{"id":319709,"date":"2025-12-16T21:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319709\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:05:11","slug":"the-one-musician-that-every-single-beatle-adored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319709\/","title":{"rendered":"The one musician that every single Beatle adored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Beatles-Paul-McCartney-John-Lennon-Ringo-Starr-George-Harrison-1968-Far-Out-Magazine-1140x855.jp.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Beatles 1968 press photo\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credits: Far Out \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p> Tue 16 December 2025 18:15, UK <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/the-beatles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"The Beatles\">The Beatles<\/a> may have come to an acrimonious and sudden end after the release of Let It Be in 1970, but in spite of them having seemingly been at odds with one another by the end of the band\u2019s life cycle, it\u2019s evident that they would have agreed on a number of things earlier in their time together.<\/p>\n<p>When they first started out with the famous foursome that appeared on all of their studio albums, they appeared to be operating as one collective hive mind, all in accordance with one another and firing on all cylinders when it came to producing material that they thought would be able to take the world by storm. By the end of proceedings, however, they\u2019d all developed disparate styles that they were known for, finding their own voices in their compositions and starting to sound as though they were drifting apart.<\/p>\n<p>Just because they were stylistically different doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that they were all constantly in disagreement with one another, but history has told us that their relationships began to crack after they began to release more diverse albums, with each constituent part wishing to offer a different side to the band, and quarrels happening constantly about which direction they ought to be taking.<\/p>\n<p>This didn\u2019t harm the quality of their individual work, but it did lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/album-dave-grohl-and-john-lennon-agreed-was-the-beatles-greatest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"The album Dave Grohl and John Lennon agreed was The Beatles\u2019 greatest: \u201cTimeless\u201d\">John Lennon<\/a>, Paul McCartney and George Harrison working less like a team, and more like three separate songwriting factories who were forced to come together to complete each other\u2019s visions with Ringo Starr in tow. <\/p>\n<p>However, because The Beatles weren\u2019t just reliant on their own unity as a group, but also the contributions of other external entities, there were a number of individuals who kept them bound together, and whose presence they were all equally fond of for how they managed to bring a much-needed anchor to the tumultuous atmosphere of the studio during this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn1.faroutmagazine.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/2025\/08\/The-Beatles-2025-Anthology-Bruce-McBroom-Far-Out-Magazine.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Beatles-2025-Anthology-Bruce-McBroom-Far-Out-Magazine-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The Beatles - 2025 - Anthology - Bruce McBroom\" class=\"wp-image-768388\" \/><\/a>(Credits: Bruce McBroom \/ Apple Corps LTD)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, having worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/the-genre-george-martin-felt-ruined-the-beatles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"The genre George Martin felt ruined The Beatles: \u2018It put everything into reverse\u2019\">George Martin<\/a> as their producer since the genesis of the group was one element that kept the group in check, with his studio wizardry bringing their increasingly ambitious ideas to fruition, but there was one other musician who the band had accompanying them during the recording of their last two records that they all unanimously agreed was a guiding light, and a pleasure to be around.<\/p>\n<p>Having met <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/artist-george-harrison-made-the-beatles-play-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Billy Preston: the artist George Harrison said made The Beatles play better\">Billy Preston<\/a> in Hamburg in 1962 while he was playing keys with Little Richard\u2019s live band, the group formed a bond that would eventually lead to him being recruited as a keyboard player on both Let It Be and Abbey Road. Lennon would later bring him into the studio to work on a number of songs for his own debut album, John Lennon\/Plastic Ono Band, including the track \u2018God\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Another longtime Beatles collaborator, <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/beatles-klaus-voormann-george-harrison-was-a-cocky-little-boy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Beatles friend Klaus Voormann says George Harrison was \u201ca cocky little boy\u201d\">Klaus Voormann<\/a>, was present for the sessions of this recording, and noted how Preston was a figure that not just Lennon looked up to, but the entire band, and despite their differences, the American pianist was someone they could all agree on being one of the finest musicians they ever worked alongside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was on Let It Be and they got on really well,\u201d Voormann said of Preston. \u201cBilly loved the band and they loved Billy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He then went on to explain how Lennon managed to get the best out of him during the recording of \u2018God\u2019. \u201cJohn actually said, \u2018Come on Billy, do a little of your gospel piano, it\u2019s about God, you know.\u2019 So it inspired him to something that\u2019s his upbringing; Billy learned piano playing and organ playing in church. He really believed in God and that\u2019s the way he played on this song. It\u2019s beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n<p>The Far Out Beatles Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>All the latest stories about The Beatles from the independent voice of culture.<br \/>Straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Associated Press) Tue 16 December 2025 18:15, UK The Beatles may have come to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[107888,96,128,10447,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-319709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-billy-preston","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-the-beatles","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}