A KOOL Day for Music

A second hit record from an musician that started out as a child prodigy, going onto helping quite a few artists get their album finished.

Billy Preston

Nothing From Nothing

A child prodigy, Billy taught himself to play the piano without a lesson and by the age of 10 he was already making a name for himself by playing onstage with Mahalia Jackson. By 11, he was performing on Nat King Cole’s television show. In the early 1960’s he joined up with Little Richard’s tour group and famously met The Beatles while in Hamburg, Germany. Preston became a top session keyboardist backing artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, The Everly Brothers and for The Rolling Stones.

He wrote ‘Nothing From Nothing’ with songwriting partner Bruce Fisher for Billy’s 1974 album ‘The Kids and Me’. and got the idea for the song while he was backstage in his dressing room in Atlanta where he was performing.

Billy and Bruce co-writing classic rock and roll songs like ‘You Are So Beautiful’ and ‘Will It Go ‘Round In Circles.’

Billy Preston made rock and roll history as being the very first musician on the debut TV episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975.