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
 * Technical
 * Roland Young - art direction
 * Jim McCrary - photography