Billy Preston

Keyboardist "cut the ice" in the studio, allowing the group to ditch the drama and focus on music.

He was the only non member of the band to be credited on a Beatles song.

Billy Preston was born in Houston, Texas on September 2,1946 and died at the age of 59 in 2006 from kidney disease. Billy started out as a session musician and would eventually have a successful solo career. Along the way he helped out The Beatles