Music Is My Life Explained

Music Is My Life
Type:Album
Artist:Billy Preston
Cover:Music_Is_My_Life.jpg
Released:October 1972
Recorded:1971–72
Genre:Soul, rock
Length:45.04
Label:A&M
Producer:Billy Preston
Prev Title:I Wrote a Simple Song
Prev Year:1971
Next Title:Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music
Next Year:1973

Music Is My Life is the seventh studio album by Billy Preston, released in 1972. The album contains Preston's first number 1 single,[1] "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.[2]

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

Technical

Notes

  1. allmusic (((Music Is My Life > Overview)))
  2. John. Tobler. I Wrote a Simple Song/Music Is My Life. Billy Preston. 6. 2011. CD booklet. BGO Records.

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