Let It Be

A popular group, originally from Liverpool UK, seen here playing with Billy Preston 'the fifth Beatle' - the only man to have his name appear alongside the other four's label credits (on in this case Let It Be and also Abbey Road). Billy of course appeared on the historic Beatles rooftop performance as well. On a personal note I saw Billy Preston perform with Canada's own The Band at one of the first concerts of my life in 1989 at what was the Ontario Place Forum. Billy was filling in for Stan Szelest a Buffalo boogie woogie player (a legend in certain circles who had recently passed). Preston was essentially filling the substantial 'rhythm piano' slot left by Richard Manuel who had taken his own life a few short years earlier in a motel room in Winter Park Florida (March 3, 1986) after a particularly depressing gig at the (no word of a lie) Cheek to Cheek Lounge.