1. We posted a Billy Preston clip a while back of his show-stopping performance of “That’s The Way God Planned It” at The Concert For Bangladesh (produced by Phil Spector!), but just in case you didn’t know this piano man could move:
2. My favorite Elton John record, Tumbleweed Connection, ends with the Gospel-tinged number “Burn Down The Mission”. At first blush, you could interpret the song as your typical anti-clerical pioneer anthem, but I prefer to see it as a cry from the heart for something more direct and unmediated – i.e. something Protestant. Here he is performing it in 1970:
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dpotter says:
Apr 28, 2009
Dave, I love it! I saw this vid of Billy a short while ago and I’m convinced that it represents a high point in American culture. His other role as Sgt. Pepper is equally amazing, mostly because he ‘ordains’ Frampton and the Bee Gees with the ‘holy hands’.