Excerpts from internet.listserv.postcard2: 18-Jan-99 Re: the fifth
beatle by Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I had heard that Billy Preston could also make the claim. Or am I thinking
> of the Stones?
You are correct, based on Preston's involvement in the Let It Be sessions.
Preston's in a world of trouble right now. Currently serving a
three-year sentence for cocaine possession, he and his wife face charges
of setting fires for insurance fraud. He faces another twenty years if
convicted.
As for Don Rich, the Beatles owe a lot to him, but also to Chuck Berry,
the Everleys, Peter Sellers, and others. As we discussed last summer,
they were masterful synthesists who took several elements and fashioned
them into something new.
Carl Z.
