Music Is My Life

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

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

• Roland Young - art direction
• Jim McCrary - photography

Notes