, it's yours and mine

Yeah, yeah


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Re: Billy Preston Documentary
« Reply #1 on Apr 25, 2012, 9:58am »
Perhaps " I Wrote a Simple Song"

is about "Martha My Dear"


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Re: Billy Preston Documentary
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Re: Billy Preston Documentary
« Reply #3 on Oct 12, 2012, 9:34pm »
Simple Song does remind me of a Beatle track. Particularly in the opening.

Thanks for the doc -- I'll have to check it out.
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Re: Billy Preston Documentary
« Reply #4 on Oct 18, 2012, 8:00pm »
Same key, same chords, same groove, same lyric theme-
conclusion?
they are from the same mind





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Re: Billy Preston Documentary
« Reply #5 on Oct 19, 2012, 8:07am »

Oct 18, 2012, 9:45am, iameye wrote:
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The wheels go 'round and 'round. ;)



Preston the Magikian pulls a white dove out of his hat ;)

lol
8-)




from the same mind ;)
:)
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