Billy Preston, organist, and pianist for Ray Charles, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and more, was gay. Because of the lack of acceptance of homosexuality in society at the time, and Preston's Christian upbringing, he turned to alcohol and cocaine to battle the lack of reconciliation with both of those factors, for years.

In 1991, he was busted for cocaine, insurance fraud, and sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy. He entered rehabilitation for nine months and had another three months of house arrest. He had malignant hypertension, and died from complications of that in 2006, at age 59. After this passing, his friends revealed that Preston himself had been a victim of sexual abuse as a child.

I wasn't implying he wasn't successful, for sure. My intention was that his career and life could have been different and possibly happier with the struggles he faced. He definitely left a wonderful mark in music through his life.

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