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Music Is My Life

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Released
  
October 8, 1972

Length
  
45.04

Release date
  
8 October 1972

Producer
  
Billy Preston

Recorded
  
1971–1972

Artist
  
Billy Preston

Label
  
A&M Records

Genres
  
Soul music, Rock music

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Music Is my Life (1972)
  
Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music (1973)

Similar
  
Billy Preston albums, Soul music albums

Billy preston music is my life


for Marcia Hines' 1978 song, see "Music Is My Life (song)"

Contents

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

Billy preston we re gonna make it


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
  • Songs

    1We're Gonna Make It3:13
    2One Time or Another2:49
    3Blackbird2:48

    References

    Music Is My Life Wikipedia