FIVE MINUTES ALONE GEORGE BENSON

Fats but no Fats

“I SAID, ‘I’M NOT GOING TO WORRY ABOUT THE CRITICS. I’M GONNA PLAY FOR THE PEOPLE’”

“I had a rock ’n’ roll band in the late-50s. We played a lot of the clubs around my hometown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and we were very popular. It was George Benson And His All-Stars [laughs]. One day a guy approached me; he myself playing with him. So that passed me by.”