His family shared the news ina statementto the Associated Press.
Billy Preston had a pair of No.
1 singles for the label with Will It Go Around in Circles and Nothing From Nothing in the mid-1970s.
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His spirit will live on forever through the great records that he helped bring to the world.
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The labels story was told inMr.
Moss and Alperts Carnival Records issued a couple of singles before its founder renamed it A&M Records.
Nazareth’s Top 10 hit ‘Love Hurts,’ 1975A&M Records
2 in late 1966.
It spent 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No.
1 and has sold more than 8 million units in the U.S. alone.
Albert had a comeback No.
1 with Rise in 1979.
She would score three more No.
1 singles for the label in the 90s.
Another chart-topper was A&M/Virgins Human League, whose Dont You Want Me and Human were No.
1 in 1982 and 1986, respectively.
Former Police chief Sting continued to record for A&M after his trio split in the mid-80s.
The A&M hits kept comin, and the label was absorbed by PolyGram in the late-80s.
A&M was merged with Geffen and Interscope in 1999 to become Geffen A&M Interscope Records.
That was his gift to us all.
A funeral services is for planned this weekend in Westwood.
