Music (John Miles song)
Music is a song by John Miles. This classic rock music is his greatest success. The ballad first appeared in 1976 on his album Rebel and became an evergreen. The title achieved high rankings in Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Text
The short and simple text expresses the never-ending love for music. Are known mainly the first two lines.
A German version was published in 1984 by Karel Gott under the title " music, this is my life ". The German text of the song was texted by Bernd man, one of the singer of the German band " The beach boys".
Music
The music is characterized by strong contrasts. The piece begins very slowly and carried. John Miles sings the first verse to the piano. In the second half of the stanza strings join. Then follows a fast instrumental part in 7/4-Takt with the usual instrumentation of a rock band and a brief appearance on lead guitar. The tempo changes abruptly at the beginning and John Miles repeated parts of the first stanza. A dominated by strings slower section initiates a repetition of the fast second part, which is instrumented but stronger, especially with the continuing string arrangements and additional brass section, here too the instrumentation gradually increases. This part goes without hard cut at the end, which brought together the existing elements with voices to a large, worn -finals and John Miles again sings the first verse.
2009 release
The Belgian dance formation Sylver published in October 2009, a version of " Music" as a single from their album " Sacrifice". The song is a duet with the original artists John Miles. Background of the collaboration is to Membership Miles ' son John Miles Jr band Sylver. The new version reached on 21 November 2009 Ranking 11 of the Belgian charts.
Popularity
- On YouTube, the most frequently heard version of Music around 1.8 million views (as of July 2013).
- The Nokia Night of the Proms, the song is one of the standard program. John Miles presented the song since the beginning of the series in 1985, with the exception of the years 1996, 2000 and 2008, in which he accompanied Tina Turner as a bandleader.