The great Billy Preston finally gets his due as the Fifth Beatle in the new video for “Let it Be.”

Billy played on the “Abbey Road” and “Let it Be” albums, but got little credit for it at the time. When Michael Lindsay-Hogg put together the original “Let it Be” film, he cut Billy out entirely.

It was only when Peter Jackson made the “Get Back” miniseries from all of Lindsay-Hogg’s footage that Billy came back into the picture.

Now with the new “Let it Be” — airing on Disney Plus — we see lost footage of Billy integrated back into the title song. It’s a nice vindication. It wasn’t like the group didn’t love Billy — he’s the only artist to share a credit with them, on the single “Get Back” — but no one realized what had happened in the original film cut.

The mix on this “new” version is excellent, too. George’s guitar soars. (John and Ringo look a little bored.) There’s also a clip of George Martin on percussion. “Let it Be” is one of the greatest songs of all time. What a pleasure to see it restored.

“Let it Be” was released 54 years ago on May 13, 1970.

Billy went on to have his own massive hits with songs like “Will it Go Round in Circles” and “Nothing from Nothing.” He co-wrote “You Are So Beautiful” and “With You I’m Born Again.” His life was all about his music which, hopefully, will be reflected in a documentary coming later this year. (We’re keeping an eye on that one.)

PS Billy and Al Green recorded a duet of “You’ve Got a Friend” in the manner of Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. One of my favorites.

Macklemore was a white rapper who had a couple of hits in 2012.

Since then, not so much. He’s had a lot of releases, but none of them went anywhere.

This year so far, according to Luminate, he’s had a total of 643 downloads. With streaming, he’s up to 40,000.

Suddenly, though, Macklemore has maybe a hit. His record, “Hind’s Hall,” has hit iTunes at number 7. Why the comeback? Macklemore has discovered antisemitism pays off.

“Hind’s Hall” is what Columbia students called Hamilton Hall during their illegal protests the last few weeks.

Macklemore has nothing to say about 1200 innocent Jewish fans murdered on October 7, 2023 at a music festival. He is silent on the subject of the hostages taken that day, the women who were raped, or babies that were beheaded.

What Macklemore does see is an opportunity to cash in with anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian rap. If you haven’t had a hit in 14 years, why not throw in with this gang?

It’s notable that Macklemore’s lyrics include a shout out to Ice Cube, maybe the most antisemitic rapper of all time. Ice Cube’s idiotic messages against Jews started at the beginning of his career and have continued into this decade.

This isn’t Macklemore’s first public display of antisemitism. At a 2014 Seattle concert, he wore a costume of a of a large fake nose and thick black beard that he later grudgingly apologized for.

He said it was “random,” chosen from available costumes so he could walk around unnoticed. I guess he thinks we’re really stupid. It was a lot like Prince Harry and his Hitler outfit.

Seth Rogen wrote on Twitter: “Really? Because if I told someone to put together an anti Semitic Jew costume, they’d have that exact shopping list.”

Rogen was right, and now we see the payoff. Unacceptable.