Shindig!

…on the music variety show Shindig! at the insistence of fellow guests the Rolling Stones, who had recently scored a hit with “Little Red Rooster,” an interpretation of “The Red Rooster” from Howlin’ Wolf’s 1962 album. Music journalist Peter Guralnick would later say of this event in a 2010 interview…

…the house band on television’s Shindig and in Ray Charles’s backing band, Preston recorded several albums for the Beatles’ Apple Records. Arguably the musician with the strongest claim as the “Fifth Beatle,” he added a driving organ to “Get Back,” which was credited to “the Beatles with Billy Preston.” It…