Music Is My Life

Music Is My Life
Studio album by Billy Preston
Released	October 8, 1972
Recorded	1971–1972
Genre	Soul / Rock
Length	45.04
Label	A&M
Producer	Billy Preston
Billy Preston chronology
I Wrote a Simple Song (1971) Music Is my Life (1972) Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music (1973)

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AllMusic	[1]

Music Is My Life is the seventh studio album by Billy Preston, released in 1972. The album contains Preston's first #1 single,^[2] "Will It Go Round in Circles", which would become one of his best known songs and also contains 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.

Track listing

All songs by Billy Preston, except where noted.

1. "We're Gonna Make It" – 3:13
2. "One Time or Another" (Billy Preston, Robert Sam) – 2:49
3. "Blackbird" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:48
4. "I Wonder Why" (Billy Preston, George Johnson) – 5:43
5. "Will It Go Round in Circles" (Billy Preston, Bruce Fisher) – 4:28
6. "Ain't That Nothin'" (Billy Preston, Joe Greene, Robert Sam) – 3:47
7. "God Loves You" (Billy Preston, John Schuler) – 2:50
8. "Make the Devil Mad (Turn on to Jesus)" – 5:22
9. "Nigger Charlie" (Billy Preston, Joe Greene) – 6:31
10. "Heart Full of Sorrow" (Billy Preston, George Johnson) – 3:35
11. "Music Is My Life" – 3:58

Personnel

• Billy Preston: keyboards, bass guitar, vocals
• George Johnson: guitars
• 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

1. ↑ Allmusic review
2. ↑ allmusic ((( Music Is My Life > Overview )))