C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1247857 By Joe Cocker. By Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Film/TV,Pop,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #842413. Published by John Fries (A0.1247857). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns. Thanks, John. English singer Joe Cocker released a version of the song on his album I Can Stand a Little Rain. Cocker's version was released as a single in November 1974. It became Cocker's highest-charting solo hit, peaking at number five on the United States' Billboard Hot 100. Billy Preston wrote You Are So Beautiful with one of his regular collaborators, Bruce Fisher. Preston's inspiration was his mother, who worked as a stage actress. According to his friend Sam Moore (who had assumed it was a standard love song), Preston was appalled to learn that Moore was using the song as a means to attract young women each time he sang it in concert. In Moore's description, Preston told him: That song's about my mother!.
