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UNSUNG GAY HERO BEHD THE BEATL’ SUCCS, BILLY PRTON, INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME
Did The Beatl know Billy Prton was gay when he worked wh them? Acrdg to close sourc, Billy feared that if he me out as gay, he would be shunned by the Black muny and the mic dtry. Although his sexual orientatn was known to close iends such as Keh Richards, Prton – bt known for his 1974 standard ‘You Are So Betiful’, later vered by Joe Cocker – had not e out publicly as a gay man.
”Although the tails did not bee fully known to the general public until after his ath, Prton stggled throughout his life to pe wh his homosexualy, and the lastg effects of the trmatic sexual abe he suffered as a boy.