Billy Preston, 59, Organist Charted Funky Hits
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Billy Preston, who died yesterday at 59,played keyboards for the Beatles and Rolling Stones before scoring a string of infectiously funky pop hits in the 1970s, including “Will It Go Round in Circles” and “Nothing From Nothing.”
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