This day in music history.

June 6, 2006, Billy Preston dies at the age of 59. Born William Everett Preston on September 2 1946 in Houston, Texas. Billy started playing piano at age three and was considered a prodigy on piano and organ. He would go on to play with The Family Stone, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Nat King Cole, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Elton John and Sammy Davis Junior. He also had a series of solo hit singles, including "Outta Space", "Nothing From Nothing" and "That's the Way God Planned It". Billy had checked himself into an ICU unit of a LA hospital on November of 2005, he was not properly treated for pericarditas for which he never fully recovered.
Thats The Way God Planned It by Billy Preston
Why can't we be humble
Like the good lord say
He promised to exault us
but no-one is away
How men be so greedy
When there's so much left?
All things are God given
And they all have been blessed
That's the way God planned it
That's the way God wants it to be,
That's the way God planned it
That's the way God wants it to be,
be
Let not your heart be troubled
Let mourning sobbing cease
Learn to help one another
And live in perfect peace
If we'd just be humbler
Like the good lord say
He promised to exault us
But love is the way
That's the way God planned it
That's the way God wants it to be,
be
You better believe me
That's the way God planned it
That's the way God wants it to be,
be
I hope you get this message
Where you won't others will
You don't understand me
But I'll love you still
That's the way God planned it
That's the way God wants it to be,
be