Music Is My Life
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Music Is My Life | ||||
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Released | October 8, 1972 | |||
Recorded | 1971–72 | |||
Genre | Soul, rock | |||
Length | 45.04 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | Billy Preston | |||
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Music Is My Life is the seventh studio album by Billy Preston, released in 1972. The album contains Preston's first number 1 single,[2] "Will It Go Round in Circles", and a cover of the Beatles' song "Blackbird". It is also the first of his albums to feature his future A&M Records label-mates the Brothers Johnson. Another track, "God Loves You", was issued on a single as the B-side of "Slaughter", Preston's theme song for the 1972 film of the same name.[3]
Track listing
All songs by Billy Preston, except where noted.
Side one
- "We're Gonna Make It" – 3:13
- "One Time or Another" (Preston, Robert Sam) – 2:49
- "Blackbird" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:48
- "I Wonder Why" (Preston, George Johnson) – 5:43
- "Will It Go Round in Circles" (Preston, Bruce Fisher) – 4:28
- "Ain't That Nothin'" (Preston, Joe Greene, Sam) – 3:47
Side two
- "God Loves You" (Preston, John Schuler) – 2:50
- "Make the Devil Mad (Turn on to Jesus)" – 5:22
- "Nigg Charlie" (Preston, Greene) – 6:31
- "Heart Full of Sorrow" (Preston, Johnson) – 3:35
- "Music Is My Life" – 3:58
Personnel
- Billy Preston: keyboards, bass guitar, vocals
- George Johnson: guitar
- Louis Johnson: bass guitar
- Hubert Heard: keyboards
- Manuel Kellough: drums
- Tom Scott: horn
- Jim Horn: horn
- George Bohanon: horn
- Buck Monari: horn
- Paul Hubinon: horn
- The Campbell-Kurban String Section: strings
- Clarence McDonald, David T. Walker: arrangements
Technical
- Roland Young: art direction
- Jim McCrary: photography
Notes
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ allmusic ((( Music Is My Life > Overview )))
- ^ Tobler, John (2011). I Wrote a Simple Song/Music Is My Life (CD booklet). Billy Preston. BGO Records. p. 6.