RIP Billy

We here at Joko Records mourn the loss of the fifth Beatle, Billy Preston. Sadly, Mr. Preston was not available for comment.

Famous for such tunes as "Will It Go Round In Circles" and "Nothing From Nothing", he did not write songs like "Let It Be" or "And Your Bird Can Sing." Nor did he write "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow," but we won't hold that against him.

Preston isn't the first person to be called "The Fifth Beatle." There's Stu Sutcliffe (the wacky one), Pete Best (the unemployed one), George Martin (the British one), Eric Clapton (the famous one), and Yoko Ono (INSERT_YOKO_JOKE_HERE), to name a few. I don't know about you, but if John and Paul had called me the Fifth Beatle, I'd be incredibly honored, yet peeved if I'd learned that they gave this title to enough people to fill Clear Lake, Iowa.

So since there are so many people in the world with this title, we at Joko Records decided to declare Toby Fallsgraff of Daddy's Gonna Kill Ralphie an honorary Fifth Beatle. Toby will be recieving a steak, a DVD set of The Best of Fraggle Rock, and a pen that can write in space. Congratulations, Toby!

After the induction ceremony, we got to thinking: there's no harm in creating "honorary" members of a band. They don't have any say in anything, they don't have to actually show up anywhere, and then they get to brag about the band for you (aka free advertising). So we're declaring Michael Nesmith, Quincy Jones, Ludacris, and the one-armed drummer from Def Leppard official "Fifth Daddy's"!

Billy Preston can come too.

~Joko!