Single:
I Am Pegasus entered the Australian singles chart* on 19 September 1973 and peaked at #2. The song was #21 on the Top 100 of 1973.
Album:
The song is on My Name Means Horse which entered the Australian albums chart* on 4 March 1974 and peaked at #3.
Songwriter:
Ross Ryan
Producer:
Peter Dawkins
Record label of Australian release:
EMI
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Ross Ryan told APRAP’s Debbie Kruger in 2002 how he had merged two songs to become I Am Pegasus: “One was about the fact that I had just discovered that Ross means horse… also at the time I was having a really disastrous attempt at a relationship with an air hostess… [I was] getting nowhere with them, so I combined them and got a flying horse. And I came up with Pegasus.”
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Pegasus
Lyrics:
I am Pegasus, my name means horse
And I can fly with you
But I’ve changed my course
I am Michael, I am Jeffery and John
And I don’t have to leave you
But I shall be gone
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