Single:
Music entered the Australian singles chart* on 21 June 1976 and peaked at #38.
Album:
The song is on Rebel which entered the Australian albums chart* on 19 July 1976 and peaked at #33.
Songwriter:
John Miles
Producer:
Alan Parsons
Record label of Australian release:
Decca
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Performed at Night of the Proms in Stuttgart, Germany on 5 December 2001:
Wikipedia:
John Miles (1949-2021) was an English rock singer, guitarist and keyboard player best known for his 1976 hit single Music, which won an Ivor Novello Award. He won the Outstanding Musical Achievement award at the 2017 Progressive Music Awards.
From 1985, Miles participated almost every year in Night of the Proms, a series of concerts held yearly in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Denmark, the United States and occasionally other countries. Miles always performed Music, regarded as the anthem of the show, and also sang other songs with other artists.
Miles also toured with Tina Turner from 1987, playing keyboards, guitar and supporting vocals on every one of her tours, and played on several of her albums.
Before Music, John recorded three songs written by Australian writing duo Harry Vanda and George Young: The World Belongs to Yesterday (1972), Yesterday Was Just the Beginning of My Life (1972) and One Minute Every Hour (1973).
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Miles_(musician)
Songfacts:
Music is a 6-minute pop-classical 7/4 time tribute to music. It sums up how music lovers feel about music: “Music was my first love and it will be my last / the music of tomorrow, the music of the past.”
John Miles wrote this in Leeds when he had some time to kill and his song writing partner at the time Bob Marshall wasn’t around. He claimed it only took him half an hour to write. Although he originally thought it would be the basis of other songs, he later decided that it stood up very well on its own.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/john-miles/music
Lyrics:
Music was my first love
And it will be my last.
Music of the future
And music of the past.
To live without my music
Would be impossible to do.
In this world of troubles,
My music pulls me through.
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