Music Is My Life

Music Is My Life
Studio album by Billy Preston
Released	October 1972
Recorded	1971–72
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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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

1. "We're Gonna Make It" – 3:13
2. "One Time or Another" (Preston, Robert Sam) – 2:49
3. "Blackbird" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:48
4. "I Wonder Why" (Preston, George Johnson) – 5:43
5. "Will It Go Round in Circles" (Preston, Bruce Fisher) – 4:28
6. "Ain't That Nothin'" (Preston, Joe Greene, Sam) – 3:47

Side two

1. "God Loves You" (Preston, John Schuler) – 2:50
2. "Make the Devil Mad (Turn on to Jesus)" – 5:22
3. "Nigger Charlie" (Preston, Greene) – 6:31
4. "Heart Full of Sorrow" (Preston, Johnson) – 3:35
5. "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
• Clydie King, Venetta Fields, Oma Drake - background vocals
• The Campbell-Kurban String Section - strings
• Clarence McDonald, David T. Walker - arrangements

Technical

• Roland Young - art direction
• Jim McCrary - photography

Notes