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Billy Preston was also troubled, underrecognized, and elusive \u2013 a closeted gay man raised in a Black church community that stridently condemned homosexuality (or pretended it didn\u2019t exist) who later fell into drug addiction, tax debt, and imprisonment. Through electrifying concert footage and moving interviews with Billy Porter, Ringo Starr, Merry Clayton, and Preston\u2019s longtime friend Eric Clapton, Emmy\u00ae-winning director Paris Barclay (NYPD Blue, Sons of Anarchy, Scandal) and writer Cheo Hodari Coker (Luke Cage) bring this unsung maestro front and center, with a revelatory story of what might have \u2013 and should have \u2013 been.<br \/>\n<strong>(105 min. 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