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William Everett Preston was born in 1946 in Houston. After his parents split up, William and his mother moved to Los Angeles. He was brought up in the African-American gospel tradition and was a child prodigy who learned to play piano as a toddler.

I was 9 in 1969, my older sister and I adored The Beatles, my rosy memory is of at least one of their films being shown on television during every Christmas school holiday.

Music is part of almost everyone’s daily routine. Listening to music can fend off depression and buoy your mood. Moreover, music can help improve blood flow, thus lowering the levels of stress-related hormones.

What if?

For too long, we have been cast adrift in the barren wasteland, drifting, searching the cosmic fringes for the nourishment that feeds the soul, live music. And in what better venue to finally sate the thirst than Glasgow’s mecca of Rock n Roll, The Barrowlands.