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Funeral services will be held Tuesday in Inglewood, Calif. for Billy Preston, the Houston native whose name appears on the label credits of three Beatles’ albums and who went on to forge a successful solo career that spanned three decades.

Preston died June 6 at a hospital in Scottsdale, Ariz.

He was 59.

Preston’s longtime manager Joyce Moore said he had been in a coma since November, suffering from chronic kidney failure.

He collaborated with the Beatles in the 1960s and his name is listed in the label credits of three albums, “Let It Be,” “Abbey Road,” and the “White Album.”

He later worked with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr and George Harrison.

He turned out a string of Number 1 hits himself, too, including “Outta Space,” “Will It Go Round In Circles,” “Nothing From Nothing” and “Space Race.”