Music Is My Life
1972 studio album by Billy Preston
Music Is My Life | ||||
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Studio album by Billy Preston | ||||
Released | October 1972 | |||
Recorded | 1971–72 | |||
Genre | Soul, rock | |||
Length | 45.04 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | Billy Preston | |||
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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 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
- "Nigger 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
- 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
- ^ 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.
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- 16 Yr. Old Soul
- The Most Exciting Organ Ever
- Early Hits of '65
- Wildest Organ in Town!
- Club Meeting
- That's the Way God Planned It
- Encouraging Words
- I Wrote a Simple Song
- Music Is My Life
- Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music
- The Kids & Me
- It's My Pleasure
- Billy Preston
- A Whole New Thing
- Late at Night
- Billy Preston & Syreeta
- The Way I Am
- Pressin' On
- On the Air
- "That's the Way God Planned It"
- "All That I've Got (I'm Gonna Give It to You)"
- "My Sweet Lord"
- "I Wrote a Simple Song"
- "Outa-Space"
- "Slaughter"
- "Will It Go Round in Circles"
- "Space Race"
- "Nothing from Nothing"
- "Get Back"
- "With You I'm Born Again"
- "Sing One for the Lord"
- "The Duck"
- "You Are So Beautiful"
- St. Louis Blues
- "Get Back" (Beatles single)
- Let It Be
- The Concert for Bangladesh
- George Harrison and Ravi Shankar's 1974 North American tour
- The Rolling Stones' Tour of the Americas '75
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)
- Concert for George