Billy Preston

★★★★ Encouraging Words

APPLE. LP

He’d worked on The Beatles’ Let It Be and Abbey Road albums so it was only fair that the piano/organ man’s second LP for the Fabs’ label included Lennon & McCartney and George Harrison songs to go with Preston’s own material. Harrison co-produced, the 1970 album is an impressively assured marriage of soul, funk and gospel. A top Apple release. GB