Billy Preston

And I have to wonder if Dylan couldn't have actually rearranged his schedule to make it happen and he just didn't want to.

Yeah, I wonder that, you know, because he might be thinking, well, you know, they've got Eric, they've got Tom, they've got Joe Brown, they've got Ringo's there, Billy Preston's there.

And it might have been a case of him saying, well, you know, they've got all these other people.

So do they really need me to be there as well? Yeah, but Bob...

where whenever Lil Jon is credited, they just go, and the East Side Boys.

And Billy Preston's there.

No, it's more along the lines of, with the East Side Boys in this song, I can't stress this enough.

Who gives a fuck? Can you name one East Side Boy? This is

It's a transitional song on the Phil Spector New Phase Beatles album.

And it's a gift that they only gave us the edit because the entire version, God love you, Billy Preston, you kind of saved it.

I'm referring to Dig It, which is about as pointless.

Like, if you want to call that Dylan-esque.

I thought he was fantastic.

But my real true favourite was Billy Preston.

Ah, fantastic.

Because you're self-taught, aren't you?

flipping hard work, you know,

listening

to records and thinking, how does he do that? I mean, you know, when you haven't got a clue and you're listening to Billy Preston, who's just amazing.

What keyboard did you, did you get a, how did you get a Hammond? I mean, that's not easy.

And he invited me to be opening act.

The tour was Les Brown, Billy Preston, the great organist, Gladys Knight, and a little guy from DC, me.

Because of Les and Gladys, they introduced me to radio people, and I got a little radio show.

It got syndicated.

And he invited me to be opening act.

The tour was Les Brown, Billy Preston, the great organist, Gladys Knight, and a little guy from D.C., me.

Because of Les and Gladys, they introduced me to radio people.

And I got a little radio show.