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