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Post by eddy on Jan 13, 2012 21:50:02 GMT -5
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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Post by eddy on Apr 25, 2012 9:58:04 GMT -5
Perhaps " I Wrote a Simple Song"
is about "Martha My Dear"
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Post by iwilliam on Oct 12, 2012 21:34:27 GMT -5
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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Post by eddy on Oct 18, 2012 20:00:56 GMT -5
Same key, same chords, same groove, same lyric theme-
conclusion?
they are from the same mind
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Post by iameye on Oct 19, 2012 8:07:08 GMT -5
 The wheels go 'round and 'round.  Preston the Magikian pulls a white dove out of his hat lol   |
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Post by eddy on Jun 22, 2014 15:31:05 GMT -5
But what does it mean? Billy speaks in code. I believe Billy was a ghost writer. The judge in the My Sweet Lord case said he thought Billy was a co-composer of the plagiarized hit. But Billy didn't put his name on the record so he wasn't a defendant, but he recorded it first with George producing. Nothing from Nothing means he had nothing to lose: he had song which was nothing until becomes 'something'(a George song) when he sells it, or it is recorded by the Beatles. This is his psychological rationalizing of his ghost writing. It ties in with "Will it Go Round in Circles", which means it becomes a 'record' ( ie it spins in circles) the song he wrote is nothing until it becomes a record. He's going to sing it to his 'friends', I 'd say that is the Beatles. If they like it will fly high like a bird (Wings) and be a hit. The story has no 'moral' because he is in a morally grey area. He honors the contract until death because he is a professional, he said in an interview that his inspiration to write "That's the Way God Planned it" was listening to "Let it Be", (which I think he wrote). But the contract was faustian: Billy's music had a lot of soul, and in his mind he may have felt uneasy about selling that part of his inner self. |
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Post by eddy on Jul 23, 2014 16:42:08 GMT -5
And Billy 'jammed' with the Rolling Stones- “Miss You” (Wenner interview: Mr. Jagger asserts he wrote it with Billy Preston) www.timeisonourside.com/SOMiss.htmlI got that together with Billy Preston, actually. Yeah, Billy had shown me the four-on-the-floor bass-drum part, and I would just play the guitar. I remember playing that in the El Mocambo club when Keith was on trial in Toronto for whatever he was doing. We were supposed to be there making this live record... I was still writing it, actually. We were just in rehearsal. - Mick Jagger, 1995 During the rehearsal of the El Mocambo gig I wrote the song Miss You. So I remember that 'cause I was waiting for everyone in the band to turn up and I was with Billy Preston, and Billy Preston was playing the kick drum and I was always playing the guitar and I wrote Miss You on that so I remember that moment very well. - Mick Jagger, 2001 The idea for those (bass) lines came from Billy Preston, actually. We'd cut a rough demo a year or so earlier after a recording session. I'd already gone home, and Billy picked up my old bass when they started running through that song. He started doing that bit because it seemed to be the style of his left hand. So when we finally came to do the tune, the boys said, Why don't you work around Billy's idea? So I listened to it once and heard that basic run and took it from there. It took some changing and polishing, but the basic idea was Billy's. - Bill Wyman, 1978 Miss You wasn't coming together at all, then Billy said, Try playing octave riffs on the bass. - Bill Wyman, 2011 |
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Post by eddy on Jul 23, 2014 18:30:31 GMT -5
Memory Motel
This song stands out as being unlike anything else by the Stones. A 'keyboard' song, I'd guess Billy had a hand in the composition
from wikipedia--
Richards did not play guitar on this piece; Black and Blue has long been known as the album used to find a replacement for Mick Taylor, who left right before work was to begin on it. Harvey Mandel plays electric guitar while Wayne Perkins performs acoustic. Jagger, Richards, and Billy Preston play concert piano, electric piano, and string synthesizer on the song, respectively. Preston also contributes backing vocals along with Ron Wood, who would eventually become the Stones' lead guitarist. The song was recorded in Munich, Germany at Musicland Studios in March and April 1975. Overdubs and re-recordings were performed later in the year.
Melody
While all the album's songs except "Cherry Oh Baby" were officially credited to Jagger/Richards as authors, the credit for "Hey Negrita" specifies "Inspiration by Ron Wood" and "Melody" lists "Inspiration by Billy Preston". Bill Wyman would later release a version of "Melody" with his Rhythm Kings, crediting Preston as author.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2014 1:10:16 GMT -5
We spent a lonely night at the Memory Motel
It's on the ocean, I guess you know it well
It took a starry NIGHT to steal my breath away
Down on the water front
Her hair all drenched in spray
she got a mind of her own and she used it well
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Post by joseph on Jan 24, 2022 4:08:08 GMT -5
Same key, same chords, same groove, same lyric theme- conclusion? they are from the same mind Very interesting Eddy, because Billy Preston was replaced along with The Rolling Stones and Ollie Brown (former Wonderlove drummer) in June of 1976. You've got the song The Fetals ripped of to make Let It Be and you've got Billy Preston's imposter replacement performing Let It Be. A side not to that is that Keith Richard's newly born child Tara JoJo Gunn died on 06/06/76 and this is the time we see The Sones' replacements emerge. Billy's imposter replacement would die on 06/06/06 - exactly 30 years to the day. I am wondering if they are doing some kind of Logan's Run thing with the lifespans of some imposter replacements? Michael Jackson 1979-2009 Prince 1985-2016 George Michael 1985-2016. It's far from scientific, but they got about 30 years in the roles like they get 30 years of life in the movie |
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